The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architecture
Rank 86 96 72
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -24
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 32 4 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.882% 0.270% 1.414%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.524% 0.391% 2.194%
Number of salaries quoted 29 4 16
Average salary £50,000 £32,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.84% -35.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £32,500 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,700 £60,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £52,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
-6.30% +0.90%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1268 1023 866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.59% 69.03% 64.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1072 893 744
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Technical Architecture
West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Technical Architecture Salary Trend

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham Technical Architecture Salary Histogram

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture.

1 40 (58.82%) VMware
2 35 (51.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (42.65%) Active Directory
4 28 (41.18%) NetApp
5 26 (38.24%) HP
6 25 (36.76%) Windows
7 22 (32.35%) Hyper-V
8 21 (30.88%) Cisco
9 20 (29.41%) SCOM
10 18 (26.47%) Citrix
10 18 (26.47%) SQL Server
11 16 (23.53%) SCCM
12 15 (22.06%) SharePoint
13 14 (20.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
15 12 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (17.65%) IBM
15 12 (17.65%) MS Excel
16 11 (16.18%) Enterprise Storage
17 10 (14.71%) 3PAR
17 10 (14.71%) Degree
17 10 (14.71%) NetBackup
17 10 (14.71%) EMC
18 9 (13.24%) CRM
19 8 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
20 7 (10.29%) CSS
20 7 (10.29%) .NET
20 7 (10.29%) SQL
21 6 (8.824%) Dynamics CRM
21 6 (8.824%) Firewall

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (10.29%) CSS
1 7 (10.29%) .NET
2 5 (7.353%) Silverlight
3 2 (2.941%) SOAP
3 2 (2.941%) Web Services
3 2 (2.941%) XML
4 1 (1.471%) UIKit
4 1 (1.471%) REST
4 1 (1.471%) XSLT
4 1 (1.471%) RSS
4 1 (1.471%) ASP
4 1 (1.471%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.471%) COM
4 1 (1.471%) HTML
4 1 (1.471%) Ajax
4 1 (1.471%) JSON
4 1 (1.471%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 15 (22.06%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.824%) Lync
3 5 (7.353%) MS Exchange
3 5 (7.353%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.471%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.471%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.471%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (1.471%) IIS
5 1 (1.471%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.471%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.471%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.471%) MS Project
2 1 (1.471%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.824%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.412%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (8.824%) Firewall
2 6 (8.824%) OSPF
2 6 (8.824%) BGP
2 6 (8.824%) VPN
2 6 (8.824%) FWSM
3 3 (4.412%) WAN
4 1 (1.471%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.471%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.471%) HTTP
4 1 (1.471%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.471%) MySQL
2 1 (1.471%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.471%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.471%) Xcode
General
1 3 (4.412%) Billing
1 3 (4.412%) Back Office
1 3 (4.412%) Advertising
2 2 (2.941%) Finance
3 1 (1.471%) Legal
3 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.471%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (48.53%) Architect
2 21 (30.88%) Technical Architect
3 13 (19.12%) Technical Specialist
4 12 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (16.18%) Storage Specialist
6 7 (10.29%) Lead Architect
7 6 (8.824%) Cisco Specialist
7 6 (8.824%) Network Specialist
7 6 (8.824%) Consultant
7 6 (8.824%) CRM Solutions Architect
7 6 (8.824%) Cisco Network Specialist
7 6 (8.824%) CRM Architect
8 5 (7.353%) Lead Technical Architect
9 3 (4.412%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.412%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.412%) Virtualisation Consultant
9 3 (4.412%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.412%) Analyst
10 2 (2.941%) Principal Consultant
10 2 (2.941%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (2.941%) CMDB
3 1 (1.471%) iPhone
3 1 (1.471%) FMCG
3 1 (1.471%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.471%) PMI
3 1 (1.471%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.471%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (36.76%) Windows
2 14 (20.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.412%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.471%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.24%) CRM
2 6 (8.824%) ITIL
2 6 (8.824%) Waterfall
3 5 (7.353%) System Testing
3 5 (7.353%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (5.882%) Service Delivery
4 4 (5.882%) TOGAF
4 4 (5.882%) Change Control
5 3 (4.412%) Risk Management
5 3 (4.412%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (4.412%) PLM
6 2 (2.941%) Business Continuity
6 2 (2.941%) Configuration Management
6 2 (2.941%) PRINCE2
6 2 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (2.941%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.471%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.471%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.471%) UML
7 1 (1.471%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.29%) SQL
2 6 (8.824%) C#
2 6 (8.824%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.882%) ABAP
4 1 (1.471%) PHP
4 1 (1.471%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.471%) VBScript
4 1 (1.471%) VB
4 1 (1.471%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (5.882%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.882%) VCDX
2 4 (5.882%) VCAP
3 1 (1.471%) CCEE
3 1 (1.471%) CCAA
3 1 (1.471%) CCIA
3 1 (1.471%) NCDA
3 1 (1.471%) NCIE
3 1 (1.471%) APMP
3 1 (1.471%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.471%) MCSE
3 1 (1.471%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (1.471%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.471%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.471%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.471%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.353%) QA
2 4 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (51.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (42.65%) Active Directory
3 22 (32.35%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.882%) XenDesktop
4 4 (5.882%) vSphere
4 4 (5.882%) XenApp
5 3 (4.412%) Xen
5 3 (4.412%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.471%) UAG
6 1 (1.471%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (1.471%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 20 (29.41%) SCOM
2 16 (23.53%) SCCM
3 10 (14.71%) NetBackup
4 6 (8.824%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.941%) OpenView
5 2 (2.941%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 40 (58.82%) VMware
2 28 (41.18%) NetApp
3 26 (38.24%) HP
4 21 (30.88%) Cisco
5 18 (26.47%) Citrix
6 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
7 12 (17.65%) IBM
8 10 (14.71%) 3PAR
8 10 (14.71%) EMC
9 6 (8.824%) CheckPoint
10 4 (5.882%) SAP
11 2 (2.941%) Blue Coat
11 2 (2.941%) Juniper
11 2 (2.941%) F5
12 1 (1.471%) Twitter
12 1 (1.471%) Oracle
12 1 (1.471%) Hitachi
12 1 (1.471%) Apple
12 1 (1.471%) Sage
12 1 (1.471%) Computacenter
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
This role will be broken down as follows: Technical Architecture - 40% (e.g... maintenance of documentation and processes) Knowledge & Experience: You must have good experience of providing Virtualisation...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £55K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Based in Birmingham my client is looking for an experienced HP EVA Storage Technical Specialist to join their thriving data centre division... maintenance of documentation and processes) Skills,...
Monarch Recruitment
Salary: £40000 to £50000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Cisco Firewalls including FWSM and ASAs in multiple context modes. Cisco Loadbalancers including ACE and CSS. Checkpoint Firewalls. Fortigate Firewalls. Understanding of routing protocols including OSPF and BGP...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
maintenance of documentation and processes) Skills, Knowledge & Experience: Essential The applicant must have 5 - 10 years experience of providing technical architecture and support to enterprise clients. Specialising in...
Monarch Recruitment
Salary: £45000 to £55000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013