The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Architect
Rank 248 266 225
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 72 62 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.621% 0.475% 0.659%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.668% 0.510% 0.704%
Number of salaries quoted 63 58 71
Average salary £61,000 £67,500 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.62% -15.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £57,500
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £88,250 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +5.83%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10773 12165 14632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.88% 93.10% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9280 11060 13186
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Architect
London

Senior Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Architect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Architect across the City of London region.

City of London Senior Architect Salary Trend

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Architect across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Senior Architect Salary Histogram

Senior Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Architect in their job title.

1 41 (34.75%) Finance
2 35 (29.66%) Java
3 29 (24.58%) SQL Server
3 29 (24.58%) J2EE
4 28 (23.73%) TDD
5 25 (21.19%) SQL
6 24 (20.34%) Struts
6 24 (20.34%) Apache
6 24 (20.34%) Spring
7 23 (19.49%) Spring MVC
7 23 (19.49%) MVC
8 20 (16.95%) Windows
8 20 (16.95%) .NET
8 20 (16.95%) Technical Architecture
9 19 (16.10%) Web Services
9 19 (16.10%) Oracle
9 19 (16.10%) CSS
10 18 (15.25%) OO
10 18 (15.25%) HTML
11 17 (14.41%) Degree
11 17 (14.41%) RESTful
12 16 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (12.71%) JMS
13 15 (12.71%) Publishing
13 15 (12.71%) WebSphere
13 15 (12.71%) JSTL
13 15 (12.71%) Analytics
13 15 (12.71%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (11.86%) MarkLogic
14 14 (11.86%) Semantic Web

