Systems Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £65,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 620 665 744
Rank change year-on-year +45 +79 -109
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Architect 147 77 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 68 24 64
10th Percentile £52,000 £55,500 £51,508
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% - +5.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,750 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +3.57% -5.08% +9.26%

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 69,180 52,174 69,700
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.17% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 48,891 29,777 42,619
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Systems Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Systems Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Systems Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Systems Architect
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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
North of England +71 34 £60,000 +3.45%
South West +3 31 £55,000 - 1
Scotland - 25 £80,000 - 2
South East +17 22 £64,000 -14.67% 8
North West +15 19 £49,371 -14.88%
Midlands -4 16 - - 5
Yorkshire - 15 £85,000 -
West Midlands +22 14 - - 3
East of England -2 13 £65,000 -23.53% 9
Wales +12 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Systems Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, Systems Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 60 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.81%) Agile
3 28 (19.05%) Software Engineering
4 25 (17.01%) Social Skills
5 23 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
6 21 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
6 21 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 21 (14.29%) Finance
7 20 (13.61%) Management Information System
7 20 (13.61%) Project Management
7 20 (13.61%) MODAF
7 20 (13.61%) ArchiMate
7 20 (13.61%) Service Design
7 20 (13.61%) Value Proposition
8 19 (12.93%) Mentoring
9 18 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (12.24%) Computer Science
9 18 (12.24%) Degree
9 18 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.56%) C#
11 16 (10.88%) Pega
11 16 (10.88%) Systems Engineering
12 15 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (10.20%) Product Ownership
12 15 (10.20%) DV Cleared
13 13 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
14 12 (8.16%) C++
15 11 (7.48%) Windows
15 11 (7.48%) Linux

Systems Architect 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:

Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.80%) Azure
2 6 (4.08%) AWS
3 3 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (2.04%) GCP
3 3 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.44%) Network Security
2 6 (4.08%) Firewall
3 5 (3.40%) DHCP
3 5 (3.40%) DNS
4 4 (2.72%) SAN
4 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.04%) DMZ
5 3 (2.04%) Internet
5 3 (2.04%) LAN
5 3 (2.04%) Modbus
5 3 (2.04%) Tactical Data Link
5 3 (2.04%) VLAN
5 3 (2.04%) VPN
5 3 (2.04%) WAN
5 3 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.68%) 4G
6 1 (0.68%) 5G
6 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.04%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 25 (17.01%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.29%) Finance
3 13 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.48%) Retail
5 10 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.80%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.44%) Electronics
7 7 (4.76%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.40%) Military
9 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.36%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.80%) .NET
1 10 (6.80%) .NET Framework
2 4 (2.72%) SOAP
2 4 (2.72%) Web Services
3 3 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (0.68%) J2EE
4 1 (0.68%) JSON
4 1 (0.68%) Kafka
4 1 (0.68%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) Spring
4 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.76%) IoT
3 7 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.40%) NHS
5 4 (2.72%) SCADA
6 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.48%) Linux
1 11 (7.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.81%) Agile
2 28 (19.05%) Software Engineering
3 23 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
4 21 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
4 21 (14.29%) TOGAF
5 20 (13.61%) ArchiMate
5 20 (13.61%) MODAF
5 20 (13.61%) Project Management
5 20 (13.61%) Service Design
5 20 (13.61%) Value Proposition
6 19 (12.93%) Mentoring
7 18 (12.24%) Computer Science
7 18 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (10.88%) Systems Engineering
9 15 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (7.48%) Business Strategy
10 11 (7.48%) Multichannel Retail
11 10 (6.80%) DevOps
11 10 (6.80%) Microservices
11 10 (6.80%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.56%) C#
2 12 (8.16%) C++
3 10 (6.80%) C
4 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.76%) Python
5 6 (4.08%) SQL
6 3 (2.04%) Embedded C
6 3 (2.04%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.68%) Java
Qualifications
1 60 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
2 18 (12.24%) Degree
3 15 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.48%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.72%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.04%) CCIE
7 3 (2.04%) CCNP
7 3 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.48%) QA
2 7 (4.76%) ISO 13485
3 3 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.04%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (10.88%) Pega
2 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.40%) SAP
4 4 (2.72%) Thales
5 3 (2.04%) Google
5 3 (2.04%) IBM
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle
5 3 (2.04%) Riverbed
6 2 (1.36%) QinetiQ
7 1 (0.68%) Sparx