Senior Systems Engineer Jobs

Senior System Engineer
UK

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 464 855 813
Rank change year-on-year +391 -42 -152
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 275 236 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 82 94 160
10th Percentile £47,625 £45,549 £41,475
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,030 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,125 £75,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 51,419 120,484 123,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 95.34% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37,696 75,234 84,392
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Top 16 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 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
UK excluding London +308 248 £60,000 +9.09% 97
England +355 243 £60,000 - 117
North of England +213 68 £55,000 +14.58% 9
South East +148 49 £61,000 +17.31% 35
Midlands +150 39 £52,500 -12.50% 19
Work from Home +226 34 £62,500 -3.85% 34
North West +139 34 £55,000 - 7
South West +52 33 £70,000 +9.80% 17
East of England +148 30 £65,000 +13.04% 9
West Midlands +150 26 £52,500 -12.50% 13
London +263 24 £60,000 -17.24% 27
Yorkshire +106 22 £45,000 -6.25% 2
Scotland +67 22 £52,500 -22.22% 7
East Midlands +59 13 - - 6
North East +53 12 £55,000 +7.32%
Wales +20 7 £44,000 +35.38% 1

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 November 2023, 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 featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 175 (63.64%) SQL
2 169 (61.45%) Agile
3 161 (58.55%) Management Information System
4 160 (58.18%) Asset Management
5 159 (57.82%) NEC
5 159 (57.82%) PL/SQL
5 159 (57.82%) Compliance Management
6 39 (14.18%) Microsoft
7 35 (12.73%) Validation
8 34 (12.36%) VMware
9 32 (11.64%) Security Cleared
10 31 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
11 30 (10.91%) Degree
12 29 (10.55%) SC Cleared
13 27 (9.82%) Windows
13 27 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (8.73%) Azure
14 24 (8.73%) Embedded Systems
15 23 (8.36%) Customer Requirements
16 22 (8.00%) Linux
17 21 (7.64%) Windows Server
18 18 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
19 17 (6.18%) Social Skills
19 17 (6.18%) High Availability
19 17 (6.18%) MATLAB
19 17 (6.18%) Simulink
20 16 (5.82%) Firewall
20 16 (5.82%) SQL Server
20 16 (5.82%) C
20 16 (5.82%) Python

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (5.45%) IIS
2 8 (2.91%) Confluence
3 2 (0.73%) JBoss
3 2 (0.73%) MS Exchange
3 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (6.18%) Simulink
2 10 (3.64%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.45%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (8.73%) Azure
2 5 (1.82%) AWS
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
3 3 (1.09%) SaaS
4 2 (0.73%) IaaS
4 2 (0.73%) PaaS
5 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.82%) Firewall
1 16 (5.82%) WAN
2 6 (2.18%) Wireless
3 4 (1.45%) DHCP
3 4 (1.45%) DNS
3 4 (1.45%) J1939
3 4 (1.45%) VLAN
4 3 (1.09%) VPN
5 2 (0.73%) SAN
5 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) NAS
6 1 (0.36%) PBX
6 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.09%) MySQL
3 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (4.36%) JIRA
2 6 (2.18%) Git
3 4 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 17 (6.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.45%) Electronics
3 14 (5.09%) Automotive
4 9 (3.27%) Aerospace
5 8 (2.91%) Avionics
5 8 (2.91%) Military
5 8 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.55%) Legal
7 6 (2.18%) Finance
8 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Aviation
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.09%) REST
1 14 (5.09%) WebRTC
2 3 (1.09%) Middleware
3 1 (0.36%) LAMP
3 1 (0.36%) LDAP
3 1 (0.36%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 161 (58.55%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.73%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.45%) Clustering
5 14 (5.09%) Algorithms
5 14 (5.09%) Blackberry
5 14 (5.09%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.55%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.82%) FPGA
7 5 (1.82%) IoT
7 5 (1.82%) Smart City
8 4 (1.45%) Verilog
8 4 (1.45%) VHDL
9 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.09%) Robotics
10 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.82%) Windows
2 22 (8.00%) Linux
3 21 (7.64%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (61.45%) Agile
2 160 (58.18%) Asset Management
3 159 (57.82%) Compliance Management
4 35 (12.73%) Validation
5 27 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (8.36%) Customer Requirements
7 17 (6.18%) High Availability
8 16 (5.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (5.82%) Systems Engineering
9 15 (5.45%) Load Balancing
10 14 (5.09%) Mobile Device Management
10 14 (5.09%) Technology Transformation
11 12 (4.36%) Prototyping
12 11 (4.00%) Mentoring
12 11 (4.00%) Verification and Validation
13 10 (3.64%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
14 6 (2.18%) Commercialisation
14 6 (2.18%) Decarbonisation
14 6 (2.18%) Schematic Capture
14 6 (2.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 175 (63.64%) SQL
2 159 (57.82%) PL/SQL
3 17 (6.18%) MATLAB
4 16 (5.82%) C
4 16 (5.82%) Python
5 14 (5.09%) C++
6 7 (2.55%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.18%) Java
8 4 (1.45%) Bash
9 2 (0.73%) Perl
9 2 (0.73%) PHP
10 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.91%) Degree
3 29 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.73%) CCNA
6 2 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.36%) APMP
7 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.27%) Automotive SPICE
2 7 (2.55%) ARP4754
2 7 (2.55%) ISO 26262
2 7 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.73%) QA
4 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 31 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.18%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.45%) Docker
5 4 (1.45%) Firmware
6 3 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.73%) Ansible
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.36%) SCCM
3 1 (0.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 159 (57.82%) NEC
2 39 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 34 (12.36%) VMware
4 14 (5.09%) MobileIron
4 14 (5.09%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.09%) Samsung
5 10 (3.64%) CheckPoint
6 6 (2.18%) Xilinx
7 4 (1.45%) Cisco
8 2 (0.73%) Dell
8 2 (0.73%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.73%) QNX
9 1 (0.36%) Aruba
9 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.36%) Citrix
9 1 (0.36%) Juniper
9 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.36%) Veeam
9 1 (0.36%) Zscaler