Systems Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

System Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median System Engineer salary in Birmingham is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 123 169
Rank change year-on-year +11 +46 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 38 7 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.21% 0.39% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.42% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 15 3 2
10th Percentile £30,000 - £39,875
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% +2.78%
75th Percentile £59,000 £61,375 £49,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,950 £49,625
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £44,250 £36,750
% change year-on-year +12.99% +20.41% -1.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,969 1,669 3,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 92.88% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,299 2,256
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Birmingham

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in Birmingham

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Birmingham region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (44.74%) Automotive
2 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (7.89%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (5.26%) iSCSI
6 2 (5.26%) Degree
6 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.26%) vSphere
6 2 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.26%) Time Management
6 2 (5.26%) Budgeting
6 2 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (5.26%) Architectural Design
6 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Customer Service
6 2 (5.26%) Storage Virtualisation
6 2 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (5.26%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) Brocade
6 2 (5.26%) VMware

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (2.63%) JBoss
1 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (5.26%) iSCSI
General
1 17 (44.74%) Automotive
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Military
4 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (7.89%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (5.26%) Architectural Design
4 2 (5.26%) Budgeting
4 2 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (5.26%) Customer Service
4 2 (5.26%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (5.26%) Storage Virtualisation
4 2 (5.26%) Time Management
5 1 (2.63%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (2.63%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.63%) Requirements Management
5 1 (2.63%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.63%) SysML
5 1 (2.63%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) C++
2 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.26%) NFS
1 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.26%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Brocade
1 2 (5.26%) IBM
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.26%) VMware