Systems Thinking Jobs

Systems Thinking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 767 723
Rank change year-on-year +352 -44 +290
Permanent jobs citing Systems Thinking 319 128 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 103 56 141
10th Percentile - £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,176 £49,993 £57,184
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,411 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -29.74% +20.23%
75th Percentile - £72,433 £111,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,322 £63,388
% change year-on-year +17.49% -12.72% -2.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Top 13 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 16 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
England +363 305 £65,000 +17.49% 138
UK excluding London +331 285 £65,000 +17.49% 81
Midlands +204 165 £67,500 -3.57% 8
West Midlands +155 111 £67,500 -3.57% 8
South East +144 64 £65,000 +8.33% 24
East Midlands +84 54 - -
London +123 34 £87,500 +16.67% 67
North of England +74 29 £57,560 +130.24% 16
North West +29 29 £57,560 +130.24% 11
Work from Home +120 21 £80,000 +33.33% 88
Wales - 14 £65,000 -
South West +101 13 £45,000 -18.18% 24
Scotland +60 3 £40,423 -42.72% 3

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 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (4.70%) AWS
2 7 (2.19%) Azure
3 5 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (1.57%) GitHub
3 5 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (1.57%) SaaS
4 3 (0.94%) Collibra
5 2 (0.63%) GCP
5 2 (0.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.31%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.31%) Miro
6 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) 4G
1 4 (1.25%) 5G
1 4 (1.25%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.88%) Metadata
2 3 (0.94%) Ataccama
3 2 (0.63%) Power BI
4 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (17.87%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (1.57%) Git
2 5 (1.57%) GitLab
3 4 (1.25%) JIRA
3 4 (1.25%) Subversion
4 2 (0.63%) JUnit
4 2 (0.63%) Mockito
5 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 84 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.34%) Aerospace
3 24 (7.52%) Finance
4 18 (5.64%) Banking
5 7 (2.19%) Electronics
5 7 (2.19%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.19%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.88%) Legal
6 6 (1.88%) Retail
7 4 (1.25%) Aviation
8 3 (0.94%) Marketing
8 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 162 (50.78%) Principal Engineer
1 162 (50.78%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 67 (21.00%) Architect
3 56 (17.55%) Systems Architect
4 38 (11.91%) Lead
5 18 (5.64%) Senior
6 8 (2.51%) Analyst
6 8 (2.51%) Senior Architect
7 6 (1.88%) Digital Product Manager
7 6 (1.88%) Product Manager
8 5 (1.57%) Site Engineer
8 5 (1.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (1.25%) Data Engineer
9 4 (1.25%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (1.25%) Senior Electronics Engineer
10 3 (0.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (0.94%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.94%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (0.94%) Team Leader
11 2 (0.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (0.63%) REST
1 2 (0.63%) Spring
2 1 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.50%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.25%) CPLD
3 4 (1.25%) FPGA
3 4 (1.25%) IoT
3 4 (1.25%) NHS
3 4 (1.25%) Operational Technology
4 3 (0.94%) Acoustics
4 3 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.31%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (77.43%) Systems Engineering
2 165 (51.72%) Collaborative Working
3 162 (50.78%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 162 (50.78%) SysML
4 79 (24.76%) Customer Requirements
5 69 (21.63%) Mentoring
6 56 (17.55%) Business Case
6 56 (17.55%) Configuration Management
6 56 (17.55%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
6 56 (17.55%) Requirements Management
7 40 (12.54%) SDLC
8 39 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
9 29 (9.09%) Software Testing
10 24 (7.52%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (6.90%) Agile
12 16 (5.02%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (4.08%) Microservices
14 11 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (3.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (10.03%) Java
1 32 (10.03%) SQL
2 5 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.25%) C
3 4 (1.25%) C#
3 4 (1.25%) C++
3 4 (1.25%) Python
4 2 (0.63%) Bash
4 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 271 (84.95%) Degree
2 232 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
3 63 (19.75%) Chartered Engineer
4 15 (4.70%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.70%) PhD
5 10 (3.13%) Security Cleared
6 7 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.31%) CBAP
8 1 (0.31%) CSPO
8 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (73.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 6 (1.88%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.19%) Grafana
1 7 (2.19%) Prometheus
1 7 (2.19%) Terraform
2 5 (1.57%) Ansible
2 5 (1.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (17.55%) IBM
2 31 (9.72%) Oracle
3 4 (1.25%) Agilent
4 3 (0.94%) SAP
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.31%) Splunk