England Lead Architect Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Lead Architect
Location Bath Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Canary Wharf Cheshire Chippenham City of London Croydon East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Kent Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newport North West Northampton Northamptonshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tewkesbury UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	620	652
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching permanent IT job ads	258	338
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.149 %	0.145 %
As % of the category below	0.175 %	0.167 %
Salaries quoted	204	268
Average minimum salary	£64,689	£68,230
Average salary	£69,568	£72,694
% change on same period last year	-4.30 %
Average maximum salary	£74,447	£77,159
UK excluding London average salary	£64,430	£66,398
% change on same period last year	-2.96 %
Job Titles England
Matching permanent IT job ads	147664	202900
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	85.48 %	87.31 %
Salaries quoted	124179	163979
Average minimum salary	£39,004	£40,365
Average salary	£42,652	£44,143
% change on same period last year	-3.37 %
Average maximum salary	£46,300	£47,921
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
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Lead Architect
Demand Trend

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

Lead Architect
Salary Trend

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

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Architect across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
London	+28	136	£73,980	-2.77 %
South East	-1	39	£74,219	+15.83 %
South West	+52	32	£46,935	-9.15 %
East Midlands	+9	27	£77,741	+21.94 %
East of England	+24	7	£66,607	+2.47 %
North West	+27	6	£64,667	-9.23 %
West Midlands	+20	5	£74,375	+41.66 %
Yorkshire	+3	2	-	-
South Coast	-	1	£85,000	-

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Lead Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title.

1 173 (29.57 %) Java 2 142 (24.27 %) Finance 3 132 (22.56 %) .NET 4 105 (17.95 %) Oracle 5 103 (17.61 %) Banking 6 101 (17.26 %) C# 7 83 (14.19 %) MS Visio 8 76 (12.99 %) J2EE 9 69 (11.79 %) SQL 9 69 (11.79 %) C++ 10 67 (11.45 %) Microsoft 11 63 (10.77 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 60 (10.26 %) SQL Server 13 53 (9.060 %) SOA 14 52 (8.889 %) Degree

15 51 (8.718 %) XML 15 51 (8.718 %) Project Management 16 50 (8.547 %) Market Risk 17 48 (8.205 %) Retail 18 46 (7.863 %) Technical Architecture 18 46 (7.863 %) SAP 19 45 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence 20 41 (7.009 %) MS Excel 21 39 (6.667 %) Middleware 22 37 (6.325 %) UNIX 22 37 (6.325 %) Linux 23 36 (6.154 %) OO 23 36 (6.154 %) Internet 24 35 (5.983 %) Security Cleared 24 35 (5.983 %) UML

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 132 (22.56 %) .NET 2 76 (12.99 %) J2EE 3 51 (8.718 %) XML 4 39 (6.667 %) Middleware 5 32 (5.470 %) ASP.NET 5 32 (5.470 %) WebServices 6 31 (5.299 %) .NET Framework 7 30 (5.128 %) WebSphere 8 28 (4.786 %) HTML 9 27 (4.615 %) AJAX 10 22 (3.761 %) Servlets 11 17 (2.906 %) SOAP 12 15 (2.564 %) Hibernate 13 14 (2.393 %) CSS 13 14 (2.393 %) Spring 14 13 (2.222 %) JSP 14 13 (2.222 %) J2ME 15 11 (1.880 %) DOM 15 11 (1.880 %) JDBC 15 11 (1.880 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 21 (3.590 %) Apache 2 19 (3.248 %) WebLogic 2 19 (3.248 %) BizTalk Server 3 17 (2.906 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 11 (1.880 %) ESB 5 10 (1.709 %) Oracle Application Server 5 10 (1.709 %) IIS 5 10 (1.709 %) JBoss 6 6 (1.026 %) Lotus Domino 6 6 (1.026 %) MS Exchange 6 6 (1.026 %) Documentum 6 6 (1.026 %) CICS 7 5 (0.855 %) SAS 7 5 (0.855 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 4 (0.684 %) Oracle Spatial 8 4 (0.684 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 4 (0.684 %) WPS 9 3 (0.513 %) ArcGIS 9 3 (0.513 %) CMS 9 3 (0.513 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 83 (14.19 %) MS Visio 2 41 (7.009 %) MS Excel 3 8 (1.368 %) CA Clarity 4 3 (0.513 %) ArcView 4 3 (0.513 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.171 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 4 (0.684 %) SAP CRM 1 4 (0.684 %) SAP MDM 2 2 (0.342 %) Dynamics CRM 2 2 (0.342 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (0.171 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (0.171 %) SAP FI/CO 3 1 (0.171 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.171 %) SAP SD 3 1 (0.171 %) SAP R/3 3 1 (0.171 %) SAP FI 3 1 (0.171 %) Hyperion Planning 3 1 (0.171 %) Teamcenter 3 1 (0.171 %) SAP CO 3 1 (0.171 %) HFM
Communications & Networking 1 36 (6.154 %) Internet 2 12 (2.051 %) WAN 3 11 (1.880 %) SNA 4 10 (1.709 %) SAN 4 10 (1.709 %) LAN 5 8 (1.368 %) MPLS 6 6 (1.026 %) Firewall 7 5 (0.855 %) Wireless 7 5 (0.855 %) HTTP 7 5 (0.855 %) 802.11 7 5 (0.855 %) 802.15 8 4 (0.684 %) Ethernet 9 3 (0.513 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (0.513 %) Network Security 10 2 (0.342 %) BT 21CN 10 2 (0.342 %) IPsec 10 2 (0.342 %) WiMAX 10 2 (0.342 %) DSL 10 2 (0.342 %) RTP 10 2 (0.342 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 60 (10.26 %) SQL Server 2 30 (5.128 %) Datawarehouse 3 26 (4.444 %) RDBMS 4 22 (3.761 %) SAP BW 5 14 (2.393 %) DB2 6 12 (2.051 %) DTS 7 10 (1.709 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 10 (1.709 %) SQL Server 2000 7 10 (1.709 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 10 (1.709 %) SQL Server 2005 7 10 (1.709 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 7 (1.197 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 7 (1.197 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 5 (0.855 %) ETL 10 4 (0.684 %) MySQL 10 4 (0.684 %) GIS 11 3 (0.513 %) Oracle 10g 11 3 (0.513 %) OLAP 11 3 (0.513 %) Oracle OLAP 12 2 (0.342 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 10 (1.709 %) Eclipse 2 8 (1.368 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (1.197 %) NUnit 3 7 (1.197 %) CruiseControl 4 6 (1.026 %) Flash 5 3 (0.513 %) Subversion 6 2 (0.342 %) Ant 6 2 (0.342 %) JUnit 7 1 (0.171 %) Oracle Forms 7 1 (0.171 %) Synon 7 1 (0.171 %) RequisitePro 7 1 (0.171 %) ERwin	General 1 142 (24.27 %) Finance 2 103 (17.61 %) Banking 3 48 (8.205 %) Retail 4 32 (5.470 %) Health 5 25 (4.274 %) Investment Banking 6 24 (4.103 %) Insurance 7 21 (3.590 %) Front Office 8 18 (3.077 %) Manufacturing 8 18 (3.077 %) Pensions 8 18 (3.077 %) Government 9 13 (2.222 %) Education 10 11 (1.880 %) Music 11 10 (1.709 %) Telecoms 12 9 (1.538 %) Retail Banking 13 7 (1.197 %) Publishing 13 7 (1.197 %) Aerospace 14 6 (1.026 %) Financial Institution 15 5 (0.855 %) Electronics 15 5 (0.855 %) Marketing 15 5 (0.855 %) FMCG
Miscellaneous 1 50 (8.547 %) Market Risk 2 25 (4.274 %) CESG 3 23 (3.932 %) Credit Risk 4 18 (3.077 %) Derivative 5 16 (2.735 %) Management Information System 6 15 (2.564 %) N-Tier 7 14 (2.393 %) CESG CLAS 8 12 (2.051 %) Mainframe 9 11 (1.880 %) Grid Computing 9 11 (1.880 %) Equities 9 11 (1.880 %) Client/Server 9 11 (1.880 %) Data Integration 10 10 (1.709 %) Fixed Income 11 9 (1.538 %) Web 2.0 12 7 (1.197 %) Credit Derivative 13 5 (0.855 %) Equity Derivative 14 3 (0.513 %) Interest Rate Derivative 14 3 (0.513 %) Computer Science 15 2 (0.342 %) E-Learning 15 2 (0.342 %) Biometrics	Operating Systems 1 37 (6.325 %) UNIX 1 37 (6.325 %) Linux 2 17 (2.906 %) Windows 3 13 (2.222 %) Solaris 4 10 (1.709 %) AIX 5 9 (1.538 %) Windows Server 2003 6 5 (0.855 %) zOS 6 5 (0.855 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (0.342 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.171 %) Windows Server 2008 8 1 (0.171 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 63 (10.77 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 53 (9.060 %) SOA 3 51 (8.718 %) Project Management 4 46 (7.863 %) Technical Architecture 5 45 (7.692 %) Business Intelligence 6 36 (6.154 %) OO 7 35 (5.983 %) UML 7 35 (5.983 %) Security Cleared 8 30 (5.128 %) Data Architecture 8 30 (5.128 %) Information Management 9 23 (3.932 %) E-Commerce 10 20 (3.419 %) Data Management 11 17 (2.906 %) Stakeholder Management 12 16 (2.735 %) Migration 12 16 (2.735 %) Data Modelling 13 15 (2.564 %) Information Security 14 14 (2.393 %) Communications Security 14 14 (2.393 %) Risk Management 15 12 (2.051 %) ERP 16 11 (1.880 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 173 (29.57 %) Java 2 101 (17.26 %) C# 3 69 (11.79 %) C++ 3 69 (11.79 %) SQL 4 30 (5.128 %) JavaScript 5 18 (3.077 %) VB 6 15 (2.564 %) VB.NET 7 14 (2.393 %) Transact-SQL 8 13 (2.222 %) C 9 11 (1.880 %) Perl 10 9 (1.538 %) PHP 10 9 (1.538 %) PL/SQL 10 9 (1.538 %) DHTML 10 9 (1.538 %) Tcl 11 6 (1.026 %) COBOL 12 3 (0.513 %) Python 13 2 (0.342 %) Ruby 14 1 (0.171 %) JCL 14 1 (0.171 %) ABAP 14 1 (0.171 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 52 (8.889 %) Degree 2 28 (4.786 %) Microsoft Certification 3 27 (4.615 %) MCSE 4 25 (4.274 %) Cisco Certification 5 24 (4.103 %) CCDA 6 22 (3.761 %) CCNA 7 17 (2.906 %) Chartered Engineer 8 2 (0.342 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 9 1 (0.171 %) CCIE 9 1 (0.171 %) MCP 9 1 (0.171 %) MCSD 9 1 (0.171 %) OCP 9 1 (0.171 %) Oracle Certification 9 1 (0.171 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.171 %) CIMA 9 1 (0.171 %) CCVP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.342 %) QA 1 2 (0.342 %) HMG Infosec 2 1 (0.171 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 6 (1.026 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.855 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (0.513 %) VMware ESX 4 2 (0.342 %) ISA Server 4 2 (0.342 %) VMware Server 5 1 (0.171 %) NFS 5 1 (0.171 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.171 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 3 (0.513 %) OpenView 1 3 (0.513 %) Tivoli 1 3 (0.513 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (0.342 %) SCCM 2 2 (0.342 %) SCOM 2 2 (0.342 %) MOM 3 1 (0.171 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 105 (17.95 %) Oracle 2 67 (11.45 %) Microsoft 3 46 (7.863 %) SAP 4 18 (3.077 %) Cisco 5 10 (1.709 %) IBM 5 10 (1.709 %) Citrix 6 9 (1.538 %) VMware 7 8 (1.368 %) HP 8 7 (1.197 %) Altiris 8 7 (1.197 %) webMethods 9 6 (1.026 %) Teradata 10 5 (0.855 %) Pega 10 5 (0.855 %) EMC 10 5 (0.855 %) Ab Initio 10 5 (0.855 %) Sun 10 5 (0.855 %) Informatica 11 4 (0.684 %) ESRI 12 3 (0.513 %) BT 12 3 (0.513 %) Sybase 13 2 (0.342 %) Business Objects