The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. 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 23 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architect
Rank 129 131 115
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 3 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.140% 0.176% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.147% 0.186% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £90,000 £60,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2039 2156 1800
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.93% 95.10% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1654 1851 1452
Average salary £41,500 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.35% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Architect
Berkshire

Software Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Software Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architect
Salary Trend

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

Reading Software Architect Salary Trend

Software Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 7 (70.00%) J2EE
2 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 6 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Web Services
4 4 (40.00%) SOAP
4 4 (40.00%) REST
5 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (30.00%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (30.00%) Signal Processing
5 3 (30.00%) V-Model
5 3 (30.00%) DataPower
5 3 (30.00%) C
5 3 (30.00%) DB2
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (30.00%) XML
5 3 (30.00%) XSLT
5 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 3 (30.00%) RUP
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (30.00%) Finance
5 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (30.00%) Wireless
6 2 (20.00%) MVC
6 2 (20.00%) SAML
6 2 (20.00%) Cryptography

Software Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 7 (70.00%) J2EE
2 6 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (50.00%) Web Services
4 4 (40.00%) SOAP
4 4 (40.00%) REST
5 3 (30.00%) XML
5 3 (30.00%) XSLT
6 2 (20.00%) SAML
6 2 (20.00%) Ajax
6 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC
6 2 (20.00%) OAuth
7 1 (10.00%) Java EE
7 1 (10.00%) JSON
7 1 (10.00%) HTML5
7 1 (10.00%) JMS
7 1 (10.00%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Wireless
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) DataStage
General
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) DataPower
2 2 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (10.00%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (30.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 3 (30.00%) Signal Processing
2 3 (30.00%) V-Model
2 3 (30.00%) RUP
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) SOA
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica