Senior Systems Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior System Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior System Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £73,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 753 838
Rank change year-on-year +13 +85 -154
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Architect 17 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.015% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £68,725 - -
25th Percentile £70,938 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 - £49,260
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £54,928
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £83,750 - £53,519
% change year-on-year - - -10.80%

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 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
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%

Senior Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Systems Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Systems Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Systems Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire - 11 £85,000 -
North of England - 11 £85,000 -
South East - 4 £72,500 - 3
East of England +17 1 £66,500 - 1
South West -24 1 - -
Senior Systems Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Systems Architect in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Retail
2 11 (64.71%) Computer Science
2 11 (64.71%) Business Strategy
2 11 (64.71%) Multichannel Retail
2 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (47.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (47.06%) Degree
4 6 (35.29%) Firewall
4 6 (35.29%) SQL
4 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
5 5 (29.41%) AWS
5 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (29.41%) ERP
5 5 (29.41%) SAP
5 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
5 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) SAP ERP
5 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
6 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
6 4 (23.53%) SCADA
6 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (17.65%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (17.65%) NIST
7 3 (17.65%) GCP

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (17.65%) DMZ
3 3 (17.65%) Internet
3 3 (17.65%) LAN
3 3 (17.65%) Modbus
3 3 (17.65%) Network Security
3 3 (17.65%) VLAN
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) WAN
3 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) DNS
4 1 (5.88%) HTTP
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (64.71%) Retail
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) REST
1 3 (17.65%) SOAP
1 3 (17.65%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) SCADA
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Business Strategy
1 11 (64.71%) Computer Science
1 11 (64.71%) Multichannel Retail
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
3 5 (29.41%) ERP
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (17.65%) Change Management
5 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Network Design
5 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) CCIE
4 3 (17.65%) CCNP
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (17.65%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle