Systems Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 401 491
Rank change year-on-year +102 +90 -76
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 957 807 1,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.78% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.82% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 529 219 469
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,650 £35,125
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.36% +5.83%
75th Percentile £70,250 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £55,038
% change year-on-year -13.39% +15.38% +0.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Top 17 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 5 May 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
England +128 885 £59,500 -12.82% 399
UK excluding London +60 799 £55,000 -13.39% 336
Work from Home +148 439 £55,000 -10.93% 150
South East +49 221 £63,500 +10.43% 90
South West +8 210 £55,000 -18.52% 82
East of England +96 136 £55,000 -15.38% 41
Midlands -39 126 £55,000 - 56
London +105 121 £75,000 -25.00% 85
West Midlands -63 85 £55,000 - 34
North of England +87 65 £51,000 -27.14% 53
East Midlands +24 41 £50,000 - 22
Yorkshire +113 33 £51,000 - 7
North West +26 30 £60,000 -14.29% 42
Scotland -61 19 £46,250 +10.78% 24
Wales +17 16 £40,000 -42.86% 4
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 2
North East -6 2 £67,500 - 5

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 46 (4.81%) WebLogic
2 38 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.94%) IIS
5 8 (0.84%) Confluence
6 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.21%) WinCC
Applications
1 58 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
2 55 (5.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (3.34%) Simulink
4 26 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.73%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.10%) CATIA
7 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 53 (5.54%) Primavera
2 49 (5.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.10%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (13.90%) Azure
2 94 (9.82%) AWS
3 48 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
5 21 (2.19%) Entra ID
6 16 (1.67%) SaaS
7 12 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (0.94%) Power Platform
9 7 (0.73%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.42%) IaaS
10 4 (0.42%) PaaS
11 3 (0.31%) Google Sheets
12 2 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.21%) GCP
12 2 (0.21%) GitHub
12 2 (0.21%) Google Docs
12 2 (0.21%) Serverless
13 1 (0.10%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (0.10%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 51 (5.33%) DNS
3 49 (5.12%) BGP
4 46 (4.81%) SSL
5 20 (2.09%) Firewall
5 20 (2.09%) WAN
6 18 (1.88%) Wireless
7 12 (1.25%) LAN
8 11 (1.15%) SAN
8 11 (1.15%) WLAN
9 10 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.84%) NGN
10 8 (0.84%) TACACS
11 7 (0.73%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.73%) Intranet
11 7 (0.73%) Network Security
12 6 (0.63%) 4G
12 6 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.52%) VoIP
14 4 (0.42%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.37%) Relational Database
2 49 (5.12%) RDBMS
3 46 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (4.81%) Oracle Database
4 9 (0.94%) SQL Server
5 7 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (0.63%) MySQL
6 6 (0.63%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.31%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.21%) Big Data
9 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.21%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.21%) Power BI
10 1 (0.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (8.78%) Rational DOORS
2 41 (4.28%) JIRA
3 31 (3.24%) Rational Rhapsody
4 17 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.57%) Git
6 12 (1.25%) Rational Team Concert
7 9 (0.94%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.73%) GitLab
8 7 (0.73%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.42%) JMeter
9 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.21%) Apache Continuum
11 2 (0.21%) Subversion
12 1 (0.10%) JUnit
12 1 (0.10%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.10%) MSTest
12 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.10%) TestComplete
General
1 263 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 122 (12.75%) Aerospace
3 77 (8.05%) Finance
4 76 (7.94%) Manufacturing
5 68 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (6.37%) Electronics
7 58 (6.06%) Automotive
8 56 (5.85%) Military
9 48 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (3.55%) Marketing
12 30 (3.13%) Public Sector
13 21 (2.19%) Games
14 20 (2.09%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.99%) Retail
16 15 (1.57%) Legal
16 15 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (1.04%) Aviation
19 9 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 422 (44.10%) Systems Engineer
2 135 (14.11%) Lead
3 122 (12.75%) Senior
4 121 (12.64%) Architect
5 107 (11.18%) Principal Engineer
6 101 (10.55%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 82 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
8 67 (7.00%) Software Engineer
9 60 (6.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 53 (5.54%) Lead Architect
11 52 (5.43%) Project Controller
