Systems Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Systems Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 295 357
Rank change year-on-year +36 +62 -42
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 790 690 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.11% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.16% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 427 147 287
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £34,825
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Systems Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,217 59,337 66,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 95.62% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,395 41,344
10th Percentile £27,234 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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 +28 217 £63,500 +12.11% 93
South West +4 210 £55,000 -18.52% 78
East of England +110 136 £55,000 -15.38% 55
Midlands -51 123 £55,000 - 56
West Midlands -73 82 £55,000 - 36
North of England +79 65 £51,000 -27.14% 45
East Midlands +17 41 £50,000 - 20
Yorkshire +114 33 £51,000 - 7
North West +22 30 £60,000 -14.29% 36
Scotland -65 17 £60,000 +43.71% 26
Wales +4 16 £40,000 -42.86% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 1
North East +1 2 £67,500 - 2
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
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 40 (5.06%) WebLogic
2 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 59 (7.47%) Microsoft Project
2 56 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (4.05%) Simulink
4 19 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.89%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 54 (6.84%) Primavera
2 42 (5.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 91 (11.52%) Azure
2 81 (10.25%) AWS
3 40 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
3 40 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
4 24 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (1.14%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.89%) PowerApps
8 5 (0.63%) SaaS
9 3 (0.38%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.25%) Serverless
11 1 (0.13%) GCP
11 1 (0.13%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.82%) TCP/IP
2 43 (5.44%) BGP
3 42 (5.32%) DNS
4 40 (5.06%) SSL
5 16 (2.03%) Firewall
6 11 (1.39%) LAN
6 11 (1.39%) WAN
6 11 (1.39%) WLAN
7 10 (1.27%) SAN
7 10 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.14%) Wireless
9 7 (0.89%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.89%) Intranet
10 6 (0.76%) 4G
10 6 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.63%) Network Security
11 5 (0.63%) VoIP
12 4 (0.51%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.51%) FlexRay
12 4 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.58%) Relational Database
2 43 (5.44%) RDBMS
3 40 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (5.06%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.51%) MySQL
5 2 (0.25%) Big Data
5 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.25%) Power BI
6 1 (0.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 80 (10.13%) Rational DOORS
2 31 (3.92%) Rational Rhapsody
3 19 (2.41%) JIRA
4 14 (1.77%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.52%) Rational Team Concert
6 10 (1.27%) Git
7 9 (1.14%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.89%) GitLab
8 7 (0.89%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.25%) Apache Continuum
12 1 (0.13%) MSTest
12 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.13%) TestComplete
General
1 219 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 104 (13.16%) Aerospace
3 72 (9.11%) Manufacturing
4 62 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.09%) Electronics
6 47 (5.95%) Automotive
7 46 (5.82%) Military
8 42 (5.32%) Finance
9 35 (4.43%) Marketing
10 34 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.66%) Games
13 20 (2.53%) Telecoms
14 18 (2.28%) Public Sector
14 18 (2.28%) Retail
15 17 (2.15%) Legal
16 15 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.27%) Aviation
17 10 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (47.85%) Systems Engineer
2 99 (12.53%) Lead
3 95 (12.03%) Principal Engineer
4 91 (11.52%) Senior
5 90 (11.39%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 82 (10.38%) Architect
7 60 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
8 53 (6.71%) Project Controller
9 51 (6.46%) Software Engineer
10 49 (6.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 43 (5.44%) Lead Architect
12 40 (5.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 26 (3.29%) Project Manager
14 22 (2.78%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 19 (2.41%) Consultant
16 18 (2.28%) Data Engineer
17 16 (2.03%) Developer
