The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions 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 Solutions 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
Solution Architect
Rank 122 120 97
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 100 105 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.919% 1.704% 2.423%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.040% 1.805% 2.570%
Number of salaries quoted 62 90 96
Average salary £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
-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%
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Solutions Architect Salary Trend

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solutions Architect across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Solutions Architect Salary Histogram

Solutions Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions 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 +18 48 £56,250 -13.46%
Bracknell -17 10 £37,500 -53.12%
Slough -10 8 £75,000 +7.14%
Newbury +8 3 £66,250 +15.21%
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 43 (21.50%) VMware
2 37 (18.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (17.00%) Microsoft
4 32 (16.00%) Java
4 32 (16.00%) Oracle
4 32 (16.00%) Telecoms
5 29 (14.50%) TOGAF
5 29 (14.50%) Windows
5 29 (14.50%) SAN
6 27 (13.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 26 (13.00%) Project Management
7 26 (13.00%) vSphere
8 24 (12.00%) Security Cleared
8 24 (12.00%) Cisco
8 24 (12.00%) SQL
9 23 (11.50%) SC Cleared
10 22 (11.00%) NAS
10 22 (11.00%) SAP
10 22 (11.00%) CRM
11 21 (10.50%) Billing
11 21 (10.50%) Citrix
12 20 (10.00%) Active Directory
12 20 (10.00%) OO
12 20 (10.00%) Degree
12 20 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 18 (9.000%) ITIL
13 18 (9.000%) Juniper
14 17 (8.500%) Finance
14 17 (8.500%) Hyper-V
15 16 (8.000%) BSS

