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 £50,055 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 79 239
Rank change year-on-year +68 +160 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 4,056 2,350 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.30% 3.15% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.41% 3.32% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,441 1,519 308
10th Percentile £47,650 £32,500 £32,350
25th Percentile £47,683 £40,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £60,265 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% - -

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 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
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% -

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +150 1,430 £50,055 +11.23% 216
North West +119 1,249 £50,055 +0.11% 111
South East +40 858 £62,000 +24.00% 326
Midlands +50 638 £47,683 -2.69% 195
Scotland +161 464 £58,033 +10.54% 64
South West +26 400 £52,600 -4.36% 183
West Midlands +50 353 £42,500 -15.00% 117
East Midlands +46 284 £47,683 +12.20% 69
Yorkshire +106 169 £47,683 +5.96% 85
East of England -26 151 £47,683 -9.18% 166
Wales +60 111 £62,000 +77.14% 35
North East +39 12 £55,000 +37.50% 22
Northern Ireland +39 4 - - 11
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 3,282 (80.92%) Systems Engineering
2 2,849 (70.24%) Degree
3 2,659 (65.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1,509 (37.20%) MATLAB
5 1,399 (34.49%) SysML
6 1,128 (27.81%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 1,022 (25.20%) Mathematics
8 921 (22.71%) HND
9 902 (22.24%) HNC
10 834 (20.56%) Agile
11 822 (20.27%) Aerospace
12 778 (19.18%) Simulink
13 764 (18.84%) Validation
14 725 (17.87%) UML
15 701 (17.28%) Rational DOORS
16 613 (15.11%) Social Skills
17 595 (14.67%) MODAF
18 590 (14.55%) Electronics
19 571 (14.08%) Physics
20 550 (13.56%) IBM
20 550 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
21 546 (13.46%) Verification and Validation
22 532 (13.12%) Automotive
23 530 (13.07%) Presentation Skills
24 517 (12.75%) Software Engineering
25 473 (11.66%) Digital Twin
26 448 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
27 435 (10.72%) Coaching
28 424 (10.45%) Signal Processing
29 422 (10.40%) Teamcenter

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 19 (0.47%) Confluence
2 15 (0.37%) WinCC
3 13 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.099%) Apache
4 4 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.074%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.074%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.025%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 778 (19.18%) Simulink
2 297 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
3 186 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 177 (4.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.30%) EPLAN
6 3 (0.074%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.025%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.025%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 422 (10.40%) Teamcenter
2 80 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 34 (0.84%) Azure
2 33 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (0.52%) AWS
4 11 (0.27%) Google Workspace
5 9 (0.22%) Entra ID
5 9 (0.22%) SaaS
6 7 (0.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (0.15%) Azure Storage
7 6 (0.15%) GitHub
8 4 (0.099%) CloudBees
9 3 (0.074%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.049%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.025%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.025%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.025%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.025%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.025%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.025%) IaaS
11 1 (0.025%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.025%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.06%) Broadband
2 26 (0.64%) DNS
3 24 (0.59%) DHCP
4 23 (0.57%) Wireshark
5 22 (0.54%) Ethernet
6 20 (0.49%) Profibus
6 20 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 19 (0.47%) Modbus
7 19 (0.47%) Software-Defined Radio
8 17 (0.42%) Firewall
9 13 (0.32%) VLAN
9 13 (0.32%) WLAN
10 12 (0.30%) RS-485
11 11 (0.27%) BGP
11 11 (0.27%) OSPF
11 11 (0.27%) Wireless
12 7 (0.17%) VoIP
13 6 (0.15%) SAN
13 6 (0.15%) Wireless Security
14 5 (0.12%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (0.49%) MySQL
2 16 (0.39%) Relational Database
3 11 (0.27%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.049%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.049%) GIS
5 2 (0.049%) Power BI
6 1 (0.025%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.025%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 701 (17.28%) Rational DOORS
2 28 (0.69%) Git
3 21 (0.52%) JIRA
4 16 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.20%) ClearCase
6 5 (0.12%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.049%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.049%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.025%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.025%) Maven
8 1 (0.025%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.025%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 822 (20.27%) Aerospace
2 613 (15.11%) Social Skills
3 590 (14.55%) Electronics
4 532 (13.12%) Automotive
5 530 (13.07%) Presentation Skills
6 223 (5.50%) Avionics
7 154 (3.80%) Aeronautics
7 154 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 75 (1.85%) Finance
9 70 (1.73%) Manufacturing
10 61 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (0.96%) Law
12 32 (0.79%) Military
13 30 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
13 30 (0.74%) Aviation
14 26 (0.64%) Retail
15 19 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.27%) Public Sector
17 9 (0.22%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (0.44%) .NET
2 14 (0.35%) XML
3 7 (0.17%) Kafka
3 7 (0.17%) XSD
4 4 (0.099%) CSS
4 4 (0.099%) HTML
5 3 (0.074%) Node.js
5 3 (0.074%) OpenCL
6 2 (0.049%) Flash
7 1 (0.025%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.025%) LDAP
7 1 (0.025%) Node-RED
7 1 (0.025%) REST
7 1 (0.025%) Web Services
7 1 (0.025%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 406 (10.01%) Algorithms
2 87 (2.14%) Management Information System
3 65 (1.60%) Product Ownership
4 44 (1.08%) Operational Technology
5 42 (1.04%) FMCG
5 42 (1.04%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 42 (1.04%) SCADA
6 28 (0.69%) e-Learning
7 22 (0.54%) Data Centre
8 20 (0.49%) FPGA
9 13 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.27%) Smartphone
11 9 (0.22%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (0.17%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.12%) CCTV
13 5 (0.12%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.12%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.099%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.099%) Device Driver
15 3 (0.074%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 90 (2.22%) Windows
2 85 (2.10%) Linux
3 30 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (0.37%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.27%) Mac OS X
7 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.17%) VMS
9 4 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.049%) CentOS
10 2 (0.049%) Debian
11 1 (0.025%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.025%) SUSE
11 1 (0.025%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,282 (80.92%) Systems Engineering
2 1,399 (34.49%) SysML
3 1,128 (27.81%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 1,022 (25.20%) Mathematics
5 834 (20.56%) Agile
6 764 (18.84%) Validation
7 725 (17.87%) UML
8 595 (14.67%) MODAF
9 571 (14.08%) Physics
10 550 (13.56%) Cybersecurity
11 546 (13.46%) Verification and Validation
12 517 (12.75%) Software Engineering
13 473 (11.66%) Digital Twin
14 448 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
15 435 (10.72%) Coaching
16 424 (10.45%) Signal Processing
17 411 (10.13%) Requirements Management
18 351 (8.65%) PLM
19 282 (6.95%) Problem-Solving
20 271 (6.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,509 (37.20%) MATLAB
2 119 (2.93%) R
3 36 (0.89%) PowerShell
4 28 (0.69%) SQL
5 27 (0.67%) C
6 22 (0.54%) C#
7 21 (0.52%) Python
8 17 (0.42%) Java
9 12 (0.30%) C++
10 9 (0.22%) Ladder Logic
11 8 (0.20%) Bash
12 7 (0.17%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.074%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.074%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.049%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.049%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.049%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.025%) Tcl
15 1 (0.025%) VB
15 1 (0.025%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2,849 (70.24%) Degree
2 2,659 (65.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 921 (22.71%) HND
4 902 (22.24%) HNC
5 162 (3.99%) Chartered Engineer
6 74 (1.82%) Security Cleared
7 66 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 60 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (1.48%) SC Cleared
9 16 (0.39%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.35%) NVQ Level 3
11 11 (0.27%) MCSE
12 7 (0.17%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.15%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.074%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.074%) PhD
15 1 (0.025%) CCNA
15 1 (0.025%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.025%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (10.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 140 (3.45%) ARP4754
2 140 (3.45%) DO-254
2 140 (3.45%) IEC 61508
3 29 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 14 (0.35%) Def Stans
5 8 (0.20%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.20%) GDPR
6 7 (0.17%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.12%) QA
8 4 (0.099%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.074%) WCAG
10 1 (0.025%) ECSS
10 1 (0.025%) GxP
10 1 (0.025%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.025%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.025%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.025%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.025%) PMO
10 1 (0.025%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.59%) Firmware
3 18 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 17 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.35%) Docker
5 14 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.025%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.025%) Postfix
8 1 (0.025%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.025%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (0.52%) Ansible
2 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (0.27%) Wonderware InTouch
4 10 (0.25%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.15%) SCCM
6 5 (0.12%) SCOM
6 5 (0.12%) WSUS
7 4 (0.099%) SCOrch
7 4 (0.099%) Terraform
8 2 (0.049%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.049%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.049%) SmoothWall
9 1 (0.025%) Nessus
9 1 (0.025%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.025%) Puppet
9 1 (0.025%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 550 (13.56%) IBM
2 273 (6.73%) Microsoft
3 210 (5.18%) ANSYS
4 92 (2.27%) Siemens
5 80 (1.97%) Sparx
6 60 (1.48%) Rockwell
7 50 (1.23%) MathWorks
8 34 (0.84%) VMware
9 24 (0.59%) Allen-Bradley
10 22 (0.54%) Google
11 18 (0.44%) Cisco
12 16 (0.39%) Atlassian
12 16 (0.39%) Wonderware
13 14 (0.35%) Dell
14 11 (0.27%) Apple
14 11 (0.27%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.27%) Ubiquiti
15 9 (0.22%) EMC
16 7 (0.17%) Citrix
16 7 (0.17%) Veeam