England Solutions Architect Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Solution Architect
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Daresbury Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	221	211
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching permanent IT job ads	1611	2143
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.848 %	0.879 %
As % of the category below	0.980 %	1.012 %
Salaries quoted	1289	1716
Average minimum salary	£58,323	£58,796
Average salary	£65,253	£65,388
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Average maximum salary	£72,183	£71,980
UK excluding London average salary	£64,555	£65,859
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Job Titles England
Matching permanent IT job ads	164348	211754
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	86.55 %	86.85 %
Salaries quoted	136481	169706
Average minimum salary	£38,958	£40,807
Average salary	£42,600	£44,624
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Average maximum salary	£46,243	£48,441
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Solutions Architect UK

Solutions Architect
Demand Trend

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

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solutions Architect across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Solutions Architect
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 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	+12	664	£69,448	+3.21 %
South East	-53	352	£62,071	-6.26 %
North West	+2	150	£57,576	-10.84 %
East of England	-5	122	£60,072	-3.02 %
East Midlands	+38	74	£61,339	+8.25 %
Yorkshire	+17	62	£62,921	+5.60 %
West Midlands	-40	59	£60,095	-2.95 %
South West	+11	45	£59,514	+13.97 %
Midlands	+17	43	£78,819	+12.88 %

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Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 697 (20.14 %) Finance 2 687 (19.86 %) Oracle 3 616 (17.80 %) Java 4 568 (16.42 %) .NET 4 568 (16.42 %) Microsoft 5 563 (16.27 %) SAP 6 544 (15.72 %) J2EE 7 493 (14.25 %) SOA 8 351 (10.14 %) Degree 9 320 (9.249 %) UML 10 318 (9.191 %) Retail 11 305 (8.815 %) CRM 12 301 (8.699 %) SQL Server 13 288 (8.324 %) TOGAF 14 283 (8.179 %) Windows

15 279 (8.064 %) Project Management 16 259 (7.486 %) UNIX 17 246 (7.110 %) C# 18 234 (6.763 %) XML 19 232 (6.705 %) Technical Architecture 20 224 (6.474 %) Telecoms 21 211 (6.098 %) WebSphere 22 210 (6.069 %) Enterprise Architecture 22 210 (6.069 %) Banking 23 209 (6.040 %) ERP 24 207 (5.983 %) EAI 25 206 (5.954 %) MS Exchange 26 200 (5.780 %) SQL 27 195 (5.636 %) RUP 28 188 (5.434 %) Pensions

