Systems Architect Jobs

System Architect
UK

The median System Architect salary in the UK 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 638 724 865
Rank change year-on-year +86 +141 +209
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Architect 73 187 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 54 96 34
10th Percentile - £53,750 £56,100
25th Percentile - £60,000 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -5.08%
75th Percentile £66,875 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.14% -6.07% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Systems Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Architect.

Salary trend for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Architect over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Top 11 Job Locations

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 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
UK excluding London +116 69 £65,000 -1.14% 41
England +73 56 £65,000 - 50
South East +116 48 £65,000 +1.56% 4
Scotland +108 9 £80,000 -
Work from Home +65 9 £80,000 +10.34% 27
Wales +52 8 £65,000 - 2
London +98 4 £77,500 -8.82% 11
West Midlands +52 2 £83,250 - 14
Midlands +46 2 £83,250 - 16
South West +88 1 - - 6
East of England +31 1 £65,000 - 16

Systems Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Systems Architect in the job title.

1 66 (90.41%) Mentoring
2 57 (78.08%) Systems Engineering
2 57 (78.08%) Social Skills
2 57 (78.08%) Management Information System
3 56 (76.71%) IBM
3 56 (76.71%) Configuration Management
3 56 (76.71%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 56 (76.71%) Degree
3 56 (76.71%) Requirements Management
3 56 (76.71%) Chartered Engineer
3 56 (76.71%) Business Case
3 56 (76.71%) Systems Thinking
3 56 (76.71%) Customer Requirements
3 56 (76.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 56 (76.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 56 (76.71%) Rational DOORS
4 10 (13.70%) Microservices
4 10 (13.70%) Java
4 10 (13.70%) SQL
5 9 (12.33%) .NET
5 9 (12.33%) Visual Studio
5 9 (12.33%) CSS
5 9 (12.33%) C
5 9 (12.33%) C#
5 9 (12.33%) C++
5 9 (12.33%) HTML
5 9 (12.33%) OO
5 9 (12.33%) SOA
5 9 (12.33%) Agile
5 9 (12.33%) Multithreading

Systems Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.74%) AWS
1 2 (2.74%) Azure
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.37%) GCP
2 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
2 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.37%) SaaS
2 1 (1.37%) ShareGate
2 1 (1.37%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) 5G
1 1 (1.37%) Internet
1 1 (1.37%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (1.37%) Modbus
1 1 (1.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.37%) Big Data
1 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.37%) Power BI
1 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (76.71%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (12.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (78.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.74%) Finance
2 2 (2.74%) Law
3 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.37%) Legal
3 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) .NET
1 9 (12.33%) .NET Framework
1 9 (12.33%) CSS
1 9 (12.33%) HTML
2 1 (1.37%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.37%) Akka
2 1 (1.37%) JWT
2 1 (1.37%) Kafka
2 1 (1.37%) Middleware
2 1 (1.37%) Node.js
2 1 (1.37%) OAuth
2 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.37%) RESTful
2 1 (1.37%) SAML
2 1 (1.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (78.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.37%) Clustering
3 1 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (1.37%) IoT
3 1 (1.37%) NB-IoT
3 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.37%) Robotics
3 1 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
1 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (90.41%) Mentoring
2 57 (78.08%) Systems Engineering
3 56 (76.71%) Business Case
3 56 (76.71%) Configuration Management
3 56 (76.71%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 56 (76.71%) Customer Requirements
3 56 (76.71%) Requirements Management
3 56 (76.71%) Systems Thinking
4 10 (13.70%) Microservices
5 9 (12.33%) Agile
5 9 (12.33%) Multithreading
5 9 (12.33%) OO
5 9 (12.33%) SOA
5 9 (12.33%) Software Architecture
5 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
6 3 (4.11%) Analytics
6 3 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (4.11%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (4.11%) Project Delivery
6 3 (4.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.70%) Java
1 10 (13.70%) SQL
2 9 (12.33%) C
2 9 (12.33%) C#
2 9 (12.33%) C++
3 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.74%) Python
Qualifications
1 56 (76.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 56 (76.71%) Chartered Engineer
1 56 (76.71%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (76.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (1.37%) GRC
2 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
1 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (76.71%) IBM
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.74%) Pega
4 1 (1.37%) Adobe
4 1 (1.37%) Cisco
4 1 (1.37%) Commvault
4 1 (1.37%) Google
4 1 (1.37%) iManage
4 1 (1.37%) VMware