Systems Engineering Jobs

Systems Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Systems Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 452 257
Rank change year-on-year +385 -195 +227
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 2,635 302 1,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.68% 0.57% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 0.60% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 660 175 367
10th Percentile £41,175 £45,500 £43,400
25th Percentile £47,603 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,925 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £60,265 £85,000 £75,500
90th Percentile £67,625 £112,199 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.71% +27.27% +0.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,866 50,261 118,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.89% 94.08% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 29,357 36,398 72,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,784 £52,500 £53,406
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.70% +6.81%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 6 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 December 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
UK excluding London +348 2,445 £52,000 -25.71% 310
England +349 2,112 £52,500 -19.23% 350
North of England +233 575 £50,055 -30.96% 64
South East +191 498 £50,000 -16.67% 98
South West +115 458 £58,000 -17.14% 57
North West +173 445 £50,055 -35.41% 56
Midlands +163 353 £35,000 -33.11% 23
Scotland +135 350 £58,033 -17.77% 36
East Midlands - 180 £47,683 - 8
West Midlands +78 173 £35,000 -33.11% 15
Work from Home +38 154 £47,683 -26.64% 924
East of England +57 139 £50,000 -28.57% 34
Yorkshire +118 130 £49,816 -40.62% 7
London +7 86 £65,000 +0.78% 86
Wales +84 72 £24,000 -46.67% 6

Systems Engineering
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 11 (0.42%) Confluence
2 5 (0.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.076%) WinCC
Applications
1 157 (5.96%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 121 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (3.95%) Simulink
5 28 (1.06%) Mathcad
5 28 (1.06%) Mathematica
6 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.42%) SOLIDWORKS
8 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.11%) CANalyzer
10 2 (0.076%) CATIA
11 1 (0.038%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 173 (6.57%) Teamcenter
2 8 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (2.69%) AWS
2 24 (0.91%) Google Workspace
3 20 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
4 19 (0.72%) Azure
5 12 (0.46%) Power Platform
6 9 (0.34%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (0.23%) Amazon S3
8 5 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (0.19%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (0.19%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (0.19%) Slack
8 5 (0.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (0.15%) Pulumi
9 4 (0.15%) SaaS
10 3 (0.11%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.076%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.076%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.038%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.25%) Firewall
2 31 (1.18%) WLAN
3 25 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 25 (0.95%) VLAN
4 24 (0.91%) BGP
4 24 (0.91%) DHCP
4 24 (0.91%) DNS
4 24 (0.91%) OSPF
5 11 (0.42%) Internet
6 10 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.30%) RS-422
9 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.23%) LAN
10 6 (0.23%) VSAT
10 6 (0.23%) WAN
11 5 (0.19%) MPLS
11 5 (0.19%) Network Security
12 3 (0.11%) DVB
12 3 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (2.58%) Triplestore
2 10 (0.38%) Power BI
2 10 (0.38%) Relational Database
3 9 (0.34%) MySQL
4 6 (0.23%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.23%) Tableau
5 2 (0.076%) MS Access
5 2 (0.076%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.038%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.038%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.038%) Big Data
6 1 (0.038%) DB2
6 1 (0.038%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.038%) Redis
6 1 (0.038%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.038%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 399 (15.14%) Rational DOORS
2 36 (1.37%) JIRA
3 15 (0.57%) GitLab
4 10 (0.38%) Git
5 8 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
7 5 (0.19%) Rational Team Concert
8 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.11%) Rational Statemate
10 2 (0.076%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.038%) Vagrant
General
1 489 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 312 (11.84%) Aerospace
3 235 (8.92%) Automotive
4 114 (4.33%) Electronics
5 104 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
6 79 (3.00%) Military
7 78 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 74 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 56 (2.13%) Law
10 49 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 44 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
12 35 (1.33%) Aeronautics
12 35 (1.33%) Avionics
13 32 (1.21%) Finance
14 26 (0.99%) Marketing
15 24 (0.91%) Aviation
15 24 (0.91%) Retail
16 18 (0.68%) Banking
17 17 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 14 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 816 (30.97%) Principal Engineer
2 785 (29.79%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 764 (28.99%) Systems Engineer
4 635 (24.10%) Senior
5 417 (15.83%) Engineering Manager
6 357 (13.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 301 (11.42%) Requirements Engineer
8 221 (8.39%) Integration Engineer
9 214 (8.12%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 211 (8.01%) Validation Engineer
11 210 (7.97%) System Verification Engineer
12 146 (5.54%) Consultant
13 133 (5.05%) Lead
14 94 (3.57%) Systems Manager
15 93 (3.53%) Systems Engineering Manager
16 87 (3.30%) Architect
17 81 (3.07%) Senior Manager
18 71 (2.69%) Senior Consultant
19 68 (2.58%) Governance Consultant
20 49 (1.86%) Lead Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.65%) Middleware
2 5 (0.19%) Django
2 5 (0.19%) Flask
2 5 (0.19%) Lambda Expressions
2 5 (0.19%) React
3 4 (0.15%) .NET
4 2 (0.076%) Kafka
5 1 (0.038%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.038%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.038%) JMS
5 1 (0.038%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.038%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (0.038%) Spring
5 1 (0.038%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.94%) Management Information System
2 24 (0.91%) Smartphone
3 18 (0.68%) Acoustics
4 17 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (0.53%) Operational Technology
6 12 (0.46%) Algorithms
7 10 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (0.38%) Product Ownership
7 10 (0.38%) SCADA
8 9 (0.34%) Robotics
9 8 (0.30%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.23%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.23%) Industry 4.0
11 5 (0.19%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.19%) Molecular Biology
12 4 (0.15%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.15%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.15%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.11%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.82%) Linux
2 44 (1.67%) Windows
3 25 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 24 (0.91%) Mac OS X
4 24 (0.91%) Windows 10
4 24 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 24 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 24 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (0.42%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.11%) Unix
7 1 (0.038%) AIX
7 1 (0.038%) Android
7 1 (0.038%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (30.40%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 590 (22.39%) Validation
3 550 (20.87%) Verification and Validation
4 500 (18.98%) Agile
5 429 (16.28%) Coaching
6 420 (15.94%) Mathematics
7 348 (13.21%) Physics
8 339 (12.87%) Requirements Management
9 308 (11.69%) Customer Engagement
10 253 (9.60%) SysML
11 243 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 165 (6.26%) OO
13 155 (5.88%) PLM
14 154 (5.84%) Software Engineering
15 153 (5.81%) Collaborative Working
15 153 (5.81%) Requirements Engineering
16 149 (5.65%) UML
17 136 (5.16%) Ontologies
18 129 (4.90%) FMEA
19 126 (4.78%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 311 (11.80%) MATLAB
2 38 (1.44%) SQL
3 29 (1.10%) C#
4 26 (0.99%) Python
5 24 (0.91%) PowerShell
6 22 (0.83%) C
6 22 (0.83%) C++
7 20 (0.76%) Java
8 10 (0.38%) Go
8 10 (0.38%) Ruby
9 8 (0.30%) Ada
10 6 (0.23%) Rust
11 5 (0.19%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.19%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.15%) Bicep
12 4 (0.15%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.076%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.076%) VB
13 2 (0.076%) VBA
14 1 (0.038%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,825 (69.26%) Degree
2 554 (21.02%) Chartered Engineer
3 385 (14.61%) HNC
4 357 (13.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 314 (11.92%) Master's Degree
6 241 (9.15%) HND
7 124 (4.71%) Security Cleared
8 83 (3.15%) SC Cleared
9 52 (1.97%) ISTQB
10 26 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (0.91%) MCSE
13 15 (0.57%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
15 6 (0.23%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.23%) CCNA
15 6 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.19%) CCIE
16 5 (0.19%) CCNP
16 5 (0.19%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (7.51%) IEC 61508
2 126 (4.78%) Def Stans
3 69 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.23%) ISO 26262
5 5 (0.19%) NIST
5 5 (0.19%) NIST 800
5 5 (0.19%) QA
6 3 (0.11%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.038%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.038%) GRC
7 1 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.46%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Docker
6 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.038%) KVM
6 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (1.10%) Functional Safety
2 16 (0.61%) Ansible
3 12 (0.46%) Kubernetes
4 11 (0.42%) Terraform
5 5 (0.19%) Kustomize
5 5 (0.19%) Podman
6 4 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.076%) CASB
8 1 (0.038%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 199 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 115 (4.36%) ANSYS
3 76 (2.88%) IBM
4 34 (1.29%) Cisco
5 28 (1.06%) Siemens
6 26 (0.99%) SAP
7 24 (0.91%) Apple
7 24 (0.91%) Dell
7 24 (0.91%) Fortinet
7 24 (0.91%) Google
7 24 (0.91%) Ubiquiti
8 22 (0.83%) VMware
9 17 (0.65%) JDA
10 16 (0.61%) Oracle
11 15 (0.57%) IFS
12 11 (0.42%) EMC
13 10 (0.38%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.30%) Serena
15 6 (0.23%) Epicor
15 6 (0.23%) Rockwell