SysML Job Trends in the South East

Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SysML skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 252 367
Rank change year-on-year -35 +115 -33
Permanent jobs citing SysML 30 35 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.19% 0.41% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.46% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 7
10th Percentile - £37,574 £56,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,546 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -26.47%
75th Percentile £58,000 £57,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £101,250 £66,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -35.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

SysML falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,377 7,629 13,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.68% 88.45% 81.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,116 4,024 9,174
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,788 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

SysML
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SysML relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

SysML job vacancy trend in the South East

SysML
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SysML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SysML

SysML
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SysML in the South East over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SysML in the South East

SysML
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 SysML within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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
Kent -6 17 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Thames Valley - 9 £97,500 - 7
Oxfordshire - 5 - - 3
Hampshire -65 4 £56,150 +12.30% 8
Berkshire - 4 £97,500 - 3
SysML
England

SysML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (66.67%) Simulink
2 5 (16.67%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) GCP
1 2 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) MQTT
2 3 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (10.00%) Wireless
3 2 (6.67%) ATM
3 2 (6.67%) HTTP
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 20 (66.67%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) PetaLinux
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (53.33%) Military
2 13 (43.33%) Aerospace
3 12 (40.00%) Finance
4 7 (23.33%) Electronics
5 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Law
7 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Systems Engineer
2 18 (60.00%) Senior
2 18 (60.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Chief Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Chief Software Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Optical Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Yocto
2 2 (6.67%) gRPC
2 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 2 (6.67%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (10.00%) FPGA
2 3 (10.00%) IoT
2 3 (10.00%) Verilog
2 3 (10.00%) VHDL
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
2 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 21 (70.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 19 (63.33%) Requirements Management
4 18 (60.00%) Coaching
4 18 (60.00%) Mathematics
4 18 (60.00%) Physics
5 11 (36.67%) UML
6 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
9 7 (23.33%) Information Assurance
9 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 5 (16.67%) Integration Testing
10 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (13.33%) Requirements Engineering
12 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (10.00%) Image Processing
12 3 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) MATLAB
2 8 (26.67%) C
3 7 (23.33%) Python
4 6 (20.00%) C++
4 6 (20.00%) Rust
5 2 (6.67%) Ada
6 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (73.33%) Degree
2 18 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) ECSS
1 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
1 3 (10.00%) MISRA
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Firmware
2 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Siemens
2 3 (10.00%) Xilinx
3 2 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.67%) Yahoo!