The first table below looks at the demand for Technical 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 Technical Architecture over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architecture
Rank 187 176 201
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +25
Permanent jobs citing Technical Architecture 143 146 140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 1.176% 1.112% 0.885%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.509% 1.457% 1.170%
Number of salaries quoted 131 129 135
Average salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.79% +11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £93,000 £98,000
UK excluding London average salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year
-7.27% -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9475 10022 11961
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.91% 76.30% 75.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8154 9133 10675
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 £37,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Technical Architecture
London

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Salary Trend

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

City of London Technical Architecture Salary Trend

Technical Architecture
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Architecture across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Technical Architecture Salary Histogram

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture.

1 101 (34.47%) SQL Server
2 82 (27.99%) Banking
3 81 (27.65%) Finance
4 72 (24.57%) Java
5 59 (20.14%) Project Management
6 56 (19.11%) SQL
7 55 (18.77%) Investment Banking
8 54 (18.43%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (18.09%) Oracle
9 53 (18.09%) Microsoft
10 49 (16.72%) SOA
11 47 (16.04%) .NET
12 46 (15.70%) Retail
13 45 (15.36%) Enterprise Architecture
13 45 (15.36%) Web Services
14 44 (15.02%) C#
15 42 (14.33%) CSS
16 40 (13.65%) HTML
16 40 (13.65%) Degree
17 38 (12.97%) Data Architecture
18 37 (12.63%) Windows
18 37 (12.63%) MS Excel
19 36 (12.29%) VMware
20 35 (11.95%) VMware Infrastructure
21 32 (10.92%) Cisco
22 31 (10.58%) TOGAF
22 31 (10.58%) IBM
22 31 (10.58%) J2EE
23 30 (10.24%) MVC
24 29 (9.898%) Agile Software Development

