Northamptonshire Solutions Architect Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT jobs within the Northamptonshire 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 Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Solution Architect
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Daresbury Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	42
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	57	44
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	5.187 %	4.116 %
Salaries quoted	46	38
Average minimum salary	£53,587	£52,316
Average salary	£59,620	£55,605
% change on same period last year	+7.21 %
Average maximum salary	£65,652	£58,895
UK excluding London average salary	£64,470	£65,848
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
Job Titles Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1099	1069
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.580 %	0.438 %
Salaries quoted	963	868
Average minimum salary	£34,566	£32,582
Average salary	£37,748	£34,985
% change on same period last year	+7.89 %
Average maximum salary	£40,930	£37,388
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Solutions Architect East Midlands

Solutions Architect
Demand Trend

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

Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solutions Architect across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Solutions Architect
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northampton	+9	48	£59,410	+1.17 %

Solutions Architect East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 63 (64.29 %) Finance 2 34 (34.69 %) Banking 3 21 (21.43 %) .NET 4 20 (20.41 %) Stakeholder Management 4 20 (20.41 %) Requirements Analysis 5 18 (18.37 %) Retail 6 16 (16.33 %) Internet 7 13 (13.27 %) J2EE 8 12 (12.24 %) Java 8 12 (12.24 %) Datawarehouse 9 11 (11.22 %) MS Excel 10 10 (10.20 %) Microsoft 11 9 (9.184 %) VisionPLUS 11 9 (9.184 %) XML 11 9 (9.184 %) MS Visio

11 9 (9.184 %) C# 11 9 (9.184 %) SQL Server 12 8 (8.163 %) SAP 12 8 (8.163 %) E-Commerce 12 8 (8.163 %) SharePoint 12 8 (8.163 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 8 (8.163 %) CA Clarity 13 7 (7.143 %) WebServices 13 7 (7.143 %) SQL 14 6 (6.122 %) ASP.NET 14 6 (6.122 %) Chordiant 14 6 (6.122 %) Cisco 14 6 (6.122 %) IBM 14 6 (6.122 %) Project Management 14 6 (6.122 %) BizTalk Server

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 21 (21.43 %) .NET 2 13 (13.27 %) J2EE 3 9 (9.184 %) XML 4 7 (7.143 %) WebServices 5 6 (6.122 %) ASP.NET 6 5 (5.102 %) SOAP 7 4 (4.082 %) AJAX 8 2 (2.041 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (2.041 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 2 (2.041 %) HTML 8 2 (2.041 %) CSS 9 1 (1.020 %) Middleware 9 1 (1.020 %) SAP XI	Application Platforms 1 8 (8.163 %) SharePoint 1 8 (8.163 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 6 (6.122 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (2.041 %) SAS
Applications 1 11 (11.22 %) MS Excel 2 9 (9.184 %) MS Visio 3 8 (8.163 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 9 (9.184 %) VisionPLUS 2 3 (3.061 %) Dynamics NAV 2 3 (3.061 %) Dynamics CRM 2 3 (3.061 %) Dynamics AX 3 1 (1.020 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 16 (16.33 %) Internet 2 2 (2.041 %) Extranet 2 2 (2.041 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.020 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (12.24 %) Datawarehouse 2 9 (9.184 %) SQL Server 3 4 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.020 %) SAP BW 5 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 3 (3.061 %) Visual Studio	General 1 63 (64.29 %) Finance 2 34 (34.69 %) Banking 3 18 (18.37 %) Retail 4 4 (4.082 %) Financial Institution 5 3 (3.061 %) Pensions 6 2 (2.041 %) Health 7 1 (1.020 %) Pharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (20.41 %) Stakeholder Management 1 20 (20.41 %) Requirements Analysis 2 8 (8.163 %) E-Commerce 3 6 (6.122 %) Project Management 4 5 (5.102 %) SOA 4 5 (5.102 %) Systems Analysis 5 3 (3.061 %) Process Management 5 3 (3.061 %) CRM 6 2 (2.041 %) Workflow 6 2 (2.041 %) Business Development 6 2 (2.041 %) Zachman Framework 6 2 (2.041 %) TOGAF 7 1 (1.020 %) Supply Chain Management 7 1 (1.020 %) Programme Management 7 1 (1.020 %) Data Management 7 1 (1.020 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.020 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 1 (1.020 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (1.020 %) UML 7 1 (1.020 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 12 (12.24 %) Java 2 9 (9.184 %) C# 3 7 (7.143 %) SQL 4 3 (3.061 %) VB.NET 4 3 (3.061 %) DHTML 4 3 (3.061 %) JavaScript 5 2 (2.041 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (1.020 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 5 (5.102 %) Microsoft Certification 1 5 (5.102 %) MCTS 1 5 (5.102 %) MCAD 1 5 (5.102 %) MCSD 2 3 (3.061 %) MCSA 3 2 (2.041 %) MCITP 3 2 (2.041 %) Degree	Vendors 1 10 (10.20 %) Microsoft 2 8 (8.163 %) SAP 3 6 (6.122 %) Chordiant 3 6 (6.122 %) Cisco 3 6 (6.122 %) IBM 4 5 (5.102 %) Manugistics 5 2 (2.041 %) Ab Initio 5 2 (2.041 %) Teradata 5 2 (2.041 %) Ascential 5 2 (2.041 %) Informatica 5 2 (2.041 %) Cognos