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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 673 630
Rank change year-on-year +296 -43 +96
Permanent jobs citing Systems Thinking 219 102 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 75 43 62
10th Percentile £56,176 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile - £49,993 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,322 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -15.35% +0.54%
75th Percentile £71,875 £68,716 £87,419
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £138,540
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.27% +23.53%

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 36,107 64,473 52,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 91.46% 80.82% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,568 43,693 28,449
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,875
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.65% +1.46%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Midlands +198 120 £67,500 - 16
West Midlands - 81 £67,500 - 15
South East +146 67 £65,000 +8.33% 48
East Midlands +95 39 - - 1
Wales - 15 £65,000 - 6
North of England +69 10 £57,560 +130.24% 23
North West +26 10 £57,560 +130.24% 18
South West +101 7 - - 31
Scotland +67 3 - - 21
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 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 4 (1.83%) AWS
2 3 (1.37%) Collibra
3 2 (0.91%) Azure
3 2 (0.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) Internet
1 2 (0.91%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.37%) Ataccama
1 3 (1.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 56 (25.57%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.83%) Git
2 4 (1.83%) JIRA
2 4 (1.83%) Subversion
3 2 (0.91%) JUnit
3 2 (0.91%) Mockito
General
1 70 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.39%) Aerospace
3 6 (2.74%) Finance
4 4 (1.83%) Aviation
4 4 (1.83%) Banking
4 4 (1.83%) Electronics
4 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.37%) Retail
6 2 (0.91%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.91%) Legal
6 2 (0.91%) Local Government
6 2 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 116 (52.97%) Principal Engineer
1 116 (52.97%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 57 (26.03%) Architect
3 56 (25.57%) Systems Architect
4 13 (5.94%) Lead
5 7 (3.20%) Senior
6 4 (1.83%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (1.83%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 3 (1.37%) Site Engineer
7 3 (1.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (0.91%) Developer
8 2 (0.91%) Java Developer
8 2 (0.91%) Programme Director
8 2 (0.91%) Senior Developer
8 2 (0.91%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (0.46%) Delivery Director
9 1 (0.46%) Network Delivery Manager
9 1 (0.46%) Network Manager
9 1 (0.46%) Product Manager
9 1 (0.46%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.91%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (0.91%) REST
1 2 (0.91%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 59 (26.94%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.83%) CPLD
2 4 (1.83%) FPGA
3 3 (1.37%) Acoustics
4 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.91%) TM Forum
5 1 (0.46%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (86.76%) Systems Engineering
2 118 (53.88%) Collaborative Working
3 116 (52.97%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 116 (52.97%) SysML
4 78 (35.62%) Customer Requirements
5 58 (26.48%) Mentoring
6 56 (25.57%) Business Case
6 56 (25.57%) Configuration Management
6 56 (25.57%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
6 56 (25.57%) Requirements Management
7 19 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (8.22%) SDLC
9 11 (5.02%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (4.57%) Agile
10 10 (4.57%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (4.57%) Software Testing
11 9 (4.11%) Validation
12 8 (3.65%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (2.74%) Project Delivery
14 4 (1.83%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.94%) Java
1 13 (5.94%) SQL
2 4 (1.83%) C
2 4 (1.83%) C#
2 4 (1.83%) C++
3 2 (0.91%) Bash
3 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 197 (89.95%) Degree
2 186 (84.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 63 (28.77%) Chartered Engineer
4 15 (6.85%) Master's Degree
4 15 (6.85%) PhD
5 3 (1.37%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.37%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (85.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (1.83%) GDPR
3 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (0.91%) Grafana
1 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
1 2 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (25.57%) IBM
2 12 (5.48%) Oracle
3 4 (1.83%) Agilent