Senior Systems Engineer Jobs

The median annual salary for a Senior Systems Engineer was £50,000 in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

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

Senior System Engineer UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	721	758	720
Rank change year-on-year	+37	-38
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer	162	165	258
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.18%	0.17%	0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.19%	0.17%	0.24%
Number of salaries quoted	140	127	219
Median salary	£50,000	£52,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-4.76%	+16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than	£40,000	£33,950	£30,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£67,500	£65,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£46,250	£43,500
% change year-on-year	-2.70%	+6.32%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in permanent job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

IT Job Roles UK
Permanent job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	84418	95048	107138
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	95.97%	96.53%	96.59%
Number of salaries quoted	69006	80088	88313
Median salary	£46,500	£47,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-2.10%	+5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than	£27,500	£27,500	£26,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£74,000	£70,000	£71,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+2.40%	+3.75%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

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 over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+42	150	£50,000	-4.76%	20
London	+45	72	£52,500	-4.54%	10
South East	+44	45	£57,500	+9.52%	7
Hampshire	+26	11	£60,000	+33.33%	1
City of London	+26	11	£52,500	-	2
Surrey	+34	9	£60,000	-11.11%	2
Oxfordshire	+12	9	£58,750	+67.85%	1
Yorkshire	-6	9	£37,500	-11.76%
Oxford	+10	8	£58,750	+2.17%	1
South West	+2	8	£47,500	+35.71%	1
East of England	-3	8	£45,000	-23.72%	1
Brighton	+20	7	£50,000	-
East Sussex	+16	7	£50,000	-
East Midlands	+21	6	£30,500	-20.77%
Guildford	-	6	£52,500	-
South Wales	+23	5	£45,000	+15.38%
Wales	+14	5	£45,000	+15.38%
York	+10	5	-	-
North Yorkshire	+1	5	-	-
Bristol	-15	5	£50,000	-
Northampton	-	5	£30,500	-
Northamptonshire	-	5	£30,500	-
Kent	+12	4	£39,000	-	1
West Yorkshire	+7	4	£37,500	-11.76%
Cambridgeshire	-12	4	£45,000	-23.72%
Cambridge	-14	4	£45,000	-23.72%
Hertfordshire	-	4	£42,500	-	1
Woking	-	3	£65,000	-
Newport	+11	2	£45,000	+15.38%
Leeds	+7	2	£41,250	-36.53%

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, Senior Systems Engineer job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1	148 (49.17%)	Windows
2	122 (40.53%)	VMware
3	108 (35.88%)	Linux
4	100 (33.22%)	Active Directory
5	97 (32.23%)	Microsoft
6	84 (27.91%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	69 (22.92%)	Office 365
8	68 (22.59%)	DNS
9	63 (20.93%)	Windows Server
10	62 (20.60%)	Degree
11	57 (18.94%)	Amazon AWS
12	56 (18.60%)	Python
13	52 (17.28%)	PowerShell
13	52 (17.28%)	Hyper-V
14	51 (16.94%)	DHCP

15	48 (15.95%)	Windows Server 2012
16	45 (14.95%)	Microsoft Azure
17	43 (14.29%)	MS Exchange
17	43 (14.29%)	SAN
18	37 (12.29%)	C
18	37 (12.29%)	SQL Server
19	36 (11.96%)	Unix
20	35 (11.63%)	Firewall
21	34 (11.30%)	DevOps
22	33 (10.96%)	Computer Science
22	33 (10.96%)	ITIL
22	33 (10.96%)	C++
23	32 (10.63%)	IIS
23	32 (10.63%)	Citrix
23	32 (10.63%)	Patch Management

