The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Architect
Rank 570 603 591
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -12
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Architect 37 35 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.084% 0.065% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.069% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 32 22 24
Average salary £70,000 £70,000 £58,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +19.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,750 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £82,250 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -1.96%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41069 50577 53212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.89% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 34568 43927 44773
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Architect
England

IT Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London IT Architect Jobs Demand Trend

IT Architect
Salary Trend

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

London IT Architect Salary Trend

IT Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Architect across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London IT Architect Salary Histogram

IT Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Architect within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London -9 7 £70,000 +7.69%
IT Architect
England

IT Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited IT 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 IT Architect in their job title.

1 21 (36.21%) Microsoft
1 21 (36.21%) Active Directory
2 19 (32.76%) VMware
2 19 (32.76%) Windows
3 18 (31.03%) Linux
3 18 (31.03%) UNIX
4 17 (29.31%) TOGAF
4 17 (29.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (25.86%) Enterprise Architecture
5 15 (25.86%) Management Information System
5 15 (25.86%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (25.86%) Project Management
6 14 (24.14%) Process Management
7 12 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2003
7 12 (20.69%) MS Exchange
7 12 (20.69%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2007
7 12 (20.69%) Time Management
8 11 (18.97%) Security Architecture
8 11 (18.97%) ITIL
8 11 (18.97%) Cisco
8 11 (18.97%) Firewall
8 11 (18.97%) Finance
9 10 (17.24%) Juniper
10 9 (15.52%) Degree
11 8 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (12.07%) Zachman Framework
12 7 (12.07%) CheckPoint
12 7 (12.07%) Windows XP
12 7 (12.07%) SOA

IT Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited IT 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 IT Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (8.621%) Web Services
2 1 (1.724%) Middleware
2 1 (1.724%) XML
2 1 (1.724%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 12 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2003
1 12 (20.69%) MS Exchange
1 12 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (6.897%) Windows Azure
2 4 (6.897%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.172%) IIS
3 3 (5.172%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (3.448%) GlassFish
4 2 (3.448%) ESB
5 1 (1.724%) Apache
5 1 (1.724%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.448%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Firewall
2 6 (10.34%) Wireless
3 5 (8.621%) Network Security
3 5 (8.621%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (6.897%) SAN
5 3 (5.172%) Broadband
5 3 (5.172%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.724%) LAN
6 1 (1.724%) WAN
6 1 (1.724%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.724%) DNS
6 1 (1.724%) Wireless Security
6 1 (1.724%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.172%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.724%) DataStage
3 1 (1.724%) OLAP
3 1 (1.724%) MySQL
3 1 (1.724%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.724%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 11 (18.97%) Finance
2 5 (8.621%) Law
2 5 (8.621%) Telecoms
2 5 (8.621%) Retail
3 3 (5.172%) Banking
4 1 (1.724%) International Banking
4 1 (1.724%) Marketing
4 1 (1.724%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.724%) Legal
4 1 (1.724%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.621%) Mainframe
2 5 (8.621%) PKI
2 5 (8.621%) Client/Server
3 4 (6.897%) Derivative
4 3 (5.172%) AS400
5 2 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.448%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.448%) Visualisation
5 2 (3.448%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.448%) Clustering
5 2 (3.448%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.724%) Replication
6 1 (1.724%) EPoS
6 1 (1.724%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.724%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.724%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.76%) Windows
2 18 (31.03%) Linux
2 18 (31.03%) UNIX
3 15 (25.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (20.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (12.07%) Windows XP
5 7 (12.07%) Windows 7
6 4 (6.897%) Windows Vista
7 2 (3.448%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) TOGAF
2 15 (25.86%) Enterprise Architecture
2 15 (25.86%) Project Management
3 14 (24.14%) Process Management
4 12 (20.69%) Time Management
5 11 (18.97%) Security Architecture
5 11 (18.97%) ITIL
6 7 (12.07%) Zachman Framework
6 7 (12.07%) SOA
6 7 (12.07%) E-Commerce
7 6 (10.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 6 (10.34%) GAP Analysis
7 6 (10.34%) Identity Management
8 5 (8.621%) Migration
8 5 (8.621%) Information Security
8 5 (8.621%) Load Balancing
8 5 (8.621%) UML
9 4 (6.897%) Data Modelling
9 4 (6.897%) PRINCE2
9 4 (6.897%) DoDAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) SQL
2 4 (6.897%) Java
3 2 (3.448%) PHP
4 1 (1.724%) C++
4 1 (1.724%) Perl
4 1 (1.724%) Python
4 1 (1.724%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 3 (5.172%) CISM
2 3 (5.172%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.172%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.172%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.172%) QA
3 2 (3.448%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 21 (36.21%) Active Directory
2 17 (29.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.621%) Forefront TMG
3 5 (8.621%) UAG
4 2 (3.448%) vSphere
5 1 (1.724%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.448%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.724%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 19 (32.76%) VMware
3 11 (18.97%) Cisco
4 10 (17.24%) Juniper
5 7 (12.07%) CheckPoint
6 5 (8.621%) Riverbed
6 5 (8.621%) F5
7 3 (5.172%) Oracle
8 2 (3.448%) EMC
8 2 (3.448%) NetApp
9 1 (1.724%) Altiris
9 1 (1.724%) Intel
9 1 (1.724%) Citrix
9 1 (1.724%) HP
9 1 (1.724%) IBM
9 1 (1.724%) Sybase
West London
Be the subject matter lead for both network and application based IT security architecture (firewalls, directory, web gateways, secure remote access as well as identity management/provisioning, privileged...
Networking People
Salary: Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
West London
This involves working within projects and initiatives to ensure security requirements are understood and adequately addressed and that solutions are aligned with the broader GECC Enterprise Security Architecture...
GE Capital
Posted: 7 May 2013