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 568 (16.42 %) .NET 2 544 (15.72 %) J2EE 3 234 (6.763 %) XML 4 211 (6.098 %) WebSphere 5 187 (5.405 %) Middleware 6 178 (5.145 %) WebServices 7 109 (3.150 %) SOAP 8 85 (2.457 %) ASP.NET 9 78 (2.254 %) .NET Framework 10 49 (1.416 %) HTML 11 44 (1.272 %) SAP XI 12 42 (1.214 %) Spring 13 39 (1.127 %) ASP 14 38 (1.098 %) AJAX 15 36 (1.040 %) Hibernate 16 35 (1.012 %) JSP 16 35 (1.012 %) JMS 17 32 (0.925 %) XSLT 17 32 (0.925 %) JDBC 18 26 (0.751 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 206 (5.954 %) MS Exchange 2 171 (4.942 %) BizTalk Server 3 156 (4.509 %) WebLogic 4 142 (4.104 %) NetWeaver 5 139 (4.017 %) SharePoint 6 112 (3.237 %) IIS 7 48 (1.387 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 44 (1.272 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 40 (1.156 %) ESB 10 38 (1.098 %) MQSeries 11 36 (1.040 %) SAS 11 36 (1.040 %) Apache 12 35 (1.012 %) JBoss 12 35 (1.012 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 26 (0.751 %) Tomcat 14 24 (0.694 %) WebLogic Portal 15 21 (0.607 %) Office Communications Server 16 18 (0.520 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 10 (0.289 %) CMS 18 8 (0.231 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 144 (4.162 %) MS Visio 2 143 (4.133 %) MS Excel 3 38 (1.098 %) MS Office 4 36 (1.040 %) MS Project 5 11 (0.318 %) CA Clarity 6 6 (0.173 %) MS PowerPoint 7 4 (0.116 %) InfoPath 7 4 (0.116 %) Spreadsheet 8 3 (0.087 %) S-PLUS 9 1 (0.029 %) DOC1 9 1 (0.029 %) PrintSoft PReS 9 1 (0.029 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 87 (2.514 %) Oracle Applications 2 72 (2.081 %) Oracle EBS 3 47 (1.358 %) Dynamics CRM 4 43 (1.243 %) Microsoft CRM 5 36 (1.040 %) Dynamics AX 6 34 (0.983 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 31 (0.896 %) Axapta 8 30 (0.867 %) SAP HR 9 25 (0.723 %) SAP CRM 9 25 (0.723 %) SAP Payroll 10 24 (0.694 %) SAP Retail 11 23 (0.665 %) Navision 11 23 (0.665 %) Movex 12 18 (0.520 %) SAP FI 12 18 (0.520 %) SAP CO 12 18 (0.520 %) SAP FI/CO 13 15 (0.434 %) Oracle ERP 13 15 (0.434 %) Oracle Financials 13 15 (0.434 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 14 12 (0.347 %) Endur
Communications & Networking 1 174 (5.029 %) Internet 2 140 (4.046 %) SAN 3 101 (2.919 %) Firewall 4 98 (2.832 %) WAN 5 85 (2.457 %) LAN 6 67 (1.936 %) HTTP 7 62 (1.792 %) TCP/IP 8 49 (1.416 %) MPLS 9 44 (1.272 %) FTP 10 38 (1.098 %) DNS 11 37 (1.069 %) VPN 12 30 (0.867 %) 3G 13 24 (0.694 %) BSS 14 21 (0.607 %) SMTP 15 20 (0.578 %) ATM 16 19 (0.549 %) Wireless 16 19 (0.549 %) RANAP 17 17 (0.491 %) CTI 18 16 (0.462 %) VoIP 19 15 (0.434 %) RIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 301 (8.699 %) SQL Server 2 127 (3.671 %) Datawarehouse 3 107 (3.092 %) RDBMS 4 63 (1.821 %) BusinessObjects 5 50 (1.445 %) SQL Server 2005 6 46 (1.329 %) ETL 7 40 (1.156 %) DB2 8 32 (0.925 %) SQL Server 2000 9 30 (0.867 %) Oracle 10g 10 22 (0.636 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 20 (0.578 %) Reference Data 12 18 (0.520 %) BODI 13 15 (0.434 %) SQL Server 7 13 15 (0.434 %) SAP BW 14 13 (0.376 %) SAP BI 15 11 (0.318 %) NonStop SQL 15 11 (0.318 %) MySQL 16 10 (0.289 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 10 (0.289 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 17 8 (0.231 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 41 (1.185 %) Rational Rose 2 37 (1.069 %) Visual Studio 3 24 (0.694 %) Eclipse 4 23 (0.665 %) JUnit 5 20 (0.578 %) ERwin 6 14 (0.405 %) JIRA 7 11 (0.318 %) RequisitePro 7 11 (0.318 %) PVCS 8 10 (0.289 %) Ant 9 8 (0.231 %) Oracle Forms 9 8 (0.231 %) JDeveloper 9 8 (0.231 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 10 6 (0.173 %) CruiseControl 10 6 (0.173 %) Subversion 11 4 (0.116 %) WebLogic Workshop 12 3 (0.087 %) ClearQuest 12 3 (0.087 %) Telelogic DOORS 12 3 (0.087 %) Log4j 13 2 (0.058 %) ClearCase 13 2 (0.058 %) HttpUnit	General 1 697 (20.14 %) Finance 2 318 (9.191 %) Retail 3 224 (6.474 %) Telecoms 4 210 (6.069 %) Banking 5 188 (5.434 %) Pensions 6 173 (5.000 %) Health 7 124 (3.584 %) Insurance 8 92 (2.659 %) Government 9 72 (2.081 %) Investment Banking 10 70 (2.023 %) Manufacturing 11 66 (1.908 %) Back Office 12 61 (1.763 %) Marketing 13 57 (1.647 %) Construction 14 46 (1.329 %) Education 15 45 (1.301 %) FMCG 16 43 (1.243 %) Billing 17 33 (0.954 %) Retail Banking 18 30 (0.867 %) Financial Institution 19 25 (0.723 %) Publishing 20 19 (0.549 %) Local Government
