The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 21 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Architect
Rank 392 392 369
Rank change year-on-year
0 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 49 46 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.221% 0.194% 0.222%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.233% 0.203% 0.235%
Number of salaries quoted 25 33 32
Average salary £64,000 £75,000 £72,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.66% +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,000 £58,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £84,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £64,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year
-7.85% -
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21050 22607 21256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.23% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17463 19538 18266
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Lead Architect Salary Trend

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Architect across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Hampshire +18 24 £61,250 -18.33%
Berkshire +15 14 £75,000 -9.09%
Surrey +5 9 - -
Buckinghamshire -12 4 £50,000 -6.54%
Kent - 4 £64,000 -
Middlesex - 1 £70,000 -
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 34 (37.78%) Finance
2 30 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 25 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
3 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
5 20 (22.22%) Retail
5 20 (22.22%) .NET
5 20 (22.22%) ITIL
5 20 (22.22%) Windows
6 19 (21.11%) UML
6 19 (21.11%) OO
6 19 (21.11%) Telecoms
7 18 (20.00%) RUP
8 17 (18.89%) Fujitsu
9 15 (16.67%) MODAF
9 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 14 (15.56%) SharePoint
10 14 (15.56%) C#
10 14 (15.56%) Project Management
11 13 (14.44%) Citrix
11 13 (14.44%) Change Management
11 13 (14.44%) MS Excel
11 13 (14.44%) Windows 7
12 12 (13.33%) PRINCE2
13 11 (12.22%) Configuration Management
14 10 (11.11%) Java
14 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
14 10 (11.11%) Cisco
15 9 (10.00%) E-Commerce
15 9 (10.00%) SQL

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 20 (22.22%) .NET
2 7 (7.778%) ASP.NET
3 6 (6.667%) jQuery
4 4 (4.444%) WCF
5 3 (3.333%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.222%) Middleware
6 2 (2.222%) J2EE
7 1 (1.111%) AWT
7 1 (1.111%) Swing
7 1 (1.111%) CSS
7 1 (1.111%) JSP
7 1 (1.111%) Servlets
7 1 (1.111%) HTML
7 1 (1.111%) SWT
7 1 (1.111%) Ajax
7 1 (1.111%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 14 (15.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.222%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.222%) ESB
2 2 (2.222%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (2.222%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (2.222%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.222%) Apache
3 1 (1.111%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.111%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.111%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.111%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 13 (14.44%) MS Excel
2 6 (6.667%) MS Project
2 6 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.111%) SAP APO
1 1 (1.111%) SAP HR
1 1 (1.111%) SAP Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.556%) Firewall
2 3 (3.333%) WAN
2 3 (3.333%) SAN
2 3 (3.333%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.222%) Network Security
3 2 (2.222%) MPLS
4 1 (1.111%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.111%) DNS
4 1 (1.111%) OSPF
4 1 (1.111%) BGP
4 1 (1.111%) Wireless
4 1 (1.111%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.111%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.111%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.111%) FWSM
4 1 (1.111%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.111%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.111%) MySQL
3 1 (1.111%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (3.333%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.222%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.111%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.111%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 34 (37.78%) Finance
2 20 (22.22%) Retail
3 19 (21.11%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.333%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.222%) Marketing
5 2 (2.222%) Advertising
5 2 (2.222%) Electronics
6 1 (1.111%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (3.333%) CESG
1 3 (3.333%) CESG CLAS
2 2 (2.222%) Mathematics
2 2 (2.222%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (2.222%) SystemC
2 2 (2.222%) Handset
3 1 (1.111%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.111%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.111%) Open Source
3 1 (1.111%) SaaS
3 1 (1.111%) FMCG
3 1 (1.111%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.22%) Windows
2 13 (14.44%) Windows 7
3 9 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (8.889%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (8.889%) Windows XP
5 5 (5.556%) UNIX
5 5 (5.556%) Linux
6 1 (1.111%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 25 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
3 20 (22.22%) ITIL
4 19 (21.11%) UML
4 19 (21.11%) OO
5 18 (20.00%) RUP
6 15 (16.67%) MODAF
7 14 (15.56%) Project Management
8 13 (14.44%) Change Management
9 12 (13.33%) PRINCE2
10 11 (12.22%) Configuration Management
11 9 (10.00%) E-Commerce
11 9 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
11 9 (10.00%) Programme Management
12 8 (8.889%) Time Management
13 7 (7.778%) Zachman Framework
14 6 (6.667%) Logistics
14 6 (6.667%) SysML
14 6 (6.667%) Unified Process
14 6 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.56%) C#
2 10 (11.11%) Java
3 9 (10.00%) SQL
4 8 (8.889%) C
5 2 (2.222%) sed
5 2 (2.222%) AWK
5 2 (2.222%) Tcl
5 2 (2.222%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.222%) Perl
5 2 (2.222%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.222%) C++
6 1 (1.111%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.111%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.889%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.889%) CISSP
4 6 (6.667%) Degree
5 5 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.333%) CCNA
6 3 (3.333%) MCSE
7 2 (2.222%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.222%) CCIE
8 1 (1.111%) CCDP
8 1 (1.111%) CCNP
8 1 (1.111%) CCIP
8 1 (1.111%) MCSA
8 1 (1.111%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.111%) HP AIS
8 1 (1.111%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.111%) CCEE
8 1 (1.111%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.222%) JSP 440
1 2 (2.222%) QA
2 1 (1.111%) SLA
2 1 (1.111%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (6.667%) XenApp
2 2 (2.222%) XenDesktop
2 2 (2.222%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.111%) IAG
3 1 (1.111%) XenServer
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Fujitsu
2 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (14.44%) Citrix
4 10 (11.11%) Cisco
5 8 (8.889%) SAP
6 7 (7.778%) VMware
7 6 (6.667%) Salesforce.com
7 6 (6.667%) HP
8 4 (4.444%) IronPort
8 4 (4.444%) Intel
9 3 (3.333%) Oracle
9 3 (3.333%) JBoss
10 2 (2.222%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (2.222%) Business Objects
10 2 (2.222%) IBM
11 1 (1.111%) Progress
11 1 (1.111%) Dell
11 1 (1.111%) EMC
11 1 (1.111%) Symantec
11 1 (1.111%) NetApp
Surrey, South East
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Proteus Europe
Posted: 16 May 2013
Surrey
Pre-sales (Assist Sales, Technical discussions with customers around their WAN/communications strategy and Updata MPLS offering) ? Design of WAN/MPLS networks and other ICT services, Voice, Filtering,...
Proteus Europe
Posted: 15 May 2013
South East
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EADS
Posted: 3 May 2013
Hampshire
Candidates require experience in the following technologies: Windows Server, VMware, HP Storage, Cisco firewalls & switches, System Centre Management products, Exchange, TMG, Ironport Email Gateway, Windows 7, Citrix VDI &...
Roc Search
Salary: £55000 - £63000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
To be successful, you should be up-to-date with all the emerging technologies and trends with emphasis in Business & Customer Intelligence, Big Data Solutions, Data Analytics, Data...
Experis IT
Salary: £80000 - £90000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013