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 £52,600 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 422 516
Rank change year-on-year +348 +94 +167
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 1,379 375 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.53% 0.53% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.89% 0.56% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 764 268 50
10th Percentile £47,863 £44,472 £36,356
25th Percentile £48,869 £49,993 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £58,943 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,000 £70,000 £73,875
UK median annual salary £54,793 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% -8.33% -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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 15 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 15 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 +302 640 £50,055 +0.11% 24
North West +222 606 £50,055 -4.66% 15
South East +157 278 £62,000 +12.73% 89
Midlands +139 176 £52,500 - 19
South West +174 160 £52,600 -12.33% 28
West Midlands +109 98 £50,000 -9.09% 11
East Midlands +84 78 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Scotland +160 58 £75,360 +43.54% 8
Wales +65 35 £62,000 +69.98% 5
Yorkshire +89 34 £57,560 +27.61% 8
East of England +50 31 £85,000 +41.67% 15
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 15 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 1,163 (84.34%) Systems Engineering
2 977 (70.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 957 (69.40%) Degree
4 450 (32.63%) Aerospace
5 411 (29.80%) Coaching
6 370 (26.83%) Mathematics
7 364 (26.40%) Physics
8 290 (21.03%) Requirements Management
9 252 (18.27%) HND
10 241 (17.48%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 233 (16.90%) Customer Requirements
12 228 (16.53%) Acceptance Criteria
13 227 (16.46%) Automotive
14 215 (15.59%) Avionics
15 189 (13.71%) Technical Leadership
16 187 (13.56%) HNC
17 169 (12.26%) Rational DOORS
18 166 (12.04%) Electronics
19 158 (11.46%) Social Skills
20 154 (11.17%) Aeronautics
21 151 (10.95%) IBM
22 147 (10.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
22 147 (10.66%) Signal Processing
22 147 (10.66%) Algorithms
23 140 (10.15%) IEC 61508
23 140 (10.15%) DO-254
23 140 (10.15%) ARP4754
24 139 (10.08%) Agile
25 137 (9.93%) Business Case
26 134 (9.72%) Mentoring

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 (0.29%) Apache
1 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.073%) SharePoint
Applications
1 104 (7.54%) Simulink
2 78 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 64 (4.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (0.36%) AWS
1 5 (0.36%) Azure
1 5 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (0.29%) CloudBees
2 4 (0.29%) Entra ID
2 4 (0.29%) GitHub
3 2 (0.15%) SaaS
4 1 (0.073%) Azure App Service
4 1 (0.073%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.073%) IaaS
4 1 (0.073%) Nutanix
4 1 (0.073%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.15%) ATM
1 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (0.15%) Network Security
1 2 (0.15%) SAN
2 1 (0.073%) 5G
2 1 (0.073%) 802.11
2 1 (0.073%) DNS
2 1 (0.073%) Internet
2 1 (0.073%) LAN
2 1 (0.073%) VLAN
2 1 (0.073%) VoIP
2 1 (0.073%) VPN
2 1 (0.073%) WAN
2 1 (0.073%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.073%) Wireless
2 1 (0.073%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.073%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.073%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 169 (12.26%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.073%) LabVIEW
General
1 450 (32.63%) Aerospace
2 227 (16.46%) Automotive
3 215 (15.59%) Avionics
4 166 (12.04%) Electronics
5 158 (11.46%) Social Skills
6 154 (11.17%) Aeronautics
7 64 (4.64%) Telecoms
8 61 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (1.67%) Military
10 19 (1.38%) Aviation
11 16 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.15%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.15%) Local Government
13 2 (0.15%) Marketing
13 2 (0.15%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.15%) Retail
14 1 (0.073%) Games
14 1 (0.073%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.073%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.22%) OpenCL
2 1 (0.073%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.073%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 147 (10.66%) Algorithms
2 17 (1.23%) Management Information System
3 4 (0.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (0.29%) Device Driver
4 3 (0.22%) CUDA
4 3 (0.22%) Data Centre
4 3 (0.22%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (0.22%) PCIe
5 2 (0.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.073%) BYOD
6 1 (0.073%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.073%) IoT
6 1 (0.073%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.073%) Optoelectronics
6 1 (0.073%) PKI
6 1 (0.073%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.073%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.94%) Linux
2 10 (0.73%) Windows
3 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.073%) Debian
5 1 (0.073%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,163 (84.34%) Systems Engineering
2 411 (29.80%) Coaching
3 370 (26.83%) Mathematics
4 364 (26.40%) Physics
5 290 (21.03%) Requirements Management
6 241 (17.48%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 233 (16.90%) Customer Requirements
8 228 (16.53%) Acceptance Criteria
9 189 (13.71%) Technical Leadership
10 147 (10.66%) Signal Processing
11 139 (10.08%) Agile
12 137 (9.93%) Business Case
13 134 (9.72%) Mentoring
14 133 (9.64%) Use Case
15 131 (9.50%) Feasibility Study
15 131 (9.50%) Hazard Analysis
15 131 (9.50%) SDLC
16 118 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 110 (7.98%) Project Planning
18 98 (7.11%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.28%) MATLAB
2 118 (8.56%) R
3 12 (0.87%) Python
4 7 (0.51%) PowerShell
5 6 (0.44%) C
6 4 (0.29%) Bash
6 4 (0.29%) C++
7 2 (0.15%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.073%) C#
8 1 (0.073%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.073%) SQL
Qualifications
1 977 (70.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 957 (69.40%) Degree
3 252 (18.27%) HND
4 187 (13.56%) HNC
5 132 (9.57%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (0.15%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.15%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.073%) CCNA
7 1 (0.073%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.073%) PhD
7 1 (0.073%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.073%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (10.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 140 (10.15%) ARP4754
2 140 (10.15%) DO-254
2 140 (10.15%) IEC 61508
3 4 (0.29%) GDPR
4 2 (0.15%) QA
5 1 (0.073%) NIST
5 1 (0.073%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (0.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.22%) Firmware
2 3 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (0.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.29%) Ansible
2 4 (0.29%) SCCM
2 4 (0.29%) SCOM
2 4 (0.29%) SCOrch
2 4 (0.29%) Terraform
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.15%) SmoothWall
4 1 (0.073%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 151 (10.95%) IBM
2 87 (6.31%) Microsoft
3 64 (4.64%) ANSYS
4 50 (3.63%) MathWorks
5 16 (1.16%) Siemens
6 4 (0.29%) IBM Sterling
6 4 (0.29%) VMware
7 3 (0.22%) Graphcore
8 2 (0.15%) Cisco
8 2 (0.15%) EMC
8 2 (0.15%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.15%) Veeam
9 1 (0.073%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.073%) Citrix
9 1 (0.073%) Datto
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle
9 1 (0.073%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.073%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (0.073%) Veritas