Systems Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 423 483
Rank change year-on-year +144 +60 -63
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 1,017 749 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 0.75% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.79% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 569 220 483
10th Percentile £37,250 £41,700 £35,125
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,250 £85,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £91,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +139 944 £57,500 -17.86% 419
UK excluding London +83 854 £55,000 -15.38% 385
Work from Home +174 450 £55,000 -13.39% 176
South East +69 236 £63,500 +1.60% 109
South West +25 232 £55,000 -20.29% 92
East of England +88 139 £55,000 -15.38% 57
Midlands -48 137 £55,000 - 58
London +105 127 £75,000 -25.00% 70
West Midlands -58 91 £55,000 - 40
North of England +79 67 £51,000 -27.14% 53
East Midlands +23 46 £50,000 - 18
Yorkshire +110 33 £51,000 - 7
North West +13 32 £60,000 -14.29% 43
Scotland -60 21 £46,250 +10.78% 29
Wales +12 16 £40,000 -42.86% 14
Northern Ireland - 6 - -
North East 0 2 £67,500 - 4

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 46 (4.52%) WebLogic
2 38 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.98%) IIS
5 8 (0.79%) Confluence
6 6 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.20%) WinCC
Applications
1 58 (5.70%) Microsoft Project
2 55 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (3.15%) Simulink
4 27 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.69%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.098%) CATIA
7 1 (0.098%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 53 (5.21%) Primavera
2 49 (4.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.098%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 137 (13.47%) Azure
2 97 (9.54%) AWS
3 49 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (2.16%) Entra ID
6 16 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
6 16 (1.57%) SaaS
7 10 (0.98%) Power Platform
8 7 (0.69%) PowerApps
9 5 (0.49%) IaaS
9 5 (0.49%) PaaS
10 3 (0.29%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.20%) GCP
11 2 (0.20%) GitHub
11 2 (0.20%) Google Docs
11 2 (0.20%) Serverless
12 1 (0.098%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.098%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.69%) TCP/IP
2 52 (5.11%) DNS
3 49 (4.82%) BGP
4 46 (4.52%) SSL
5 24 (2.36%) Firewall
6 20 (1.97%) WAN
6 20 (1.97%) Wireless
7 12 (1.18%) LAN
8 11 (1.08%) SAN
8 11 (1.08%) WLAN
9 10 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.79%) NGN
10 8 (0.79%) TACACS
11 7 (0.69%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.69%) Intranet
11 7 (0.69%) Network Security
12 6 (0.59%) 4G
12 6 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.49%) DHCP
13 5 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.00%) Relational Database
2 49 (4.82%) RDBMS
3 47 (4.62%) Oracle Database
4 46 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (0.98%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.59%) MySQL
7 6 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) Power BI
10 2 (0.20%) Big Data
10 2 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.20%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.098%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.098%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (8.36%) Rational DOORS
2 46 (4.52%) JIRA
3 31 (3.05%) Rational Rhapsody
4 21 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.47%) Git
6 13 (1.28%) Robot Framework
7 12 (1.18%) Rational Team Concert
8 8 (0.79%) GitLab
9 7 (0.69%) LabVIEW
10 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.39%) JMeter
10 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.20%) Apache Continuum
12 2 (0.20%) Subversion
13 1 (0.098%) JUnit
13 1 (0.098%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.098%) MSTest
13 1 (0.098%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.098%) TestComplete
General
1 266 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 134 (13.18%) Aerospace
3 79 (7.77%) Finance
4 77 (7.57%) Manufacturing
5 69 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (6.39%) Electronics
7 63 (6.19%) Military
8 59 (5.80%) Automotive
9 49 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (3.44%) Marketing
12 33 (3.24%) Public Sector
13 21 (2.06%) Games
14 20 (1.97%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.87%) Retail
16 16 (1.57%) Legal
17 15 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (1.28%) Aviation
20 9 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 460 (45.23%) Systems Engineer
2 141 (13.86%) Lead
3 136 (13.37%) Senior
4 123 (12.09%) Architect
5 120 (11.80%) Principal Engineer
6 114 (11.21%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 82 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
8 73 (7.18%) Software Engineer
9 71 (6.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 53 (5.21%) Lead Architect
11 52 (5.11%) Project Controller
12 48 (4.72%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 35 (3.44%) Consultant
14 26 (2.56%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.46%) Senior Architect
16 24 (2.36%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