17 16 (2.03%) Systems Architect
17 16 (2.03%) Test Engineer
18 14 (1.77%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
1 40 (5.06%) Spring Boot
2 12 (1.52%) HTML
3 9 (1.14%) XML
4 4 (0.51%) .NET
4 4 (0.51%) Keycloak
4 4 (0.51%) WPF
5 3 (0.38%) CSS
5 3 (0.38%) HTML5
5 3 (0.38%) JSON
5 3 (0.38%) Svelte
6 2 (0.25%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.25%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.25%) Node.js
6 2 (0.25%) React
6 2 (0.25%) REST
6 2 (0.25%) SOAP
6 2 (0.25%) WSE
7 1 (0.13%) Middleware
7 1 (0.13%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 46 (5.82%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (5.06%) Public Cloud
4 29 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (3.54%) Algorithms
6 24 (3.04%) SCADA
7 22 (2.78%) Robotics
8 20 (2.53%) Operational Technology
9 17 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (1.27%) IoT
11 9 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
13 6 (0.76%) Chip and PIN
13 6 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.63%) Acoustics
14 5 (0.63%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.51%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.51%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 84 (10.63%) Linux
2 47 (5.95%) Windows
3 43 (5.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (22.53%) Agile
2 149 (18.86%) Validation
3 109 (13.80%) Project Management
4 97 (12.28%) Verification and Validation
5 90 (11.39%) Software Engineering
6 88 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (10.76%) Risk Management
8 83 (10.51%) Collaborative Working
9 81 (10.25%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 74 (9.37%) Customer Requirements
11 71 (8.99%) Actionable Insight
12 67 (8.48%) Programme Management
13 57 (7.22%) Project Delivery
13 57 (7.22%) SDLC
14 54 (6.84%) Requirements Management
15 53 (6.71%) Earned Value Management
15 53 (6.71%) Performance Management
15 53 (6.71%) Scrum
16 52 (6.58%) Cybersecurity
16 52 (6.58%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.09%) Python
2 46 (5.82%) MATLAB
3 39 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 32 (4.05%) C
5 31 (3.92%) Java
6 28 (3.54%) C#
7 16 (2.03%) Bash
8 10 (1.27%) SQL
9 9 (1.14%) C++
10 8 (1.01%) Ada
11 6 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.51%) Go
13 3 (0.38%) VB
13 3 (0.38%) VBScript
14 1 (0.13%) Perl
14 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.13%) R
Qualifications
1 358 (45.32%) Security Cleared
2 247 (31.27%) Degree
3 132 (16.71%) SC Cleared
4 118 (14.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (6.08%) Master's Degree
6 47 (5.95%) Azure Certification
7 44 (5.57%) Chartered Engineer
8 43 (5.44%) DV Cleared
9 40 (5.06%) AWS Certification
9 40 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (2.78%) DBS Check
11 16 (2.03%) HNC
12 14 (1.77%) HND
13 12 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.76%) PhD
16 2 (0.25%) CISA
16 2 (0.25%) CISM
16 2 (0.25%) CISSP
16 2 (0.25%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 14 (1.77%) Def Stans
3 7 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 7 (0.89%) QA
4 5 (0.63%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.51%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (0.51%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.38%) ECSS
6 3 (0.38%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.38%) JTAG
6 3 (0.38%) NCSC
6 3 (0.38%) PMO
7 2 (0.25%) GRC
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
8 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.13%) GDPR
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 35 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (3.04%) Hyper-V
3 20 (2.53%) Firmware
4 15 (1.90%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.38%) Forefront TMG
6 3 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (1.90%) Functional Safety
2 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.63%) SELinux
5 4 (0.51%) Ansible
5 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.38%) SCCM
6 3 (0.38%) SCOM
6 3 (0.38%) WSUS
7 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.13%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.13%) IBM BigFix
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 98 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.44%) Oracle
2 43 (5.44%) VMware
3 42 (5.32%) Sparx
4 40 (5.06%) EMC
5 34 (4.30%) IBM
6 23 (2.91%) Thales
7 21 (2.66%) IFS
8 18 (2.28%) Workday
9 12 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.39%) Veeam
11 10 (1.27%) Citrix
11 10 (1.27%) HP
11 10 (1.27%) Sophos
12 8 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.76%) Cisco
14 5 (0.63%) SAP
15 4 (0.51%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.51%) Google
16 3 (0.38%) Riverbed