The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Designer
Rank 311 316 329
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 10 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.086% 0.054% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.058% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 2
Average salary £60,000 £70,000 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+4.76% -4.54%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
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%
Solutions Designer
London

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Salary Trend

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

City of London Solutions Designer Salary Trend

Solutions Designer
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Solutions Designer Salary Histogram

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 5 (27.78%) IBM
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) UML
4 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
4 4 (22.22%) ISEB
4 4 (22.22%) Maximo
4 4 (22.22%) WebSphere
5 3 (16.67%) Banking
5 3 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Clustering
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (11.11%) Advertising
6 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.11%) ESB
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) FMCG
6 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 2 (11.11%) ERP
6 2 (11.11%) .NET
6 2 (11.11%) SAP
6 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) WebSphere
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (5.556%) COM
3 1 (5.556%) J2EE
3 1 (5.556%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) ESB
2 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (5.556%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Maximo
2 1 (5.556%) SAP SD
2 1 (5.556%) SAP MM
2 1 (5.556%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Intranet
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
1 1 (5.556%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Advertising
4 1 (5.556%) Retail
4 1 (5.556%) Billing
4 1 (5.556%) Back Office
4 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
1 2 (11.11%) FMCG
2 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.556%) Open Source
2 1 (5.556%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.556%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
1 1 (5.556%) Solaris
1 1 (5.556%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) UML
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
2 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
2 2 (11.11%) ERP
2 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Modelling
3 1 (5.556%) SOA
3 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.556%) B2B
3 1 (5.556%) B2C
3 1 (5.556%) CRM
3 1 (5.556%) Project Management
3 1 (5.556%) Logistics
3 1 (5.556%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (5.556%) Validation
3 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.556%) PDM
3 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (5.556%) C
3 1 (5.556%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) ISEB
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) IBM
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 1 (5.556%) hybris
5 1 (5.556%) Siebel
5 1 (5.556%) Citrix
5 1 (5.556%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (5.556%) Cerillion
5 1 (5.556%) EMC