Systems Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Systems Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systems Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 625 566
Rank change year-on-year +314 -59 +113
Permanent jobs citing Systems Thinking 331 62 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 138 27 58
10th Percentile £75,900 £44,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £49,993 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £99,800 £55,322 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +80.40% -15.35% +8.92%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £87,419
90th Percentile - £80,000 £119,168
UK median annual salary £99,800 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +42.57% -9.68% +19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Systems Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,689 48,882 42,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.94% 79.23% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 20,026 29,595 25,565
10th Percentile £25,313 £29,580 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Systems Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
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 Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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 +116 115 £99,800 +81.47% 23
Midlands +124 72 £99,800 - 14
Scotland +119 47 £99,800 +73.57% 11
East Midlands - 37 £99,800 - 5
South West +100 36 £99,800 +185.14% 25
West Midlands +74 35 £68,750 - 9
North of England +41 34 £99,800 +38.00% 23
Yorkshire - 23 £99,800 - 4
Wales - 20 £80,000 - 2
North West -3 11 £99,800 +38.00% 19
East of England -16 10 £68,650 +24.09% 10
Systems Thinking
UK

Systems Thinking
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 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 5 (1.51%) Azure
2 4 (1.21%) AWS
3 3 (0.91%) Collibra
4 2 (0.60%) GCP
5 1 (0.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) Internet
1 2 (0.60%) Modbus
1 2 (0.60%) MPLS
1 2 (0.60%) MQTT
1 2 (0.60%) Network Security
1 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.91%) Ataccama
1 3 (0.91%) Metadata
2 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 43 (12.99%) JIRA
2 35 (10.57%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.21%) Git
3 4 (1.21%) Subversion
4 2 (0.60%) JUnit
4 2 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 17 (5.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (2.72%) Finance
3 7 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (2.11%) Manufacturing
4 5 (1.51%) Banking
5 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
5 4 (1.21%) Aviation
5 4 (1.21%) Electronics
5 4 (1.21%) Retail
6 2 (0.60%) Games
6 2 (0.60%) Local Government
6 2 (0.60%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (13.90%) Principal Engineer
1 46 (13.90%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 37 (11.18%) Systems Manager
3 35 (10.57%) Requirements Manager
4 7 (2.11%) Senior
5 4 (1.21%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (1.21%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 3 (0.91%) Lead
6 3 (0.91%) Site Engineer
6 3 (0.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (0.60%) Developer
7 2 (0.60%) Firmware Engineer
7 2 (0.60%) Java Developer
7 2 (0.60%) Programme Director
7 2 (0.60%) Senior Developer
7 2 (0.60%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (0.30%) Architect
8 1 (0.30%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (0.30%) Network Manager
8 1 (0.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (0.60%) REST
1 2 (0.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (1.21%) CPLD
1 4 (1.21%) FPGA
2 3 (0.91%) Acoustics
2 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
3 2 (0.60%) Device Driver
3 2 (0.60%) IoT
3 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.60%) TM Forum
4 1 (0.30%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.21%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Unix
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (92.45%) Systems Engineering
2 226 (68.28%) Customer Requirements
3 48 (14.50%) Collaborative Working
4 46 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (13.90%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 46 (13.90%) SysML
5 45 (13.60%) Agile
6 44 (13.29%) Validation
7 35 (10.57%) Requirements Management
7 35 (10.57%) Waterfall
8 14 (4.23%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (2.72%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (2.42%) SDLC
11 6 (1.81%) Project Delivery
12 5 (1.51%) Analytics
13 4 (1.21%) Issue Tracking
13 4 (1.21%) Prototyping
13 4 (1.21%) Schematic Capture
13 4 (1.21%) Software Architecture
13 4 (1.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.81%) C
1 6 (1.81%) C++
2 4 (1.21%) C#
3 3 (0.91%) Java
3 3 (0.91%) SQL
4 2 (0.60%) Bash
4 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 300 (90.63%) BPSS Clearance
1 300 (90.63%) Degree
2 219 (66.16%) Master's Degree
2 219 (66.16%) PhD
3 7 (2.11%) Chartered Engineer
4 3 (0.91%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.91%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.60%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (90.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 35 (10.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 4 (1.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.60%) Grafana
1 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
1 2 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (11.48%) IBM
2 4 (1.21%) Agilent
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle
3 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.30%) JDA
4 1 (0.30%) RedPrairie