Senior Systems Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior System Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior System Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £50,861 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 139 203
Rank change year-on-year -38 +64 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 18 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £50,172 £41,663 £41,882
25th Percentile £50,431 £44,082 £43,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,861 £49,727 £45,107
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% +10.24% -4.03%
75th Percentile £51,292 £55,142 £60,806
90th Percentile £51,550 £57,422 £67,822
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,793 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.50% -7.13% -1.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 5,703 2,281 5,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.58% 93.64% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,670 1,268 4,262
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -9.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Systems Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Senior Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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
North Yorkshire - 10 - -
West Yorkshire -42 4 - -
Humberside -9 2 £50,000 -
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, Senior Systems Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
1 9 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 9 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (22.22%) Requirements Management
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
4 2 (11.11%) MODAF
4 2 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (11.11%) SysML
4 2 (11.11%) UML
5 1 (5.56%) AI
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineering

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (5.56%) dbt
1 1 (5.56%) GCP
1 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) Looker
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 9 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Games
3 3 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) LangChain
1 1 (5.56%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (5.56%) pgvector
1 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
1 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) CCTV
1 9 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (22.22%) Requirements Management
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) MODAF
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (11.11%) SysML
4 2 (11.11%) UML
5 1 (5.56%) AI
5 1 (5.56%) Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Data Governance
5 1 (5.56%) Data Management
5 1 (5.56%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.56%) ETL
5 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Dell