The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architect
Rank 161 163 171
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 3 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.098% 0.088% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.103% 0.093% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 1
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% -28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
All Job Titles
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2905 3239 3482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 94.97% 95.01% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2480 2893 2979
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Architect
England

Software Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands Software Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architect
Salary Trend

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

East Midlands Software Architect Salary Trend

Software Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leicestershire - 1 £42,500 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £44,000 -
Software Architect
England

Software Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title.

1 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 10 (76.92%) C#
3 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
3 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET
4 7 (53.85%) WPF
4 7 (53.85%) LINQ
5 6 (46.15%) ADO.NET
5 6 (46.15%) OO
5 6 (46.15%) IIS
5 6 (46.15%) SQL
5 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
5 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
6 5 (38.46%) Silverlight
7 4 (30.77%) Capita
7 4 (30.77%) Subversion
7 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
7 4 (30.77%) Shibboleth
7 4 (30.77%) Red Gate
7 4 (30.77%) WCF
7 4 (30.77%) MSBuild
7 4 (30.77%) FishEye
7 4 (30.77%) SAML
7 4 (30.77%) Windows
7 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
7 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
7 4 (30.77%) Scrum
7 4 (30.77%) Apache
7 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
7 4 (30.77%) Python
7 4 (30.77%) PHP

Software Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET
3 7 (53.85%) LINQ
3 7 (53.85%) WPF
4 6 (46.15%) ADO.NET
5 5 (38.46%) Silverlight
6 4 (30.77%) SAML
6 4 (30.77%) WCF
7 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
8 1 (7.692%) Ajax
8 1 (7.692%) CSS
8 1 (7.692%) jQuery
8 1 (7.692%) HTML5
8 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (7.692%) Castle Windsor
8 1 (7.692%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) IIS
2 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Subversion
1 4 (30.77%) MSBuild
1 4 (30.77%) FishEye
2 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.692%) NUnit
General
1 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) N-Tier
1 1 (7.692%) SCADA
1 1 (7.692%) Blog
1 1 (7.692%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) OO
2 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) UML
3 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
4 1 (7.692%) TDD
4 1 (7.692%) Supplier Management
4 1 (7.692%) Web Development
4 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.692%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
4 1 (7.692%) SOA
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) PHP
4 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Capita
2 4 (30.77%) Red Gate
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) Siemens