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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 618 685
Rank change year-on-year +116 +67 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Architect 69 147 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50 68 24
10th Percentile - £52,000 £55,500
25th Percentile - £60,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -6.07% -
75th Percentile - £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £91,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -5.08%

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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +116 48 £65,000 +1.56% 4
Scotland +108 9 £80,000 -
Wales +52 8 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +52 2 £83,250 - 15
Midlands +46 2 £83,250 - 17
South West +88 1 - - 4
East of England +31 1 £65,000 - 10
Systems Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 66 (95.65%) Mentoring
2 57 (82.61%) Systems Engineering
2 57 (82.61%) Social Skills
3 56 (81.16%) Systems Thinking
3 56 (81.16%) Business Case
3 56 (81.16%) Customer Requirements
3 56 (81.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 56 (81.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 56 (81.16%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 56 (81.16%) Configuration Management
3 56 (81.16%) Management Information System
3 56 (81.16%) IBM
3 56 (81.16%) Degree
3 56 (81.16%) Requirements Management
3 56 (81.16%) Chartered Engineer
3 56 (81.16%) Rational DOORS
4 10 (14.49%) Java
4 10 (14.49%) Microservices
5 9 (13.04%) SQL
5 9 (13.04%) .NET
5 9 (13.04%) Visual Studio
5 9 (13.04%) CSS
5 9 (13.04%) C
5 9 (13.04%) C#
5 9 (13.04%) C++
5 9 (13.04%) HTML
5 9 (13.04%) OO
5 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
5 9 (13.04%) Agile
5 9 (13.04%) Software Architecture

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.90%) AWS
2 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (1.45%) Azure
2 1 (1.45%) GCP
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.45%) SaaS
2 1 (1.45%) ShareGate
2 1 (1.45%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) 5G
1 1 (1.45%) Internet
1 1 (1.45%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (1.45%) Modbus
1 1 (1.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 56 (81.16%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (13.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (82.61%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (1.45%) Finance
2 1 (1.45%) Law
2 1 (1.45%) Legal
2 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) .NET
1 9 (13.04%) .NET Framework
1 9 (13.04%) CSS
1 9 (13.04%) HTML
2 1 (1.45%) Akka
2 1 (1.45%) JWT
2 1 (1.45%) Kafka
2 1 (1.45%) Middleware
2 1 (1.45%) Node.js
2 1 (1.45%) OAuth
2 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.45%) RESTful
2 1 (1.45%) SAML
2 1 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 56 (81.16%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (1.45%) IoT
2 1 (1.45%) NB-IoT
2 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.45%) Robotics
2 1 (1.45%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (95.65%) Mentoring
2 57 (82.61%) Systems Engineering
3 56 (81.16%) Business Case
3 56 (81.16%) Configuration Management
3 56 (81.16%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 56 (81.16%) Customer Requirements
3 56 (81.16%) Requirements Management
3 56 (81.16%) Systems Thinking
4 10 (14.49%) Microservices
5 9 (13.04%) Agile
5 9 (13.04%) Multithreading
5 9 (13.04%) OO
5 9 (13.04%) SOA
5 9 (13.04%) Software Architecture
5 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 3 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (2.90%) Analytics
7 2 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (2.90%) High Availability
7 2 (2.90%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.49%) Java
2 9 (13.04%) C
2 9 (13.04%) C#
2 9 (13.04%) C++
2 9 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (2.90%) Python
4 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (81.16%) BPSS Clearance
1 56 (81.16%) Chartered Engineer
1 56 (81.16%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (81.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (1.45%) GRC
2 1 (1.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (81.16%) IBM
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.45%) Adobe
3 1 (1.45%) Google