The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 132 131 146
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 12 19 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.489% 0.759% 0.639%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.521% 0.787% 0.681%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 16
Average salary £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £53,450 £58,950 £52,500
10% offered a salary of more than £66,250 £65,000 £73,750
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.54%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2302 2413 3085
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.81% 96.37% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1883 1964 2496
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Technical Architect Salary Trend

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Technical Architect Salary Histogram

Technical Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hemel Hempstead - 6 £53,500 -
Rickmansworth - 2 £65,625 -
Watford - 1 £60,000 -
Technical Architect
East of England

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 35 (67.31%) VMware
2 30 (57.69%) Brocade
3 25 (48.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (46.15%) Cisco
5 23 (44.23%) Solaris
6 21 (40.38%) HP
7 20 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
8 18 (34.62%) Sun
9 17 (32.69%) EMC
10 16 (30.77%) Service Management
11 15 (28.85%) vSphere
11 15 (28.85%) Celerra
11 15 (28.85%) CLARiiON
11 15 (28.85%) Finance
12 14 (26.92%) Symmetrix
12 14 (26.92%) NAS
13 13 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (25.00%) UNIX
14 12 (23.08%) WebLogic
14 12 (23.08%) Apache
15 10 (19.23%) Middleware
15 10 (19.23%) Project Management
15 10 (19.23%) Technical Architecture
16 9 (17.31%) NetBackup
16 9 (17.31%) Shell Script
16 9 (17.31%) CommVault
16 9 (17.31%) Veritas
16 9 (17.31%) Oracle
16 9 (17.31%) ITIL
17 8 (15.38%) Linux

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (19.23%) Middleware
2 7 (13.46%) WebSphere
3 4 (7.692%) J2EE
4 2 (3.846%) Ajax
4 2 (3.846%) OAuth
5 1 (1.923%) .NET
5 1 (1.923%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.923%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 12 (23.08%) Apache
1 12 (23.08%) WebLogic
2 6 (11.54%) MQSeries
3 2 (3.846%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.846%) IIS
4 1 (1.923%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.923%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.923%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) NAS
2 7 (13.46%) SAN
3 2 (3.846%) Unified Communications
3 2 (3.846%) DNS
3 2 (3.846%) Firewall
3 2 (3.846%) Wireless
4 1 (1.923%) IPsec
4 1 (1.923%) RTSP
4 1 (1.923%) Network Security
4 1 (1.923%) 802.11
4 1 (1.923%) OSPF
4 1 (1.923%) BGP
4 1 (1.923%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.923%) ATM
4 1 (1.923%) LAN
4 1 (1.923%) WAN
4 1 (1.923%) DHCP
4 1 (1.923%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Ant
General
1 15 (28.85%) Finance
2 1 (1.923%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) CLARiiON
1 15 (28.85%) Celerra
2 14 (26.92%) Symmetrix
3 6 (11.54%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.846%) NHS
4 2 (3.846%) Web 2.0
4 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.923%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.923%) Replication
5 1 (1.923%) Clustering
5 1 (1.923%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (44.23%) Solaris
2 13 (25.00%) UNIX
2 13 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (15.38%) AIX
3 8 (15.38%) Linux
4 5 (9.615%) Windows
5 4 (7.692%) VMS
6 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
2 16 (30.77%) Service Management
3 10 (19.23%) Technical Architecture
3 10 (19.23%) Project Management
4 9 (17.31%) ITIL
5 5 (9.615%) Load Balancing
5 5 (9.615%) Security Architecture
6 4 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (7.692%) PRINCE2
6 4 (7.692%) SOA
6 4 (7.692%) Migration
7 3 (5.769%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (5.769%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.846%) Process Management
8 2 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (3.846%) Business Development
8 2 (3.846%) TOGAF
8 2 (3.846%) Information Governance
8 2 (3.846%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (3.846%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) Shell Script
2 8 (15.38%) Perl
3 7 (13.46%) AWK
4 1 (1.923%) PHP
4 1 (1.923%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (5.769%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (3.846%) Degree
2 2 (3.846%) MCSE
2 2 (3.846%) MCSA
2 2 (3.846%) CCNA
2 2 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.846%) HP AIS
2 2 (3.846%) HP ASE
3 1 (1.923%) VCP4
3 1 (1.923%) VCP5
3 1 (1.923%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 25 (48.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (28.85%) vSphere
3 3 (5.769%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.846%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.846%) XenServer
4 2 (3.846%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.923%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.923%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (1.923%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.923%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (67.31%) VMware
2 30 (57.69%) Brocade
3 24 (46.15%) Cisco
4 21 (40.38%) HP
5 18 (34.62%) Sun
6 17 (32.69%) EMC
7 9 (17.31%) Oracle
7 9 (17.31%) CommVault
7 9 (17.31%) Veritas
8 7 (13.46%) IBM
9 5 (9.615%) Red Hat
10 3 (5.769%) Citrix
10 3 (5.769%) BEA
11 2 (3.846%) Microsoft
11 2 (3.846%) Symantec
11 2 (3.846%) Hitachi
11 2 (3.846%) PlateSpin
12 1 (1.923%) Intel