The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills 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 Software 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architecture
Rank 302 263 279
Rank change year-on-year
-39 +16
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 19 60 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.163% 0.459% 0.337%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.209% 0.599% 0.446%
Number of salaries quoted 18 52 48
Average salary £65,000 £68,250 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +13.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £52,750 £50,250 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £85,500
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £50,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-8.00% +21.95%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9087 10019 11653
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.90% 76.69% 75.54%
Number of salaries quoted 7796 9093 10432
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Architecture
London

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Software Architecture Salary Trend

Software Architecture
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Software Architecture Salary Histogram

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 35 (62.50%) OO
2 31 (55.36%) Java
2 31 (55.36%) Agile Software Development
3 28 (50.00%) .NET
4 23 (41.07%) Web Services
5 21 (37.50%) XML
5 21 (37.50%) SOA
6 18 (32.14%) SQL
7 16 (28.57%) C#
7 16 (28.57%) HTML
8 15 (26.79%) Banking
8 15 (26.79%) ESB
9 14 (25.00%) Degree
9 14 (25.00%) J2EE
9 14 (25.00%) XSLT
9 14 (25.00%) OOP
10 13 (23.21%) OOA/OOD
10 13 (23.21%) Project Management
11 12 (21.43%) Finance
11 12 (21.43%) TDD
11 12 (21.43%) UML
12 11 (19.64%) SQL Server
12 11 (19.64%) C++
12 11 (19.64%) Perl
12 11 (19.64%) WCF
12 11 (19.64%) Ruby
13 10 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
13 10 (17.86%) Computer Science
13 10 (17.86%) XPath
13 10 (17.86%) GWT

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 28 (50.00%) .NET
2 23 (41.07%) Web Services
3 21 (37.50%) XML
4 16 (28.57%) HTML
5 14 (25.00%) J2EE
5 14 (25.00%) XSLT
6 11 (19.64%) WCF
7 10 (17.86%) GWT
7 10 (17.86%) REST
7 10 (17.86%) SAML
7 10 (17.86%) JMS
7 10 (17.86%) JFC
8 7 (12.50%) CSS
9 6 (10.71%) ASP.NET
10 5 (8.929%) Zend Framework
10 5 (8.929%) jQuery
10 5 (8.929%) WAMP
10 5 (8.929%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (8.929%) HTML5
10 5 (8.929%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 15 (26.79%) ESB
2 5 (8.929%) IIS
3 3 (5.357%) CMS
3 3 (5.357%) Documentum
3 3 (5.357%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.571%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.786%) Magento
5 1 (1.786%) Drupal
5 1 (1.786%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.786%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.786%) Apache
5 1 (1.786%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.786%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.786%) MS Project
1 1 (1.786%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.786%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.571%) LDAP
2 1 (1.786%) BSS
2 1 (1.786%) Intranet
2 1 (1.786%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.71%) MySQL
4 2 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.786%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.786%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Hudson
1 10 (17.86%) Maven
2 6 (10.71%) Subversion
3 5 (8.929%) PHPUnit
4 2 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.786%) JIRA
5 1 (1.786%) NUnit
5 1 (1.786%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.786%) Ant
General
1 15 (26.79%) Banking
2 12 (21.43%) Finance
3 6 (10.71%) Front Office
4 4 (7.143%) French Language
4 4 (7.143%) German Language
4 4 (7.143%) Italian Language
5 3 (5.357%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.357%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.571%) Publishing
6 2 (3.571%) Back Office
6 2 (3.571%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.786%) Local Government
7 1 (1.786%) Legal
7 1 (1.786%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Architect
2 17 (30.36%) Developer
3 13 (23.21%) Software Architect
4 10 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 7 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (10.71%) Development Manager
7 5 (8.929%) Real Time Software Engineer
7 5 (8.929%) Real Time Engineer
7 5 (8.929%) PHP Developer
7 5 (8.929%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (8.929%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) .NET Team Leader
8 3 (5.357%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.357%) Development Team Leader
9 2 (3.571%) Analyst
9 2 (3.571%) Java Architect
9 2 (3.571%) .NET Development Manager
9 2 (3.571%) Java Software Architect
9 2 (3.571%) Development Team Manager
10 1 (1.786%) Senior Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Computer Science
1 10 (17.86%) PaaS
2 9 (16.07%) Fixed Income
3 8 (14.29%) Derivative
4 5 (8.929%) Mathematics
4 5 (8.929%) Open Source
5 2 (3.571%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.786%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.786%) Equities
6 1 (1.786%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.786%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.786%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (8.929%) Android
2 5 (8.929%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.357%) Windows
4 2 (3.571%) Solaris
4 2 (3.571%) SUSE
5 1 (1.786%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (62.50%) OO
2 31 (55.36%) Agile Software Development
3 21 (37.50%) SOA
4 14 (25.00%) OOP
5 13 (23.21%) OOA/OOD
5 13 (23.21%) Project Management
6 12 (21.43%) TDD
6 12 (21.43%) UML
7 10 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (17.86%) RUP
8 9 (16.07%) Change Management
8 9 (16.07%) Unified Process
9 7 (12.50%) Multithreading
9 7 (12.50%) OOD
10 6 (10.71%) Migration
11 5 (8.929%) Product Management
11 5 (8.929%) BDD
11 5 (8.929%) MVC
12 4 (7.143%) Use Case
12 4 (7.143%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (55.36%) Java
2 18 (32.14%) SQL
3 16 (28.57%) C#
4 11 (19.64%) C++
4 11 (19.64%) Perl
4 11 (19.64%) Ruby
5 10 (17.86%) XPath
5 10 (17.86%) Python
6 8 (14.29%) C
7 7 (12.50%) PHP
8 5 (8.929%) PHP5
8 5 (8.929%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.786%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.786%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.929%) PMP
3 1 (1.786%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.786%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.357%) QA
2 1 (1.786%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 1 (1.786%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) MOM
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Zend
3 3 (5.357%) EMC
4 2 (3.571%) Sybase
4 2 (3.571%) Sun
5 1 (1.786%) Capita
5 1 (1.786%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.786%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.786%) SAP
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