Systems Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

System Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median System Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 105 150
Rank change year-on-year -43 +45 +149
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 45 34 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.84% 1.50% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.59% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 34 9 48
10th Percentile £32,900 £34,150 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 -
90th Percentile £78,770 £57,789 £50,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.56% +5.20% -9.09%

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 4,994 2,139 5,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.27% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,231 1,252 4,168
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,275 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year - +0.01% -8.42%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,823 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in Yorkshire

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 Systems Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
West Yorkshire -40 24 £45,000 +3.45% 9
North Yorkshire +1 8 £80,000 +113.33%
South Yorkshire -32 5 £35,000 -30.00%
Humberside -6 2 £75,900 - 1
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 2026, 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (13.33%) Python
1 6 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (11.11%) Linux
3 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) IBM
3 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
3 4 (8.89%) Perl
3 4 (8.89%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) City & Guilds
4 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (6.67%) COSHH
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Inventory Management
4 3 (6.67%) NVQ Level 3
4 3 (6.67%) Postgraduate
4 3 (6.67%) Preventative Maintenance
4 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (6.67%) Test Planning
5 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (4.44%) Signal Processing
5 2 (4.44%) SQL
6 1 (2.22%) Agile
6 1 (2.22%) AI
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.22%) Analytics
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (2.22%) AWS

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 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.22%) AWS
1 1 (2.22%) Azure
1 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (2.22%) dbt
1 1 (2.22%) GCP
1 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.22%) Looker
1 1 (2.22%) Power BI
1 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) MLflow
General
1 5 (11.11%) Finance
2 4 (8.89%) Games
3 3 (6.67%) Electronics
3 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Advertising
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Publishing
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Kafka
1 1 (2.22%) LangChain
1 1 (2.22%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (2.22%) pgvector
1 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.22%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) IoT
2 5 (11.11%) CCTV
3 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Robotics
4 1 (2.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
3 3 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (6.67%) Inventory Management
3 3 (6.67%) Preventative Maintenance
3 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (6.67%) Test Planning
4 2 (4.44%) Signal Processing
5 1 (2.22%) Analytics
5 1 (2.22%) Customer Service
5 1 (2.22%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (2.22%) Data Engineering
5 1 (2.22%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (2.22%) Feature Engineering
5 1 (2.22%) Generative AI
5 1 (2.22%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (2.22%) Presales
5 1 (2.22%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (2.22%) RBAC
5 1 (2.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Python
2 4 (8.89%) Perl
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) C
4 1 (2.22%) C++
4 1 (2.22%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) City & Guilds
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) NVQ Level 3
3 3 (6.67%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) COSHH
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) IBM
2 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
2 1 (2.22%) Databricks
2 1 (2.22%) Dell