Systems Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 267 280
Rank change year-on-year +178 +13 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2,066 751 888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.95% 1.22% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 1.37% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,327 267 397
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,019 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +10.57%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
South East +138 589 £50,000 -9.09% 115
South West +100 401 £55,000 +15.79% 88
Midlands +87 376 £48,500 +2.11% 96
East of England +83 267 £52,000 -9.57% 57
North of England +206 254 £45,000 +17.27% 55
West Midlands +65 237 £50,000 - 61
North West +130 158 £50,000 +29.05% 39
East Midlands +89 139 £42,500 -2.86% 35
Scotland +28 129 £44,000 -20.00% 24
Yorkshire +160 76 £45,000 +2.27% 11
Wales +45 42 £37,500 - 9
North East 0 20 £40,000 +11.11% 5
Northern Ireland +31 8 £35,000 -36.36% 4
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 437 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 381 (18.44%) Systems Engineering
3 311 (15.05%) Degree
4 238 (11.52%) Microsoft
5 220 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (9.49%) Manufacturing
7 194 (9.39%) Azure
8 191 (9.24%) Social Skills
9 184 (8.91%) SC Cleared
10 182 (8.81%) Windows
11 181 (8.76%) Validation
12 177 (8.57%) VMware
13 156 (7.55%) Aerospace
14 149 (7.21%) Linux
15 141 (6.82%) Active Directory
16 131 (6.34%) Automotive
17 128 (6.20%) SQL
18 117 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
19 109 (5.28%) Customer Service
20 108 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
21 103 (4.99%) Windows Server
22 101 (4.89%) Cybersecurity
23 100 (4.84%) Electronics
24 97 (4.70%) Agile
25 95 (4.60%) Verification and Validation
26 91 (4.40%) MATLAB
27 89 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
28 86 (4.16%) Algorithms
29 79 (3.82%) Prototyping
30 78 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 70 (3.39%) IIS
2 50 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.24%) Confluence
5 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.19%) WinCC
7 3 (0.15%) JBoss
7 3 (0.15%) Kinematics
8 2 (0.097%) Apache
8 2 (0.097%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.097%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.048%) SAS
9 1 (0.048%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 75 (3.63%) Simulink
2 46 (2.23%) Stateflow
3 37 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.68%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.097%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.097%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.048%) CATIA
9 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.048%) Solid Edge
9 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.24%) C-CURE
3 4 (0.19%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.097%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.097%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.048%) iTrent
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.048%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 194 (9.39%) Azure
2 117 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (3.10%) AWS
4 50 (2.42%) Entra ID
5 31 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (0.82%) OneDrive
7 14 (0.68%) SaaS
8 10 (0.48%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.34%) GCP
10 6 (0.29%) Azure App Service
11 5 (0.24%) PaaS
12 4 (0.19%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.15%) Dropbox
13 3 (0.15%) Google Drive
13 3 (0.15%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.15%) IaaS
14 2 (0.097%) Google Workspace
14 2 (0.097%) Nutanix
15 1 (0.048%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.73%) WAN
2 66 (3.19%) Firewall
3 52 (2.52%) DNS
4 38 (1.84%) DHCP
5 33 (1.60%) Software-Defined Radio
6 27 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.21%) LAN
8 24 (1.16%) VPN
9 22 (1.06%) Internet
10 20 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.92%) VLAN
12 18 (0.87%) Wireless
13 17 (0.82%) VSAN
14 16 (0.77%) SNMP
15 14 (0.68%) 4G
15 14 (0.68%) 5G
16 11 (0.53%) SAN
17 10 (0.48%) Ethernet
17 10 (0.48%) HTTP
18 9 (0.44%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.10%) SQL Server
2 28 (1.36%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.06%) MySQL
4 14 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.34%) Big Data
6 6 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.29%) InfluxDB
6 6 (0.29%) MariaDB
6 6 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.15%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.097%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.097%) QlikView
10 1 (0.048%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.048%) OLTP
10 1 (0.048%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.048%) Power BI
10 1 (0.048%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (3.48%) Rational DOORS
2 29 (1.40%) LabVIEW
3 23 (1.11%) JIRA
4 20 (0.97%) Rational Rhapsody
5 15 (0.73%) Git
6 12 (0.58%) Rational Team Concert
7 10 (0.48%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.24%) GitLab
9 3 (0.15%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.097%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.097%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.048%) Subversion
General
1 196 (9.49%) Manufacturing
2 191 (9.24%) Social Skills
3 156 (7.55%) Aerospace
4 131 (6.34%) Automotive
5 100 (4.84%) Electronics
6 73 (3.53%) Finance
7 64 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
8 46 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 37 (1.79%) Retail
10 29 (1.40%) Legal
11 27 (1.31%) Games
12 25 (1.21%) Military
13 18 (0.87%) Public Sector
14 16 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (0.77%) Marketing
15 14 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.44%) Advertising
18 9 (0.44%) Avionics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.06%) REST