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	43 (14.29%)	MS Exchange
2	32 (10.63%)	IIS
3	31 (10.30%)	Skype for Business
4	25 (8.31%)	SharePoint
5	14 (4.65%)	Exchange Server 2010
6	8 (2.66%)	OpenStack
7	7 (2.33%)	Apache
8	6 (1.99%)	nginx
9	3 (1.00%)	Alfresco
9	3 (1.00%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
9	3 (1.00%)	Captiva
9	3 (1.00%)	Documentum
9	3 (1.00%)	Exchange Server 2003
9	3 (1.00%)	Exchange Server 2013
9	3 (1.00%)	SharePoint Server
10	2 (0.66%)	CMS
10	2 (0.66%)	lighttpd
10	2 (0.66%)	Tomcat
11	1 (0.33%)	Confluence
11	1 (0.33%)	NServiceBus

Applications
1	23 (7.64%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (0.66%)	Microsoft Excel
2	2 (0.66%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	1 (0.33%)	Mathcad
3	1 (0.33%)	Microsoft Project
3	1 (0.33%)	MS Visio
3	1 (0.33%)	Simulink

Business Applications
1	1 (0.33%)	Infor SunSystems
1	1 (0.33%)	SAP BPC

Cloud Services
1	69 (22.92%)	Office 365
2	57 (18.94%)	Amazon AWS
3	45 (14.95%)	Microsoft Azure
4	23 (7.64%)	IaaS
5	16 (5.32%)	PaaS
6	12 (3.99%)	SaaS
7	8 (2.66%)	OpenShift
8	6 (1.99%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	2 (0.66%)	IBM Cloud
9	2 (0.66%)	SoftLayer
10	1 (0.33%)	Azure Active Directory
10	1 (0.33%)	Cloud Computing
10	1 (0.33%)	Dropbox
10	1 (0.33%)	Mimecast

Communications & Networking
1	68 (22.59%)	DNS
2	51 (16.94%)	DHCP
3	43 (14.29%)	SAN
4	35 (11.63%)	Firewall
5	31 (10.30%)	Skype
6	25 (8.31%)	Internet
7	23 (7.64%)	TCP/IP
8	22 (7.31%)	VLAN
9	18 (5.98%)	Kerberos
9	18 (5.98%)	WAN
10	17 (5.65%)	Wireless
11	16 (5.32%)	VPN
12	15 (4.98%)	Wi-Fi
13	14 (4.65%)	LDAP
14	13 (4.32%)	LAN
14	13 (4.32%)	LTE
14	13 (4.32%)	PBX
14	13 (4.32%)	PSTN
15	12 (3.99%)	Bluetooth
15	12 (3.99%)	DVB

Database & Business Intelligence
1	37 (12.29%)	SQL Server
2	23 (7.64%)	SQL Server 2012
3	19 (6.31%)	Big Data
3	19 (6.31%)	MySQL
4	16 (5.32%)	PostgreSQL
4	16 (5.32%)	Relational Database
5	10 (3.32%)	Hadoop
5	10 (3.32%)	RDBMS
6	4 (1.33%)	NoSQL
6	4 (1.33%)	SQL Server 2008
7	3 (1.00%)	SQL Server 2014
8	1 (0.33%)	Data Warehouse
8	1 (0.33%)	MongoDB
8	1 (0.33%)	Redis

Development Applications
1	14 (4.65%)	Git (software)
2	10 (3.32%)	Jenkins
3	7 (2.33%)	Atlassian Bamboo
3	7 (2.33%)	Rational DOORS
4	6 (1.99%)	git-flow
5	4 (1.33%)	Subversion
6	3 (1.00%)	JIRA
7	2 (0.66%)	Hudson
7	2 (0.66%)	Octopus Deploy
7	2 (0.66%)	Rational Rhapsody
7	2 (0.66%)	TeamCity
8	1 (0.33%)	Ant
8	1 (0.33%)	Appium
8	1 (0.33%)	Bitbucket
8	1 (0.33%)	Cucumber
8	1 (0.33%)	Gatling
8	1 (0.33%)	Maven
8	1 (0.33%)	Selenium
8	1 (0.33%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	1 (0.33%)	StarTeam

