The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Architecture over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Gloucester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architecture
Rank 45 34 31
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Software Architecture 7 23 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 2.929% 5.651% 2.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.784% 7.077% 2.703%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 4
Average salary £34,500 £40,000 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.75% -9.60%
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £50,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-8.00% +20.48%
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
185 325 148
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 77.41% 79.85% 74.37%
Number of salaries quoted 144 236 123
Average salary £35,500 £40,000 £40,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.25% -1.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £64,700 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Architecture
Gloucestershire

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the Gloucester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Gloucester Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the Gloucester region.

Gloucester Software Architecture Salary Trend

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture.

1 14 (100.00%) Perl
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
1 14 (100.00%) J2EE
1 14 (100.00%) ITIL
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
1 14 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) vSphere
2 13 (92.86%) Web Development
2 13 (92.86%) Degree
2 13 (92.86%) Mathematics
2 13 (92.86%) NetBackup
2 13 (92.86%) Identity Management
2 13 (92.86%) Brocade
2 13 (92.86%) WebLogic
2 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 13 (92.86%) HPUX
2 13 (92.86%) Solaris
2 13 (92.86%) JBoss
2 13 (92.86%) Apache
2 13 (92.86%) MySQL
2 13 (92.86%) HP
2 13 (92.86%) Citrix
2 13 (92.86%) SAN
2 13 (92.86%) NetApp
2 13 (92.86%) Veritas
2 13 (92.86%) Shell Script
2 13 (92.86%) Symantec
2 13 (92.86%) DHCP
2 13 (92.86%) CGI

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) J2EE
2 13 (92.86%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 13 (92.86%) WebLogic
1 13 (92.86%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) DHCP
1 13 (92.86%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) MySQL
2 1 (7.143%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (7.143%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Mathematics
2 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 13 (92.86%) HPUX
2 13 (92.86%) Solaris
3 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) ITIL
2 13 (92.86%) Web Development
2 13 (92.86%) Identity Management
3 1 (7.143%) Scrum
3 1 (7.143%) Information Security
3 1 (7.143%) TOGAF
3 1 (7.143%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.143%) MODAF
3 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Kanban
3 1 (7.143%) UML
3 1 (7.143%) RUP
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Perl
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (92.86%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.143%) AWK
3 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
3 1 (7.143%) sed
3 1 (7.143%) Python
3 1 (7.143%) C
3 1 (7.143%) C++
3 1 (7.143%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) Degree
3 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) VMware ESX
1 13 (92.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) HP
1 13 (92.86%) Citrix
1 13 (92.86%) NetApp
1 13 (92.86%) Veritas
1 13 (92.86%) Symantec
1 13 (92.86%) VMware
1 13 (92.86%) Brocade
1 13 (92.86%) JBoss
1 13 (92.86%) Cisco
2 1 (7.143%) IBM
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle