Systems Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

System Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median System Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 41 188
Rank change year-on-year -115 +147 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 21 325 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.68% 4.84% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 5.11% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10 228 25
10th Percentile £34,750 £34,000 -
25th Percentile £41,375 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £61,875 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,750 £65,000 £71,250
South East median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,533 6,358 5,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.00% 94.68% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,274 4,519 3,207
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,954
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,375 £37,481
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
Oxfordshire -35 12 £53,750 +7.50% 14
Berkshire -67 6 £50,000 - 22
Buckinghamshire -15 3 £44,000 +3.53% 13
Systems Engineer
South East

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (23.81%) MATLAB
3 5 (23.81%) C
3 5 (23.81%) C++
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 5 (23.81%) Degree
4 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Military
4 4 (19.05%) e-Learning
4 4 (19.05%) Reference Data
4 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) XML
4 4 (19.05%) Regression Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Aviation
4 4 (19.05%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (19.05%) Innovative Thinking
5 3 (14.29%) ECSS
5 3 (14.29%) Automotive
5 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 3 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
6 2 (9.52%) Citrix

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Zemax
2 1 (4.76%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DHCP
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) SMTP
2 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.76%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Aviation
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Military
4 3 (14.29%) Automotive
4 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Advertising
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) e-Learning
1 4 (19.05%) Reference Data
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Robotics
3 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (23.81%) Migration
2 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
2 4 (19.05%) Innovative Thinking
2 4 (19.05%) Regression Testing
2 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
3 2 (9.52%) FMEA
3 2 (9.52%) Model Validation
3 2 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
3 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
3 2 (9.52%) Validation
4 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.76%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
4 1 (4.76%) Containerisation
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) C
1 5 (23.81%) C++
1 5 (23.81%) MATLAB
2 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) ECSS
3 2 (9.52%) HAZOP
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) WSUS
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Citrix
2 2 (9.52%) Siemens
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) ANSYS
3 1 (4.76%) AVEVA
3 1 (4.76%) Rockwell