General
1	16 (5.32%)	Marketing
2	15 (4.98%)	Telecoms
3	12 (3.99%)	Finance
4	8 (2.66%)	Games
5	7 (2.33%)	Legal
5	7 (2.33%)	Local Government
5	7 (2.33%)	Military
6	5 (1.66%)	Aerospace
6	5 (1.66%)	Retail
7	4 (1.33%)	Banking
8	2 (0.66%)	Automotive
8	2 (0.66%)	Avionics
8	2 (0.66%)	Electronics
8	2 (0.66%)	Law
9	1 (0.33%)	Back Office
9	1 (0.33%)	Manufacturing
9	1 (0.33%)	Publishing

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	10 (3.32%)	Node.js
2	8 (2.66%)	HTML
3	6 (1.99%)	SAML
4	5 (1.66%)	Web Services
5	4 (1.33%)	Serverless Framework
6	3 (1.00%)	LAMP
7	2 (0.66%)	AngularJS
7	2 (0.66%)	J2EE
7	2 (0.66%)	React
7	2 (0.66%)	Redux
8	1 (0.33%)	CSS
8	1 (0.33%)	jQuery
8	1 (0.33%)	LEMP Stack
8	1 (0.33%)	MSMQ
8	1 (0.33%)	RabbitMQ
8	1 (0.33%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	33 (10.96%)	Computer Science
2	19 (6.31%)	Internet of Things
3	18 (5.98%)	Data Centre
4	16 (5.32%)	Clustering
5	12 (3.99%)	Algorithms
5	12 (3.99%)	Smartphone
6	9 (2.99%)	Management Information System
7	8 (2.66%)	PKI
7	8 (2.66%)	Replication
8	6 (1.99%)	Analytical Skills
8	6 (1.99%)	Public Cloud
8	6 (1.99%)	Smart Meter
9	5 (1.66%)	Blackberry
9	5 (1.66%)	Client/Server
9	5 (1.66%)	Data Structures
10	4 (1.33%)	Embedded Systems
11	3 (1.00%)	Fintech
11	3 (1.00%)	HP Storage
12	2 (0.66%)	Smart City
12	2 (0.66%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	148 (49.17%)	Windows
2	108 (35.88%)	Linux
3	63 (20.93%)	Windows Server
4	48 (15.95%)	Windows Server 2012
5	36 (11.96%)	Unix
6	22 (7.31%)	Windows Server 2008
7	19 (6.31%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	18 (5.98%)	CentOS
9	17 (5.65%)	Ubuntu
10	14 (4.65%)	Debian
11	13 (4.32%)	AIX
12	8 (2.66%)	Mac OS X
12	8 (2.66%)	Windows Server 2003
13	6 (1.99%)	Windows 7
14	4 (1.33%)	Solaris
15	3 (1.00%)	Mac OS
16	2 (0.66%)	Android
16	2 (0.66%)	Apple iOS
16	2 (0.66%)	Windows 10
17	1 (0.33%)	Data ONTAP

Processes & Methodologies
1	34 (11.30%)	DevOps
2	33 (10.96%)	ITIL
3	32 (10.63%)	Patch Management
4	31 (10.30%)	Continuous Improvement
5	28 (9.30%)	Agile Software Development
6	27 (8.97%)	Project Management
7	24 (7.97%)	Identity Management
7	24 (7.97%)	Mentoring
8	19 (6.31%)	Kalman Filter
8	19 (6.31%)	Task Automation
8	19 (6.31%)	Validation
9	17 (5.65%)	Disaster Recovery
10	15 (4.98%)	Mathematics
11	14 (4.65%)	Signal Processing
12	13 (4.32%)	Email Filtering
12	13 (4.32%)	High Availability
12	13 (4.32%)	Software Engineering
13	12 (3.99%)	Change Management
13	12 (3.99%)	Continuous Integration
13	12 (3.99%)	Integration Testing

Programming Languages
1	56 (18.60%)	Python
2	52 (17.28%)	PowerShell
3	37 (12.29%)	C
4	33 (10.96%)	C++
5	31 (10.30%)	Java
6	27 (8.97%)	Bash Shell
7	24 (7.97%)	Perl
8	21 (6.98%)	Ruby
9	18 (5.98%)	SQL
10	14 (4.65%)	MATLAB
10	14 (4.65%)	PHP
11	13 (4.32%)	JavaScript
12	10 (3.32%)	C#
13	8 (2.66%)	Scala
14	7 (2.33%)	Shell Script
15	3 (1.00%)	Embedded C
16	2 (0.66%)	Assembly Language
16	2 (0.66%)	Fortran
17	1 (0.33%)	Embedded C++

