Systems Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Systems Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 155 191
Rank change year-on-year -18 +36 +55
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 11 91 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 1.35% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.59% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2 67 14
10th Percentile - £37,694 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £41,401
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% -4.02%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,125 £80,625
90th Percentile - £80,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £62,000 £63,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.36% +10.43% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,171 5,717 5,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.93% 85.00% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 3,953 3,124
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,283 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
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 Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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 +23 9 £60,000 -25.00% 12
Berkshire -28 2 - - 24
Systems Engineering
South East

Systems Engineering
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 6 (54.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon ECR
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Slack
1 6 (54.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) MQTT
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) MongoDB
2 6 (54.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 6 (54.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Manufacturing
2 6 (54.55%) Electronics
3 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
4 2 (18.18%) Advertising
5 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Project Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Project Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Django
1 6 (54.55%) Flask
1 6 (54.55%) Lambda Expressions
1 6 (54.55%) React
2 2 (18.18%) gRPC
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Molecular Biology
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Batch Processing
2 6 (54.55%) Biology
2 6 (54.55%) Code Quality
2 6 (54.55%) Commercialisation
2 6 (54.55%) Disruptive Innovation
2 6 (54.55%) Informatics
2 6 (54.55%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (54.55%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Business Case
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) SABSA
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) TypeScript
3 3 (27.27%) MATLAB
4 1 (9.09%) C
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Def Stans
2 1 (9.09%) ECSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Sawtooth Software
2 2 (18.18%) VMware