Systems Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Thinking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 722 1007
Rank change year-on-year -24 +285 -183
Permanent jobs citing Systems Thinking 148 276 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 77 151 114
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £53,951 £59,922 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,818 £66,786
Median % change year-on-year -15.48% +24.01% +11.31%
75th Percentile £72,433 £135,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £150,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,071 £64,350
% change year-on-year -10.54% +4.23% +12.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Thinking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
UK excluding London +10 130 £60,000 -10.54% 25
England +1 85 £60,000 -30.07% 33
Scotland -63 61 £70,576 +1.62% 3
Work from Home -18 44 £70,576 -12.10% 12
South West -15 24 £55,000 -20.08% 5
South East +42 18 £60,000 +26.32% 7
London +12 18 £75,000 -21.76% 6
North of England +41 13 £70,576 +18.56% 9
East of England +26 9 £55,322 -
North West +8 9 £38,750 -9.52% 8
Yorkshire +92 4 £70,576 +18.56% 1
Midlands +5 3 £70,288 +99.92% 1
West Midlands +24 2 £70,288 +99.92% 1
Wales +8 2 £70,576 +89.29%
East Midlands - 1 - -

Systems Thinking
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 22 (14.86%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (21.62%) UserZoom
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.30%) Figma
2 32 (21.62%) SurveyMonkey
3 10 (6.76%) Azure
4 8 (5.41%) AWS
5 7 (4.73%) SaaS
6 4 (2.70%) GCP
6 4 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) Firewall
1 5 (3.38%) Network Security
2 4 (2.70%) DNS
2 4 (2.70%) SSL
2 4 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.14%) Big Data
2 4 (2.70%) MySQL
2 4 (2.70%) Power BI
2 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.35%) Tableau
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 32 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 22 (14.86%) JIRA
3 3 (2.03%) Rational DOORS
General
1 78 (52.70%) Finance
2 56 (37.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (36.49%) Social Skills
4 51 (34.46%) Law
5 49 (33.11%) Marketing
6 32 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (19.59%) Banking
8 13 (8.78%) Legal
9 8 (5.41%) Aerospace
9 8 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (4.73%) Retail
11 3 (2.03%) Advertising
11 3 (2.03%) Military
12 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.35%) Local Government
12 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.35%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (26.35%) Architect
2 32 (21.62%) Systems Engineer
2 32 (21.62%) User Experience Researcher
3 22 (14.86%) Senior
4 21 (14.19%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (13.51%) Lead
6 16 (10.81%) Agile Coach
7 15 (10.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Systems Architect
9 5 (3.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 5 (3.38%) Insight Manager
9 5 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (3.38%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.38%) Security Architect
10 4 (2.70%) Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.70%) JIRA Engineer
10 4 (2.70%) Junior
10 4 (2.70%) Junior Systems Engineer
10 4 (2.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.16%) Kafka
1 18 (12.16%) Spring Boot
2 13 (8.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) Product Ownership
2 18 (12.16%) Management Information System
3 15 (10.14%) Blockchain
3 15 (10.14%) Robotics
4 7 (4.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (4.05%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (3.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.70%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) HPUX
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Solaris
3 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (58.78%) Agile
2 61 (41.22%) Mentoring
3 54 (36.49%) DevOps
4 49 (33.11%) SDLC
5 45 (30.41%) Roadmaps
6 38 (25.68%) Service Design
7 35 (23.65%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (22.30%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (22.30%) Analytics
9 33 (22.30%) Data Analytics
9 33 (22.30%) Design Thinking
9 33 (22.30%) Product Management
9 33 (22.30%) Strategic Thinking
9 33 (22.30%) User Experience
9 33 (22.30%) UX Research
10 32 (21.62%) Market Research
10 32 (21.62%) Psychology
10 32 (21.62%) User Research
10 32 (21.62%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.51%) Java
2 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (53.38%) Degree
2 32 (21.62%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.05%) HNC
5 6 (4.05%) HND
6 5 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.38%) CISSP
6 5 (3.38%) SANS
7 4 (2.70%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.03%) PhD
9 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.62%) Actionable Recommendations
2 10 (6.76%) SEPA
3 5 (3.38%) HIPAA
3 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.03%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.03%) QA
5 2 (1.35%) ECSS
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (12.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (21.62%) Qualtrics
2 4 (2.70%) Atlassian
2 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.70%) Thales
3 1 (0.68%) HP
3 1 (0.68%) IBM
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.68%) Sun
3 1 (0.68%) Unisys