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 £68,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 683 755
Rank change year-on-year +75 +72 -125
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Architect 144 85 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64 21 68
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 66,742 54,869 68,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,250 31,160 43,040
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 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 3 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 3 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
South West +6 33 £55,000 - 4
North of England +75 28 £67,500 +16.38% 1
Scotland - 27 £80,000 - 2
South East +5 22 £64,000 -14.67% 6
Midlands +21 16 - - 4
Yorkshire - 15 £85,000 -
West Midlands +22 14 - - 2
North West +16 13 £60,000 +3.45% 1
East of England -7 12 £65,000 -23.53% 4
Wales +5 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 3 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 61 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.00%) Agile
3 30 (20.83%) Software Engineering
4 26 (18.06%) Social Skills
5 23 (15.97%) Actionable Insight
6 22 (15.28%) Finance
7 21 (14.58%) TOGAF
7 21 (14.58%) Technical Architecture
7 21 (14.58%) Mentoring
8 20 (13.89%) ArchiMate
8 20 (13.89%) MODAF
8 20 (13.89%) Project Management
8 20 (13.89%) Management Information System
8 20 (13.89%) C#
8 20 (13.89%) Service Design
8 20 (13.89%) Value Proposition
9 18 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 18 (12.50%) Degree
10 16 (11.11%) Pega
10 16 (11.11%) DV Cleared
10 16 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
10 16 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (10.42%) Product Ownership
11 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (9.72%) C++
12 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (9.03%) .NET
13 13 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 3 (2.08%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.64%) Azure
2 5 (3.47%) AWS
3 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (2.08%) GCP
3 3 (2.08%) SaaS
4 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.17%) Firewall
2 5 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.78%) Network Security
4 3 (2.08%) DMZ
4 3 (2.08%) Internet
4 3 (2.08%) LAN
4 3 (2.08%) Modbus
4 3 (2.08%) Tactical Data Link
4 3 (2.08%) VLAN
4 3 (2.08%) VPN
4 3 (2.08%) WAN
4 3 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.69%) 4G
5 1 (0.69%) 5G
5 1 (0.69%) DHCP
5 1 (0.69%) DNS
5 1 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.69%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.08%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 26 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Finance
3 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.64%) Retail
6 10 (6.94%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.56%) Electronics
8 7 (4.86%) Aerospace
9 5 (3.47%) Military
10 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.39%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.03%) .NET
2 12 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (2.78%) SOAP
3 4 (2.78%) Web Services
4 3 (2.08%) HTML
4 3 (2.08%) REST
5 2 (1.39%) CSS
6 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.69%) J2EE
6 1 (0.69%) JSON
6 1 (0.69%) Kafka
6 1 (0.69%) OpenID
6 1 (0.69%) RESTful
6 1 (0.69%) SAML
6 1 (0.69%) Spring
6 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.42%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.86%) IoT
3 7 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.78%) SCADA
5 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.64%) Linux
1 11 (7.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.00%) Agile
2 30 (20.83%) Software Engineering
3 23 (15.97%) Actionable Insight
4 21 (14.58%) Mentoring
4 21 (14.58%) Technical Architecture
4 21 (14.58%) TOGAF
5 20 (13.89%) ArchiMate
5 20 (13.89%) MODAF
5 20 (13.89%) Project Management
5 20 (13.89%) Service Design
5 20 (13.89%) Value Proposition
6 18 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 18 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
7 16 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (8.33%) Microservices
8 12 (8.33%) OO
8 12 (8.33%) SOA
9 11 (7.64%) Business Strategy
9 11 (7.64%) Multichannel Retail
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.89%) C#
2 14 (9.72%) C++
3 12 (8.33%) C
4 9 (6.25%) SQL
5 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.86%) Python
6 3 (2.08%) Embedded C
6 3 (2.08%) Java
6 3 (2.08%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 61 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 18 (12.50%) Degree
3 16 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.86%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.08%) CCIE
8 3 (2.08%) CCNP
8 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.08%) CISSP
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) QA
2 7 (4.86%) ISO 13485
3 3 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (2.08%) Firmware
2 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (11.11%) Pega
2 8 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.47%) SAP
4 4 (2.78%) Thales
5 3 (2.08%) Google
5 3 (2.08%) IBM
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle
5 3 (2.08%) Riverbed
6 2 (1.39%) QinetiQ
7 1 (0.69%) Sparx