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (6.500%) J2EE
2 10 (5.000%) .NET
3 8 (4.000%) Middleware
3 8 (4.000%) Web Services
3 8 (4.000%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.500%) XML
5 6 (3.000%) SOAP
5 6 (3.000%) HTML
5 6 (3.000%) Spring
6 5 (2.500%) JSP
7 4 (2.000%) CSS
7 4 (2.000%) SAP Basis
7 4 (2.000%) Ajax
8 3 (1.500%) jQuery
8 3 (1.500%) SWT
8 3 (1.500%) HTML5
8 3 (1.500%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.500%) CGI
8 3 (1.500%) Swing
8 3 (1.500%) AWT
Application Platforms
1 14 (7.000%) MS Exchange
2 12 (6.000%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 12 (6.000%) Lync
3 9 (4.500%) ESB
4 7 (3.500%) WebLogic
5 5 (2.500%) CMS
6 4 (2.000%) IIS
6 4 (2.000%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (1.500%) Apache Pig
7 3 (1.500%) Apache
7 3 (1.500%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.000%) WebLogic Portal
8 2 (1.000%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (1.000%) Adobe CQ
8 2 (1.000%) LiveCycle
9 1 (0.500%) WordPress
9 1 (0.500%) Drupal
9 1 (0.500%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.500%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 15 (7.500%) MS Excel
2 12 (6.000%) Office 365
3 11 (5.500%) MS Office
4 1 (0.500%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.500%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.000%) CSG Singleview
2 2 (1.000%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.000%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (1.000%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.500%) Optimost
3 1 (0.500%) SiteCatalyst
3 1 (0.500%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.500%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.50%) SAN
2 22 (11.00%) NAS
3 16 (8.000%) BSS
4 15 (7.500%) Internet
5 14 (7.000%) Firewall
6 13 (6.500%) MPLS
7 11 (5.500%) DNS
7 11 (5.500%) DHCP
7 11 (5.500%) OSPF
7 11 (5.500%) BGP
8 9 (4.500%) Broadband
8 9 (4.500%) 3G
9 6 (3.000%) LAN
9 6 (3.000%) ATM
9 6 (3.000%) WAN
9 6 (3.000%) Unified Communications
10 5 (2.500%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (2.000%) Ethernet
11 4 (2.000%) HTTP
12 3 (1.500%) Frame Relay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.000%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.000%) MySQL
3 5 (2.500%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.000%) DB2
4 4 (2.000%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (1.500%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.500%) Big Data
5 3 (1.500%) BigTable
5 3 (1.500%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.500%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.000%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.000%) GIS
7 1 (0.500%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.500%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.500%) BODI
7 1 (0.500%) SAP BI
7 1 (0.500%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.500%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (1.500%) Eclipse RCP
1 3 (1.500%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.000%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (1.000%) Oracle APEX
General
1 32 (16.00%) Telecoms
2 21 (10.50%) Billing
3 17 (8.500%) Finance
4 14 (7.000%) Back Office
5 12 (6.000%) Retail
6 4 (2.000%) Advertising
7 3 (1.500%) Games
8 2 (1.000%) Banking
9 1 (0.500%) French Language
9 1 (0.500%) German Language
9 1 (0.500%) Marketing
9 1 (0.500%) Front Office
9 1 (0.500%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.500%) Open Source
2 6 (3.000%) Mainframe
3 5 (2.500%) Computer Science
3 5 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.500%) Data Integration
4 3 (1.500%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.000%) DTV
5 2 (1.000%) AS400
5 2 (1.000%) SCADA
5 2 (1.000%) Web 2.0
5 2 (1.000%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.500%) Data Extraction
6 1 (0.500%) DataPower
6 1 (0.500%) iSeries
6 1 (0.500%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.500%) IVR
6 1 (0.500%) Replication
6 1 (0.500%) APACS
6 1 (0.500%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.50%) Windows
2 20 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (6.500%) Linux
4 11 (5.500%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (3.500%) UNIX
6 4 (2.000%) Solaris
7 1 (0.500%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (14.50%) TOGAF
2 27 (13.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 26 (13.00%) Project Management
4 22 (11.00%) CRM
5 20 (10.00%) OO
6 18 (9.000%) ITIL
7 15 (7.500%) E-Commerce
8 13 (6.500%) PRINCE2
9 12 (6.000%) SOA
10 11 (5.500%) Change Management
10 11 (5.500%) UML
10 11 (5.500%) RUP
11 10 (5.000%) Configuration Management
11 10 (5.000%) eTOM
12 9 (4.500%) MODAF
12 9 (4.500%) Business Development
12 9 (4.500%) Logistics
12 9 (4.500%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (4.000%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.00%) Java
2 24 (12.00%) SQL
3 6 (3.000%) JavaScript
3 6 (3.000%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.500%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.500%) C++
5 4 (2.000%) C
6 3 (1.500%) Python
7 2 (1.000%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.500%) RPG
Qualifications
1 24 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.00%) Degree
4 15 (7.500%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.500%) JNCIA
5 11 (5.500%) JNCIP
5 11 (5.500%) CCNA
5 11 (5.500%) CCNP
5 11 (5.500%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.500%) NCIE
7 6 (3.000%) NCDA
8 5 (2.500%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.500%) JNCIE
8 5 (2.500%) JNCIS
8 5 (2.500%) CCIP
8 5 (2.500%) CCIE
9 4 (2.000%) MCITP
10 3 (1.500%) MCTS
11 2 (1.000%) ISEB
12 1 (0.500%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.000%) SLA
1 2 (1.000%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.500%) COBIT
2 1 (0.500%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 37 (18.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (13.00%) vSphere
3 20 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 17 (8.500%) Hyper-V
5 12 (6.000%) XenDesktop
6 11 (5.500%) UAG
6 11 (5.500%) XenServer
7 8 (4.000%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (3.500%) VMware ESX
9 6 (3.000%) vCloud
10 2 (1.000%) XenApp
11 1 (0.500%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (1.500%) SCCM
1 3 (1.500%) SCOM
1 3 (1.500%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.000%) OpenView
2 2 (1.000%) Netcool
3 1 (0.500%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.500%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (21.50%) VMware
2 34 (17.00%) Microsoft
3 32 (16.00%) Oracle
4 24 (12.00%) Cisco
5 22 (11.00%) SAP
6 21 (10.50%) Citrix
7 18 (9.000%) Juniper
8 13 (6.500%) HP
9 11 (5.500%) NetApp
10 10 (5.000%) Salesforce.com
10 10 (5.000%) IBM
10 10 (5.000%) EMC
11 7 (3.500%) Business Objects
12 6 (3.000%) JBoss
12 6 (3.000%) Huawei
12 6 (3.000%) Fujitsu
13 4 (2.000%) ATG
13 4 (2.000%) Amdocs
14 3 (1.500%) Twitter
14 3 (1.500%) Brocade
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Key skills required include some of two or more of the following *3G Mobile Packet Core architecture *3G Circuit Switched Core architecture *CS Voice, messaging or popular internet...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + £6k Car Allow + Bonus to 20%
Posted: 21 May 2013
Berkshire
Hands on work experience and knowledge of Java, J2ee framework and common design patterns. Integration experience on national health system like Spine, C&B and other national standards...
Roc Search
Salary: £45000 - £54000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Role: This role is to help the business get better, quicker and more cost effective solutions and is a significant part of the demand management by providing alternative...
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire
Essential skills and experience Experience of one or more of the following HR and payroll technical solutions such as : SAP. Oracle ERP... Northgate... MVS. Dynamics CRM... Has a...
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Salary: £55000.00 - £65000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Newbury, Thames Valley
They are looking for someone who has great experience with LAN/WAN and Cisco, as well as someone who poses an understanding of HP, Aruba, Brocade and Juniper...
Salary: Competitive
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