Systems Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

System Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median System Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £38,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 68 120
Rank change year-on-year +52 +52 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 352 261 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.55% 3.34% 2.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.44% 3.54% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 30 138 26
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £39,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £50,000 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +12.99% +20.41%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £61,125
90th Percentile £55,500 £80,000 £64,000
England median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,728 7,381 5,467
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.45% 90.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,640 5,486 3,231
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,365 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Warwickshire +14 210 £34,000 -32.00% 20
Birmingham +66 54 £51,913 +3.83% 8
Coventry +26 52 - - 21
Staffordshire -12 25 £35,000 -12.50% 21
Shropshire - 8 £55,000 - 2
Solihull +12 1 - - 1
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 West Midlands region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 286 (81.25%) Systems Engineering
2 238 (67.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 146 (41.48%) Degree
4 144 (40.91%) Validation
5 143 (40.63%) Automotive
6 102 (28.98%) Project Planning
7 77 (21.88%) Agile
8 67 (19.03%) Telecoms
8 67 (19.03%) Aerospace
8 67 (19.03%) Software Testing
9 66 (18.75%) MATLAB
9 66 (18.75%) Simulink
10 60 (17.05%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 36 (10.23%) Requirements Management
11 36 (10.23%) SysML
11 36 (10.23%) Verification and Validation
11 36 (10.23%) Acceptance Criteria
12 25 (7.10%) Physics
13 24 (6.82%) Chemistry
13 24 (6.82%) Mathematics
13 24 (6.82%) Logistics
13 24 (6.82%) Law
13 24 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
14 22 (6.25%) Windows
14 22 (6.25%) Linux
15 17 (4.83%) Social Skills
16 14 (3.98%) SCADA
17 13 (3.69%) Computer Science
17 13 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
18 12 (3.41%) Ubuntu

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (0.28%) WinCC
Applications
1 66 (18.75%) Simulink
2 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (3.13%) Google Workspace
2 2 (0.57%) AWS
3 1 (0.28%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (0.28%) Azure
3 1 (0.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.41%) DHCP
1 12 (3.41%) DNS
1 12 (3.41%) Firewall
1 12 (3.41%) VLAN
2 11 (3.13%) BGP
2 11 (3.13%) OSPF
2 11 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.13%) WLAN
3 6 (1.70%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.70%) Modbus
3 6 (1.70%) Profibus
4 4 (1.14%) Wireless
5 2 (0.57%) Broadband
6 1 (0.28%) HTTP
6 1 (0.28%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.28%) SAN
6 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.84%) MySQL
1 10 (2.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.13%) Git
1 11 (3.13%) JIRA
2 10 (2.84%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) Maven
3 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 143 (40.63%) Automotive
2 67 (19.03%) Aerospace
2 67 (19.03%) Telecoms
3 24 (6.82%) Law
4 17 (4.83%) Social Skills
5 11 (3.13%) Retail
6 8 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.70%) Electronics
8 5 (1.42%) Legal
9 4 (1.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (0.28%) LDAP
2 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.98%) SCADA
2 11 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.13%) Smartphone
3 4 (1.14%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.25%) Linux
1 22 (6.25%) Windows
2 12 (3.41%) Ubuntu
3 11 (3.13%) Mac OS X
3 11 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 11 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.28%) CentOS
4 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (81.25%) Systems Engineering
2 144 (40.91%) Validation
3 102 (28.98%) Project Planning
4 77 (21.88%) Agile
5 67 (19.03%) Software Testing
6 60 (17.05%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 36 (10.23%) Acceptance Criteria
7 36 (10.23%) Requirements Management
7 36 (10.23%) SysML
7 36 (10.23%) Verification and Validation
8 25 (7.10%) Physics
9 24 (6.82%) Chemistry
9 24 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
9 24 (6.82%) Logistics
9 24 (6.82%) Mathematics
10 13 (3.69%) Computer Science
11 11 (3.13%) Business Case
11 11 (3.13%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (2.84%) CI/CD
12 10 (2.84%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.75%) MATLAB
2 12 (3.41%) SQL
3 11 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.84%) C#
5 9 (2.56%) Ladder Logic
6 2 (0.57%) Python
7 1 (0.28%) Java
7 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 238 (67.61%) BPSS Clearance
2 146 (41.48%) Degree
3 13 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.13%) HNC
4 11 (3.13%) HND
4 11 (3.13%) MCSE
4 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.28%) PhD
7 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.14%) IEC 61131
2 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.28%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (2.84%) Ansible
2 1 (0.28%) Nessus
2 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (3.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.13%) Apple
2 11 (3.13%) Cisco
2 11 (3.13%) Dell
2 11 (3.13%) Fortinet
2 11 (3.13%) Google
2 11 (3.13%) Ubiquiti
3 10 (2.84%) Atlassian
3 10 (2.84%) Rockwell
3 10 (2.84%) Siemens
4 6 (1.70%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.28%) IBM
5 1 (0.28%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (0.28%) PayPal
5 1 (0.28%) Sophos
5 1 (0.28%) VMware