Senior Systems Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior System Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior System Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £54,793 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 520 627
Rank change year-on-year +196 +107 +111
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 89 69 44
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 82 48 36
10th Percentile £47,683 £43,000 £36,356
25th Percentile £48,306 £45,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,000 £71,063
90th Percentile £83,000 £68,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £52,600 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.36% -8.33% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior Systems Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Systems Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Systems Engineer.

Senior Systems Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Senior Systems Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (71.91%) Agile
2 60 (67.42%) SysML
2 60 (67.42%) BPSS Clearance
2 60 (67.42%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 60 (67.42%) Systems Engineering
3 56 (62.92%) Microsoft
4 43 (48.31%) Coaching
4 43 (48.31%) Social Skills
5 40 (44.94%) Safety Engineering
5 40 (44.94%) Software Delivery
5 40 (44.94%) Technical Leadership
5 40 (44.94%) System Testing
5 40 (44.94%) MathWorks
5 40 (44.94%) Simulink
5 40 (44.94%) Project Management
5 40 (44.94%) Aerospace
5 40 (44.94%) Microsoft Office
6 29 (32.58%) Degree
7 25 (28.09%) Business Continuity
7 25 (28.09%) Line Management
8 20 (22.47%) Situational Awareness
8 20 (22.47%) UML
8 20 (22.47%) Requirements Analysis
8 20 (22.47%) Avionics
9 12 (13.48%) Linux
10 11 (12.36%) Azure
10 11 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (11.24%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (11.24%) Python
11 10 (11.24%) SharePoint

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (11.24%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.49%) Apache
2 4 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 40 (44.94%) Microsoft Office
1 40 (44.94%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.36%) Azure
1 11 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (11.24%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Copilot
2 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Purview
2 10 (11.24%) OneDrive
3 6 (6.74%) AWS
4 4 (4.49%) CloudBees
4 4 (4.49%) GitHub
5 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) DNS
1 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 40 (44.94%) Aerospace
3 20 (22.47%) Avionics
4 10 (11.24%) Law
4 10 (11.24%) Legal
5 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Electronics
7 1 (1.12%) Aviation
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (71.91%) Agile
2 60 (67.42%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 60 (67.42%) SysML
2 60 (67.42%) Systems Engineering
3 43 (48.31%) Coaching
4 40 (44.94%) Project Management
4 40 (44.94%) Safety Engineering
4 40 (44.94%) Software Delivery
4 40 (44.94%) System Testing
4 40 (44.94%) Technical Leadership
5 25 (28.09%) Business Continuity
5 25 (28.09%) Line Management
6 20 (22.47%) Requirements Analysis
6 20 (22.47%) Situational Awareness
6 20 (22.47%) UML
7 6 (6.74%) CI/CD
7 6 (6.74%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (4.49%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (4.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) Python
2 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.62%) Bash
4 2 (2.25%) C
4 2 (2.25%) C++
4 2 (2.25%) Go
4 2 (2.25%) Rust
5 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (67.42%) BPSS Clearance
2 29 (32.58%) Degree
3 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.12%) MCSE
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Ansible
1 4 (4.49%) SCCM
1 4 (4.49%) SCOM
1 4 (4.49%) SCOrch
1 4 (4.49%) Terraform
2 1 (1.12%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 56 (62.92%) Microsoft
2 40 (44.94%) MathWorks
3 4 (4.49%) IBM
3 4 (4.49%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (2.25%) VMware
5 1 (1.12%) Dell
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle
5 1 (1.12%) Veeam
5 1 (1.12%) Veritas