Miscellaneous 1 62 (1.792 %) N-Tier 2 51 (1.474 %) Management Information System 3 29 (0.838 %) Client/Server 4 27 (0.780 %) Thin Client 4 27 (0.780 %) Mainframe 4 27 (0.780 %) Fat Client 5 26 (0.751 %) Clustering 6 24 (0.694 %) Multithreading 7 21 (0.607 %) Informatics 8 19 (0.549 %) Computer Science 9 18 (0.520 %) EMC Centera 10 16 (0.462 %) Celerra 11 15 (0.434 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 11 15 (0.434 %) Derivative 12 14 (0.405 %) Artificial Intelligence 12 14 (0.405 %) Equities 13 13 (0.376 %) CLARiiON 14 12 (0.347 %) Symmetrix 14 12 (0.347 %) Fixed Income 14 12 (0.347 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 283 (8.179 %) Windows 2 259 (7.486 %) UNIX 3 95 (2.746 %) Linux 4 60 (1.734 %) Solaris 5 57 (1.647 %) Windows Server 2003 6 43 (1.243 %) AIX 7 33 (0.954 %) Windows NT 8 12 (0.347 %) Windows 2000 9 5 (0.145 %) HPUX 10 4 (0.116 %) Windows XP 11 2 (0.058 %) VMS 12 1 (0.029 %) SUSE 12 1 (0.029 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 493 (14.25 %) SOA 2 320 (9.249 %) UML 3 305 (8.815 %) CRM 4 288 (8.324 %) TOGAF 5 279 (8.064 %) Project Management 6 232 (6.705 %) Technical Architecture 7 210 (6.069 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 209 (6.040 %) ERP 9 207 (5.983 %) EAI 10 195 (5.636 %) RUP 11 177 (5.116 %) Zachman Framework 12 163 (4.711 %) Business Development 13 157 (4.538 %) Business Intelligence 14 116 (3.353 %) Business Analysis 15 112 (3.237 %) OO 16 111 (3.208 %) Software Engineering 17 110 (3.179 %) ITIL 18 99 (2.861 %) Content Management 18 99 (2.861 %) Stakeholder Management 19 98 (2.832 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 616 (17.80 %) Java 2 246 (7.110 %) C# 3 200 (5.780 %) SQL 4 66 (1.908 %) VB.NET 5 58 (1.676 %) VB 6 47 (1.358 %) C++ 7 44 (1.272 %) PL/SQL 7 44 (1.272 %) ABAP 8 39 (1.127 %) JavaScript 9 36 (1.040 %) C 10 17 (0.491 %) Transact-SQL 11 10 (0.289 %) DHTML 11 10 (0.289 %) XPath 12 7 (0.202 %) PL/1 12 7 (0.202 %) VBScript 13 6 (0.173 %) VBA 14 3 (0.087 %) Shell Script 15 2 (0.058 %) VB6 16 1 (0.029 %) JCL 16 1 (0.029 %) PowerHouse
Qualifications 1 351 (10.14 %) Degree 2 157 (4.538 %) Microsoft Certification 3 71 (2.052 %) MCSD 3 71 (2.052 %) MCSE 4 65 (1.879 %) Cisco Certification 5 37 (1.069 %) CCIE 6 22 (0.636 %) CCNP 6 22 (0.636 %) CCVP 7 21 (0.607 %) MCSA 8 18 (0.520 %) CCDP 8 18 (0.520 %) MCITP 9 16 (0.462 %) CCIP 9 16 (0.462 %) Citrix Certification 9 16 (0.462 %) SAP Certification 9 16 (0.462 %) ITIL Certification 10 15 (0.434 %) CCNA 11 11 (0.318 %) CCA 12 8 (0.231 %) CISSP 13 7 (0.202 %) PMP 13 7 (0.202 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 50 (1.445 %) SLA 2 33 (0.954 %) QA 3 17 (0.491 %) Basel II 4 16 (0.462 %) PCI DSS 5 12 (0.347 %) ISO27001 5 12 (0.347 %) ISO17799 6 11 (0.318 %) BS7799 6 11 (0.318 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 6 (0.173 %) COBIT 8 4 (0.116 %) 21 CFR Part 11 8 4 (0.116 %) CDISC 9 2 (0.058 %) JSP 440 9 2 (0.058 %) HL7 10 1 (0.029 %) HMG Infosec
System Software 1 155 (4.480 %) Active Directory 2 99 (2.861 %) AquaLogic 3 67 (1.936 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 17 (0.491 %) Terminal Services 5 10 (0.289 %) MSMQ 6 6 (0.173 %) VMware ESX 6 6 (0.173 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 5 (0.145 %) Oracle RAC 8 3 (0.087 %) Xen 8 3 (0.087 %) NDS 9 2 (0.058 %) MetaFrame 10 1 (0.029 %) NetBackup 10 1 (0.029 %) Backup Exec 10 1 (0.029 %) ISA Server 10 1 (0.029 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Systems Management 1 16 (0.462 %) Tivoli 2 12 (0.347 %) OpenView 3 7 (0.202 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 5 (0.145 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 5 (0.145 %) MOM 4 5 (0.145 %) SCCM 5 4 (0.116 %) MIIS 6 2 (0.058 %) ServiceCenter 6 2 (0.058 %) Netcool 6 2 (0.058 %) SCOM 7 1 (0.029 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 687 (19.86 %) Oracle 2 568 (16.42 %) Microsoft 3 563 (16.27 %) SAP 4 129 (3.728 %) Cisco 5 119 (3.439 %) IBM 6 118 (3.410 %) Siebel 7 104 (3.006 %) EMC 8 99 (2.861 %) VMware 9 85 (2.457 %) webMethods 10 65 (1.879 %) Sun 11 63 (1.821 %) Business Objects 12 62 (1.792 %) Citrix 13 55 (1.590 %) BEA 13 55 (1.590 %) Manugistics 14 54 (1.561 %) HP 15 53 (1.532 %) Ab Initio 16 51 (1.474 %) Cognos 17 47 (1.358 %) PeopleSoft 18 43 (1.243 %) TIBCO 19 40 (1.156 %) Red Hat