Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior System Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the South East is £51,852 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 237 377
Rank change year-on-year +56 +140 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 147 49 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.26% 0.63% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.67% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 31 20 22
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,250 £45,183
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £48,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,852 £61,000 £52,913
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +15.28% -4.94%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,563 £59,413
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,975
England median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 11,119 7,331 16,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.12% 94.57% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,725 5,038 10,411
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,500 £84,101
England median annual salary £57,560 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.07% - +4.35%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Senior Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 2 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 December 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +8 72 £51,852 -20.23% 2
Kent -8 38 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Isle of Wight - 27 - - 8
Thames Valley -4 8 £52,500 -2.33% 3
Buckinghamshire -12 4 - -
Oxfordshire -22 3 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Berkshire +13 1 £127,185 +142.26% 1
Surrey -30 1 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Sussex - 1 - -
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 December 2024, Senior Systems Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 92 (62.59%) Degree
2 72 (48.98%) Systems Engineering
3 40 (27.21%) Coaching
4 33 (22.45%) Physics
5 31 (21.09%) Mathematics
5 31 (21.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 29 (19.73%) Chartered Engineer
7 26 (17.69%) Requirements Management
7 26 (17.69%) Use Case
8 22 (14.97%) Validation
9 20 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (13.61%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 16 (10.88%) Ontologies
10 16 (10.88%) Verification and Validation
11 15 (10.20%) Social Skills
12 12 (8.16%) Security Cleared
12 12 (8.16%) AWS
12 12 (8.16%) Aerospace
13 11 (7.48%) Customer Requirements
14 10 (6.80%) Management Information System
15 9 (6.12%) Agile
15 9 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
15 9 (6.12%) Rational DOORS
16 7 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (4.76%) Automotive
17 5 (3.40%) Configuration Management
17 5 (3.40%) MATLAB
17 5 (3.40%) Simulink
17 5 (3.40%) IBM
17 5 (3.40%) Military

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Simulink
2 2 (1.36%) CATIA
3 1 (0.68%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.16%) AWS
2 3 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.36%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) LAN
1 2 (1.36%) VoIP
1 2 (1.36%) WAN
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (3.40%) JIRA
3 2 (1.36%) LabVIEW
General
1 15 (10.20%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.16%) Aerospace
3 7 (4.76%) Automotive
4 5 (3.40%) Military
5 4 (2.72%) Avionics
5 4 (2.72%) Electronics
6 2 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Legal
6 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
2 1 (0.68%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (48.98%) Systems Engineering
2 40 (27.21%) Coaching
3 33 (22.45%) Physics
4 31 (21.09%) Acceptance Criteria
4 31 (21.09%) Mathematics
5 26 (17.69%) Requirements Management
5 26 (17.69%) Use Case
6 22 (14.97%) Validation
7 20 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (13.61%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 16 (10.88%) Ontologies
8 16 (10.88%) Verification and Validation
9 11 (7.48%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (6.12%) Agile
10 9 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (3.40%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (3.40%) Configuration Management
12 5 (3.40%) Systems Thinking
12 5 (3.40%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.40%) MATLAB
2 3 (2.04%) SQL
3 2 (1.36%) C#
3 2 (1.36%) Python
4 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 92 (62.59%) Degree
2 29 (19.73%) Chartered Engineer
3 12 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.36%) HNC
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (1.36%) NIST
2 2 (1.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (2.72%) Firmware
2 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (3.40%) IBM
2 4 (2.72%) Siemens
3 3 (2.04%) Cisco
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.04%) Sparx
4 2 (1.36%) SAP
5 1 (0.68%) Dell
5 1 (0.68%) HP
5 1 (0.68%) NetApp
5 1 (0.68%) VMware