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 47 (16.04%) .NET
2 45 (15.36%) Web Services
3 42 (14.33%) CSS
4 40 (13.65%) HTML
5 31 (10.58%) J2EE
6 29 (9.898%) jQuery
7 24 (8.191%) Middleware
8 23 (7.850%) Spring
9 20 (6.826%) WebSphere
9 20 (6.826%) ASP.NET
9 20 (6.826%) XSLT
10 19 (6.485%) XML
11 18 (6.143%) JMS
11 18 (6.143%) JSP
12 17 (5.802%) Struts
12 17 (5.802%) Spring MVC
12 17 (5.802%) JSTL
12 17 (5.802%) RESTful
13 16 (5.461%) .NET Framework
14 10 (3.413%) MSMQ
Application Platforms
1 23 (7.850%) Apache
2 13 (4.437%) Tomcat
2 13 (4.437%) MQSeries
2 13 (4.437%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (3.413%) WebLogic
4 9 (3.072%) SharePoint
5 8 (2.730%) CMS
6 7 (2.389%) IIS
7 6 (2.048%) ESB
7 6 (2.048%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (1.706%) Lync
8 5 (1.706%) Windows Azure
9 3 (1.024%) Amazon AWS
9 3 (1.024%) Apache Solr
9 3 (1.024%) WorkSite
9 3 (1.024%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (1.024%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.683%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.683%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.683%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 37 (12.63%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.683%) PowerPivot
3 1 (0.341%) MS Project
3 1 (0.341%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.413%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.730%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.365%) Endur
3 4 (1.365%) Findur
4 3 (1.024%) Tridion
5 1 (0.341%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.341%) Oracle BRM
5 1 (0.341%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.461%) WAN
1 16 (5.461%) VPN
2 14 (4.778%) Firewall
3 13 (4.437%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (3.754%) MPLS
4 11 (3.754%) Ethernet
5 10 (3.413%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.413%) SAN
5 10 (3.413%) Network Security
6 8 (2.730%) NAS
6 8 (2.730%) LAN
7 7 (2.389%) DHCP
7 7 (2.389%) DNS
8 6 (2.048%) Wireless
8 6 (2.048%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.706%) WLAN
10 4 (1.365%) HTTP
11 3 (1.024%) Internet
11 3 (1.024%) VLAN
12 2 (0.683%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (34.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (7.509%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (6.826%) MarkLogic
4 19 (6.485%) MySQL
4 19 (6.485%) SQL Server 2005
5 17 (5.802%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (4.778%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.389%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.706%) Data Mart
9 4 (1.365%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.365%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (1.024%) IDOL
10 3 (1.024%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (1.024%) Big Data
11 2 (0.683%) IBM InfoSphere
11 2 (0.683%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.683%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.683%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.683%) Oracle OWB
11 2 (0.683%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (2.389%) Subversion
2 4 (1.365%) Maven
2 4 (1.365%) Selenium
2 4 (1.365%) Mockito
2 4 (1.365%) JUnit
2 4 (1.365%) Rational Rose
3 3 (1.024%) NUnit
3 3 (1.024%) Rhino Mocks
3 3 (1.024%) Moq
3 3 (1.024%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.683%) RequisitePro
4 2 (0.683%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.341%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.341%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.341%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.341%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.341%) Capistrano
5 1 (0.341%) EasyMock
5 1 (0.341%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.341%) Ant
General
1 82 (27.99%) Banking
2 81 (27.65%) Finance
3 55 (18.77%) Investment Banking
4 46 (15.70%) Retail
5 25 (8.532%) Retail Banking
6 22 (7.509%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.461%) Publishing
8 14 (4.778%) Advertising
9 9 (3.072%) Marketing
10 6 (2.048%) Law
11 5 (1.706%) Legal
11 5 (1.706%) Front Office
11 5 (1.706%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.024%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.024%) Back Office
12 3 (1.024%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.341%) International Banking
13 1 (0.341%) Billing
Job Titles
1 112 (38.23%) Architect
2 69 (23.55%) Developer
3 42 (14.33%) Senior Developer
4 37 (12.63%) Solutions Architect
5 35 (11.95%) Java Developer
6 34 (11.60%) Consultant
7 32 (10.92%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (8.191%) Senior Architect
8 24 (8.191%) Technical Architect
9 23 (7.850%) Enterprise Architect
10 18 (6.143%) Java Architect
11 17 (5.802%) Senior Java Architect
12 14 (4.778%) Team Leader
13 11 (3.754%) Principal Consultant
13 11 (3.754%) .NET Developer
13 11 (3.754%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.754%) Lead Developer
14 10 (3.413%) Systems Support
14 10 (3.413%) ASP.NET Developer
14 10 (3.413%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.43%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (7.509%) Computer Science
3 17 (5.802%) Semantic Web
4 10 (3.413%) Digital Media
4 10 (3.413%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.072%) Economics
5 9 (3.072%) Data Conversion
6 6 (2.048%) PMI
7 5 (1.706%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.365%) Derivative
8 4 (1.365%) Data Integration
8 4 (1.365%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.365%) Equities
9 3 (1.024%) iPhone
9 3 (1.024%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.024%) AS400
9 3 (1.024%) EPoS
10 2 (0.683%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.683%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.683%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.63%) Windows