17 21 (2.06%) Team Leader
18 19 (1.87%) Senior Solutions Architect
18 19 (1.87%) Systems Architect
19 18 (1.77%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (4.52%) Spring Boot
2 38 (3.74%) HTML
3 13 (1.28%) XML
4 4 (0.39%) .NET
4 4 (0.39%) 802.1X
4 4 (0.39%) Keycloak
4 4 (0.39%) LDAP
4 4 (0.39%) WPF
5 3 (0.29%) Bazel
5 3 (0.29%) CSS
5 3 (0.29%) HTML5
5 3 (0.29%) JSON
5 3 (0.29%) Keras
5 3 (0.29%) Middleware
5 3 (0.29%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.29%) Svelte
5 3 (0.29%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.29%) Web Services
6 2 (0.20%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.87%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (4.52%) Public Cloud
4 36 (3.54%) Algorithms
5 34 (3.34%) SCADA
6 32 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.75%) Operational Technology
8 27 (2.65%) IoT
9 26 (2.56%) Clustering
10 22 (2.16%) Robotics
11 20 (1.97%) Product Ownership
12 16 (1.57%) Cyberattack
12 16 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
12 16 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.47%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.79%) PKI
15 8 (0.79%) Reinsurance
16 7 (0.69%) Biopharmaceutical
16 7 (0.69%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 119 (11.70%) Linux
2 83 (8.16%) Windows
3 50 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 5 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.098%) Android
7 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.098%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (22.52%) Agile
2 163 (16.03%) Validation
3 131 (12.88%) Software Engineering
4 123 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (11.60%) Project Management
6 109 (10.72%) Verification and Validation
7 98 (9.64%) Collaborative Working
8 94 (9.24%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 93 (9.14%) Risk Management
10 85 (8.36%) Customer Requirements
11 83 (8.16%) Mentoring
12 75 (7.37%) Actionable Insight
13 73 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
14 72 (7.08%) Performance Management
15 67 (6.59%) Project Delivery
16 66 (6.49%) Requirements Management
17 65 (6.39%) Programme Management
17 65 (6.39%) SDLC
18 60 (5.90%) Scrum
19 59 (5.80%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 85 (8.36%) Python
2 50 (4.92%) JavaScript
3 47 (4.62%) MATLAB
4 43 (4.23%) C
5 36 (3.54%) Java
6 32 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.85%) C#
8 24 (2.36%) Bash
9 23 (2.26%) SQL
10 19 (1.87%) C++
11 12 (1.18%) Go
12 8 (0.79%) Ada
13 6 (0.59%) Perl
13 6 (0.59%) Rust
14 5 (0.49%) VB
15 3 (0.29%) R
15 3 (0.29%) Scala
15 3 (0.29%) VBScript
16 2 (0.20%) PHP
16 2 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 446 (43.85%) Security Cleared
2 285 (28.02%) Degree
3 160 (15.73%) SC Cleared
4 124 (12.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 83 (8.16%) DV Cleared
6 54 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 54 (5.31%) Master's Degree
7 48 (4.72%) AWS Certification
8 46 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (4.42%) Chartered Engineer
10 22 (2.16%) DBS Check
11 21 (2.06%) HNC
12 19 (1.87%) CISSP
12 19 (1.87%) HND
13 13 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.49%) CISM
15 5 (0.49%) PhD
16 3 (0.29%) GIAC
17 2 (0.20%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.06%) Def Stans
1 21 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 7 (0.69%) QA
3 6 (0.59%) IEC 61508
4 5 (0.49%) JSP 440
5 4 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (0.39%) ISO 26262
6 3 (0.29%) ECSS
6 3 (0.29%) JTAG
6 3 (0.29%) NCSC
6 3 (0.29%) NIST
6 3 (0.29%) PMO
7 2 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.098%) GDPR
8 1 (0.098%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.098%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 47 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 45 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (3.15%) Hyper-V
4 23 (2.26%) Firmware
5 22 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.88%) Forefront TMG
7 9 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (0.59%) Ceph
9 3 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.20%) Docker
11 1 (0.098%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (2.26%) Microsoft Clustering
5 21 (2.06%) vCenter Server
6 20 (1.97%) Ansible
6 20 (1.97%) Functional Safety
7 10 (0.98%) SCOM
8 9 (0.88%) Terraform
8 9 (0.88%) WSUS
9 6 (0.59%) Knative
10 5 (0.49%) SELinux
11 3 (0.29%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.29%) Istio
11 3 (0.29%) SCCM
12 2 (0.20%) CASB
12 2 (0.20%) Grafana
12 2 (0.20%) Wonderware InTouch
12 2 (0.20%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.098%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 114 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 83 (8.16%) VMware
3 57 (5.60%) Oracle
4 49 (4.82%) Sparx
5 41 (4.03%) EMC
6 35 (3.44%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.34%) IBM
8 23 (2.26%) Thales
9 21 (2.06%) IFS
10 20 (1.97%) Commvault
10 20 (1.97%) Sun
11 18 (1.77%) Workday
12 13 (1.28%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.28%) Veeam
13 10 (0.98%) Citrix
13 10 (0.98%) HP
13 10 (0.98%) Sophos
14 8 (0.79%) Aruba
14 8 (0.79%) Cisco
14 8 (0.79%) Informatica