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 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 75 234 273
Rank change year-on-year +159 +39 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2,432 851 959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.20% 1.51% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 1.69% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 308 406
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,625 £35,745
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 June 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 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 +142 685 £50,000 -9.09% 133
South West +106 522 £55,000 +10.00% 97
Midlands +100 441 £49,000 +10.73% 95
East of England +65 306 £52,500 -0.94% 69
North of England +134 297 £45,000 +2.74% 93
West Midlands +55 263 £50,000 +12.99% 50
North West +76 191 £50,000 +14.16% 50
East Midlands +98 178 £42,500 - 45
Scotland +5 117 £52,500 -4.55% 38
Yorkshire +117 83 £43,750 -1.69% 31
Wales +45 56 £35,000 - 13
North East -13 23 £42,500 +17.24% 15
Northern Ireland +27 8 £35,000 -53.33% 2
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 477 (19.61%) Systems Engineering
2 457 (18.79%) Security Cleared
3 335 (13.77%) Degree
4 221 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 219 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (8.80%) Manufacturing
7 197 (8.10%) Social Skills
8 187 (7.69%) SC Cleared
9 183 (7.52%) Aerospace
10 175 (7.20%) Windows
11 173 (7.11%) Azure
12 169 (6.95%) Validation
13 163 (6.70%) VMware
14 146 (6.00%) Linux
15 141 (5.80%) Automotive
16 140 (5.76%) Active Directory
17 118 (4.85%) Electronics
18 117 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
19 112 (4.61%) Customer Service
20 105 (4.32%) SQL
21 104 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
22 102 (4.19%) Cybersecurity
23 98 (4.03%) Agile
24 95 (3.91%) Windows Server
25 94 (3.87%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
26 89 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
27 87 (3.58%) Verification and Validation
28 83 (3.41%) C
29 81 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
30 75 (3.08%) Software Engineering

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 52 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (1.93%) IIS
3 33 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.29%) WinCC
6 6 (0.25%) Kinematics
7 5 (0.21%) Confluence
8 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.082%) JBoss
9 2 (0.082%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.041%) Apache
10 1 (0.041%) SAS
10 1 (0.041%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.041%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 50 (2.06%) Simulink
2 37 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.70%) Stateflow
4 14 (0.58%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.082%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.082%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.041%) CATIA
9 1 (0.041%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.041%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.041%) Solid Edge
9 1 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.21%) C-CURE
3 4 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.082%) iTrent
4 2 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.082%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.041%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 173 (7.11%) Azure
2 117 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (2.26%) AWS
4 49 (2.01%) Entra ID
5 22 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (0.70%) OneDrive
7 15 (0.62%) SaaS
8 9 (0.37%) Mimecast
9 8 (0.33%) GCP
10 7 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.25%) Azure App Service
12 4 (0.16%) PaaS
12 4 (0.16%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.12%) Dropbox
13 3 (0.12%) Google Drive
13 3 (0.12%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.12%) IaaS
14 2 (0.082%) Nutanix
15 1 (0.041%) Power Platform
15 1 (0.041%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.51%) WAN
2 56 (2.30%) Firewall
3 48 (1.97%) DNS
4 36 (1.48%) DHCP
5 33 (1.36%) Software-Defined Radio
6 26 (1.07%) LAN
6 26 (1.07%) VPN
7 25 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.99%) Wireless
9 22 (0.90%) Internet
10 19 (0.78%) VLAN
11 18 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (0.70%) VSAN
13 14 (0.58%) 4G
13 14 (0.58%) 5G
13 14 (0.58%) SAN
14 13 (0.53%) Ethernet
15 11 (0.45%) SNMP
16 9 (0.37%) HTTP
16 9 (0.37%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 22 (0.90%) MySQL
3 20 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 14 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.41%) Big Data
6 6 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.21%) InfluxDB
7 5 (0.21%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.16%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.082%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.082%) QlikView
11 1 (0.041%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.041%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.041%) Power BI
11 1 (0.041%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (3.00%) Rational DOORS
2 31 (1.27%) LabVIEW
3 22 (0.90%) JIRA
4 20 (0.82%) Rational Rhapsody
5 14 (0.58%) Git
6 12 (0.49%) Rational Team Concert
7 9 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.16%) GitLab
9 3 (0.12%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.082%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.082%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.041%) Subversion
General
1 214 (8.80%) Manufacturing
2 197 (8.10%) Social Skills
3 183 (7.52%) Aerospace
4 141 (5.80%) Automotive
5 118 (4.85%) Electronics
6 72 (2.96%) Finance
7 66 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
8 58 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 47 (1.93%) Retail
