Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Software Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Surrey region.

 Software Architect
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank148167226
Rank change year-on-year
Up+19Up+59
Matching permanent IT job ads7114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey0.210 %0.025 %0.155 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.218 %0.027 %0.162 %
Salaries quoted6114
Average salary£62,500£130,000£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-51.92 %+136.36 %
UK excluding London average salary£50,000£52,500£55,000
% change year-on-year
-4.760 %-4.540 %
Surrey IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
321237528641
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey96.25 %94.84 %95.45 %
Salaries quoted257632007160
Average salary£42,500£40,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.250 %+6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£57,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
Software Architect South EastSoftware Architect
South East

Software Architect
Demand Trend

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

Surrey Software Architect Demand Trend

Software Architect
Salary Trend

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

Surrey Software Architect Salary Trend

Software Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Surrey 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.

16 (50.00 %)SQL Server
16 (50.00 %)Health
25 (41.67 %)Java
25 (41.67 %)Linux
34 (33.33 %)Symbian
34 (33.33 %)Microsoft
34 (33.33 %)SQL
34 (33.33 %)C
34 (33.33 %)C++
34 (33.33 %)BREW
34 (33.33 %)Windows Mobile
34 (33.33 %)Embedded Linux
34 (33.33 %)Windows
34 (33.33 %)Android
34 (33.33 %)Open Source
43 (25.00 %)Technical Architecture
43 (25.00 %)Auditing
43 (25.00 %)Delphi
43 (25.00 %)T-SQL
43 (25.00 %)Internet
43 (25.00 %)SQL Server 2000
43 (25.00 %)Pharmaceutical
43 (25.00 %)UML
43 (25.00 %)OOA/OOD
43 (25.00 %)OO
43 (25.00 %)XML
43 (25.00 %)MS Excel
52 (16.67 %)MS Visio
52 (16.67 %)Telecoms
52 (16.67 %)Pensions

Software Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Surrey 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.

Surrey IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (33.33 %)BREW
23 (25.00 %)XML
31 (8.333 %)ODBC
31 (8.333 %)WCF
31 (8.333 %)Silverlight
31 (8.333 %).NET
31 (8.333 %)MFC
31 (8.333 %)ADO
31 (8.333 %)ASP.NET
31 (8.333 %)COM+
31 (8.333 %)JDBC
Surrey IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (25.00 %)MS Excel
22 (16.67 %)MS Visio
Surrey IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (8.333 %)Oracle ERP
11 (8.333 %)Dynamics CRM
Surrey IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (25.00 %)Internet
Surrey IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (50.00 %)SQL Server
23 (25.00 %)SQL Server 2000
31 (8.333 %)GIS
31 (8.333 %)PostgreSQL
31 (8.333 %)SQL Server 2008
31 (8.333 %)DB2
31 (8.333 %)Data Mining
31 (8.333 %)MySQL
Surrey IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (50.00 %)Health
23 (25.00 %)Pharmaceutical
23 (25.00 %)Auditing
32 (16.67 %)Pensions
32 (16.67 %)Telecoms
41 (8.333 %)Finance
41 (8.333 %)Banking
41 (8.333 %)Retail
Surrey IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (33.33 %)Open Source
Surrey IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (41.67 %)Linux
24 (33.33 %)Windows Mobile
24 (33.33 %)Embedded Linux
24 (33.33 %)Android
24 (33.33 %)Windows
Surrey IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (25.00 %)UML
13 (25.00 %)OOA/OOD
13 (25.00 %)OO
13 (25.00 %)Technical Architecture
22 (16.67 %)Software Architecture
31 (8.333 %)CRM
31 (8.333 %)ERP
31 (8.333 %)Asset Management
31 (8.333 %)Zachman Framework
31 (8.333 %)TOGAF
31 (8.333 %)Content Management
31 (8.333 %)Document Management
31 (8.333 %)Enterprise Architecture
Surrey IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (41.67 %)Java
24 (33.33 %)SQL
24 (33.33 %)C
24 (33.33 %)C++
33 (25.00 %)Delphi
33 (25.00 %)T-SQL
41 (8.333 %)VC++
41 (8.333 %)Objective-C
41 (8.333 %)C#
Surrey IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (33.33 %)Symbian
14 (33.33 %)Microsoft
21 (8.333 %)Oracle
21 (8.333 %)Sybase
21 (8.333 %)SAP