Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Senior System Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior System Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £57,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 205 293
Rank change year-on-year +85 +88 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 35 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.28% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £44,888 £41,882 £42,800
25th Percentile £52,145 £43,052 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £45,107 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.61% -4.03% -14.55%
75th Percentile £58,943 £60,806 £49,000
90th Percentile - £67,822 £49,600
England median annual salary £52,600 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.85% -1.67% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,570 5,520 7,496
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 95.29% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 4,262 3,542
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,250 £35,000 £39,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £49,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -9.81% +9.76%
75th Percentile £69,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer 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 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
Humberside - 16 - -
North Yorkshire - 14 - -
West Yorkshire +51 2 £41,895 -23.90%
Senior Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (94.29%) Degree
2 20 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
3 14 (40.00%) Coaching
3 14 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 14 (40.00%) Physics
3 14 (40.00%) IEC 61508
3 14 (40.00%) DO-254
3 14 (40.00%) ARP4754
4 13 (37.14%) Chartered Engineer
4 13 (37.14%) Use Case
4 13 (37.14%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (17.14%) MATLAB
5 6 (17.14%) Requirements Management
5 6 (17.14%) ANSYS
5 6 (17.14%) HNC
5 6 (17.14%) HND
5 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
5 6 (17.14%) Automotive
5 6 (17.14%) PLM
5 6 (17.14%) Teamcenter
6 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.86%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.86%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (2.86%) API Development
7 1 (2.86%) API Integration
7 1 (2.86%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (2.86%) VMware
7 1 (2.86%) NetBackup

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
1 6 (17.14%) Automotive
2 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
2 14 (40.00%) Coaching
2 14 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 14 (40.00%) Physics
3 13 (37.14%) Acceptance Criteria
3 13 (37.14%) Use Case
4 6 (17.14%) PLM
4 6 (17.14%) Requirements Management
5 1 (2.86%) API Development
5 1 (2.86%) API Integration
5 1 (2.86%) Change Management
5 1 (2.86%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (2.86%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (2.86%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (2.86%) Time Management
5 1 (2.86%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.86%) Java
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (94.29%) Degree
2 20 (57.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (37.14%) Chartered Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) HNC
4 6 (17.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (40.00%) ARP4754
1 14 (40.00%) DO-254
1 14 (40.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) ANSYS
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Veeam
2 1 (2.86%) Veritas
2 1 (2.86%) VMware