The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 29 29 43
Rank change year-on-year
0 +14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 77 61 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 7.026% 6.237% 3.796%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.425% 6.496% 3.965%
Number of salaries quoted 72 58 27
Average salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £68,500
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.62%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1037 939 807
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.62% 96.01% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 919 793 763
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Architect
East of England

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Architect across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Architect across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Architect Salary Trend

Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Architect across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Architect Salary Histogram

Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton +6 38 £55,000 +10.00%
Dunstable - 12 £54,500 -
Bedford -9 8 £48,750 -18.75%
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £67,500 -
Architect
East of England

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title.

1 95 (51.08%) Microsoft
2 60 (32.26%) SQL Server
3 54 (29.03%) TOGAF
4 52 (27.96%) MS Excel
5 44 (23.66%) Scrum
6 41 (22.04%) VMware
7 36 (19.35%) Refactoring
8 35 (18.82%) .NET
9 34 (18.28%) SharePoint
10 33 (17.74%) Enterprise Architecture
11 32 (17.20%) PRINCE2
11 32 (17.20%) C#
12 30 (16.13%) Windows
12 30 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (15.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 28 (15.05%) Citrix
15 27 (14.52%) XenDesktop
16 26 (13.98%) XenApp
17 25 (13.44%) BizTalk Server
18 23 (12.37%) E-Commerce
19 22 (11.83%) Web Services
19 22 (11.83%) SQL
19 22 (11.83%) TDD
20 21 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
21 20 (10.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
21 20 (10.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
21 20 (10.75%) ASP.NET
22 19 (10.22%) Oracle
22 19 (10.22%) SharePoint Server

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (18.82%) .NET
2 22 (11.83%) Web Services
3 20 (10.75%) ASP.NET
4 14 (7.527%) .NET Framework
5 13 (6.989%) XML
6 12 (6.452%) WCF
6 12 (6.452%) WPF
7 5 (2.688%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (2.151%) Silverlight
8 4 (2.151%) LINQ
8 4 (2.151%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (1.613%) WinForms
9 3 (1.613%) Middleware
10 2 (1.075%) Ninject
10 2 (1.075%) KnockoutJS
10 2 (1.075%) Node.js
10 2 (1.075%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 1 (0.538%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 1 (0.538%) LINQ to SQL
11 1 (0.538%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 34 (18.28%) SharePoint
2 25 (13.44%) BizTalk Server
3 19 (10.22%) SharePoint Server
4 9 (4.839%) SharePoint 2010
5 8 (4.301%) IIS
6 3 (1.613%) ESB
6 3 (1.613%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.538%) Exstream Dialogue
7 1 (0.538%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.538%) Papyrus
7 1 (0.538%) StreamWeaver
7 1 (0.538%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 52 (27.96%) MS Excel
2 9 (4.839%) DOC1
3 8 (4.301%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.538%) Exstream
1 1 (0.538%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.527%) DNS
2 13 (6.989%) Fibre Channel
2 13 (6.989%) SAN
2 13 (6.989%) DHCP
3 12 (6.452%) Internet
3 12 (6.452%) Firewall
4 10 (5.376%) TCP/IP
5 8 (4.301%) FTP
6 7 (3.763%) iSCSI
6 7 (3.763%) DMZ
7 6 (3.226%) LAN
8 5 (2.688%) BIG-IP
8 5 (2.688%) SSL
8 5 (2.688%) WAN
8 5 (2.688%) MPLS
9 4 (2.151%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.613%) 3GPP
10 3 (1.613%) SNMP
10 3 (1.613%) RTP
11 2 (1.075%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (32.26%) SQL Server
2 29 (15.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 20 (10.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 20 (10.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (8.065%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.763%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (3.763%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (2.151%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (2.151%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (1.613%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (5.914%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (3.763%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.613%) Moq
4 2 (1.075%) Subversion
4 2 (1.075%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.538%) MSTest
5 1 (0.538%) NUnit
5 1 (0.538%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (9.677%) Finance
2 10 (5.376%) Manufacturing
3 3 (1.613%) Retail
3 3 (1.613%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.075%) Games
5 1 (0.538%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.677%) N-Tier
2 7 (3.763%) SaaS
3 6 (3.226%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.226%) FMCG
4 5 (2.688%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.613%) CAN bus
6 2 (1.075%) SWIFT
7 1 (0.538%) Visualisation
7 1 (0.538%) Clustering
7 1 (0.538%) Replication
7 1 (0.538%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.13%) Windows
2 14 (7.527%) Linux
3 7 (3.763%) UNIX
4 6 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (2.688%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.03%) TOGAF
2 44 (23.66%) Scrum
3 36 (19.35%) Refactoring
4 33 (17.74%) Enterprise Architecture
5 32 (17.20%) PRINCE2
6 30 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (12.37%) E-Commerce
9 22 (11.83%) TDD
10 15 (8.065%) ITIL
11 14 (7.527%) BPMN
12 12 (6.452%) OO
12 12 (6.452%) ETL
12 12 (6.452%) Data Modelling
13 11 (5.914%) Agile Software Development
14 10 (5.376%) MVC
14 10 (5.376%) Change Management
15 9 (4.839%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (4.839%) Software Engineering
15 9 (4.839%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.20%) C#
2 22 (11.83%) SQL
3 7 (3.763%) T-SQL
3 7 (3.763%) Java
4 5 (2.688%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 13 (6.989%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (3.763%) Degree
2 7 (3.763%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (3.763%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (3.226%) IBM Certification
3 6 (3.226%) CCDA
3 6 (3.226%) Microsoft Certified Architect
4 5 (2.688%) MCSE
4 5 (2.688%) CCNP
4 5 (2.688%) CCNA
5 4 (2.151%) ISEB
6 3 (1.613%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.613%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.075%) MCP
7 2 (1.075%) MCAD
7 2 (1.075%) MCSD
7 2 (1.075%) MCTS
8 1 (0.538%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.688%) SLA
2 3 (1.613%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (14.52%) XenDesktop
2 26 (13.98%) XenApp
3 21 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.989%) vSphere
4 13 (6.989%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (6.989%) VMware ESX
5 7 (3.763%) VMFS
5 7 (3.763%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.538%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.075%) HP SIM
2 1 (0.538%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 95 (51.08%) Microsoft
2 41 (22.04%) VMware
3 28 (15.05%) Citrix
4 19 (10.22%) Oracle
5 11 (5.914%) HP
6 10 (5.376%) F5
7 9 (4.839%) TIBCO
7 9 (4.839%) Informatica
8 8 (4.301%) XMPie
9 7 (3.763%) Cisco
9 7 (3.763%) Dell
10 6 (3.226%) Juniper
10 6 (3.226%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.226%) IBM
10 6 (3.226%) Sybase
11 5 (2.688%) SAP
12 2 (1.075%) Mercator
13 1 (0.538%) Brocade
13 1 (0.538%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.538%) Blue Coat
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