2 16 (5.461%) Linux
3 6 (2.048%) Android
4 5 (1.706%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (1.365%) UNIX
6 3 (1.024%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.024%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.024%) Windows XP
6 3 (1.024%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.683%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.341%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (20.14%) Project Management
2 49 (16.72%) SOA
3 45 (15.36%) Enterprise Architecture
4 38 (12.97%) Data Architecture
5 31 (10.58%) TOGAF
6 30 (10.24%) MVC
7 29 (9.898%) Agile Software Development
7 29 (9.898%) TDD
8 28 (9.556%) EAI
8 28 (9.556%) ITIL
9 26 (8.874%) Scrum
10 22 (7.509%) Business Analysis
11 21 (7.167%) Zachman Framework
12 20 (6.826%) MODAF
12 20 (6.826%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (6.485%) Waterfall
14 18 (6.143%) Change Control
15 17 (5.802%) OO
16 15 (5.119%) Data Modelling
16 15 (5.119%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.57%) Java
2 56 (19.11%) SQL
3 44 (15.02%) C#
4 25 (8.532%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.485%) T-SQL
6 17 (5.802%) XQuery
7 7 (2.389%) C
8 5 (1.706%) Scala
9 4 (1.365%) Python
9 4 (1.365%) VBScript
10 3 (1.024%) VB
10 3 (1.024%) VB6
10 3 (1.024%) Ruby
11 2 (0.683%) VBA
11 2 (0.683%) C++
11 2 (0.683%) Perl
11 2 (0.683%) PHP
12 1 (0.341%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (13.65%) Degree
2 14 (4.778%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (3.413%) DV Cleared
3 10 (3.413%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.072%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.389%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.389%) CCNP
6 6 (2.048%) MCTS
6 6 (2.048%) MCITP
6 6 (2.048%) CIPD
7 4 (1.365%) CCIE
7 4 (1.365%) CISSP
7 4 (1.365%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.365%) CCNA
8 3 (1.024%) ISEB
9 2 (0.683%) MCSE
9 2 (0.683%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.683%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.683%) APMP
10 1 (0.341%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.850%) QA
2 22 (7.509%) COBIT
3 11 (3.754%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.683%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (11.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (5.802%) Squid
3 12 (4.096%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.413%) vSphere
5 6 (2.048%) vCloud
6 3 (1.024%) XenApp
7 2 (0.683%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.683%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.683%) VMware ESX
7 2 (0.683%) Xen
8 1 (0.341%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.341%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.341%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (1.024%) SCCM
2 2 (0.683%) SCOM
2 2 (0.683%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.341%) Nagios
3 1 (0.341%) Puppet
3 1 (0.341%) Splunk
Vendors
1 53 (18.09%) Oracle
1 53 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 36 (12.29%) VMware
3 32 (10.92%) Cisco
4 31 (10.58%) IBM
5 27 (9.215%) TIBCO
6 22 (7.509%) Juniper
7 19 (6.485%) Blue Coat
7 19 (6.485%) HP
8 18 (6.143%) F5
9 14 (4.778%) Citrix
10 13 (4.437%) SAP
11 12 (4.096%) webMethods
12 11 (3.754%) Computacenter
12 11 (3.754%) Software AG
13 10 (3.413%) JBoss
13 10 (3.413%) Sybase
14 6 (2.048%) Sitecore
15 5 (1.706%) Polycom
15 5 (1.706%) Pega
City, London
Global market leading digital media client seek an experienced & accomplished Infrastructure Technical Architect at their offices in London to design & architect next generation media platforms. Key skills/experience: *...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
City, London
Key skills/experience required :- * Solution / Technical Architecture background using technologies such as .NET, J2EE, Websphere, Biztalk, Oracle and SQL Server; * experience in the usage, design and development of...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £65000 - £72000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
5+ years technical exposure to Winforms, C# and SQL Server is essential to be considered for the role. The candidate should also possess good understanding of technical architecture,...
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Bonuses
Posted: 11 June 2013
City, London
PEGA, finance, london, java, CRM, databases, architect, lead, agile A leading financial software house is looking to hire a Lead PEGA Architect responsible for the development and implementation...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £85000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 16 June 2013
City of 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 HR
Salary: £95000 - £105000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Annapurna
Salary: £95000 - £105000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Bonuses
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
bridgenoble
Salary: £95000 - £105000 per annum + + £80k Package
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 6 June 2013
City of London
Annapurna HR
Salary: £100000 - £110000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 30 May 2013
City, London
Annapurna
Salary: £100000 - £110000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Annapurna HR
Salary: £95000 - £105000 per annum + 25% bonus +car allow. + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £38000 - £48000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Annapurna HR
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum + bonus, car allowance, bens
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
Code IT Recruitment
Salary: From £60,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013