Manchester Software Architect Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Architect role in IT jobs within the Manchester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Architect
Location Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Epsom Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hull Kent Kingswinford Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Slough Solihull South East South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	218
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.015 %
Salaries quoted	0	1
Average minimum salary	-	£60,000
Average salary	-	£70,000
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£80,000
UK excluding London average salary	£52,620	£49,271
% change on same period last year	+6.79 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	5077	6551
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.680 %	2.683 %
Salaries quoted	4253	5618
Average minimum salary	£33,152	£35,795
Average salary	£38,079	£40,436
% change on same period last year	-5.82 %
Average maximum salary	£43,006	£45,076
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Architect across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Financial Institution 1 2 (66.67 %) Banking 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) Client/Server 1 2 (66.67 %) SOA 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework

2 1 (33.33 %) Back Office

Software Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 1 (33.33 %) XML 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET Framework	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Financial Institution 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Back Office	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) SOA 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft