Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in England

Senior System Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior System Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 599 932
Rank change year-on-year +151 +333 -160
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 473 318 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.38% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.41% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 338 73 152
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,356 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,775 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £66,250
% change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +10.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
South East +78 161 £55,000 - 13
South West +34 100 £60,000 -12.09% 19
Midlands +17 74 £52,500 -17.97% 14
London +132 58 £65,000 -11.86% 10
North of England +23 57 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North West +8 43 £50,000 +18.89% 4
West Midlands -10 39 £55,000 -14.06% 8
East Midlands +8 35 £50,000 - 6
East of England -22 23 £60,000 +53.40% 4
Yorkshire +50 10 £45,107 -4.03% 3
North East -19 4 £55,000 -15.38% 1
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 England region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 81 (17.12%) Systems Engineering
3 72 (15.22%) Degree
4 69 (14.59%) Microsoft
5 62 (13.11%) Windows
6 61 (12.90%) Azure
6 61 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (11.63%) VMware
8 48 (10.15%) Active Directory
9 39 (8.25%) Social Skills
10 38 (8.03%) Validation
11 37 (7.82%) SC Cleared
12 35 (7.40%) VMware Infrastructure
13 34 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (6.98%) Manufacturing
14 33 (6.98%) Linux
15 30 (6.34%) Windows Server
16 29 (6.13%) PowerShell
17 28 (5.92%) Aerospace
18 26 (5.50%) SQL
19 25 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
19 25 (5.29%) Embedded Systems
20 24 (5.07%) AWS
21 23 (4.86%) Firewall
22 22 (4.65%) Automotive
23 21 (4.44%) HNC
23 21 (4.44%) Python
23 21 (4.44%) Decision-Making
24 20 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
25 19 (4.02%) MATLAB

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (2.96%) IIS
2 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.21%) Apache
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) JBoss
5 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.96%) Simulink
2 10 (2.11%) Stateflow
3 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.06%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.63%) Revit
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.21%) Solid Edge
6 1 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (12.90%) Azure
2 25 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (5.07%) AWS
4 9 (1.90%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.27%) Azure App Service
5 6 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.27%) OneDrive
6 3 (0.63%) PaaS
7 2 (0.42%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.42%) SaaS
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.21%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.21%) GCP
8 1 (0.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.86%) Firewall
2 17 (3.59%) DNS
3 15 (3.17%) DHCP
3 15 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.96%) WAN
5 12 (2.54%) Wireless
6 7 (1.48%) J1939
7 6 (1.27%) Modbus
8 5 (1.06%) 4G
8 5 (1.06%) 5G
8 5 (1.06%) Profibus
8 5 (1.06%) VLAN
9 4 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.85%) MPLS
9 4 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.63%) SAN
11 2 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.42%) Network Security
11 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.42%) Big Data
4 1 (0.21%) MySQL
4 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (1.90%) Git
2 8 (1.69%) JIRA
2 8 (1.69%) LabVIEW
3 4 (0.85%) GitLab
3 4 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 39 (8.25%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.98%) Manufacturing
3 28 (5.92%) Aerospace
4 22 (4.65%) Automotive
5 13 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.54%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.11%) Electronics
8 9 (1.90%) Law
9 7 (1.48%) Finance
9 7 (1.48%) Legal
9 7 (1.48%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.27%) Military
10 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.06%) Marketing
12 3 (0.63%) Retail
13 2 (0.42%) Avionics
14 1 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.90%) REST
1 9 (1.90%) WebRTC
2 5 (1.06%) Keycloak
3 3 (0.63%) Middleware
4 2 (0.42%) .NET
5 1 (0.21%) CSS
5 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.21%) Keras
5 1 (0.21%) Node-RED
5 1 (0.21%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.29%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (3.17%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.11%) IoT
4 10 (2.11%) NHS
5 9 (1.90%) Clustering
6 8 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.69%) SCADA
7 6 (1.27%) CCTV
7 6 (1.27%) Robotics
8 5 (1.06%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.06%) Solar Energy
9 4 (0.85%) ARM Cortex
9 4 (0.85%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.85%) Educational Technology
9 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.63%) PKI
11 2 (0.42%) 3D Printing
Operating Systems
1 62 (13.11%) Windows
2 33 (6.98%) Linux
3 30 (6.34%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.33%) Windows 7
5 11 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.27%) VMS
7 4 (0.85%) Unix
8 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.42%) CentOS
10 1 (0.21%) Debian
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (17.12%) Systems Engineering
2 61 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (8.03%) Validation
4 34 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (4.44%) Decision-Making
6 20 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (4.02%) Software Engineering
8 18 (3.81%) Mentoring
9 15 (3.17%) Configuration Management
9 15 (3.17%) Systems Thinking
9 15 (3.17%) Verification and Validation
10 14 (2.96%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 14 (2.96%) ITIL
11 13 (2.75%) Agile
11 13 (2.75%) Customer Requirements
11 13 (2.75%) DevOps
11 13 (2.75%) Project Delivery
12 12 (2.54%) Problem Management
12 12 (2.54%) Roadmaps
13 11 (2.33%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.13%) PowerShell
2 26 (5.50%) SQL
3 21 (4.44%) Python
4 19 (4.02%) MATLAB
5 16 (3.38%) C
6 13 (2.75%) Bash
7 10 (2.11%) C#
8 7 (1.48%) Ladder Logic
9 5 (1.06%) Java
10 1 (0.21%) C++
10 1 (0.21%) Go
10 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.21%) Korn
10 1 (0.21%) Perl
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.21%) tcsh
10 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 72 (15.22%) Degree
3 37 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.44%) HNC
5 14 (2.96%) HND
5 14 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.06%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.63%) RIBA
12 2 (0.42%) CCNA
12 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.42%) NVQ Level 4
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.33%) Automotive SPICE
1 11 (2.33%) ISO 26262
2 5 (1.06%) GDPR
3 4 (0.85%) COSHH
3 4 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.21%) ECSS
5 1 (0.21%) PMO
5 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 48 (10.15%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.38%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.90%) Firmware
5 6 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.06%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.63%) Docker
7 3 (0.63%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (0.63%) NFS
7 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.63%) vSphere
7 3 (0.63%) XenApp
8 2 (0.42%) KVM
9 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.17%) SCCM
3 14 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.54%) Functional Safety
5 7 (1.48%) Ansible
5 7 (1.48%) Puppet
6 5 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.06%) Terraform
7 4 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.85%) Grafana
7 4 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.63%) SCOM
8 3 (0.63%) WSUS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.21%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.21%) systemd
9 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.63%) VMware
3 16 (3.38%) Cisco
4 11 (2.33%) Citrix
5 9 (1.90%) CheckPoint
5 9 (1.90%) NetApp
6 8 (1.69%) Apple
7 7 (1.48%) Allen-Bradley
7 7 (1.48%) HP
8 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.27%) Wonderware
9 4 (0.85%) Darktrace
9 4 (0.85%) Mitel
9 4 (0.85%) NEC
9 4 (0.85%) Ribbon
10 3 (0.63%) Facebook
10 3 (0.63%) Instagram
10 3 (0.63%) QinetiQ
11 2 (0.42%) Dell
11 2 (0.42%) IBM