The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architect
Rank 207 214 208
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 12 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.230% 0.130% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.245% 0.138% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 1
Average salary £82,500 £60,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4901 5818 4903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.07% 94.43% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 4958 4077
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Architect
South East

Software Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Software Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architect
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Software Architect Salary Trend

Software Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading -2 3 £90,000 +50.00%
Software Architect
South East

Software Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title.

1 11 (52.38%) MVC
1 11 (52.38%) C#
1 11 (52.38%) .NET
1 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) Technical Architecture
3 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (42.86%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 9 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (42.86%) Windows Azure
3 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (33.33%) J2EE
5 6 (28.57%) Java
5 6 (28.57%) IBM
5 6 (28.57%) Web Services
5 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
6 5 (23.81%) Software Architecture
6 5 (23.81%) Hibernate
6 5 (23.81%) Spring
7 4 (19.05%) Scrum
7 4 (19.05%) Linux
7 4 (19.05%) SOAP
7 4 (19.05%) REST
8 3 (14.29%) Digital Signal Processing
8 3 (14.29%) Signal Processing
8 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 3 (14.29%) DB2
8 3 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server

Software Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (52.38%) .NET
2 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET
2 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
3 7 (33.33%) J2EE
4 6 (28.57%) Web Services
4 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
5 5 (23.81%) Hibernate
5 5 (23.81%) Spring
6 4 (19.05%) SOAP
6 4 (19.05%) REST
7 3 (14.29%) XML
7 3 (14.29%) XSLT
7 3 (14.29%) Ajax
8 2 (9.524%) OAuth
8 2 (9.524%) JSON
8 2 (9.524%) Spring MVC
8 2 (9.524%) SAML
9 1 (4.762%) Node.js
9 1 (4.762%) HTML5
9 1 (4.762%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (42.86%) BizTalk Server
1 9 (42.86%) Windows Azure
2 3 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.762%) IIS
3 1 (4.762%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Wireless
2 2 (9.524%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) DB2
3 2 (9.524%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.762%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Visual Studio
1 9 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) DataPower
2 2 (9.524%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (9.524%) Cryptography
2 2 (9.524%) SaaS
2 2 (9.524%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.762%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (9.524%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) MVC
2 10 (47.62%) Technical Architecture
3 9 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (23.81%) Software Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Digital Signal Processing
6 3 (14.29%) Signal Processing
6 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 3 (14.29%) RUP
6 3 (14.29%) TDD
6 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 3 (14.29%) V-Model
7 2 (9.524%) SOA
7 2 (9.524%) ETL
8 1 (4.762%) Feature Driven Development
8 1 (4.762%) UML
8 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.762%) Product Marketing
8 1 (4.762%) Software Engineering
8 1 (4.762%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) C
4 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.524%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.524%) SQL
5 1 (4.762%) PHP
5 1 (4.762%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.762%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) IBM
3 2 (9.524%) VMware
3 2 (9.524%) Citrix
4 1 (4.762%) Informatica
4 1 (4.762%) Ab Initio