The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 100 112 83
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 30 24 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.412% 1.059% 1.578%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.487% 1.113% 1.687%
Number of salaries quoted 28 23 22
Average salary £76,250 £60,000 £58,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.08% +2.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £45,000 £55,000
10% offered a salary of more than £95,000 £74,000 £81,750
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year
-2.12% +6.81%
All Job Titles
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2017 2157 1719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 94.92% 95.19% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1650 1853 1380
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £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%
Technical Architect
Berkshire

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Technical Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architect
Salary Trend

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

Reading Technical Architect Salary Trend

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Reading Technical Architect Salary Histogram

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (39.47%) MS Excel
3 14 (36.84%) Cisco
4 13 (34.21%) SAN
4 13 (34.21%) VMware
4 13 (34.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (31.58%) vSphere
6 11 (28.95%) Oracle
6 11 (28.95%) Linux
7 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
7 10 (26.32%) Juniper
7 10 (26.32%) vCloud
7 10 (26.32%) NAS
8 9 (23.68%) Java
9 7 (18.42%) PHP
9 7 (18.42%) C++
9 7 (18.42%) Scala
9 7 (18.42%) Hadoop
9 7 (18.42%) REST
9 7 (18.42%) SaaS
10 6 (15.79%) Memcached
10 6 (15.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 6 (15.79%) Redis
10 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 6 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
10 6 (15.79%) Degree
10 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
10 6 (15.79%) .NET
10 6 (15.79%) C#
10 6 (15.79%) Python

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (18.42%) REST
2 6 (15.79%) Memcached
2 6 (15.79%) .NET
3 5 (13.16%) SAP Basis
4 4 (10.53%) Web Services
5 2 (5.263%) Middleware
6 1 (2.632%) Java EE
6 1 (2.632%) WCF
6 1 (2.632%) Silverlight
6 1 (2.632%) J2EE
6 1 (2.632%) ASP
6 1 (2.632%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) NetWeaver
2 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.632%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (39.47%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) SAN
2 10 (26.32%) NAS
3 2 (5.263%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (5.263%) ISDN
3 2 (5.263%) LAN
3 2 (5.263%) VoIP
3 2 (5.263%) WAN
3 2 (5.263%) VPN
3 2 (5.263%) SSL
3 2 (5.263%) 802.11
3 2 (5.263%) MPLS
3 2 (5.263%) BGP
3 2 (5.263%) Wireless
3 2 (5.263%) IPsec
3 2 (5.263%) IP Telephony
3 2 (5.263%) VLAN
4 1 (2.632%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.42%) Hadoop
3 6 (15.79%) Redis
3 6 (15.79%) Big Data
4 5 (13.16%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.632%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.632%) Advertising
3 1 (2.632%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) SaaS
2 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.263%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.263%) Thin Client
3 2 (5.263%) BBC
3 2 (5.263%) CLARiiON
4 1 (2.632%) Celerra
4 1 (2.632%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Linux
2 3 (7.895%) Windows
3 2 (5.263%) UNIX
4 1 (2.632%) Windows 2000
4 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
1 6 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (13.16%) SOA
2 5 (13.16%) Project Management
2 5 (13.16%) TDD
3 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (10.53%) User Stories
4 3 (7.895%) Test Automation
4 3 (7.895%) TOGAF
4 3 (7.895%) ITIL
5 2 (5.263%) e-GIF
6 1 (2.632%) PRINCE
6 1 (2.632%) MOF
6 1 (2.632%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.632%) UML
6 1 (2.632%) CRM
6 1 (2.632%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.632%) Content Management
6 1 (2.632%) Asset Management
6 1 (2.632%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Java
2 7 (18.42%) PHP
2 7 (18.42%) C++
2 7 (18.42%) Scala
3 6 (15.79%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) C#
4 4 (10.53%) C
5 3 (7.895%) SQL
6 2 (5.263%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (5.263%) CCNP
2 2 (5.263%) CCNA
2 2 (5.263%) CCDA
2 2 (5.263%) CCDP
2 2 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.263%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.632%) MCTS
3 1 (2.632%) MCITP
3 1 (2.632%) VCP4
3 1 (2.632%) NCDA
3 1 (2.632%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (5.263%) HMG Infosec
3 1 (2.632%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (31.58%) vSphere
3 10 (26.32%) vCloud
4 6 (15.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (2.632%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.632%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.632%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.632%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) SCCM
1 1 (2.632%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (36.84%) Cisco
3 13 (34.21%) VMware
4 11 (28.95%) Oracle
5 10 (26.32%) Juniper
6 5 (13.16%) SAP
7 4 (10.53%) EMC
8 2 (5.263%) NetApp
8 2 (5.263%) HP
9 1 (2.632%) Dell
9 1 (2.632%) Citrix
9 1 (2.632%) Brocade