1 22 (1.06%) WebRTC
2 9 (0.44%) Web Services
3 8 (0.39%) .NET
4 6 (0.29%) Middleware
5 4 (0.19%) JSON
5 4 (0.19%) Keycloak
5 4 (0.19%) LAMP
5 4 (0.19%) LDAP
5 4 (0.19%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (0.19%) XMPP
6 2 (0.097%) COM
6 2 (0.097%) HTML
6 2 (0.097%) HTML5
6 2 (0.097%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.097%) WebCenter
6 2 (0.097%) WPF
6 2 (0.097%) WSE
7 1 (0.048%) JSP
7 1 (0.048%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (4.16%) Algorithms
2 57 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 56 (2.71%) Embedded Systems
4 52 (2.52%) Clustering
5 44 (2.13%) SCADA
6 43 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
7 41 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 38 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 32 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (1.40%) Robotics
11 27 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 27 (1.31%) FPGA
12 26 (1.26%) CMDB
13 22 (1.06%) CCTV
13 22 (1.06%) IoT
14 21 (1.02%) Driving Licence
15 17 (0.82%) Mainframe
15 17 (0.82%) NHS
16 16 (0.77%) Verilog
16 16 (0.77%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 182 (8.81%) Windows
2 149 (7.21%) Linux
3 103 (4.99%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 27 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.92%) Debian
8 19 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.58%) CentOS
11 11 (0.53%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.44%) Unix
13 7 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.34%) VMS
14 5 (0.24%) Android
15 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.19%) SUSE
15 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.097%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (18.44%) Systems Engineering
2 220 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
3 181 (8.76%) Validation
4 109 (5.28%) Customer Service
5 101 (4.89%) Cybersecurity
6 97 (4.70%) Agile
7 95 (4.60%) Verification and Validation
8 79 (3.82%) Prototyping
9 78 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 75 (3.63%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 73 (3.53%) Configuration Management
12 71 (3.44%) Customer Requirements
13 68 (3.29%) Software Engineering
14 66 (3.19%) Project Management
15 65 (3.15%) Computer Science
16 63 (3.05%) Project Delivery
17 61 (2.95%) Software Testing
18 59 (2.86%) High Availability
19 51 (2.47%) Mathematics
20 49 (2.37%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 128 (6.20%) SQL
2 91 (4.40%) MATLAB
3 78 (3.78%) C
4 66 (3.19%) Python
5 47 (2.27%) C#
5 47 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 43 (2.08%) Java
7 39 (1.89%) Bash
8 28 (1.36%) C++
9 9 (0.44%) Perl
10 8 (0.39%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.39%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.29%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
12 5 (0.24%) VB
13 3 (0.15%) PHP
13 3 (0.15%) R
14 2 (0.097%) Assembly Language
14 2 (0.097%) REXX
14 2 (0.097%) XAML
Qualifications
1 437 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 311 (15.05%) Degree
3 184 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 89 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 58 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 47 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
8 34 (1.65%) HNC
9 31 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 23 (1.11%) HND
12 12 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.53%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
15 9 (0.44%) MCSE
16 8 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.39%) PMI Certification
17 7 (0.34%) CCNA
18 6 (0.29%) PhD
18 6 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
1 23 (1.11%) QA
2 19 (0.92%) ISO 9001
3 18 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (0.77%) PMO
5 15 (0.73%) GDPR
6 14 (0.68%) ISO 26262
7 13 (0.63%) Automotive SPICE
8 11 (0.53%) IEC 61508
9 10 (0.48%) COSHH
10 7 (0.34%) ISO 14001
10 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 6 (0.29%) Def Stans
12 5 (0.24%) SLA
13 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.15%) ECSS
15 2 (0.097%) PCI DSS
16 1 (0.048%) GMP
16 1 (0.048%) ISO 13485
16 1 (0.048%) JSP 440
System Software
1 141 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 108 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (3.29%) Hyper-V
4 53 (2.57%) Firmware
5 34 (1.65%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.92%) vSphere
7 14 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.48%) Docker
10 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.24%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.15%) Forefront TMG
14 3 (0.15%) NFS
14 3 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.15%) XenApp
15 2 (0.097%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 38 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.31%) Functional Safety
3 26 (1.26%) Ansible
4 25 (1.21%) Puppet
4 25 (1.21%) SCCM
5 20 (0.97%) Kubernetes
5 20 (0.97%) vCenter Server
6 18 (0.87%) SCOM
7 10 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.39%) Terraform
9 6 (0.29%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (0.24%) WSUS
11 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.19%) Autotask
11 4 (0.19%) Backup Exec
11 4 (0.19%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.15%) Wonderware InTouch
13 2 (0.097%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 238 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 177 (8.57%) VMware
3 56 (2.71%) EMC
4 44 (2.13%) IBM
5 40 (1.94%) Cisco
6 28 (1.36%) Citrix
7 23 (1.11%) HP
8 21 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 18 (0.87%) Siemens
9 18 (0.87%) Thales
10 16 (0.77%) Veeam
11 15 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 15 (0.73%) Meraki
12 14 (0.68%) CheckPoint
12 14 (0.68%) Oracle
13 13 (0.63%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.58%) Dell
15 11 (0.53%) Sophos
16 10 (0.48%) Darktrace
17 9 (0.44%) Sparx