Systems Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £66,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 628 675 731
Rank change year-on-year +47 +56 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Architect 147 52 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.094% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 21 63
10th Percentile £52,000 £55,500 £52,111
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 - -
UK median annual salary £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.36% -9.68% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,349 49,280 72,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 88.83% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 52,720 29,285 42,723
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Systems Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Systems Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Architect in the UK excluding London

Systems Architect
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 Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
North of England +47 34 £60,000 +3.45% 3
South West 0 32 £67,500 +22.73% 2
Scotland - 24 £80,000 - 3
South East -8 22 £64,000 -28.89% 8
North West -1 19 £49,371 -14.88% 1
Midlands -14 16 - - 2
Yorkshire - 15 £85,000 - 1
West Midlands +2 14 - - 2
East of England -18 13 £65,000 -14.75% 6
Wales +9 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Systems Architect
UK

Systems Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Systems Architect in the job title.

1 58 (39.46%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.81%) Agile
3 27 (18.37%) Software Engineering
4 25 (17.01%) Social Skills
5 23 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
6 21 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
6 21 (14.29%) Finance
7 20 (13.61%) TOGAF
7 20 (13.61%) Project Management
7 20 (13.61%) Management Information System
7 20 (13.61%) MODAF
7 20 (13.61%) ArchiMate
7 20 (13.61%) Service Design
7 20 (13.61%) Value Proposition
8 18 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.24%) Mentoring
8 18 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (12.24%) Degree
8 18 (12.24%) Computer Science
9 16 (10.88%) Pega
9 16 (10.88%) C#
10 15 (10.20%) Product Ownership
10 15 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (10.20%) DV Cleared
11 14 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
12 13 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (7.48%) QA
13 11 (7.48%) C++
13 11 (7.48%) Microsoft

Systems Architect Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.80%) Azure
2 6 (4.08%) AWS
3 3 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (2.04%) GCP
3 3 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.76%) Network Security
2 6 (4.08%) Firewall
3 5 (3.40%) DHCP
3 5 (3.40%) DNS
4 4 (2.72%) SAN
4 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.04%) DMZ
5 3 (2.04%) Internet
5 3 (2.04%) LAN
5 3 (2.04%) Modbus
5 3 (2.04%) Tactical Data Link
5 3 (2.04%) VLAN
5 3 (2.04%) VPN
5 3 (2.04%) WAN
5 3 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.04%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 25 (17.01%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.29%) Finance
3 13 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.48%) Retail
5 9 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.44%) Electronics
7 6 (4.08%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.40%) Military
9 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.36%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.12%) .NET
1 9 (6.12%) .NET Framework
2 4 (2.72%) SOAP
2 4 (2.72%) Web Services
3 3 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (0.68%) J2EE
4 1 (0.68%) JSON
4 1 (0.68%) Kafka
4 1 (0.68%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) Spring
4 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.76%) IoT
3 7 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.40%) NHS
5 4 (2.72%) SCADA
6 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.80%) Linux
1 10 (6.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.81%) Agile
2 27 (18.37%) Software Engineering
3 23 (15.65%) Actionable Insight
4 21 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 20 (13.61%) ArchiMate
5 20 (13.61%) MODAF
5 20 (13.61%) Project Management
5 20 (13.61%) Service Design
5 20 (13.61%) TOGAF
5 20 (13.61%) Value Proposition
6 18 (12.24%) Computer Science
6 18 (12.24%) Mentoring
6 18 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
9 11 (7.48%) Business Strategy
9 11 (7.48%) Multichannel Retail
10 10 (6.80%) DevOps
10 10 (6.80%) Software Architecture
11 9 (6.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.88%) C#
2 11 (7.48%) C++
3 10 (6.80%) C
4 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.76%) Python
5 6 (4.08%) SQL
6 3 (2.04%) Embedded C
6 3 (2.04%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.68%) Java
Qualifications
1 58 (39.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
2 18 (12.24%) Degree
3 15 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.72%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.04%) CCIE
7 3 (2.04%) CCNP
7 3 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.48%) QA
2 7 (4.76%) ISO 13485
3 3 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (2.04%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (10.88%) Pega
2 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.40%) SAP
4 4 (2.72%) Thales
5 3 (2.04%) Google
5 3 (2.04%) IBM
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle
5 3 (2.04%) Riverbed
5 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.36%) QinetiQ