Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Senior System Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior System Engineer salary in Manchester is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 156 263
Rank change year-on-year -10 +107 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 10 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.28% 0.42% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.43% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £65,500 -
25th Percentile - £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £67,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% - -
75th Percentile £45,000 £68,750 -
90th Percentile £54,000 £69,500 -
North West median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year -8.99% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 3,472 2,556 5,350
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 96.78% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 1,882 3,537
10th Percentile £34,850 £33,525 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +3.55%
75th Percentile £69,663 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,056 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,803 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.63% +4.76% +5.00%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Manchester

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Manchester

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 2024, Senior 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 Manchester region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (40.00%) Kanban
3 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (40.00%) Retail
3 4 (40.00%) VLAN
3 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (40.00%) Replication
3 4 (40.00%) Git
3 4 (40.00%) Veeam
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) SaaS
3 4 (40.00%) PaaS
3 4 (40.00%) Puppet
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) IPv6
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Apache
3 4 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) ISO 9001
3 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) VPN
3 4 (40.00%) DNS
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Workload Management

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (40.00%) IaaS
1 4 (40.00%) PaaS
1 4 (40.00%) Route 53
1 4 (40.00%) SaaS
1 4 (40.00%) Serverless
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) IPv6
1 4 (40.00%) MPLS
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
1 4 (40.00%) Coaching
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Kanban
1 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (40.00%) Workload Management
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Security Management
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (30.00%) vSphere
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Veeam
2 4 (40.00%) Zerto
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft