Systems Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 243 278
Rank change year-on-year +158 +35 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2,160 845 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.02% 1.43% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.18% 1.61% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,401 300 394
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,313 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,625 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 +136 633 £50,000 -9.09% 130
South West +100 438 £55,000 +13.40% 103
Midlands +80 395 £48,500 +9.60% 92
East of England +68 280 £52,500 -6.67% 64
North of England +151 262 £45,000 +2.74% 83
West Midlands +51 244 £50,000 +12.99% 50
North West +76 166 £50,000 +14.16% 50
East Midlands +92 151 £42,500 - 42
Scotland +3 99 £42,750 -22.27% 37
Yorkshire +127 76 £45,000 +1.12% 27
Wales +44 45 £37,500 - 21
North East -5 20 £40,000 +11.11% 8
Northern Ireland +28 8 £35,000 -46.15% 3
Systems Engineer
UK

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 441 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 420 (19.44%) Systems Engineering
3 322 (14.91%) Degree
4 222 (10.28%) Microsoft
5 213 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (9.26%) Manufacturing
7 194 (8.98%) Social Skills
8 180 (8.33%) Windows
9 179 (8.29%) SC Cleared
10 177 (8.19%) Azure
11 168 (7.78%) VMware
12 157 (7.27%) Aerospace
13 155 (7.18%) Validation
14 144 (6.67%) Linux
15 141 (6.53%) Active Directory
16 134 (6.20%) Automotive
17 117 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
18 110 (5.09%) SQL
19 109 (5.05%) Customer Service
20 107 (4.95%) Electronics
21 103 (4.77%) VMware Infrastructure
22 102 (4.72%) Cybersecurity
23 101 (4.68%) Windows Server
24 98 (4.54%) Agile
25 89 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
26 82 (3.80%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
27 81 (3.75%) C
28 79 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
29 73 (3.38%) Customer Requirements
29 73 (3.38%) Verification and Validation

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 53 (2.45%) IIS
2 52 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.28%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.23%) Confluence
6 5 (0.23%) WinCC
7 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.093%) Apache
8 2 (0.093%) JBoss
8 2 (0.093%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.046%) SAS
9 1 (0.046%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.046%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 46 (2.13%) Simulink
2 36 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.79%) Stateflow
4 14 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.093%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.093%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.046%) CATIA
9 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.046%) Solid Edge
9 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.23%) C-CURE
3 4 (0.19%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.093%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.093%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.046%) iTrent
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.046%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 177 (8.19%) Azure
2 117 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (2.64%) AWS
4 49 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 24 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (0.79%) OneDrive
7 16 (0.74%) SaaS
8 10 (0.46%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.32%) GCP
10 6 (0.28%) Azure App Service
11 4 (0.19%) PaaS
11 4 (0.19%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.14%) Dropbox
12 3 (0.14%) Google Drive
12 3 (0.14%) Google Sheets
13 2 (0.093%) IaaS
13 2 (0.093%) Nutanix
14 1 (0.046%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.046%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.96%) WAN
2 58 (2.69%) Firewall
3 51 (2.36%) DNS
4 38 (1.76%) DHCP
5 33 (1.53%) Software-Defined Radio
6 26 (1.20%) LAN
6 26 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.16%) VPN
8 23 (1.06%) Internet
9 22 (1.02%) Wireless
10 19 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.83%) VLAN
12 17 (0.79%) VSAN
13 14 (0.65%) 4G
13 14 (0.65%) 5G
13 14 (0.65%) SAN
14 13 (0.60%) SNMP
15 11 (0.51%) Ethernet
16 10 (0.46%) HTTP
17 9 (0.42%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.06%) MySQL
3 22 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 14 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.46%) Big Data
6 6 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.28%) InfluxDB
6 6 (0.28%) MariaDB
6 6 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.14%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.093%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.093%) QlikView
10 1 (0.046%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.046%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.046%) Power BI
10 1 (0.046%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (3.29%) Rational DOORS
2 31 (1.44%) LabVIEW
3 22 (1.02%) JIRA
4 20 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
5 14 (0.65%) Git
6 12 (0.56%) Rational Team Concert
7 9 (0.42%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.19%) GitLab
9 3 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.093%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.046%) Subversion
General
1 200 (9.26%) Manufacturing
2 194 (8.98%) Social Skills
3 157 (7.27%) Aerospace
4 134 (6.20%) Automotive
5 107 (4.95%) Electronics
6 70 (3.24%) Finance
7 64 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (2.18%) Telecoms
9 41 (1.90%) Retail
10 33 (1.53%) Military
11 29 (1.34%) Games
12 26 (1.20%) Legal
13 18 (0.83%) Public Sector
14 17 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.69%) Marketing
