The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Architecture over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architecture
Rank 111 103 92
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 11 25 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.595% 1.251% 1.402%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.856% 1.939% 2.082%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 30
Average salary £43,750 £37,500 £58,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -36.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,000 £50,639
10% offered a salary of more than £61,000 £60,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £50,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-8.00% +20.48%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1285 1289 1441
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 69.53% 64.48% 67.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1104 1094 1288
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Architecture
Cambridgeshire

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Software Architecture Salary Trend

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cambridge Software Architecture Salary Histogram

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Software 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 Software Architecture.

1 10 (50.00%) Linux
1 10 (50.00%) Web Services
2 9 (45.00%) C
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) .NET
3 7 (35.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) Java
4 6 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 6 (30.00%) VB.NET
4 6 (30.00%) Visual Studio
4 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 6 (30.00%) CSS
4 6 (30.00%) XML
4 6 (30.00%) XSLT
4 6 (30.00%) HTML
4 6 (30.00%) Windows
4 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (30.00%) Systems Analysis
4 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (30.00%) Degree
4 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (25.00%) SCons
5 5 (25.00%) GCC
5 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (25.00%) TDD
5 5 (25.00%) Bugzilla
5 5 (25.00%) Eclipse
5 5 (25.00%) OO

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Software 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 Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (50.00%) Web Services
2 7 (35.00%) .NET
3 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (30.00%) CSS
3 6 (30.00%) HTML
3 6 (30.00%) XML
3 6 (30.00%) XSLT
4 1 (5.000%) OpenGL
4 1 (5.000%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.000%) Spring
4 1 (5.000%) Java EE
4 1 (5.000%) JSON
4 1 (5.000%) JPA
4 1 (5.000%) HTML5
4 1 (5.000%) REST
4 1 (5.000%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (5.000%) OpenCL
4 1 (5.000%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (5.000%) JDBC
4 1 (5.000%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) MediaWiki
2 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.000%) Apache
2 1 (5.000%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Office
1 4 (20.00%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (20.00%) Data Mining
2 4 (20.00%) Text Mining
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.000%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.000%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 5 (25.00%) Bugzilla
2 5 (25.00%) JUnit
2 5 (25.00%) GCC
2 5 (25.00%) SCons
3 4 (20.00%) GoogleTest
3 4 (20.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Publishing
2 1 (5.000%) Military
2 1 (5.000%) Multimedia
2 1 (5.000%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.000%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 11 (55.00%) Software Developer
3 6 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (30.00%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Architect
4 5 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Lead Software Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Lead .NET Developer
5 4 (20.00%) Lead Developer
6 3 (15.00%) Software Architect
7 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
8 1 (5.000%) Systems Architect
8 1 (5.000%) Technical Manager
8 1 (5.000%) Product Manager
8 1 (5.000%) Java Team Leader
8 1 (5.000%) Chief Technology Officer
8 1 (5.000%) C Developer
8 1 (5.000%) Technical Product Manager
8 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (20.00%) Semantic Web
2 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (20.00%) Grid Computing
2 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.000%) Clustering
3 1 (5.000%) E-Learning
3 1 (5.000%) Firmware
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) Device Driver
3 1 (5.000%) GPGPU
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.000%) Solaris
3 1 (5.000%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (30.00%) Systems Analysis
2 5 (25.00%) TDD
2 5 (25.00%) OO
2 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (20.00%) OOP
3 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.000%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.000%) Pair Programming
5 1 (5.000%) Bioinformatics
5 1 (5.000%) OOD
5 1 (5.000%) SOA
5 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.000%) Benchmarking
5 1 (5.000%) Project Management
5 1 (5.000%) Scrum
5 1 (5.000%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (5.000%) Requirements Engineering
5 1 (5.000%) Digital Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) C#
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (30.00%) VB.NET
4 5 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (25.00%) Perl
4 5 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (5.000%) PhD
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.000%) Sybase
3 1 (5.000%) Sun
3 1 (5.000%) VMware
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