Systems Engineering Job Trends in the South East

Systems Engineering
England > South East

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 145 182
Rank change year-on-year +58 +37 +39
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 358 168 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.89% 1.87% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 2.12% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 147 85 65
10th Percentile £43,000 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,150 £51,852
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% +21.79% -39.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,900 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,200 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% +9.09% -21.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Systems Engineering 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 13,719 7,930 10,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.27% 88.32% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,761 4,219 5,332
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in the South East

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the South East

Systems Engineering
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 Systems Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Hampshire +11 192 £55,000 -12.91% 111
Kent +28 60 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Thames Valley +26 40 £67,500 -12.90% 86
Isle of Wight -2 35 £87,200 +32.12% 6
Berkshire +20 21 £67,500 -12.90% 51
West Sussex -12 16 £68,500 +24.55% 11
Buckinghamshire - 14 £67,500 - 10
Surrey -20 13 £46,078 -0.24% 17
Oxfordshire -22 5 £52,500 -41.67% 25
Sussex -11 2 - - 3
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
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 12 (3.35%) Apache
2 10 (2.79%) nginx
3 3 (0.84%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 51 (14.25%) Simulink
2 15 (4.19%) CATIA
3 6 (1.68%) Windchill
4 4 (1.12%) Mathcad
5 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (2.51%) Azure
2 8 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (1.12%) AWS
3 4 (1.12%) GCP
4 3 (0.84%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.56%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.51%) DNS
2 8 (2.23%) ATM
3 7 (1.96%) Firewall
4 6 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.84%) LAN
5 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.56%) DHCP
6 2 (0.56%) HTTP
6 2 (0.56%) MQTT
6 2 (0.56%) Network Security
6 2 (0.56%) OSPF
6 2 (0.56%) VLAN
6 2 (0.56%) VoIP
6 2 (0.56%) VPN
6 2 (0.56%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.12%) GIS
2 2 (0.56%) MySQL
3 1 (0.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 101 (28.21%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (6.15%) JIRA
3 4 (1.12%) Apache Continuum
3 4 (1.12%) LabVIEW
4 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.28%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 188 (52.51%) Aerospace
2 165 (46.09%) Finance
3 79 (22.07%) Social Skills
4 59 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.89%) Electronics
6 26 (7.26%) Military
7 16 (4.47%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.91%) Retail
9 10 (2.79%) Aviation
10 7 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.68%) Automotive
11 6 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.12%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.12%) Avionics
12 4 (1.12%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.12%) Japanese Language
13 3 (0.84%) Police
14 2 (0.56%) Law
15 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 252 (70.39%) Systems Engineer
2 96 (26.82%) Senior
3 83 (23.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 71 (19.83%) Principal Engineer
4 71 (19.83%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 41 (11.45%) Lead
6 25 (6.98%) Team Leader
7 21 (5.87%) IT Engineer
8 18 (5.03%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 12 (3.35%) Architect
10 10 (2.79%) Chief Systems Engineer
10 10 (2.79%) NOC Manager
10 10 (2.79%) Operations Manager
11 8 (2.23%) Software Team Leader
12 7 (1.96%) Systems Architect
13 6 (1.68%) Engineering Manager
14 5 (1.40%) Integration Engineer
14 5 (1.40%) Security Engineer
14 5 (1.40%) Technical Engineer
14 5 (1.40%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.40%) Web Services
2 4 (1.12%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.56%) gRPC
3 2 (0.56%) JSON
3 2 (0.56%) LAMP
3 2 (0.56%) Node.js
3 2 (0.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (0.56%) React
3 2 (0.56%) RESTful
3 2 (0.56%) Terraform
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Camel
4 1 (0.28%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.75%) Algorithms
2 15 (4.19%) SCADA
3 13 (3.63%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.07%) Driving Licence
6 10 (2.79%) Social Media
7 8 (2.23%) FPGA
8 6 (1.68%) Augmented Reality
9 5 (1.40%) Acoustics
9 5 (1.40%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.40%) PCIe
9 5 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.40%) Verilog
9 5 (1.40%) VHDL
10 4 (1.12%) CESG
10 4 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.84%) IoT
11 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.84%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.75%) Linux
1 17 (4.75%) Windows
2 15 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.56%) Debian
4 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.28%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (26.82%) Requirements Management
2 69 (19.27%) Technical Leadership
3 68 (18.99%) Mathematics
4 61 (17.04%) Physics
5 59 (16.48%) Agile
6 56 (15.64%) Customer Requirements
7 51 (14.25%) Validation
8 50 (13.97%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 48 (13.41%) Systems Thinking
10 46 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (11.45%) Change Management
12 41 (11.45%) Software Engineering
13 40 (11.17%) SysML
13 40 (11.17%) Verification and Validation
14 37 (10.34%) Decision-Making
15 36 (10.06%) Asset Management
16 31 (8.66%) Impact Assessments
17 28 (7.82%) Collaborative Working
18 27 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.16%) MATLAB
2 26 (7.26%) Python
3 20 (5.59%) C
4 10 (2.79%) C++
5 9 (2.51%) Embedded C
5 9 (2.51%) Embedded C++
6 8 (2.23%) Assembly Language
7 4 (1.12%) C#
8 2 (0.56%) Ada
8 2 (0.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.28%) Java
Qualifications
1 157 (43.85%) Degree
2 154 (43.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 58 (16.20%) Security Cleared
4 42 (11.73%) Chartered Engineer
5 35 (9.78%) SC Cleared
6 29 (8.10%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.07%) HND
8 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (2.51%) HNC
10 5 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.12%) CISM
11 4 (1.12%) CISSP
11 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.12%) PhD
12 2 (0.56%) CCNA
12 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 11 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 10 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.51%) ECSS
5 8 (2.23%) ARP4754
5 8 (2.23%) DO-254
6 6 (1.68%) Def Stans
7 5 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.40%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.12%) NIST
9 3 (0.84%) QA
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 12 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
1 12 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.23%) Firmware
3 5 (1.40%) Squid
4 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.23%) BMC PATROL
2 5 (1.40%) HAProxy
2 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.84%) SCCM
5 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 48 (13.41%) Siemens
2 42 (11.73%) IBM
3 18 (5.03%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.35%) Veeam
4 12 (3.35%) VMware
5 9 (2.51%) Thales
6 8 (2.23%) EMC
7 4 (1.12%) Facebook
7 4 (1.12%) Instagram
8 3 (0.84%) Cisco
9 2 (0.56%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.56%) Yahoo!
10 1 (0.28%) Juniper
10 1 (0.28%) Rockwell