16 14 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.51%) Avionics
18 11 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.46%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.65%) REST
1 14 (0.65%) WebRTC
2 9 (0.42%) Web Services
3 8 (0.37%) .NET
4 7 (0.32%) Middleware
5 5 (0.23%) WPF
6 4 (0.19%) JSON
6 4 (0.19%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.19%) LAMP
6 4 (0.19%) LDAP
6 4 (0.19%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (0.19%) XMPP
7 2 (0.093%) COM
7 2 (0.093%) HTML
7 2 (0.093%) HTML5
7 2 (0.093%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.093%) WebCenter
7 2 (0.093%) WSE
8 1 (0.046%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.046%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (2.92%) Management Information System
2 57 (2.64%) Algorithms
2 57 (2.64%) Embedded Systems
3 48 (2.22%) SCADA
4 38 (1.76%) Clustering
4 38 (1.76%) Data Centre
5 35 (1.62%) Public Cloud
6 33 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.34%) Robotics
8 27 (1.25%) FPGA
9 25 (1.16%) IoT
10 23 (1.06%) CCTV
10 23 (1.06%) CMDB
11 22 (1.02%) Driving Licence
12 21 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (0.79%) NHS
13 17 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
14 16 (0.74%) Mainframe
14 16 (0.74%) Verilog
14 16 (0.74%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 180 (8.33%) Windows
2 144 (6.67%) Linux
3 101 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 25 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.88%) Debian
9 18 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.56%) CentOS
12 11 (0.51%) Windows 7
13 10 (0.46%) Unix
14 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.32%) VMS
15 5 (0.23%) Android
16 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.19%) SUSE
16 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.093%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (19.44%) Systems Engineering
2 213 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (7.18%) Validation
4 109 (5.05%) Customer Service
5 102 (4.72%) Cybersecurity
6 98 (4.54%) Agile
7 82 (3.80%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 79 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 73 (3.38%) Configuration Management
9 73 (3.38%) Customer Requirements
9 73 (3.38%) Verification and Validation
10 70 (3.24%) Software Engineering
11 69 (3.19%) Project Management
12 67 (3.10%) Project Delivery
13 66 (3.06%) Computer Science
14 57 (2.64%) Software Testing
15 52 (2.41%) Mathematics
16 49 (2.27%) Physics
17 46 (2.13%) High Availability
18 43 (1.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (5.09%) SQL
2 81 (3.75%) C
3 66 (3.06%) Python
4 62 (2.87%) MATLAB
5 50 (2.31%) C#
6 47 (2.18%) PowerShell
7 40 (1.85%) Bash
8 35 (1.62%) Java
9 30 (1.39%) C++
10 9 (0.42%) Perl
11 8 (0.37%) JavaScript
12 7 (0.32%) Ladder Logic
12 7 (0.32%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.28%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.23%) R
14 5 (0.23%) VB
14 5 (0.23%) XAML
15 3 (0.14%) PHP
16 2 (0.093%) Assembly Language
17 1 (0.046%) REXX
Qualifications
1 441 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 322 (14.91%) Degree
3 179 (8.29%) SC Cleared
4 89 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 62 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 47 (2.18%) Chartered Engineer
8 35 (1.62%) HNC
9 31 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 24 (1.11%) HND
11 13 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.46%) CCNA
13 10 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
14 9 (0.42%) MCSE
15 8 (0.37%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.28%) PhD
16 6 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.11%) QA
2 22 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 19 (0.88%) ISO 9001
4 17 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.74%) PMO
6 15 (0.69%) GDPR
7 14 (0.65%) ISO 26262
8 12 (0.56%) Automotive SPICE
9 11 (0.51%) IEC 61508
10 10 (0.46%) COSHH
11 7 (0.32%) ISO 14001
11 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 6 (0.28%) Def Stans
13 5 (0.23%) SLA
14 3 (0.14%) ECSS
14 3 (0.14%) GMP
14 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.093%) PCI DSS
16 1 (0.046%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 141 (6.53%) Active Directory
2 103 (4.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (3.24%) Hyper-V
4 58 (2.69%) Firmware
5 24 (1.11%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.88%) vSphere
7 15 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.42%) Docker
10 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 6 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.14%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.14%) NFS
13 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.14%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.25%) Functional Safety
3 25 (1.16%) Ansible
4 24 (1.11%) Puppet
5 23 (1.06%) SCCM
6 20 (0.93%) vCenter Server
7 19 (0.88%) Kubernetes
8 15 (0.69%) SCOM
9 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.32%) Backup Exec
10 7 (0.32%) Terraform
10 7 (0.32%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.28%) WSUS
12 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.19%) Autotask
13 4 (0.19%) Podman
13 4 (0.19%) Wonderware InTouch
14 2 (0.093%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 222 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 168 (7.78%) VMware
3 59 (2.73%) EMC
4 44 (2.04%) IBM
5 42 (1.94%) Cisco
6 29 (1.34%) Citrix
7 23 (1.06%) HP
7 23 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 19 (0.88%) Siemens
9 18 (0.83%) Thales
10 17 (0.79%) Veeam
11 15 (0.69%) Meraki
12 14 (0.65%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.65%) Oracle
13 12 (0.56%) Dell
13 12 (0.56%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.51%) QinetiQ
14 11 (0.51%) Rockwell
14 11 (0.51%) Sophos
15 10 (0.46%) CheckPoint