Qualifications
1	62 (20.60%)	Degree
2	31 (10.30%)	Microsoft Certification
3	24 (7.97%)	MCSE
4	20 (6.64%)	Security Cleared
5	17 (5.65%)	Cisco Certification
6	16 (5.32%)	CCNA
6	16 (5.32%)	MCSA
7	13 (4.32%)	MCITP
8	11 (3.65%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9	10 (3.32%)	RHCE
10	8 (2.66%)	Computer Science Degree
11	7 (2.33%)	SC Cleared
12	6 (1.99%)	CISSP
12	6 (1.99%)	RHCSA
13	4 (1.33%)	MCP
14	3 (1.00%)	CCNP
14	3 (1.00%)	EMC Certification
14	3 (1.00%)	ISEB
15	2 (0.66%)	ITIL Certification
15	2 (0.66%)	PhD

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	11 (3.65%)	ISO/IEC 27001
1	11 (3.65%)	PCI DSS
1	11 (3.65%)	QA
2	8 (2.66%)	SLA
3	5 (1.66%)	ISO/IEC 15288
4	2 (0.66%)	ISO 26262
5	1 (0.33%)	ISAE 3402
5	1 (0.33%)	ISO 13485
5	1 (0.33%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	100 (33.22%)	Active Directory
2	84 (27.91%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	52 (17.28%)	Hyper-V
4	31 (10.30%)	vSphere
5	12 (3.99%)	Docker
6	7 (2.33%)	Slurm Workload Manager
6	7 (2.33%)	Virtual Servers
6	7 (2.33%)	Xen
6	7 (2.33%)	XenApp
7	6 (1.99%)	Firmware
8	5 (1.66%)	DFS Replication
8	5 (1.66%)	VMware Server
9	3 (1.00%)	KVM
9	3 (1.00%)	Varnish
10	2 (0.66%)	Dovecot
10	2 (0.66%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
10	2 (0.66%)	Postfix
10	2 (0.66%)	PowerDNS
10	2 (0.66%)	QEMU
10	2 (0.66%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	31 (10.30%)	SCCM
2	30 (9.97%)	Puppet
3	28 (9.30%)	SCOM
4	19 (6.31%)	Opscode Chef
5	15 (4.98%)	Ansible
6	10 (3.32%)	Kubernetes
7	9 (2.99%)	Microsoft Clustering
8	8 (2.66%)	AirWatch
8	8 (2.66%)	WSUS
9	7 (2.33%)	Backup Exec
9	7 (2.33%)	XenMobile
10	4 (1.33%)	Nagios
10	4 (1.33%)	vCenter Server
11	3 (1.00%)	Failover Clustering
11	3 (1.00%)	HAProxy
11	3 (1.00%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12	2 (0.66%)	HP Quality Center
12	2 (0.66%)	Mesos
12	2 (0.66%)	Salt
13	1 (0.33%)	EMC VPLEX

Vendors
1	122 (40.53%)	VMware
2	97 (32.23%)	Microsoft
3	32 (10.63%)	Citrix
4	31 (10.30%)	Red Hat
5	30 (9.97%)	HP
6	22 (7.31%)	Cisco
7	20 (6.64%)	EMC
8	18 (5.98%)	IBM
9	15 (4.98%)	SolarWinds
10	13 (4.32%)	NetApp
11	10 (3.32%)	LANDesk
12	9 (2.99%)	Veeam
13	7 (2.33%)	Google
13	7 (2.33%)	MobileIron
13	7 (2.33%)	Symantec
14	6 (1.99%)	Dell
15	5 (1.66%)	Oracle
16	4 (1.33%)	Altiris
16	4 (1.33%)	Avaya
16	4 (1.33%)	SaltStack