The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 78 100 96
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 13 12 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.237% 0.935% 0.784%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.272% 0.962% 0.823%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 5
Average salary £47,500 £60,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.83% -4.00%
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1022 1248 1215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.24% 97.27% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 881 1079 1004
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Technical Architect
East of England

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Technical Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architect
Salary Trend

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

Essex Technical Architect Salary Trend

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the Essex region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Essex Technical Architect Salary Histogram

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (61.11%) VMware
3 10 (55.56%) VMware ESX
3 10 (55.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (55.56%) AppSense
3 10 (55.56%) Citrix
3 10 (55.56%) XenApp
3 10 (55.56%) XenServer
3 10 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (55.56%) DHCP
3 10 (55.56%) DNS
3 10 (55.56%) Change Management
3 10 (55.56%) Finance
3 10 (55.56%) Publishing
3 10 (55.56%) ITIL
3 10 (55.56%) Windows
3 10 (55.56%) LDAP
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
5 2 (11.11%) OO
6 1 (5.556%) JBoss
6 1 (5.556%) UML
6 1 (5.556%) OOP
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.556%) CSS

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.556%) CSS
1 1 (5.556%) HTML
1 1 (5.556%) .NET
1 1 (5.556%) J2EE
1 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) DHCP
1 10 (55.56%) DNS
1 10 (55.56%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
1 10 (55.56%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.556%) IaaS
2 1 (5.556%) SaaS
2 1 (5.556%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (55.56%) Change Management
1 10 (55.56%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (5.556%) UML
3 1 (5.556%) OOP
3 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.556%) MVC
3 1 (5.556%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) C#
1 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) VMware ESX
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft App-V
2 10 (55.56%) XenApp
2 10 (55.56%) XenServer
3 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.556%) vSphere
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) VMware
2 10 (55.56%) AppSense
2 10 (55.56%) Citrix
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (5.556%) JBoss
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco
4 1 (5.556%) EMC