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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 635 642
Rank change year-on-year +309 +7 +111
Permanent jobs citing Systems Thinking 291 113 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 88 48 63
10th Percentile - £35,000 £39,917
25th Percentile £56,176 £51,498 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,322 £61,456
Median % change year-on-year +17.49% -9.98% -5.45%
75th Percentile - £72,433 £87,419
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £138,488
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,750 £80,294
% change year-on-year +10.64% -26.83% +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 36,419 59,619 57,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.98% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,159 41,251 29,495
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,100 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 May 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 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
Midlands +216 175 £61,250 -12.50% 7
West Midlands +167 118 £61,250 -12.50% 6
South East +138 61 £65,000 +8.33% 23
East Midlands +96 57 - -
North of England +85 29 £57,560 +130.24% 12
North West +25 29 £57,560 +130.24% 9
South West +97 13 £45,000 -18.18% 24
Wales - 13 £65,000 -
Scotland +61 3 £40,423 -42.72% 4
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 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.03%) AWS
1 3 (1.03%) Collibra
2 2 (0.69%) Azure
3 1 (0.34%) GCP
3 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.03%) Ataccama
1 3 (1.03%) Metadata
2 1 (0.34%) Power BI
2 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (19.59%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.37%) Git
2 4 (1.37%) JIRA
2 4 (1.37%) Subversion
3 2 (0.69%) JUnit
3 2 (0.69%) Mockito
4 1 (0.34%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 68 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.34%) Aerospace
3 6 (2.06%) Finance
3 6 (2.06%) Legal
4 5 (1.72%) Banking
5 4 (1.37%) Aviation
5 4 (1.37%) Electronics
5 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.03%) Retail
7 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 172 (59.11%) Principal Engineer
1 172 (59.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 56 (19.24%) Architect
2 56 (19.24%) Systems Architect
3 32 (11.00%) Lead
4 6 (2.06%) Digital Product Manager
4 6 (2.06%) Product Manager
4 6 (2.06%) Senior
5 4 (1.37%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (1.37%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 2 (0.69%) Developer
6 2 (0.69%) Java Developer
6 2 (0.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (0.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (0.69%) Site Engineer
6 2 (0.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) Analyst
7 1 (0.34%) Data Analyst
7 1 (0.34%) Designer
7 1 (0.34%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.69%) REST
1 2 (0.69%) Spring
2 1 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.27%) Management Information System
2 4 (1.37%) CPLD
2 4 (1.37%) FPGA
3 3 (1.03%) Acoustics
4 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (83.16%) Systems Engineering
2 175 (60.14%) Collaborative Working
3 172 (59.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 172 (59.11%) SysML
4 75 (25.77%) Customer Requirements
5 58 (19.93%) Mentoring
6 56 (19.24%) Business Case
6 56 (19.24%) Configuration Management
6 56 (19.24%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
6 56 (19.24%) Requirements Management
7 36 (12.37%) SDLC
8 33 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (9.97%) Collaborative Culture
9 29 (9.97%) Software Testing
10 12 (4.12%) Agile
11 10 (3.44%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (2.41%) Roadmaps
12 7 (2.41%) Validation
13 6 (2.06%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (2.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.00%) Java
1 32 (11.00%) SQL
2 4 (1.37%) C
2 4 (1.37%) C#
2 4 (1.37%) C++
3 2 (0.69%) Bash
3 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 268 (92.10%) Degree
2 228 (78.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 63 (21.65%) Chartered Engineer
4 11 (3.78%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.78%) PhD
5 5 (1.72%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (82.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.03%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Grafana
1 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 56 (19.24%) IBM
2 31 (10.65%) Oracle
3 4 (1.37%) Agilent
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft