Systems Engineer Jobs in West Yorkshire

System Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median System Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £43,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 143 234
Rank change year-on-year +74 +91 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 36 15 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.89% 0.50% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.18% 0.52% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £42,550 - £42,800
25th Percentile £42,625 £30,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.26% -48.11%
75th Percentile £50,875 £48,083 £49,000
90th Percentile £54,850 £62,825 £49,600
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +5.96% +1.12% -8.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,132 2,880 4,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 96.00% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 652 2,126 2,321
10th Percentile £28,525 £28,000 £31,569
25th Percentile £41,125 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £83,750 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,000 £49,136 £54,882
% change year-on-year -2.31% -10.47% +9.76%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in West Yorkshire

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in West Yorkshire

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Ossett - 14 - -
Leeds +56 8 £43,500 -16.03% 4
Pontefract - 6 - - 1
Huddersfield +13 4 - - 2
Wetherby - 4 - - 1
Systems Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Yorkshire region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (86.11%) Siemens
2 30 (83.33%) HNC
3 20 (55.56%) Manufacturing
4 18 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (47.22%) Rockwell
6 16 (44.44%) Data Collection
6 16 (44.44%) Operational Technology
6 16 (44.44%) Budgeting
6 16 (44.44%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 16 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (44.44%) Energy Management
6 16 (44.44%) FMCG
6 16 (44.44%) Quality Management
6 16 (44.44%) Management Information System
6 16 (44.44%) Finance
7 15 (41.67%) Ethernet
7 15 (41.67%) SCADA
7 15 (41.67%) WinCC
7 15 (41.67%) Profibus
8 14 (38.89%) Modbus
8 14 (38.89%) Allen-Bradley
8 14 (38.89%) EPLAN
8 14 (38.89%) RS-485
8 14 (38.89%) Wonderware InTouch
8 14 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (38.89%) Google
8 14 (38.89%) Wonderware
8 14 (38.89%) Retail
8 14 (38.89%) CAD
9 2 (5.56%) Firewall

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (41.67%) WinCC
Applications
1 14 (38.89%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (41.67%) Ethernet
1 15 (41.67%) Profibus
2 14 (38.89%) Modbus
2 14 (38.89%) RS-485
3 2 (5.56%) Firewall
4 1 (2.78%) DNS
4 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (55.56%) Manufacturing
2 16 (44.44%) Finance
3 14 (38.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (38.89%) Retail
4 2 (5.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) FMCG
1 16 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 16 (44.44%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 16 (44.44%) Operational Technology
2 15 (41.67%) SCADA
3 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (44.44%) Budgeting
2 16 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (44.44%) Data Collection
2 16 (44.44%) Energy Management
2 16 (44.44%) Quality Management
3 14 (38.89%) CAD
4 2 (5.56%) ITIL
4 2 (5.56%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (5.56%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (5.56%) Security Patching
5 1 (2.78%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (2.78%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.78%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 30 (83.33%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Wonderware InTouch
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (86.11%) Siemens
2 17 (47.22%) Rockwell
3 14 (38.89%) Allen-Bradley
3 14 (38.89%) Google
3 14 (38.89%) Wonderware
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.78%) Veeam
5 1 (2.78%) Veritas
5 1 (2.78%) VMware