10 39 (1.60%) Military
11 31 (1.27%) Games
12 26 (1.07%) Legal
13 18 (0.74%) Public Sector
14 17 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (0.58%) Marketing
17 12 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.45%) Avionics
19 10 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.53%) REST
1 13 (0.53%) WebRTC
2 9 (0.37%) .NET
3 8 (0.33%) Web Services
4 7 (0.29%) Middleware
5 5 (0.21%) WPF
6 4 (0.16%) JSON
6 4 (0.16%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.16%) LAMP
6 4 (0.16%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (0.16%) XMPP
7 3 (0.12%) LDAP
8 2 (0.082%) COM
8 2 (0.082%) HTML
8 2 (0.082%) HTML5
8 2 (0.082%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.082%) WebCenter
8 2 (0.082%) WSE
9 1 (0.041%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.041%) Node-RED
Miscellaneous
1 69 (2.84%) Embedded Systems
2 67 (2.75%) Management Information System
3 57 (2.34%) Algorithms
4 56 (2.30%) SCADA
5 38 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.44%) Clustering
7 33 (1.36%) Public Cloud
7 33 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.32%) Robotics
9 29 (1.19%) CCTV
10 27 (1.11%) FPGA
11 26 (1.07%) IoT
12 24 (0.99%) Driving Licence
13 21 (0.86%) CMDB
14 19 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
15 17 (0.70%) NHS
16 16 (0.66%) Mainframe
16 16 (0.66%) Verilog
16 16 (0.66%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 175 (7.20%) Windows
2 146 (6.00%) Linux
3 95 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 22 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (0.78%) Debian
8 17 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (0.49%) CentOS
9 12 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.37%) Unix
12 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.29%) VMS
13 5 (0.21%) Android
13 5 (0.21%) SUSE
14 4 (0.16%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.082%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (19.61%) Systems Engineering
2 219 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
3 169 (6.95%) Validation
4 112 (4.61%) Customer Service
5 102 (4.19%) Cybersecurity
6 98 (4.03%) Agile
7 94 (3.87%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 87 (3.58%) Verification and Validation
9 81 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 75 (3.08%) Software Engineering
11 73 (3.00%) Customer Requirements
11 73 (3.00%) Project Management
12 71 (2.92%) Computer Science
12 71 (2.92%) Configuration Management
13 67 (2.75%) Project Delivery
14 57 (2.34%) Software Testing
15 56 (2.30%) Mathematics
16 54 (2.22%) Physics
17 47 (1.93%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (1.81%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 105 (4.32%) SQL
2 83 (3.41%) C
3 69 (2.84%) Python
4 66 (2.71%) MATLAB
5 53 (2.18%) C#
6 47 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 39 (1.60%) Bash
8 34 (1.40%) Java
9 31 (1.27%) C++
10 9 (0.37%) Perl
11 8 (0.33%) JavaScript
12 7 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
12 7 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.25%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.21%) R
14 5 (0.21%) VB
14 5 (0.21%) XAML
15 3 (0.12%) PHP
16 2 (0.082%) Assembly Language
17 1 (0.041%) JCL
Qualifications
1 457 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 335 (13.77%) Degree
3 187 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 63 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 47 (1.93%) Chartered Engineer
8 37 (1.52%) HNC
9 31 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.03%) HND
11 24 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.45%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
15 9 (0.37%) CCNA
15 9 (0.37%) MCSE
16 8 (0.33%) PMI Certification
17 6 (0.25%) PhD
17 6 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (0.99%) QA
2 22 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 19 (0.78%) ISO 9001
4 16 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (0.66%) PMO
5 15 (0.62%) GDPR
6 14 (0.58%) ISO 26262
7 11 (0.45%) Automotive SPICE
7 11 (0.45%) IEC 61508
8 10 (0.41%) COSHH
9 8 (0.33%) GMP
10 7 (0.29%) ISO 14001
10 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 6 (0.25%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.16%) SLA
13 3 (0.12%) ECSS
13 3 (0.12%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.082%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.041%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 140 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 104 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (2.75%) Hyper-V
4 59 (2.43%) Firmware
5 22 (0.90%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.86%) vSphere
7 16 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.33%) Docker
12 6 (0.25%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
15 3 (0.12%) NFS
15 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.11%) Functional Safety
3 24 (0.99%) Ansible
3 24 (0.99%) Puppet
4 21 (0.86%) SCCM
5 20 (0.82%) vCenter Server
6 18 (0.74%) Kubernetes
7 13 (0.53%) SCOM
8 10 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.33%) ZABBIX
10 7 (0.29%) Backup Exec
11 6 (0.25%) Terraform
11 6 (0.25%) WSUS
12 5 (0.21%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 5 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.16%) Autotask
13 4 (0.16%) Podman
13 4 (0.16%) Wonderware InTouch
14 1 (0.041%) Grafana
Vendors
1 221 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.70%) VMware
3 60 (2.47%) EMC
4 43 (1.77%) IBM
5 42 (1.73%) Cisco
6 31 (1.27%) Citrix
7 25 (1.03%) Red Hat
8 22 (0.90%) Siemens
9 21 (0.86%) HP
10 18 (0.74%) Oracle
10 18 (0.74%) Thales
11 17 (0.70%) Rockwell
12 16 (0.66%) Veeam
13 15 (0.62%) Meraki
14 13 (0.53%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.53%) QinetiQ
15 11 (0.45%) Allen-Bradley
15 11 (0.45%) Dell
15 11 (0.45%) Sophos
16 10 (0.41%) Dynatrace