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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Architect
Rank 50 44 43
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 5 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 1.529% 0.758% 2.740%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.582% 0.763% 2.888%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 8
Average salary £65,000 £46,250 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.54% -22.91%
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -
All Job Titles
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
316 262 277
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 96.64% 99.24% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 297 234 251
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £53,700 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Solutions Architect
Suffolk

Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Ipswich Solutions Architect Salary Trend

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 5 (62.50%) Big Data
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 4 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) OAuth
2 4 (50.00%) JSON
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 4 (50.00%) SOAP
2 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) Silverlight
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (25.00%) C#

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Silverlight
3 2 (25.00%) WSH
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
1 3 (37.50%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) VB
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft