Senior Systems Architect Jobs in England

Senior System Architect
UK > England

The median Senior System Architect salary in England is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 841 876 1160
Rank change year-on-year +35 +284 -251
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Architect 22 18 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.022% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.024% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 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 median annual salary £83,750 £90,000 £53,519
% change year-on-year -6.94% +68.16% -10.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Architect in England

Senior Systems Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Architect in England

Senior Systems Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Architect in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Architect in England

Senior Systems Architect
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire - 11 £85,000 -
North of England - 11 £85,000 -
London +99 6 £85,000 -
South East -27 4 £72,500 -19.44%
East of England -13 1 £66,500 -
Senior Systems Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 across the England region 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 in England 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