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 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 71 228 260
Rank change year-on-year +157 +32 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2,667 859 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.33% 1.55% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.51% 1.75% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,688 311 421
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 12 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 12 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 +133 731 £50,000 -9.09% 104
South West +96 600 £55,000 +10.00% 97
Midlands +92 480 £49,000 +10.73% 81
North of England +120 329 £45,000 +2.74% 75
East of England +59 328 £55,000 +3.77% 49
West Midlands +56 280 £50,000 +12.99% 42
North West +65 209 £50,000 +14.16% 45
East Midlands +100 200 £45,000 +5.88% 39
Scotland +11 125 £52,500 -4.55% 41
Yorkshire +127 97 £42,500 -5.56% 19
Wales +56 64 £35,000 - 7
North East -22 23 £42,500 +18.06% 12
Northern Ireland +27 10 £35,000 -53.33% 4
Systems Engineer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 548 (20.55%) Systems Engineering
2 486 (18.22%) Security Cleared
3 361 (13.54%) Degree
4 234 (8.77%) Manufacturing
5 226 (8.47%) Aerospace
6 219 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
7 218 (8.17%) Microsoft
8 209 (7.84%) Social Skills
9 195 (7.31%) SC Cleared
10 182 (6.82%) Validation
11 180 (6.75%) Windows
12 167 (6.26%) Azure
13 160 (6.00%) Linux
14 159 (5.96%) VMware
15 153 (5.74%) Automotive
16 145 (5.44%) Active Directory
17 138 (5.17%) Electronics
18 122 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
19 115 (4.31%) Customer Service
20 107 (4.01%) SQL
21 106 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
22 105 (3.94%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
23 103 (3.86%) Agile
24 102 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
25 100 (3.75%) Verification and Validation
26 99 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
27 98 (3.67%) Windows Server
28 85 (3.19%) C
28 85 (3.19%) Software Engineering
29 83 (3.11%) Infrastructure 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 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (1.50%) IIS
3 33 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.49%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.26%) Confluence
5 7 (0.26%) WinCC
6 6 (0.22%) Kinematics
7 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.075%) JBoss
8 2 (0.075%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.037%) Apache
9 1 (0.037%) SAS
9 1 (0.037%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.037%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 58 (2.17%) Simulink
2 37 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.64%) Stateflow
4 14 (0.52%) AutoCAD
5 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.11%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.075%) InfoPath
9 2 (0.075%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.037%) CATIA
10 1 (0.037%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.037%) Solid Edge
10 1 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.19%) C-CURE
3 4 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.075%) iTrent
4 2 (0.075%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.075%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.075%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.037%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 167 (6.26%) Azure
2 122 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (1.91%) AWS
4 50 (1.87%) Entra ID
5 19 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (0.64%) OneDrive
7 15 (0.56%) SaaS
8 9 (0.34%) Mimecast
9 8 (0.30%) GCP
10 7 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.22%) Azure App Service
12 5 (0.19%) PaaS
13 4 (0.15%) IaaS
14 3 (0.11%) Dropbox
14 3 (0.11%) Google Drive
14 3 (0.11%) Google Sheets
14 3 (0.11%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.075%) Nutanix
16 1 (0.037%) Power Platform
16 1 (0.037%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.10%) WAN
2 55 (2.06%) Firewall
3 48 (1.80%) DNS
4 36 (1.35%) DHCP
5 33 (1.24%) Software-Defined Radio
6 30 (1.12%) VPN
7 27 (1.01%) LAN
8 26 (0.97%) Wireless
9 25 (0.94%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.82%) Internet
11 19 (0.71%) VLAN
12 18 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (0.64%) VSAN
14 15 (0.56%) SAN
15 13 (0.49%) Ethernet
16 12 (0.45%) 4G
16 12 (0.45%) 5G
17 10 (0.37%) SNMP
18 9 (0.34%) HTTP
18 9 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (1.57%) SQL Server
2 23 (0.86%) MySQL
3 16 (0.60%) NoSQL
4 14 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.37%) Big Data
6 6 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.19%) InfluxDB
7 5 (0.19%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.15%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.11%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.075%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.075%) QlikView
11 1 (0.037%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.037%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.037%) Power BI
11 1 (0.037%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 79 (2.96%) Rational DOORS
2 32 (1.20%) LabVIEW
3 24 (0.90%) JIRA
4 20 (0.75%) Rational Rhapsody
5 16 (0.60%) Rational Team Concert
6 14 (0.52%) Git
7 9 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.15%) GitLab
9 3 (0.11%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.075%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.075%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.037%) Subversion
General
1 234 (8.77%) Manufacturing
2 226 (8.47%) Aerospace
3 209 (7.84%) Social Skills
4 153 (5.74%) Automotive
5 138 (5.17%) Electronics
6 82 (3.07%) Finance
7 70 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
8 69 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 55 (2.06%) Retail
10 49 (1.84%) Military
11 34 (1.27%) Games
12 26 (0.97%) Legal
13 20 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (0.67%) Public Sector
15 17 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (0.52%) Marketing
17 12 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.41%) Avionics
18 11 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.37%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (0.41%) REST
1 11 (0.41%) WebRTC
2 10 (0.37%) .NET
3 9 (0.34%) Middleware
4 8 (0.30%) Web Services
5 5 (0.19%) WPF
6 4 (0.15%) JSON
6 4 (0.15%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.15%) LAMP
6 4 (0.15%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (0.15%) XMPP
7 3 (0.11%) LDAP
8 2 (0.075%) COM
8 2 (0.075%) HTML
8 2 (0.075%) HTML5
8 2 (0.075%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.075%) WebCenter
8 2 (0.075%) WSE
9 1 (0.037%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.037%) Node-RED
Miscellaneous
1 77 (2.89%) Embedded Systems
2 71 (2.66%) Management Information System
3 60 (2.25%) SCADA
4 59 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 40 (1.50%) Data Centre
6 39 (1.46%) Robotics
7 35 (1.31%) CCTV
7 35 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.09%) Clustering
9 28 (1.05%) IoT
9 28 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.01%) FPGA
11 24 (0.90%) Driving Licence
12 20 (0.75%) CMDB
13 19 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
14 17 (0.64%) NHS
15 16 (0.60%) Mainframe
15 16 (0.60%) Verilog
15 16 (0.60%) VHDL
16 15 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 180 (6.75%) Windows
2 160 (6.00%) Linux
3 98 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 26 (0.97%) Windows 10
5 24 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 24 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (0.71%) Debian
8 18 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.49%) Unix
10 12 (0.45%) CentOS
10 12 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.41%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.26%) VMS
13 5 (0.19%) Android
13 5 (0.19%) SUSE
14 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.075%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (20.55%) Systems Engineering
2 219 (8.21%) Problem-Solving
3 182 (6.82%) Validation
4 115 (4.31%) Customer Service
5 106 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
6 105 (3.94%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 103 (3.86%) Agile
8 100 (3.75%) Verification and Validation
9 85 (3.19%) Software Engineering
10 83 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 81 (3.04%) Computer Science
12 78 (2.92%) Project Management
13 76 (2.85%) Customer Requirements
14 72 (2.70%) Configuration Management
15 71 (2.66%) Project Delivery
16 66 (2.47%) Physics
17 64 (2.40%) Mathematics
18 54 (2.02%) Software Testing
19 53 (1.99%) Continuous Improvement
20 49 (1.84%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 107 (4.01%) SQL
2 85 (3.19%) C
3 76 (2.85%) MATLAB
3 76 (2.85%) Python
4 54 (2.02%) C#
5 47 (1.76%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.50%) Bash
7 32 (1.20%) C++
8 30 (1.12%) Java
9 10 (0.37%) Perl
10 9 (0.34%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.26%) Ladder Logic
11 7 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.22%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.19%) R
13 5 (0.19%) VB
13 5 (0.19%) XAML
14 3 (0.11%) PHP
14 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 486 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 361 (13.54%) Degree
3 195 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 99 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 73 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 50 (1.87%) Chartered Engineer
8 41 (1.54%) HNC
9 29 (1.09%) HND
9 29 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 14 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
13 9 (0.34%) CCNA
14 8 (0.30%) MCSE
14 8 (0.30%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.22%) PhD
15 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (1.01%) QA
2 23 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 19 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 17 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.60%) PMO
6 15 (0.56%) GDPR
7 14 (0.52%) ISO 26262
8 11 (0.41%) Automotive SPICE
8 11 (0.41%) GMP
8 11 (0.41%) IEC 61508
9 10 (0.37%) COSHH
10 7 (0.26%) ISO 14001
10 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.15%) SLA
13 3 (0.11%) ECSS
13 3 (0.11%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.075%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.037%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 145 (5.44%) Active Directory
2 102 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (2.55%) Firmware
3 68 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 23 (0.86%) vSphere
5 18 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
5 18 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.30%) Docker
8 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.19%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.11%) Forefront TMG
11 3 (0.11%) NFS
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.11%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.01%) Functional Safety
3 24 (0.90%) Ansible
3 24 (0.90%) Puppet
4 21 (0.79%) SCCM
5 19 (0.71%) vCenter Server
6 18 (0.67%) Kubernetes
7 12 (0.45%) SCOM
8 10 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 7 (0.26%) Backup Exec
11 6 (0.22%) Terraform
11 6 (0.22%) WSUS
12 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.15%) Autotask
13 4 (0.15%) Podman
13 4 (0.15%) Wonderware InTouch
14 1 (0.037%) Grafana
Vendors
1 218 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 159 (5.96%) VMware
3 66 (2.47%) EMC
4 43 (1.61%) IBM
5 40 (1.50%) Cisco
6 30 (1.12%) Citrix
7 27 (1.01%) Oracle
8 25 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 22 (0.82%) Siemens
10 21 (0.79%) HP
11 18 (0.67%) Rockwell
11 18 (0.67%) Thales
12 15 (0.56%) Meraki
12 15 (0.56%) Veeam
13 14 (0.52%) QinetiQ
14 12 (0.45%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.41%) Allen-Bradley
15 11 (0.41%) Dell
15 11 (0.41%) Sophos
16 10 (0.37%) Darktrace