England Architect Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Architect in their job title over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Royston Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Tewkesbury Thames Ditton Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	39
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	8002	8669
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.923 %	3.838 %
As % of the category below	4.483 %	4.420 %
Salaries quoted	6426	6656
Average minimum salary	£59,018	£57,812
Average salary	£65,344	£63,242
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Average maximum salary	£71,671	£68,673
UK excluding London average salary	£62,642	£62,171
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Job Titles England
Matching permanent IT job ads	178494	196128
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	87.52 %	86.83 %
Salaries quoted	146905	156319
Average minimum salary	£39,397	£40,817
Average salary	£43,124	£44,597
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Average maximum salary	£46,851	£48,377
UK excluding London average salary	£38,585	£39,157
% change on same period last year	-1.46 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Architect across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Architect across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Architect across the England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	+5	3793	£70,375	+5.03 %
2	South East	-2	1813	£62,806	+5.41 %
3	North West	-11	579	£61,143	-3.34 %
4	East of England	-9	435	£56,887	-2.45 %
5	South West	+37	428	£53,778	+7.64 %
6	West Midlands	+10	356	£60,829	+7.01 %
7	Yorkshire	-24	279	£55,158	+1.53 %
8	Midlands	+8	144	£71,934	+0.27 %
9	East Midlands	-9	112	£60,657	+18.47 %
10	North East	-21	23	£62,833	+5.74 %
11	South Coast	-11	1	£72,500	+35.40 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Architect also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Architect.

1 3646 (23.04 %) Java 2 3110 (19.65 %) J2EE 3 3078 (19.45 %) Finance 4 3026 (19.12 %) .NET 5 2983 (18.85 %) Oracle 6 2574 (16.27 %) Microsoft 7 1909 (12.06 %) SOA 8 1809 (11.43 %) Windows 9 1790 (11.31 %) SQL Server 10 1689 (10.67 %) Unix 11 1577 (9.967 %) C# 12 1492 (9.429 %) UML 13 1476 (9.328 %) SQL 14 1410 (8.911 %) Banking 15 1380 (8.721 %) XML

16 1369 (8.652 %) SAP 17 1316 (8.317 %) Degree 18 1199 (7.578 %) Enterprise Architecture 19 1189 (7.514 %) WebSphere 20 1048 (6.623 %) Technical Architecture 21 1030 (6.510 %) OO 22 1003 (6.339 %) TOGAF 23 986 (6.231 %) WebServices 24 982 (6.206 %) Telecoms 25 978 (6.181 %) Retail 26 965 (6.099 %) EAI 27 954 (6.029 %) WebLogic 28 951 (6.010 %) C++ 29 941 (5.947 %) Business Intelligence 30 939 (5.934 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Architect also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Architect. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3110 (19.65 %) J2EE 2 3026 (19.12 %) .NET 3 1380 (8.721 %) XML 4 1189 (7.514 %) WebSphere 5 986 (6.231 %) WebServices 6 817 (5.163 %) ASP.NET 7 717 (4.531 %) Middleware 8 531 (3.356 %) HTML 9 529 (3.343 %) .NET Framework 10 502 (3.173 %) Spring 11 450 (2.844 %) JSP 12 442 (2.793 %) Hibernate 13 397 (2.509 %) SOAP 14 311 (1.965 %) AJAX 15 281 (1.776 %) EJB 16 274 (1.732 %) Struts 17 272 (1.719 %) CSS 18 269 (1.700 %) Servlets 19 253 (1.599 %) JMS 20 178 (1.125 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 954 (6.029 %) WebLogic 2 660 (4.171 %) BizTalk Server 3 488 (3.084 %) MS Exchange 4 443 (2.800 %) SharePoint 5 379 (2.395 %) JBoss 6 368 (2.326 %) IIS 7 366 (2.313 %) NetWeaver 8 268 (1.694 %) Apache 9 262 (1.656 %) CMS 10 189 (1.194 %) Tomcat 11 180 (1.138 %) ESB 12 173 (1.093 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 151 (0.954 %) Lotus Domino 14 148 (0.935 %) WebLogic Portal 15 134 (0.847 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 120 (0.758 %) WebSphere MQ 17 116 (0.733 %) SAS 18 103 (0.651 %) MQSeries 19 102 (0.645 %) Oracle Application Server 20 98 (0.619 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 799 (5.050 %) MS Excel 1 799 (5.050 %) MS Visio 2 116 (0.733 %) MS Office 3 97 (0.613 %) MS Project 4 54 (0.341 %) Photoshop 5 41 (0.259 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 33 (0.209 %) MS PowerPoint 7 14 (0.088 %) MATLAB 8 11 (0.070 %) Windchill 9 8 (0.051 %) CA Clarity 10 6 (0.038 %) FreeHand 11 5 (0.032 %) AutoCAD 11 5 (0.032 %) SPSS 12 4 (0.025 %) Pro/ENGINEER 12 4 (0.025 %) Simulink 12 4 (0.025 %) InfoPath 13 3 (0.019 %) S-PLUS 13 3 (0.019 %) PrintSoft PReS 14 2 (0.013 %) InDesign 15 1 (0.006 %) FrameMaker	Business Applications 1 218 (1.378 %) Oracle EBS 2 123 (0.777 %) Oracle Applications 3 98 (0.619 %) Microsoft CRM 4 86 (0.544 %) Dynamics CRM 5 71 (0.449 %) Dynamics AX 6 70 (0.442 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 63 (0.398 %) SAP ERP 8 47 (0.297 %) SAP HR 9 43 (0.272 %) Axapta 9 43 (0.272 %) SAP CRM 10 39 (0.246 %) Oracle 11i 11 36 (0.228 %) Oracle ERP 12 32 (0.202 %) SAP CO 13 31 (0.196 %) Siebel Analytics 13 31 (0.196 %) SAP FI/CO 13 31 (0.196 %) SAP FI 14 28 (0.177 %) SAP Payroll 15 27 (0.171 %) SAP SCM 16 23 (0.145 %) Oracle Financials 17 22 (0.139 %) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking 1 721 (4.557 %) SAN 2 713 (4.506 %) Internet 3 623 (3.937 %) Firewall 4 529 (3.343 %) WAN 5 515 (3.255 %) LAN 6 355 (2.244 %) MPLS 7 302 (1.909 %) TCP/IP 8 212 (1.340 %) VPN 9 179 (1.131 %) HTTP 10 163 (1.030 %) VoIP 11 162 (1.024 %) DNS 12 160 (1.011 %) Network Security 13 133 (0.841 %) LDAP 14 130 (0.822 %) WINS 15 122 (0.771 %) OSPF 16 105 (0.664 %) BGP 17 100 (0.632 %) Wireless 18 88 (0.556 %) ATM 19 84 (0.531 %) CTI 19 84 (0.531 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1790 (11.31 %) SQL Server 2 829 (5.239 %) Datawarehouse 3 530 (3.350 %) RDBMS 4 445 (2.812 %) ETL 5 398 (2.515 %) SQL Server 2005 6 337 (2.130 %) DB2 7 321 (2.029 %) Oracle 10g 8 237 (1.498 %) SQL Server 2000 9 226 (1.428 %) OLAP 10 221 (1.397 %) BusinessObjects 11 156 (0.986 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 150 (0.948 %) MySQL 13 125 (0.790 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 114 (0.720 %) Oracle 9i 15 109 (0.689 %) SAP BW 16 104 (0.657 %) SQL Server 7 17 82 (0.518 %) Oracle OLAP 18 77 (0.487 %) SAP BI 19 72 (0.455 %) Data Mining 20 61 (0.386 %) Reference Data
