Systems Engineering Jobs in England

Systems Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Systems Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 398 466
Rank change year-on-year +139 +68 -60
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 943 697 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.09% 0.79% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.83% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 534 189 445
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £35,575
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,250 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -12.59% +6.30% +5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Systems Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,598 84,339 129,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.11% 95.60% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 53,968 50,108 73,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +68 236 £63,500 +10.43% 108
South West +21 231 £55,000 -20.29% 87
East of England +85 139 £55,000 -15.38% 59
Midlands -45 137 £55,000 - 50
London +106 127 £75,000 -25.00% 69
West Midlands -56 91 £55,000 - 32
North of England +95 67 £51,000 -27.14% 49
East Midlands +33 46 £50,000 - 18
Yorkshire +111 33 £51,000 - 6
North West +19 32 £60,000 -14.29% 40
North East -5 2 £67,500 - 4
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
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 37 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (2.97%) WebLogic
3 16 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.06%) IIS
5 8 (0.85%) Confluence
6 5 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.21%) WinCC
Applications
1 58 (6.15%) Microsoft Project
2 55 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (3.29%) Simulink
4 27 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.74%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 53 (5.62%) Primavera
2 31 (3.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 118 (12.51%) Azure
2 79 (8.38%) AWS
3 48 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 16 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
6 16 (1.70%) SaaS
7 10 (1.06%) Power Platform
8 7 (0.74%) PowerApps
9 5 (0.53%) IaaS
9 5 (0.53%) PaaS
10 3 (0.32%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.21%) GCP
11 2 (0.21%) GitHub
11 2 (0.21%) Google Docs
11 2 (0.21%) Serverless
12 1 (0.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.11%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.14%) TCP/IP
2 34 (3.61%) DNS
3 31 (3.29%) BGP
4 28 (2.97%) SSL
5 22 (2.33%) Firewall
6 11 (1.17%) WLAN
7 10 (1.06%) LAN
7 10 (1.06%) SAN
7 10 (1.06%) WAN
7 10 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.06%) Wireless
8 7 (0.74%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.74%) Intranet
9 6 (0.64%) 4G
9 6 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.53%) DHCP
10 5 (0.53%) Network Security
11 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.42%) FlexRay
11 4 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.56%) Relational Database
2 31 (3.29%) RDBMS
3 29 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 28 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.64%) MySQL
6 6 (0.64%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.32%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.32%) Power BI
9 2 (0.21%) Big Data
9 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.21%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (9.01%) Rational DOORS
2 45 (4.77%) JIRA
3 31 (3.29%) Rational Rhapsody
4 21 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.59%) Git
6 13 (1.38%) Robot Framework
7 12 (1.27%) Rational Team Concert
8 8 (0.85%) GitLab
9 7 (0.74%) LabVIEW
10 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.42%) JMeter
10 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.21%) Apache Continuum
12 2 (0.21%) Subversion
13 1 (0.11%) Gatling
13 1 (0.11%) JUnit
13 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 240 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 131 (13.89%) Aerospace
3 71 (7.53%) Finance
3 71 (7.53%) Manufacturing
4 67 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (6.57%) Electronics
6 59 (6.26%) Automotive
6 59 (6.26%) Military
7 48 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
8 42 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (3.71%) Marketing
10 33 (3.50%) Public Sector
11 21 (2.23%) Games
12 19 (2.01%) Retail
13 17 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.70%) Legal
15 15 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.38%) Aviation
18 9 (0.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 436 (46.24%) Systems Engineer
2 128 (13.57%) Senior
3 119 (12.62%) Lead
4 117 (12.41%) Principal Engineer
5 111 (11.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 101 (10.71%) Architect
7 72 (7.64%) Software Engineer
8 68 (7.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 64 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (5.51%) Project Controller
11 35 (3.71%) Lead Architect
12 30 (3.18%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 27 (2.86%) Consultant
14 26 (2.76%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.65%) Senior Architect
16 24 (2.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
17 20 (2.12%) Team Leader
18 19 (2.01%) Senior Solutions Architect
18 19 (2.01%) Systems Architect
19 18 (1.91%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.18%) HTML
2 28 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
2 28 (2.97%) Spring Boot
3 13 (1.38%) XML
4 4 (0.42%) .NET
4 4 (0.42%) 802.1X
4 4 (0.42%) Keycloak
4 4 (0.42%) LDAP
4 4 (0.42%) WPF
5 3 (0.32%) Bazel
5 3 (0.32%) CSS
5 3 (0.32%) HTML5
5 3 (0.32%) JSON
5 3 (0.32%) Keras
5 3 (0.32%) Middleware
5 3 (0.32%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.32%) Svelte
5 3 (0.32%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.32%) Web Services
6 2 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 34 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
2 34 (3.61%) SCADA
3 31 (3.29%) Algorithms
4 29 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (2.97%) Operational Technology
5 28 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 26 (2.76%) Clustering
7 20 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.01%) IoT
9 18 (1.91%) Robotics
10 16 (1.70%) Cyberattack
10 16 (1.70%) Embedded Systems
10 16 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.85%) Reinsurance
13 7 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
13 7 (0.74%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.18%) Linux
2 79 (8.38%) Windows
3 45 (4.77%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.53%) Unix
5 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (21.95%) Agile
2 160 (16.97%) Validation
3 130 (13.79%) Software Engineering
4 119 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (11.24%) Verification and Validation
6 95 (10.07%) Project Management
7 93 (9.86%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 93 (9.86%) Risk Management
8 83 (8.80%) Mentoring
9 79 (8.38%) Collaborative Working
10 77 (8.17%) Customer Requirements
11 72 (7.64%) Performance Management
12 68 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
13 67 (7.10%) Project Delivery
14 64 (6.79%) Programme Management
14 64 (6.79%) Requirements Management
15 57 (6.04%) Actionable Insight
16 56 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (5.73%) Customer Service
17 54 (5.73%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 76 (8.06%) Python
2 50 (5.30%) JavaScript
3 47 (4.98%) MATLAB
4 41 (4.35%) C
5 36 (3.82%) Java
6 30 (3.18%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.97%) C#
8 23 (2.44%) Bash
8 23 (2.44%) SQL
9 18 (1.91%) C++
10 11 (1.17%) Go
11 8 (0.85%) Ada
12 6 (0.64%) Perl
13 5 (0.53%) Rust
13 5 (0.53%) VB
14 3 (0.32%) R
14 3 (0.32%) Scala
14 3 (0.32%) VBScript
15 2 (0.21%) PHP
15 2 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 406 (43.05%) Security Cleared
2 269 (28.53%) Degree
3 135 (14.32%) SC Cleared
4 124 (13.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 73 (7.74%) DV Cleared
6 53 (5.62%) Master's Degree
7 45 (4.77%) Chartered Engineer
8 36 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 30 (3.18%) AWS Certification
10 28 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (2.12%) HNC
12 19 (2.01%) CISSP
12 19 (2.01%) DBS Check
12 19 (2.01%) HND
13 12 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.53%) CISM
15 5 (0.53%) PhD
16 3 (0.32%) GIAC
17 2 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.23%) Def Stans
2 18 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 7 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 6 (0.64%) IEC 61508
4 6 (0.64%) QA
5 5 (0.53%) JSP 440
6 4 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
6 4 (0.42%) ISO 26262
7 3 (0.32%) ECSS
7 3 (0.32%) JTAG
7 3 (0.32%) NCSC
7 3 (0.32%) NIST
8 2 (0.21%) GRC
8 2 (0.21%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 45 (4.77%) Active Directory
2 43 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (2.97%) Hyper-V
4 21 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (2.01%) Firmware
6 9 (0.95%) Forefront TMG
6 9 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.53%) Ceph
7 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) Docker
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
5 21 (2.23%) vCenter Server
6 20 (2.12%) Functional Safety
7 10 (1.06%) SCOM
8 9 (0.95%) WSUS
9 8 (0.85%) Terraform
10 7 (0.74%) Ansible
11 5 (0.53%) Knative
11 5 (0.53%) SELinux
12 3 (0.32%) Backup Exec
12 3 (0.32%) Istio
13 2 (0.21%) CASB
13 2 (0.21%) Grafana
13 2 (0.21%) Wonderware InTouch
13 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.11%) SCCM
14 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 105 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.21%) VMware
3 41 (4.35%) EMC
4 39 (4.14%) Oracle
5 35 (3.71%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.61%) IBM
7 31 (3.29%) Sparx
8 21 (2.23%) IFS
9 20 (2.12%) Commvault
9 20 (2.12%) Thales
10 19 (2.01%) Sun
11 18 (1.91%) Workday
12 13 (1.38%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.38%) Veeam
13 10 (1.06%) Citrix
13 10 (1.06%) HP
13 10 (1.06%) Sophos
14 8 (0.85%) Informatica
15 7 (0.74%) Cisco
16 6 (0.64%) Google