Senior Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (24.58%) J2EE
2 24 (20.34%) Struts
2 24 (20.34%) Spring
3 23 (19.49%) Spring MVC
4 20 (16.95%) .NET
5 19 (16.10%) Web Services
5 19 (16.10%) CSS
6 18 (15.25%) HTML
7 17 (14.41%) RESTful
8 15 (12.71%) JMS
8 15 (12.71%) WebSphere
8 15 (12.71%) JSTL
9 14 (11.86%) jQuery
9 14 (11.86%) JSP
9 14 (11.86%) XSLT
10 12 (10.17%) WCF
10 12 (10.17%) WPF
11 11 (9.322%) Task Parallel Library
12 10 (8.475%) Hibernate
13 9 (7.627%) Tapestry
Application Platforms
1 24 (20.34%) Apache
2 9 (7.627%) Jetty
2 9 (7.627%) Tomcat
2 9 (7.627%) WebLogic
3 7 (5.932%) SharePoint
4 6 (5.085%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (5.085%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (5.085%) MS Exchange
5 4 (3.390%) WebSphere Portal
5 4 (3.390%) Windows Azure
5 4 (3.390%) Adobe CQ
6 3 (2.542%) ESB
7 1 (0.847%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.847%) IIS
7 1 (0.847%) SAS
7 1 (0.847%) Commerce Server
7 1 (0.847%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.847%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 12 (10.17%) MS Excel
2 7 (5.932%) Office 365
3 6 (5.085%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.390%) Tridion
2 2 (1.695%) Bond Adapt
3 1 (0.847%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.847%) Oracle BRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.932%) DNS
1 7 (5.932%) SAN
2 6 (5.085%) Internet
2 6 (5.085%) DHCP
2 6 (5.085%) Kerberos
2 6 (5.085%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.390%) Firewall
3 4 (3.390%) VPN
4 3 (2.542%) VoIP
4 3 (2.542%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.542%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.695%) Wireless
5 2 (1.695%) BSS
6 1 (0.847%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.847%) WAN
6 1 (0.847%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.86%) MarkLogic
2 14 (11.86%) MySQL
3 8 (6.780%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.085%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (4.237%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (4.237%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (4.237%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (4.237%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (4.237%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (4.237%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (1.695%) DB2
6 2 (1.695%) QlikView
7 1 (0.847%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.847%) IDOL
7 1 (0.847%) Big Data
7 1 (0.847%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 1 (0.847%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.847%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (5.085%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.847%) Maven
2 1 (0.847%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 1 (0.847%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (0.847%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.847%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (0.847%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 41 (34.75%) Finance
2 15 (12.71%) Publishing
3 14 (11.86%) Banking
4 8 (6.780%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.085%) Marketing
6 5 (4.237%) Front Office
7 4 (3.390%) Advertising
7 4 (3.390%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.695%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.695%) Legal
9 1 (0.847%) Games
9 1 (0.847%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.847%) Retail
9 1 (0.847%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (11.86%) Semantic Web
3 12 (10.17%) Mathematics
4 10 (8.475%) Digital Media
5 9 (7.627%) Client/Server
5 9 (7.627%) New Media
6 4 (3.390%) Open Source
6 4 (3.390%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.390%) Computer Science
7 3 (2.542%) RIA
7 3 (2.542%) Derivative
8 2 (1.695%) Visualisation
8 2 (1.695%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.695%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.695%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.695%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.847%) Physics
9 1 (0.847%) Blog
9 1 (0.847%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.847%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.95%) Windows
2 7 (5.932%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (5.085%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.390%) UNIX
5 3 (2.542%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.695%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.695%) Android
7 1 (0.847%) Linux
7 1 (0.847%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.73%) TDD
2 23 (19.49%) MVC
3 20 (16.95%) Technical Architecture
4 18 (15.25%) OO
5 16 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (12.71%) Analytics
7 14 (11.86%) Enterprise Architecture
7 14 (11.86%) Configuration Management
8 13 (11.02%) Multithreading
8 13 (11.02%) Waterfall
9 12 (10.17%) RAD
10 11 (9.322%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (9.322%) Business Development
10 11 (9.322%) SOA
10 11 (9.322%) MVVM
10 11 (9.322%) Data Architecture
11 10 (8.475%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (7.627%) Requirements Analysis
12 9 (7.627%) Project Management
13 8 (6.780%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.66%) Java
2 25 (21.19%) SQL
3 14 (11.86%) C#
3 14 (11.86%) XQuery
4 12 (10.17%) VBA
5 7 (5.932%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.237%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.542%) ECMAScript
8 1 (0.847%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.847%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.847%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (14.41%) Degree
2 7 (5.932%) MCITP
3 6 (5.085%) CIPD
3 6 (5.085%) MCTS
4 5 (4.237%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.390%) MCP
6 3 (2.542%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.695%) CCIE
7 2 (1.695%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.847%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.847%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.847%) MCSE
8 1 (0.847%) Sun Certification
8 1 (0.847%) CCNP
8 1 (0.847%) VCP5
8 1 (0.847%) VCAP
8 1 (0.847%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.542%) QA
2 2 (1.695%) Basel III
2 2 (1.695%) COBIT
System Software
1 14 (11.86%) Squid
2 11 (9.322%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.780%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.932%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.085%) UAG
5 6 (5.085%) Forefront TMG
5 6 (5.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (1.695%) vCloud
7 1 (0.847%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.847%) XenApp
7 1 (0.847%) XenServer
7 1 (0.847%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.847%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.932%) SCCM
2 6 (5.085%) SCOM
3 1 (0.847%) OpenView
3 1 (0.847%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (0.847%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.847%) Ionix
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Oracle
2 14 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.17%) IBM
4 11 (9.322%) VMware
4 11 (9.322%) Tableau
5 6 (5.085%) Cisco
6 4 (3.390%) Adobe
6 4 (3.390%) HP
6 4 (3.390%) EMC
6 4 (3.390%) FatWire
7 3 (2.542%) Twitter
8 2 (1.695%) hybris
8 2 (1.695%) Pega
8 2 (1.695%) Informatica
8 2 (1.695%) NetApp
8 2 (1.695%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.695%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.695%) Citrix
8 2 (1.695%) Cognos
8 2 (1.695%) Sybase
City, London
Key skills and requirements: strong track record in SOA / Solutions architect experience / strategic delivery / delivery of technology roadmaps / Business process management (BPM) / IBM process Server experience a bonus...
iKas International
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Individuals with web applications experience and strong core Java Spring skills are especially needed... Essential skillsJ2EE , JSP, JSTLSpring, MVCRESTful Web ServicesJMSHTML, CSS, Java Scripting, JQueryXQueryMSSQL/MYSQL Database scripting /...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
Senior Enterprise Architect(EMEA) Key Skills: Experience working on large scale database applications, data warehousing or BI initiatives Demonstrable Governance/Technical Design Authority experience Expertise with design patterns...
Annapurna HR
Salary: £95000 - £105000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
City, London
Senior Enterprise Architect(EMEA) Key Skills: Experience working on large scale database applications, data warehousing or BI initiatives... Expertise with design patterns for VLDB with heavy use of...
Annapurna
Salary: £95000 - £105000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
This is very much a Windows environment, using IIS, CDN, networking components, SAN technologies, etc... Skills required for the Infrastructure Engineer / Architect - Digital Entertainment - Solid Microsoft / Windows networking...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
with good front-end skills, HTML, XHTML, CSS, ASP.NET, C#.NET / SQL server) and experience of large-scale web environments & improving online performance to join this leading...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £60000 - £85000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Essential skills J2EE , JSP, JSTL Spring, MVC RESTful Web Services JMS HTML, CSS, Java Scripting, JQuery XQuery MSSQL/MYSQL Database scripting / programming using Java technologies TDD Desirable skills...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Experience with Rational Application Developer (RAD) or WSAD. Proven experience with Java/J2EE (EJB, JCA, JNDI, JSTL, Struts), Web Development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and Web 2.0 concepts (...
Sanderson
Salary: £70000 - £75000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013