Systems Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Systems Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 202 223
Rank change year-on-year -66 +21 -70
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 21 17 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.39% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £34,000 - £50,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £41,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% -20.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,925 £84,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -12.59% +7.14% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,195 4,321 5,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.21% 94.32% 90.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 2,159 2,811
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,211 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in Scotland

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in Scotland

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in Scotland

Systems Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 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
Glasgow -106 14 £40,000 -37.01% 13
Edinburgh +36 4 - - 4
Aberdeen - 1 £60,000 - 1
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 3
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (38.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon EKS
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon SQS
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) TCP/IP
2 8 (38.10%) BGP
2 8 (38.10%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) SSL
3 3 (14.29%) RS-232
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle Database
1 8 (38.10%) RDBMS
1 8 (38.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) MSTest
1 1 (4.76%) TestComplete
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
1 8 (38.10%) Lead
1 8 (38.10%) Lead Architect
1 8 (38.10%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 8 (38.10%) Solutions Architect
1 8 (38.10%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Electronics Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Hardware Design Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (38.10%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (38.10%) Public Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
1 8 (38.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (42.86%) Project Management
3 8 (38.10%) Actionable Insight
3 8 (38.10%) ArchiMate
3 8 (38.10%) Cloud Operations
3 8 (38.10%) Data Migration
3 8 (38.10%) Kanban
3 8 (38.10%) Load Balancing
3 8 (38.10%) Migration
3 8 (38.10%) Open Source
3 8 (38.10%) Re-Platforming
3 8 (38.10%) Scrum
3 8 (38.10%) SDLC
3 8 (38.10%) TOGAF
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Resource Management
6 3 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) C
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) AWS Certification
3 8 (38.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.76%) HNC
5 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle
1 8 (38.10%) Sparx
2 1 (4.76%) Thales
2 1 (4.76%) VMware