Systems Engineer Jobs in Wales

System Engineer
UK > Wales

The median System Engineer salary in Wales is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 117 124
Rank change year-on-year +39 +7 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 42 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.08% 0.66% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 0.77% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 33 6 16
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,438 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,130
Median % change year-on-year - -6.55% -17.93%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,930
90th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £48,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,868 1,432 1,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 85.85% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 822 1,148
10th Percentile £26,425 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,688 £35,156 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,533 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Wales

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in Wales

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in Wales

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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 Wales +19 22 £35,000 -17.65% 5
West Wales +10 10 £45,000 +20.00%
Mid Wales - 9 £35,000 - 1
North Wales - 1 £40,000 - 3
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 across the Wales region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (16.67%) Electronics
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (9.52%) Robotics
2 4 (9.52%) VMware
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
2 4 (9.52%) Windows
2 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.14%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
4 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.76%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) AWS
4 2 (4.76%) SaaS
4 2 (4.76%) Network Architecture
4 2 (4.76%) Automotive
4 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.76%) Linux
4 2 (4.76%) IIS
4 2 (4.76%) Unix
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Analytics
4 2 (4.76%) Problem-Solving

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (4.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.76%) AWS
1 2 (4.76%) Azure
1 2 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 7 (16.67%) Electronics
2 3 (7.14%) Finance
2 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 3 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Automotive
3 2 (4.76%) Retail
3 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Robotics
2 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Windows
1 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.76%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (4.76%) Analytics
2 2 (4.76%) Network Architecture
2 2 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (2.38%) Budget Management
3 1 (2.38%) Configuration Management
3 1 (2.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (2.38%) Cost Management
3 1 (2.38%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (2.38%) Project Management
3 1 (2.38%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (2.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
1 4 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) VMware
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft