Senior Systems Architect Jobs

Senior System Architect
UK

The median Senior System Architect salary in the UK is £83,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 962 1226
Rank change year-on-year +94 +264 -317
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Architect 22 15 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.015% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.017% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £70,250 - £42,500
25th Percentile £71,250 - £44,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £90,000 £53,519
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +68.16% -10.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £103,732
90th Percentile - - £123,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £90,000 £49,260
% change year-on-year -18.06% +82.71% -17.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Architect in the UK

Senior Systems Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Architect in the UK

Senior Systems Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Architect in the UK

Senior Systems Architect
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +96 22 £83,750 -6.94% 4
UK excluding London -22 16 £73,750 -18.06% 2
North of England - 11 £85,000 -
Yorkshire - 11 £85,000 -
London +115 6 £85,000 - 3
South East +6 4 £72,500 -19.44% 1
Work from Home +74 3 £72,500 -
East of England +1 1 £66,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Systems Architect in the job title.

1 12 (54.55%) Business Strategy
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (50.00%) Multichannel Retail
2 11 (50.00%) Retail
2 11 (50.00%) Firewall
2 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 9 (40.91%) AWS
4 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (36.36%) Azure
4 8 (36.36%) Google
4 8 (36.36%) Degree
4 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (36.36%) Linux
4 8 (36.36%) LAN
4 8 (36.36%) WAN
4 8 (36.36%) VPN
5 6 (27.27%) SQL
5 6 (27.27%) Juniper
5 6 (27.27%) MPLS
5 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
5 6 (27.27%) Customer Experience
5 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
6 5 (22.73%) 802.1X

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Direct Connect
3 5 (22.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (36.36%) LAN
2 8 (36.36%) VPN
2 8 (36.36%) WAN
3 6 (27.27%) MPLS
4 5 (22.73%) BGP
4 5 (22.73%) DHCP
4 5 (22.73%) DMVPN
4 5 (22.73%) DNS
4 5 (22.73%) DWDM
4 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
4 5 (22.73%) GLBP
4 5 (22.73%) HTTP
4 5 (22.73%) HTTPS
4 5 (22.73%) IGRP
4 5 (22.73%) IPsec
4 5 (22.73%) Multicast
4 5 (22.73%) OSPF
4 5 (22.73%) SNMP
4 5 (22.73%) SSL
General
1 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
1 11 (50.00%) Retail
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) 802.1X
1 5 (22.73%) HTML
1 5 (22.73%) XML
2 3 (13.64%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) SOAP
2 3 (13.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (18.18%) SCADA
4 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
4 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 3 (13.64%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Unix
3 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Business Strategy
2 11 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (50.00%) Multichannel Retail
2 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Customer Experience
4 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 6 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (22.73%) ERP
5 5 (22.73%) Load Balancing
5 5 (22.73%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (22.73%) Network Management
5 5 (22.73%) Open Source
5 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Two-Factor Authentication
6 4 (18.18%) Network Design
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) CCNA
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) CCIE
4 3 (13.64%) CCNP
4 3 (13.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Progress Chef
1 5 (22.73%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Google
2 6 (27.27%) Juniper
3 5 (22.73%) Arista
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco
3 5 (22.73%) Fortinet
3 5 (22.73%) SAP
3 5 (22.73%) Tufin
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle