Lead Architect Jobs in England
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. 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 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 England region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Architect
Rank 508 465 511
Rank change year-on-year
-43 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 362 460 366
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.358% 0.406% 0.311%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.379% 0.428% 0.330%
Number of salaries quoted 301 361 266
Average salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £51,500
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
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England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Lead Architect
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Lead Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Lead Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Architect
Salary Trend

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

England Lead Architect Salary Trend

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Architect across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Lead Architect Salary Histogram

Lead Architect
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 24 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
London -42 200 £82,500 +10.00%
East of England +31 51 £75,000 +3.44%
South East +11 51 £64,000 -14.66%
West Midlands -7 27 £70,000 +14.28%
South West +15 17 £52,000 -35.00%
North West -1 15 £55,250 +0.91%
Yorkshire +11 13 £104,000 +38.66%
East Midlands -5 3 £60,000 +46.34%
Lead Architect
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Lead Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 186 (26.01%) Banking
2 157 (21.96%) Finance
3 155 (21.68%) .NET
4 129 (18.04%) SQL
5 124 (17.34%) Java
6 121 (16.92%) TOGAF
7 116 (16.22%) C#
8 114 (15.94%) Microsoft
9 88 (12.31%) Enterprise Architecture
10 86 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 84 (11.75%) OO
12 82 (11.47%) Retail
13 80 (11.19%) Oracle
14 79 (11.05%) SQL Server
15 73 (10.21%) Degree
16 70 (9.790%) Investment Banking
16 70 (9.790%) SOA
17 69 (9.650%) Windows
18 62 (8.671%) Business Intelligence
18 62 (8.671%) Project Management
19 61 (8.531%) E-Commerce
20 60 (8.392%) Technical Architecture
21 53 (7.413%) UNIX
21 53 (7.413%) UML
22 52 (7.273%) ETL
23 50 (6.993%) Internet
23 50 (6.993%) Back Office
24 44 (6.154%) Agile Software Development
24 44 (6.154%) Data Warehouse
25 43 (6.014%) ITIL

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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
1 155 (21.68%) .NET
2 40 (5.594%) HTML
3 39 (5.455%) ASP.NET
4 37 (5.175%) Web Services
5 36 (5.035%) XML
6 35 (4.895%) WebSphere
7 34 (4.755%) Middleware
8 31 (4.336%) WCF
9 28 (3.916%) J2EE
10 27 (3.776%) Spring
11 21 (2.937%) WPF
11 21 (2.937%) Hibernate
12 18 (2.517%) Ajax
13 16 (2.238%) Ruby on Rails
14 15 (2.098%) XSLT
14 15 (2.098%) Node.js
15 13 (1.818%) jQuery
16 12 (1.678%) Java EE
17 11 (1.538%) Spring MVC
17 11 (1.538%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 36 (5.035%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.056%) Windows Azure
3 25 (3.497%) BizTalk Server
4 24 (3.357%) Apache
5 18 (2.517%) MS Exchange
6 17 (2.378%) ESB
7 15 (2.098%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (1.958%) WebSphere Application Server
9 12 (1.678%) Magento
10 10 (1.399%) TeamSite
10 10 (1.399%) WebSphere Process Server
11 7 (0.979%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.839%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.839%) Commerce Server
12 6 (0.839%) Exchange Server 2003
12 6 (0.839%) Exchange Server 2007
13 5 (0.699%) MQSeries
13 5 (0.699%) Exchange Server 2010
13 5 (0.699%) Oracle Service Bus
14 4 (0.559%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (4.196%) MS Excel
2 7 (0.979%) MS Project
3 6 (0.839%) MS Office
4 4 (0.559%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.280%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.140%) Office 365
6 1 (0.140%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (2.238%) Summit
2 14 (1.958%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.259%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (0.979%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 6 (0.839%) SAP SCM
6 5 (0.699%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.699%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.699%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.699%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.559%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.559%) RMDS
8 3 (0.420%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.420%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.420%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.280%) SAP PP
10 1 (0.140%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.140%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.140%) SAP APO
10 1 (0.140%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.993%) Internet
2 21 (2.937%) SAN
3 18 (2.517%) WAN
4 14 (1.958%) HTTP
5 12 (1.678%) Firewall
6 10 (1.399%) LAN
7 8 (1.119%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (0.979%) NAS
9 6 (0.839%) FTP
10 5 (0.699%) NetScaler
10 5 (0.699%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.559%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (0.559%) PABX
11 4 (0.559%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.559%) FWSM
11 4 (0.559%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.559%) Network Security
12 3 (0.420%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.280%) DNS
13 2 (0.280%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 44 (6.154%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (2.937%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 21 (2.937%) Big Data
3 21 (2.937%) Hadoop
4 18 (2.517%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 17 (2.378%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 16 (2.238%) Redis
6 16 (2.238%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.098%) MySQL
7 15 (2.098%) MongoDB
8 14 (1.958%) DB2
8 14 (1.958%) OLAP
9 11 (1.538%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 9 (1.259%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (0.979%) KDB
11 7 (0.979%) SQL Server 2005
12 4 (0.559%) SAP HANA
12 4 (0.559%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.559%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.818%) Visual Studio
2 10 (1.399%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (0.839%) Subversion
4 5 (0.699%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (0.699%) Rhino Mocks
5 4 (0.559%) Moq
6 3 (0.420%) Selenium
7 2 (0.280%) NUnit
8 1 (0.140%) MorphX
8 1 (0.140%) Checkstyle
8 1 (0.140%) QuickTest Pro
8 1 (0.140%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.140%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.140%) GitHub
8 1 (0.140%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.140%) FindBugs
8 1 (0.140%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.140%) Balsamiq Mockups
8 1 (0.140%) Axure RP
General
1 186 (26.01%) Banking
2 157 (21.96%) Finance
3 82 (11.47%) Retail
4 70 (9.790%) Investment Banking
5 50 (6.993%) Back Office
6 32 (4.476%) Telecoms
7 24 (3.357%) Front Office
8 22 (3.077%) International Banking
9 17 (2.378%) Marketing
10 12 (1.678%) Retail Banking
11 11 (1.538%) Wholesale Banking
12 10 (1.399%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.399%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.259%) Advertising
14 8 (1.119%) Legal
14 8 (1.119%) Games
14 8 (1.119%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.559%) Billing
16 3 (0.420%) Music
16 3 (0.420%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.755%) Online Banking
2 27 (3.776%) N-Tier
3 19 (2.657%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (2.238%) SaaS
5 15 (2.098%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (1.958%) IaaS
6 14 (1.958%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.818%) Client/Server
7 13 (1.818%) Open Source
8 12 (1.678%) FMCG
9 11 (1.538%) Derivative
10 10 (1.399%) PaaS
10 10 (1.399%) DataPower
11 9 (1.259%) Mainframe
12 7 (0.979%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.979%) Mobile Banking
13 6 (0.839%) Cryptography
13 6 (0.839%) Web 2.0
14 5 (0.699%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.699%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 69 (9.650%) Windows
2 53 (7.413%) UNIX
3 30 (4.196%) Linux
4 14 (1.958%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (1.818%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (1.818%) Windows 7
6 10 (1.399%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.399%) Android
7 8 (1.119%) Windows XP
8 7 (0.979%) Windows Vista
9 6 (0.839%) Solaris
10 4 (0.559%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.559%) AIX
11 3 (0.420%) CentOS
11 3 (0.420%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.420%) Debian
12 1 (0.140%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.140%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.140%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (16.92%) TOGAF
2 88 (12.31%) Enterprise Architecture
3 86 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 84 (11.75%) OO
5 70 (9.790%) SOA
6 62 (8.671%) Business Intelligence
6 62 (8.671%) Project Management
7 61 (8.531%) E-Commerce
8 60 (8.392%) Technical Architecture
9 53 (7.413%) UML
10 52 (7.273%) ETL
11 44 (6.154%) Agile Software Development
12 43 (6.014%) ITIL
13 40 (5.594%) Zachman Framework
14 35 (4.895%) Data Modelling
14 35 (4.895%) TDD
15 34 (4.755%) Programme Management
15 34 (4.755%) Business Analysis
16 29 (4.056%) Change Management
17 28 (3.916%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (18.04%) SQL
2 124 (17.34%) Java
3 116 (16.22%) C#
4 32 (4.476%) C
5 31 (4.336%) T-SQL
6 28 (3.916%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.797%) PHP
8 19 (2.657%) Ruby
9 13 (1.818%) C++
10 10 (1.399%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.839%) VBA
12 5 (0.699%) Scala
13 4 (0.559%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.420%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.420%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.420%) Python
15 2 (0.280%) sed
15 2 (0.280%) VB
15 2 (0.280%) Perl
15 2 (0.280%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 73 (10.21%) Degree
2 36 (5.035%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (3.916%) Security Cleared
4 27 (3.776%) SC Cleared
5 16 (2.238%) CISSP
6 8 (1.119%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.119%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.699%) CISM
7 5 (0.699%) CCIE
7 5 (0.699%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.699%) MCP
7 5 (0.699%) MCSE
8 3 (0.420%) CCNA
9 2 (0.280%) PMP
9 2 (0.280%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.280%) CISA
9 2 (0.280%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.280%) MCTS
10 1 (0.140%) HP AIS
10 1 (0.140%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.916%) QA
2 27 (3.776%) Basel III
3 21 (2.937%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.958%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.259%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.559%) SLA
7 2 (0.280%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.280%) JSP 440
System Software
1 32 (4.476%) VMware Infrastructure
1 32 (4.476%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.399%) Terminal Services
3 9 (1.259%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.119%) XenApp
5 6 (0.839%) vSphere
5 6 (0.839%) Xen
6 3 (0.420%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.280%) IAG
7 2 (0.280%) XenServer
8 1 (0.140%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.140%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (2.657%) Puppet
2 11 (1.538%) Tivoli
3 10 (1.399%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 8 (1.119%) SCOM
5 7 (0.979%) SCCM
6 3 (0.420%) ZABBIX
6 3 (0.420%) Cacti
6 3 (0.420%) Nagios
7 1 (0.140%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.140%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 114 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.19%) Oracle
3 40 (5.594%) VMware
4 36 (5.035%) Cisco
5 34 (4.755%) Citrix
6 33 (4.615%) SAP
7 23 (3.217%) HP
7 23 (3.217%) IBM
8 20 (2.797%) Hitachi
8 20 (2.797%) Teradata
9 19 (2.657%) MicroStrategy
10 18 (2.517%) NetApp
11 17 (2.378%) Pega
11 17 (2.378%) Fujitsu
11 17 (2.378%) EMC
12 16 (2.238%) Rackspace
12 16 (2.238%) Murex
13 13 (1.818%) Sybase
13 13 (1.818%) ATG
14 10 (1.399%) LogLogic
Lead Solutions Architect
West Midlands
The role itself will have multiple responsibilities including leadership of a small team of Architects, creation of more robust and scalable processes around demand management and pipeline as...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £65000 - £85000 per annum + Strong Package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Lead Solutions Architect
West Midlands
Architecture is seen a key enabler within this transformation.This is an opportunity to be involved in an international business at a time where change and transformation, enabled...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £65000 - £85000 per annum + Strong Package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Lead Architect
London
Title: Lead Architect Introduction: Montash have been engaged by a FTSE 20 client to assist in the addition of a Lead Architect to contribute in all The Organisation:...
Montash Associates
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 5 May 2013
Lead Enterprise Technology Architect
City, London
Lead Enterprise Technology Architect - Banking - TOGAF - London. Lead Enterprise Technology Architect required for our client, a well known central figure in the UK Banking industry. You will define...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Lead Solutions Architect
Surrey, South East
Responsibilities: The Solutions architect has a key position within the Commercial Team, responsible for the design and pricing of often complex, large-scale Wide Area Network services to...
Proteus Europe
Posted: 16 May 2013
Lead Technical Architect, Enterprise IT Systems (Surrey)
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Main duties will include: Responsibility for analysing and documenting the entire technical landscape of all systems and applications, logical and physical; Responsible for defining budgetary costs for all...
Think IT Recruitment
Salary: £90000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Dynamics AX Lead Solutions Architect- Based in Oxfordshire.
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Key Skills: -Extensive knowledge (5+ years) of Microsoft Dynamics AX. -Experience of N-Tier architectures. -Strong experience using C# -Experience of T-SQL including stored procedures and triggers...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Lead BI Solution Architect, Retail, FMCG, BI, London
Welwyn Garden City, South East
Keywords: BI, Business Intelligence, Architect, Solution, Solution Architect, BI Solution Architect, Datawarehouse, Datawarehousing, Design, Technical Design, Data Warehouse, DBA, Teradata, Microstrategy, SQL, Cognos, Business Objects, Retail, FMCG, Project...
Salt
Salary: £65000 - £85000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Lead PEGA architect, bank, London
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: 19 May 2013
Lead Developer/Architect
Bournemouth, Dorset
The successful candidate will ideally have had experience in, but will not be limited to; *Delivering medium-large scale data analysis applications *Delivering web based multi-user applications *...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £52000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Development Team Lead/Manager/Architect, Java, Bonds Trading
London
One of the world's leading investment banks - and a major force within European Bonds trading / Fixed Income - are looking for an experienced individual with strong technical and...
Aston Carter
Salary: £90000 - £120000 per annum + + bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Lead Developer/Architect
Egham, Surrey
Key responsibilities: -Key responsibility for architecture and design o f cost effective and flexible applications and services -Work with 3rd party suppliers to assess and validate proposed solutions -...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £42000.00 - £46000.00 per annum + 20% bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Lead Solutions Architect: Information Services (SA, architect)
Welwyn Garden City
Title: Lead Solutions Architect (SA, Architect) Location: Welwyn Garden City, Herts, Key Skills: Architecture, Leadership, SOA An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Solutions Architect for integration...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive Salary with Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Dynamics AX Lead Technical Architect- 3-6 month contract -£700 per day
London
Key Skills: -Extensive knowledge (5+ years) of Microsoft Dynamics AX. -X++ & MorphX. -Experience of N-Tier architectures. -Strong experience using C# -Experience of T-SQL including stored procedures...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £700 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Dynamics AX Lead Technical Architect - London
London
Key Skills: -Extensive knowledge (5+ years) of Microsoft Dynamics AX. -X++ & MorphX. -Experience of N-Tier architectures. -Strong experience using C# -Experience of T-SQL including stored procedures...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Senior /Lead Solution Architect (Manager) - GRC
London
.NET. - N-tier Architecture. - A strong knowledge of Network Analytics... You will have a strong programming background, ideally in .NET and Windows... In particular, .NET server-side development,...
JPS Selection
Salary: From £70,000 to £100,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits & Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Lead Software Architect
South East
The Solar Orbiter mission, developed by ESA in collaboration with NASA, is designed to carry an extensive complement of scientific instruments to the near-sun environment and will...
EADS
Posted: 3 May 2013
Lead Architect
East London
Given the breadth and depth of our organisation, you can choose from thousands of different roles within our four main businesses: Retail Banking & Wealth Management , Commercial Banking , Global...
HSBC
Posted: 15 May 2013
SAP Technical Lead/ Architect
West Yorkshire
Yorkshire Permanent Up to £65,000 + benefits Our client is a global financial services client and is looking for a SAP Technical Lead to join the team on...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £65000 per annum + car allowance + bonus + pension
Posted: 23 May 2013
Lead Developer / Solution Architect (C#, ASP.NET, WPF, MVC)
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Technical Lead Developer / Solution Architect (Microsoft Gold Partner - C#, ASP.Net, WCF, MVC) We are looking for a Technical Lead, Lead Developer or Solution Architect with good experience...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Process Team Lead (Business Analyst, Architect)
London
The project implements a message based service oriented architecture hosted on a high performance computing grid... Technical and Data Architects to ensure that the architectural vision of is...
Real Staffing
Posted: 15 May 2013
Lead Infrastructure Designer, Solutions Architect
Hampshire
Candidates require experience in the following technologies: Windows Server, VMware, HP Storage, Cisco firewalls & switches, System Centre Management products, Exchange, TMG, Ironport Email Gateway, Windows 7, Citrix VDI &...
Roc Search
Salary: £55000 - £63000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Java Development Lead / Software Architect /
London
Key responsibilities of this role include: Software Architect /Development Lead with Strong Java background and good knowledge of Spring, Hibernate, web services, Unit testing and SQL... Good understanding...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £75,000 to £80,000 per annum Holidays+ Pension + Health + Benefi
Posted: 18 May 2013
Lead Infrastructure Architect
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
This is a chance to work for a leading Microsoft Gold Partner providing support for a wide range of customers from SME organizations through to Blue-chip and...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £75,000 to £120,000 per annum plus bonus and benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Lead Java Developer / Java Architect - Greenfields Web App
West London
5+ years back-end Java experience. Experience with Spring, Struts or other web framework. Front-end dev experience: Javascript, CSS, HTML. SQL (we use MySQL) A degree in...
Ingresso Group Limited
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum plus share options
Posted: 17 May 2013
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