Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior System Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £54,793 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 397 482
Rank change year-on-year +324 +85 +214
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 1,413 425 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.56% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.95% 0.60% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 784 304 49
10th Percentile - £43,239 £36,356
25th Percentile £48,869 £50,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £57,495 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +4.54% -4.35%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,806 71,101 51,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.94% 89.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 50,103 29,550
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +284 651 £50,055 -4.66% 18
North West +216 616 £50,055 +0.11% 11
South East +154 304 £62,000 +12.73% 52
Midlands +133 175 £55,000 +4.76% 21
South West +141 154 £52,600 -12.33% 14
West Midlands +109 96 - - 14
East Midlands +85 79 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Scotland +166 58 £75,360 +28.27% 7
Wales +71 39 £62,000 +69.98% 3
Yorkshire +81 35 £57,560 +27.61% 6
East of England +58 31 £85,000 +41.67% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 1,194 (84.50%) Systems Engineering
2 1,015 (71.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 950 (67.23%) Degree
4 442 (31.28%) Aerospace
5 411 (29.09%) Coaching
6 364 (25.76%) Mathematics
6 364 (25.76%) Physics
7 290 (20.52%) Requirements Management
8 248 (17.55%) HND
9 235 (16.63%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 231 (16.35%) Customer Requirements
11 228 (16.14%) Acceptance Criteria
12 225 (15.92%) Automotive
13 217 (15.36%) Technical Leadership
14 213 (15.07%) Avionics
15 194 (13.73%) Electronics
16 193 (13.66%) Rational DOORS
17 183 (12.95%) HNC
18 181 (12.81%) IBM
19 177 (12.53%) Signal Processing
19 177 (12.53%) Algorithms
19 177 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
20 155 (10.97%) Social Skills
21 154 (10.90%) Aeronautics
22 140 (9.91%) DO-254
22 140 (9.91%) ARP4754
22 140 (9.91%) IEC 61508
23 139 (9.84%) Agile
24 136 (9.62%) Mentoring
25 134 (9.48%) Chartered Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (0.28%) Apache
1 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.071%) SharePoint
Applications
1 102 (7.22%) Simulink
2 78 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 64 (4.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (0.50%) AWS
1 7 (0.50%) Azure
1 7 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (0.42%) Entra ID
3 4 (0.28%) CloudBees
3 4 (0.28%) GitHub
4 2 (0.14%) SaaS
5 1 (0.071%) Azure App Service
5 1 (0.071%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.071%) IaaS
5 1 (0.071%) Nutanix
5 1 (0.071%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.14%) ATM
1 2 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (0.14%) Modbus
1 2 (0.14%) MQTT
1 2 (0.14%) Network Security
1 2 (0.14%) SAN
2 1 (0.071%) 5G
2 1 (0.071%) 802.11
2 1 (0.071%) DNS
2 1 (0.071%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.071%) Internet
2 1 (0.071%) LAN
2 1 (0.071%) VLAN
2 1 (0.071%) VoIP
2 1 (0.071%) VPN
2 1 (0.071%) WAN
2 1 (0.071%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.071%) Wireless
2 1 (0.071%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.071%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.071%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 193 (13.66%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.071%) LabVIEW
General
1 442 (31.28%) Aerospace
2 225 (15.92%) Automotive
3 213 (15.07%) Avionics
4 194 (13.73%) Electronics
5 155 (10.97%) Social Skills
6 154 (10.90%) Aeronautics
7 64 (4.53%) Telecoms
8 61 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (1.34%) Aviation
10 17 (1.20%) Military
11 16 (1.13%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.14%) Law
13 2 (0.14%) Local Government
13 2 (0.14%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.14%) Marketing
13 2 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.14%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.14%) Retail
14 1 (0.071%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.21%) OpenCL
2 1 (0.071%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.071%) Node-RED
2 1 (0.071%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 177 (12.53%) Algorithms
2 17 (1.20%) Management Information System
3 4 (0.28%) Cloud Native
3 4 (0.28%) Data Centre
3 4 (0.28%) Device Driver
4 3 (0.21%) CUDA
4 3 (0.21%) IoT
4 3 (0.21%) PCIe
5 2 (0.14%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (0.14%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (0.14%) Operational Technology
5 2 (0.14%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.14%) SCADA
5 2 (0.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.071%) BYOD
6 1 (0.071%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.071%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.071%) Optoelectronics
6 1 (0.071%) PKI
6 1 (0.071%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.92%) Linux
2 12 (0.85%) Windows
3 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.071%) Debian
5 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (84.50%) Systems Engineering
2 411 (29.09%) Coaching
3 364 (25.76%) Mathematics
3 364 (25.76%) Physics
4 290 (20.52%) Requirements Management
5 235 (16.63%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 231 (16.35%) Customer Requirements
7 228 (16.14%) Acceptance Criteria
8 217 (15.36%) Technical Leadership
9 177 (12.53%) Signal Processing
10 139 (9.84%) Agile
11 136 (9.62%) Mentoring
12 133 (9.41%) Use Case
13 131 (9.27%) Business Case
13 131 (9.27%) Feasibility Study
13 131 (9.27%) Hazard Analysis
13 131 (9.27%) SDLC
14 118 (8.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 110 (7.78%) Project Planning
16 105 (7.43%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (8.92%) MATLAB
2 118 (8.35%) R
3 12 (0.85%) Python
4 9 (0.64%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.28%) Bash
5 4 (0.28%) C
5 4 (0.28%) C++
6 1 (0.071%) C#
6 1 (0.071%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.071%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1,015 (71.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 950 (67.23%) Degree
3 248 (17.55%) HND
4 183 (12.95%) HNC
5 134 (9.48%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (0.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.14%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.071%) CCNA
7 1 (0.071%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.071%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.071%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.071%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 140 (9.91%) ARP4754
2 140 (9.91%) DO-254
2 140 (9.91%) IEC 61508
3 4 (0.28%) GDPR
4 3 (0.21%) QA
5 1 (0.071%) NIST
5 1 (0.071%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.28%) Docker
2 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.21%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.071%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (0.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.28%) Ansible
2 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.28%) SCCM
2 4 (0.28%) SCOM
2 4 (0.28%) SCOrch
2 4 (0.28%) Terraform
3 2 (0.14%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.14%) SmoothWall
4 1 (0.071%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 181 (12.81%) IBM
2 87 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 64 (4.53%) ANSYS
4 50 (3.54%) MathWorks
5 18 (1.27%) Siemens
6 7 (0.50%) VMware
7 4 (0.28%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (0.28%) Veeam
8 3 (0.21%) Graphcore
9 2 (0.14%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.14%) Cisco
9 2 (0.14%) EMC
9 2 (0.14%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.14%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.071%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (0.071%) Citrix
10 1 (0.071%) Oracle
10 1 (0.071%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.071%) Ruckus Wireless
10 1 (0.071%) Veritas