12 48 (5.02%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 30 (3.13%) Consultant
14 26 (2.72%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.61%) Senior Architect
16 23 (2.40%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
17 19 (1.99%) Senior Solutions Architect
17 19 (1.99%) Systems Architect
18 18 (1.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 18 (1.88%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (4.81%) Spring Boot
2 34 (3.55%) HTML
3 9 (0.94%) XML
4 4 (0.42%) .NET
4 4 (0.42%) 802.1X
4 4 (0.42%) Keycloak
4 4 (0.42%) LDAP
4 4 (0.42%) WPF
5 3 (0.31%) CSS
5 3 (0.31%) HTML5
5 3 (0.31%) JSON
5 3 (0.31%) Keras
5 3 (0.31%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.31%) Svelte
5 3 (0.31%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.31%) Web Services
6 2 (0.21%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.21%) React
6 2 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 77 (8.05%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (4.81%) Public Cloud
4 36 (3.76%) Algorithms
5 33 (3.45%) SCADA
6 31 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.82%) IoT
7 27 (2.82%) Operational Technology
8 25 (2.61%) Clustering
9 22 (2.30%) Robotics
10 20 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.67%) Cyberattack
11 16 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
12 15 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.84%) Reinsurance
15 7 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
15 7 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 110 (11.49%) Linux
2 82 (8.57%) Windows
3 50 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (4.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.42%) Unix
5 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.10%) Android
6 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (22.47%) Agile
2 159 (16.61%) Validation
3 125 (13.06%) Software Engineering
4 117 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (12.23%) Project Management
5 106 (11.08%) Verification and Validation
6 93 (9.72%) Risk Management
7 91 (9.51%) Collaborative Working
8 87 (9.09%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 85 (8.88%) Customer Requirements
10 83 (8.67%) Mentoring
11 77 (8.05%) Actionable Insight
12 73 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
13 72 (7.52%) Performance Management
14 65 (6.79%) Programme Management
14 65 (6.79%) Requirements Management
14 65 (6.79%) SDLC
15 64 (6.69%) Project Delivery
16 60 (6.27%) Scrum
17 59 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (8.25%) Python
2 49 (5.12%) JavaScript
3 47 (4.91%) MATLAB
4 39 (4.08%) C
5 35 (3.66%) Java
6 31 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.03%) C#
8 21 (2.19%) SQL
9 20 (2.09%) Bash
10 15 (1.57%) C++
11 8 (0.84%) Ada
11 8 (0.84%) Go
12 6 (0.63%) Perl
13 5 (0.52%) VB
14 3 (0.31%) R
14 3 (0.31%) Scala
14 3 (0.31%) VBScript
15 2 (0.21%) PHP
15 2 (0.21%) Ruby
15 2 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 430 (44.93%) Security Cleared
2 277 (28.94%) Degree
3 153 (15.99%) SC Cleared
4 124 (12.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (8.57%) DV Cleared
6 53 (5.54%) Azure Certification
7 50 (5.22%) Master's Degree
8 46 (4.81%) AWS Certification
8 46 (4.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (4.70%) Chartered Engineer
10 22 (2.30%) DBS Check
11 20 (2.09%) CISSP
12 19 (1.99%) HNC
13 18 (1.88%) HND
14 13 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.63%) CISM
17 5 (0.52%) PhD
18 3 (0.31%) GIAC
19 2 (0.21%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.19%) Def Stans
1 21 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 7 (0.73%) QA
3 6 (0.63%) IEC 61508
4 5 (0.52%) JSP 440
5 4 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (0.42%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.31%) ECSS
6 3 (0.31%) JTAG
6 3 (0.31%) NCSC
6 3 (0.31%) PMO
7 2 (0.21%) GRC
7 2 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.10%) GDPR
8 1 (0.10%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 44 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.34%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.30%) Firmware
5 21 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.94%) Forefront TMG
6 9 (0.94%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) Ceph
9 2 (0.21%) Docker
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (2.40%) Microsoft Clustering
4 20 (2.09%) Kubernetes
4 20 (2.09%) vCenter Server
5 17 (1.78%) Functional Safety
6 16 (1.67%) Ansible
7 9 (0.94%) SCOM
7 9 (0.94%) WSUS
8 5 (0.52%) SELinux
8 5 (0.52%) Terraform
9 3 (0.31%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.31%) Istio
9 3 (0.31%) SCCM
10 2 (0.21%) CASB
10 2 (0.21%) Grafana
10 2 (0.21%) Knative
10 2 (0.21%) Wonderware InTouch
10 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.10%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 113 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.57%) VMware
3 57 (5.96%) Oracle
4 49 (5.12%) Sparx
5 41 (4.28%) EMC
6 34 (3.55%) IBM
7 30 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.40%) Thales
9 21 (2.19%) IFS
10 20 (2.09%) Commvault
10 20 (2.09%) Sun
11 18 (1.88%) Workday
12 13 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.36%) Veeam
13 10 (1.04%) Citrix
13 10 (1.04%) HP
13 10 (1.04%) Sophos
14 8 (0.84%) Aruba
14 8 (0.84%) Cisco
14 8 (0.84%) Informatica