Systems Thinking Job Trends in the West Midlands

Systems Thinking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Systems Thinking skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 198 162
Rank change year-on-year +29 -36 +102
Permanent jobs citing Systems Thinking 3 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.057% 0.092% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.10% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47,500 £29,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £29,708
Median % change year-on-year - +85.14% -40.64%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year +8.11% -21.36% -23.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,342 3,941 2,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.64% 90.58% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,242 1,778 2,516
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Systems Thinking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Systems Thinking job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Systems Thinking
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Systems Thinking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Thinking within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Birmingham - 2 - - 5
Coventry +1 1 - - 4
Systems Thinking
England

Systems Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Deadline-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Emotional Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) R
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle