The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Architect
Rank 228 227 217
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 15 20 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.209% 0.282% 0.248%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.219% 0.294% 0.259%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 16
Average salary £55,250 £54,750 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.91% +9.50%
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6864 6805 6559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.53% 95.87% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5816 6001 5810
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Lead Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Architect
Salary Trend

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

North West Lead Architect Salary Trend

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Architect across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Lead Architect Salary Histogram

Lead Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheshire +5 10 £58,000 -17.14%
Lancashire - 3 £42,500 -
Manchester -25 2 £77,500 +55.00%
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title.

1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Citrix
2 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 10 (31.25%) Retail
3 9 (28.13%) Windows
3 9 (28.13%) Telecoms
4 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (25.00%) MySQL
4 8 (25.00%) C#
4 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 8 (25.00%) .NET
5 7 (21.88%) Fujitsu
5 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
5 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
5 7 (21.88%) Time Management
6 6 (18.75%) PHP
6 6 (18.75%) Oracle
6 6 (18.75%) Internet
7 5 (15.63%) UML
7 5 (15.63%) Magento
7 5 (15.63%) WCF
7 5 (15.63%) SaaS
8 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (12.50%) XSLT
8 4 (12.50%) UNIX
8 4 (12.50%) XML
8 4 (12.50%) HTML
8 4 (12.50%) VMware
9 3 (9.375%) Information Security
9 3 (9.375%) Programme Management

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (15.63%) WCF
3 4 (12.50%) XSLT
3 4 (12.50%) XML
3 4 (12.50%) HTML
4 3 (9.375%) Middleware
4 3 (9.375%) SOAP
4 3 (9.375%) Web Services
4 3 (9.375%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (6.250%) HTML5
5 2 (6.250%) Ajax
5 2 (6.250%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.125%) J2EE
6 1 (3.125%) XSD
6 1 (3.125%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) Magento
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.125%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.125%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Internet
2 1 (3.125%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.00%) MySQL
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 10 (31.25%) Retail
3 9 (28.13%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.375%) Banking
5 1 (3.125%) Advertising
5 1 (3.125%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) SaaS
2 3 (9.375%) Online Banking
2 3 (9.375%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.250%) PKI
3 2 (6.250%) Cryptography
3 2 (6.250%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.125%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) UNIX
3 3 (9.375%) Linux
3 3 (9.375%) Android
3 3 (9.375%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Time Management
2 5 (15.63%) UML
3 3 (9.375%) Information Security
3 3 (9.375%) Programme Management
3 3 (9.375%) Migration
3 3 (9.375%) Project Management
3 3 (9.375%) OO
3 3 (9.375%) E-Commerce
3 3 (9.375%) SOA
3 3 (9.375%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (9.375%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (6.250%) Waterfall
4 2 (6.250%) Security Architecture
4 2 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (6.250%) CRM
4 2 (6.250%) OOD
5 1 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.125%) B2B
5 1 (3.125%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) C#
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) PHP
3 3 (9.375%) VB.NET
4 2 (6.250%) Java
5 1 (3.125%) XQuery
5 1 (3.125%) C
5 1 (3.125%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.375%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.375%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.125%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.125%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) SCCM
1 1 (3.125%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Citrix
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.88%) Fujitsu
4 6 (18.75%) Oracle
5 4 (12.50%) VMware
6 3 (9.375%) Siebel
7 2 (6.250%) Avaya
7 2 (6.250%) IBM
8 1 (3.125%) Cognizant