The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Architect
Rank 108 110 122
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 30 14 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.468% 0.728% 0.625%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.524% 0.768% 0.664%
Number of salaries quoted 24 9 9
Average salary £60,250 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.78% -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £58,500
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £65,000 £75,500
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1968 1823 1959
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 96.33% 94.85% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1707 1547 1731
Average salary £40,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Solutions Architect Salary Trend

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes -8 15 £60,250 +7.11%
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 35 (50.00%) Oracle
2 14 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 13 (18.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 13 (18.57%) Middleware
3 13 (18.57%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (18.57%) CRM
3 13 (18.57%) ERP
3 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (17.14%) MCSE
4 12 (17.14%) Windows
4 12 (17.14%) Oracle CRM
5 11 (15.71%) Cisco
6 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
6 10 (14.29%) Information Architecture
6 10 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (14.29%) UNIX
6 10 (14.29%) MS Excel
6 10 (14.29%) WebSphere
7 9 (12.86%) C#
7 9 (12.86%) SAN
7 9 (12.86%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (11.43%) Internet
8 8 (11.43%) CCIE
8 8 (11.43%) .NET
8 8 (11.43%) WebSphere MQ
8 8 (11.43%) Finance
8 8 (11.43%) TOGAF
9 7 (10.00%) Configuration Management

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (18.57%) Middleware
2 10 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 8 (11.43%) .NET
4 6 (8.571%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (7.143%) CSS
5 5 (7.143%) Web Services
6 4 (5.714%) XML
6 4 (5.714%) EJB
6 4 (5.714%) XHTML
7 2 (2.857%) jQuery
8 1 (1.429%) WinForms
8 1 (1.429%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.429%) XSL
8 1 (1.429%) XSLT
8 1 (1.429%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (11.43%) WebSphere MQ
2 5 (7.143%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (7.143%) ESB
3 4 (5.714%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.714%) Documentum
4 3 (4.286%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (2.857%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.429%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.429%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.429%) MS Exchange
6 1 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.429%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 13 (18.57%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (17.14%) Oracle CRM
3 3 (4.286%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.429%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) SAN
1 9 (12.86%) Cisco IOS
2 8 (11.43%) Internet
3 4 (5.714%) Extranet
3 4 (5.714%) Intranet
3 4 (5.714%) HTTP
3 4 (5.714%) DNS
3 4 (5.714%) Firewall
4 1 (1.429%) VPN
4 1 (1.429%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.429%) FCoE
4 1 (1.429%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.429%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.857%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.429%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.429%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 4 (5.714%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.857%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (11.43%) Finance
2 5 (7.143%) Retail
3 4 (5.714%) Multimedia
4 3 (4.286%) Banking
5 1 (1.429%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.714%) Digital Media
1 4 (5.714%) New Media
1 4 (5.714%) W3C
2 2 (2.857%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.857%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.429%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.429%) CLARiiON
3 1 (1.429%) Symmetrix
3 1 (1.429%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Windows
2 10 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.429%) AIX
3 1 (1.429%) Solaris
3 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 13 (18.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 13 (18.57%) CRM
2 13 (18.57%) ERP
3 10 (14.29%) Information Architecture
3 10 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (11.43%) TOGAF
5 7 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 7 (10.00%) UML
5 7 (10.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (8.571%) Process Architecture
6 6 (8.571%) ITIL
6 6 (8.571%) EAI
6 6 (8.571%) Information Management
6 6 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (7.143%) Asset Management
7 5 (7.143%) Workflow
7 5 (7.143%) Scrum
8 4 (5.714%) Integration Testing
8 4 (5.714%) User Experience Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.86%) C#
2 5 (7.143%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.714%) PHP
4 2 (2.857%) SQL
5 1 (1.429%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.429%) C
5 1 (1.429%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (17.14%) MCSE
3 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 8 (11.43%) CCIE
5 4 (5.714%) HP ASE
5 4 (5.714%) MCP
5 4 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.714%) CCNP
5 4 (5.714%) CCNA
6 3 (4.286%) Degree
6 3 (4.286%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.857%) MCITP
8 1 (1.429%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.143%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.286%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.429%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.429%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.429%) SCCM
1 1 (1.429%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (50.00%) Oracle
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.71%) Cisco
4 5 (7.143%) VMware
4 5 (7.143%) HP
5 4 (5.714%) Zend
6 2 (2.857%) JBoss
6 2 (2.857%) NetApp
6 2 (2.857%) EMC
7 1 (1.429%) Brocade
7 1 (1.429%) Citrix
7 1 (1.429%) Dell
7 1 (1.429%) Progress
7 1 (1.429%) SAP
7 1 (1.429%) 3PAR
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Mobile Solutions / Design / Integration / Implementation / JAVA / Data Migration... - Logistics background preferred - Demonstrable experience across Mobile Solutions / Design / Integration / Implementation / JAVA / Data Migration - Large scale integration experience - Java and...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £70,000 to £85,000 per annum + bonus + benefits package
Posted: 16 May 2013