Development Applications 1 141 (0.891 %) Visual Studio 2 136 (0.860 %) Ant 3 129 (0.815 %) Eclipse 4 114 (0.720 %) JUnit 5 81 (0.512 %) ERwin 6 73 (0.461 %) Rational Rose 7 65 (0.411 %) Flash 8 53 (0.335 %) Subversion 9 48 (0.303 %) CruiseControl 9 48 (0.303 %) Oracle Forms 10 45 (0.284 %) JDeveloper 11 42 (0.265 %) NUnit 12 41 (0.259 %) RequisitePro 13 38 (0.240 %) PVCS 14 30 (0.190 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 15 27 (0.171 %) ClearCase 16 26 (0.164 %) JIRA 17 25 (0.158 %) ProC 18 22 (0.139 %) JBuilder 19 18 (0.114 %) Log4j	General 1 3078 (19.45 %) Finance 2 1410 (8.911 %) Banking 3 982 (6.206 %) Telecoms 4 978 (6.181 %) Retail 5 778 (4.917 %) Pensions 6 690 (4.361 %) Health 7 638 (4.032 %) Insurance 8 631 (3.988 %) Government 9 549 (3.470 %) Investment Banking 10 308 (1.947 %) Education 11 265 (1.675 %) Marketing 12 234 (1.479 %) Front Office 13 228 (1.441 %) Financial Institution 14 208 (1.315 %) Manufacturing 15 181 (1.144 %) Back Office 16 176 (1.112 %) Billing 17 132 (0.834 %) Retail Banking 18 129 (0.815 %) Publishing 19 96 (0.607 %) Construction 20 81 (0.512 %) Electronics
Miscellaneous 1 272 (1.719 %) Client/Server 2 265 (1.675 %) N-Tier 3 253 (1.599 %) Management Information System 4 232 (1.466 %) Mainframe 5 211 (1.334 %) Derivative 6 204 (1.289 %) Asset Management 7 199 (1.258 %) Clustering 7 199 (1.258 %) Computer Science 8 127 (0.803 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 119 (0.752 %) Thin Client 9 119 (0.752 %) Fat Client 10 107 (0.676 %) Data Integration 11 97 (0.613 %) Web 2.0 12 96 (0.607 %) Equities 13 83 (0.525 %) IVR 13 83 (0.525 %) Fixed Income 14 76 (0.480 %) Replication 15 51 (0.322 %) Blog 16 48 (0.303 %) Multithreading 17 47 (0.297 %) Credit Derivative	Operating Systems 1 1809 (11.43 %) Windows 2 1689 (10.67 %) Unix 3 837 (5.290 %) Linux 4 499 (3.154 %) Solaris 5 334 (2.111 %) AIX 6 220 (1.390 %) Windows Server 2003 7 159 (1.005 %) Windows 2000 8 125 (0.790 %) Windows NT 9 74 (0.468 %) HPUX 10 36 (0.228 %) Symbian OS 11 35 (0.221 %) Windows XP 12 27 (0.171 %) Windows Mobile 13 13 (0.082 %) VMS 14 12 (0.076 %) SUSE 15 7 (0.044 %) FreeBSD 15 7 (0.044 %) zOS 16 6 (0.038 %) OpenVMS 16 6 (0.038 %) Tru64 17 5 (0.032 %) Windows CE 18 4 (0.025 %) Debian
Processes & Methodologies 1 1909 (12.06 %) SOA 2 1492 (9.429 %) UML 3 1199 (7.578 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 1048 (6.623 %) Technical Architecture 5 1030 (6.510 %) OO 6 1003 (6.339 %) TOGAF 7 965 (6.099 %) EAI 8 941 (5.947 %) Business Intelligence 9 939 (5.934 %) Project Management 10 810 (5.119 %) CRM 11 685 (4.329 %) Zachman Framework 12 675 (4.266 %) RUP 13 672 (4.247 %) E-Commerce 14 665 (4.203 %) Data Modelling 15 556 (3.514 %) Migration 16 523 (3.305 %) ERP 17 486 (3.071 %) Content Management 18 472 (2.983 %) ITIL 19 373 (2.357 %) Business Development 20 364 (2.300 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 3646 (23.04 %) Java 2 1577 (9.967 %) C# 3 1476 (9.328 %) SQL 4 951 (6.010 %) C++ 5 531 (3.356 %) C 6 412 (2.604 %) JavaScript 7 278 (1.757 %) VB.NET 8 238 (1.504 %) VB 9 229 (1.447 %) PL/SQL 10 192 (1.213 %) Perl 11 157 (0.992 %) VC++ 12 129 (0.815 %) ABAP 13 124 (0.784 %) Transact-SQL 14 111 (0.702 %) Shell Script 15 71 (0.449 %) PHP 16 68 (0.430 %) DHTML 17 66 (0.417 %) COBOL 18 35 (0.221 %) Python 19 30 (0.190 %) VBScript 20 27 (0.171 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 1316 (8.317 %) Degree 2 562 (3.552 %) Microsoft Certification 3 452 (2.857 %) Cisco Certification 4 331 (2.092 %) MCSE 5 207 (1.308 %) CCIE 6 173 (1.093 %) CCNP 7 151 (0.954 %) MCSD 8 118 (0.746 %) CCNA 9 113 (0.714 %) CCDP 10 84 (0.531 %) Citrix Certification 11 79 (0.499 %) CISSP 12 76 (0.480 %) IBM Certification 13 70 (0.442 %) CCIP 14 53 (0.335 %) CCEA 15 48 (0.303 %) ITIL Certification 16 47 (0.297 %) Sun Certification 17 46 (0.291 %) CCA 18 45 (0.284 %) CCDA 18 45 (0.284 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 19 41 (0.259 %) CCVP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 187 (1.182 %) QA 2 78 (0.493 %) SLA 3 52 (0.329 %) ISO27001 4 49 (0.310 %) BS7799 5 45 (0.284 %) COBIT 6 37 (0.234 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 36 (0.228 %) ISO17799 8 25 (0.158 %) Basel II 9 24 (0.152 %) PCI DSS 10 23 (0.145 %) WAI 11 16 (0.101 %) JSP 440 12 11 (0.070 %) PAS 78 13 8 (0.051 %) ISO9001 14 5 (0.032 %) BS15000 14 5 (0.032 %) ISO12207 15 3 (0.019 %) HL7 16 2 (0.013 %) RosettaNet 16 2 (0.013 %) GxP 17 1 (0.006 %) CESG Infosec 17 1 (0.006 %) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software 1 616 (3.893 %) Active Directory 2 167 (1.055 %) AquaLogic 3 120 (0.758 %) Oracle RAC 4 74 (0.468 %) Terminal Services 5 61 (0.386 %) MSMQ 6 45 (0.284 %) VMware ESX 7 37 (0.234 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 32 (0.202 %) MetaFrame 9 24 (0.152 %) NetBackup 10 21 (0.133 %) ISA Server 11 17 (0.107 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 14 (0.088 %) NFS 13 6 (0.038 %) Oracle RMAN 14 5 (0.032 %) Backup Exec 14 5 (0.032 %) Novell eDirectory 15 4 (0.025 %) Xen 15 4 (0.025 %) NDS 16 2 (0.013 %) VMware GSX 16 2 (0.013 %) VMware Workstation 17 1 (0.006 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler	Systems Management 1 89 (0.562 %) MOM 2 80 (0.506 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 67 (0.423 %) OpenView 4 35 (0.221 %) Tivoli 5 27 (0.171 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 6 24 (0.152 %) Netcool 7 19 (0.120 %) SCCM 7 19 (0.120 %) SCOM 8 17 (0.107 %) CA SiteMinder 9 14 (0.088 %) AutoSys 10 12 (0.076 %) MIIS 11 10 (0.063 %) Unicenter 12 9 (0.057 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 13 8 (0.051 %) BMC PATROL 13 8 (0.051 %) OpenView Configuration Management 14 7 (0.044 %) Legato 15 6 (0.038 %) CiscoWorks 15 6 (0.038 %) BMC Marimba 15 6 (0.038 %) TIBCO Hawk 16 4 (0.025 %) Novell Identity Manager
Vendors 1 2983 (18.85 %) Oracle 2 2574 (16.27 %) Microsoft 3 1369 (8.652 %) SAP 4 697 (4.405 %) Cisco 5 659 (4.165 %) IBM 6 400 (2.528 %) Citrix 7 377 (2.383 %) VMware 8 355 (2.244 %) Sun 9 352 (2.225 %) BEA 10 264 (1.668 %) Siebel 11 256 (1.618 %) EMC 12 251 (1.586 %) Sybase 13 231 (1.460 %) webMethods 14 221 (1.397 %) Business Objects 15 219 (1.384 %) HP 16 195 (1.232 %) TIBCO 17 163 (1.030 %) Vignette 18 152 (0.961 %) Juniper 19 137 (0.866 %) Red Hat 20 124 (0.784 %) Ab Initio