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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Architect
Rank 81 87 75
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 43 18 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.329% 1.248% 1.973%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.478% 1.281% 2.063%
Number of salaries quoted 41 15 29
Average salary £70,000 £62,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.00% +31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £48,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1735 1405 1551
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 93.99% 97.43% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1502 1266 1398
Average salary £40,000 £39,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.26% -1.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Solutions Architect Salary Trend

Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Oxfordshire Solutions Architect Salary Histogram

Solutions Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -7 25 £67,500 +10.20%
Banbury - 3 £65,000 -
Kidlington - 2 £72,500 -
Solutions Architect
South East

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 59 (60.20%) TOGAF
2 51 (52.04%) Oracle
3 44 (44.90%) SOA
4 37 (37.76%) Publishing
5 33 (33.67%) Zachman Framework
6 30 (30.61%) ATG
6 30 (30.61%) Siebel
7 29 (29.59%) Oracle EBS
7 29 (29.59%) Enterprise Architecture
8 28 (28.57%) Finance
9 27 (27.55%) Retail
10 26 (26.53%) Waterfall
11 25 (25.51%) E-Commerce
12 24 (24.49%) SQL
13 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
14 20 (20.41%) Portfolio Management
15 19 (19.39%) CRM
16 18 (18.37%) Degree
17 16 (16.33%) Agile Software Development
17 16 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
17 16 (16.33%) Java
18 15 (15.31%) UML
19 13 (13.27%) JBoss
19 13 (13.27%) OLAP
19 13 (13.27%) SharePoint
19 13 (13.27%) RUP
19 13 (13.27%) Manufacturing
19 13 (13.27%) Telecoms
19 13 (13.27%) Dynamics NAV
20 12 (12.24%) Data Modelling

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 9 (9.184%) ASP.NET
1 9 (9.184%) Web Services
1 9 (9.184%) .NET
2 8 (8.163%) RESTful
3 3 (3.061%) J2EE
4 2 (2.041%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 13 (13.27%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.184%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (3.061%) CMS
3 3 (3.061%) Apache Pig
4 2 (2.041%) Drupal
4 2 (2.041%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.020%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 29 (29.59%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (13.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.020%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.041%) BSS
2 1 (1.020%) SAN
2 1 (1.020%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (13.27%) OLAP
3 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.102%) MySQL
5 3 (3.061%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.061%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.061%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (3.061%) BigTable
5 3 (3.061%) Big Data
5 3 (3.061%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (3.061%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.020%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.020%) NoSQL
General
1 37 (37.76%) Publishing
2 28 (28.57%) Finance
3 27 (27.55%) Retail
4 13 (13.27%) Manufacturing
4 13 (13.27%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.041%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.184%) SaaS
2 8 (8.163%) Taxonomies
3 5 (5.102%) Data Integration
4 3 (3.061%) Open Source
5 2 (2.041%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.020%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.041%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.20%) TOGAF
2 44 (44.90%) SOA
3 33 (33.67%) Zachman Framework
4 29 (29.59%) Enterprise Architecture
5 26 (26.53%) Waterfall
6 25 (25.51%) E-Commerce
7 20 (20.41%) Portfolio Management
8 19 (19.39%) CRM
9 16 (16.33%) Agile Software Development
10 15 (15.31%) UML
11 13 (13.27%) RUP
12 12 (12.24%) Data Modelling
13 11 (11.22%) B2B
13 11 (11.22%) B2C
14 10 (10.20%) DRM
15 9 (9.184%) Business Transformation
16 7 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
16 7 (7.143%) Programme Management
17 5 (5.102%) E-business
18 3 (3.061%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.49%) SQL
2 16 (16.33%) Java
3 9 (9.184%) C#
4 3 (3.061%) Python
5 2 (2.041%) PHP
6 1 (1.020%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Degree
2 1 (1.020%) ISEB
2 1 (1.020%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.020%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (1.020%) MCITP
2 1 (1.020%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.020%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.061%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.020%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.020%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.020%) SCCM
1 1 (1.020%) SCOM
Vendors
1 51 (52.04%) Oracle
2 30 (30.61%) ATG
2 30 (30.61%) Siebel
3 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
4 13 (13.27%) JBoss
5 4 (4.082%) IBM
6 3 (3.061%) Informatica
6 3 (3.061%) VMware
6 3 (3.061%) Teradata
7 1 (1.020%) NetApp
7 1 (1.020%) HP
7 1 (1.020%) Dell
7 1 (1.020%) EMC
7 1 (1.020%) Citrix
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Your skills are to include: - Strong commercial experience working within a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), in a senior capacity... Keywords: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP,Drupal, UML...
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Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum + benefits
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