The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 47 34 31
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5226 6498 7007
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 4.731% 5.489% 5.433%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.012% 5.780% 5.772%
Number of salaries quoted 4166 5246 5624
Average salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104260 112424 121400
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.39% 94.97% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 86734 96496 103078
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Architect within the UK.

Architect Salary Trend

Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Architect over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

Architect Salary Histogram

Architect
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -10 4844 £65,000 -3.70% 655
London -17 2379 £72,000 +2.85% 346
South East +2 1184 £62,500 - 97
City of London -18 598 £70,000 - 113
Berkshire +2 339 £70,000 +7.69% 26
Surrey +1 288 £60,000 -4.00% 7
East of England +6 268 £60,000 - 44
North West -9 245 £62,500 +13.63% 37
West Midlands -9 227 £58,750 +2.17% 19
Hampshire +1 221 £60,000 +4.34% 25
Yorkshire -18 197 £55,000 +3.77% 36
South West +5 187 £52,500 -1.86% 43
Reading +18 180 £70,000 +7.69% 14
West Yorkshire +13 169 £55,000 +15.78% 29
Buckinghamshire +37 134 £61,000 +1.66% 8
Scotland -10 126 £60,000 -4.00% 25
Leeds +10 122 £56,000 +17.89% 19
East Midlands +2 118 £60,000 -2.04% 19
Manchester -29 108 £62,500 +13.63% 14
Hertfordshire +4 103 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Birmingham -14 96 £63,500 +10.43% 13
Milton Keynes +28 88 £60,000 -5.88% 4
Cheshire +12 88 £58,000 -3.33% 10
West Sussex -5 80 £60,000 - 2
Edinburgh -9 70 £57,500 -11.53% 18
Oxfordshire +16 69 £64,000 +2.40% 7
Wales +35 63 £55,000 +20.87% 6
Egham +17 62 £62,500 - 1
Bedfordshire -7 61 £60,000 - 4
Basingstoke +3 58 £52,000 -16.80% 2

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited 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 Architect in their job title.

1 2404 (22.24%) Finance
2 2089 (19.33%) Microsoft
3 1947 (18.01%) Java
4 1933 (17.88%) Oracle
5 1530 (14.16%) SQL Server
6 1457 (13.48%) .NET
7 1422 (13.16%) Windows
8 1376 (12.73%) SQL
9 1374 (12.71%) TOGAF
10 1273 (11.78%) Enterprise Architecture
11 1071 (9.909%) SOA
12 1063 (9.835%) VMware
13 1035 (9.576%) Business Intelligence
14 1017 (9.410%) Retail
15 1003 (9.280%) Banking
16 981 (9.077%) Degree
17 926 (8.568%) E-Commerce
18 915 (8.466%) Technical Architecture
19 913 (8.447%) C#
20 904 (8.364%) MS Excel
21 871 (8.059%) Cisco
22 833 (7.707%) Web Services
23 806 (7.457%) VMware Infrastructure
24 803 (7.430%) Project Management
25 791 (7.319%) J2EE
26 778 (7.198%) SAP
27 775 (7.171%) Linux
28 771 (7.134%) Data Warehouse
29 743 (6.875%) UML
30 714 (6.606%) Data Modelling

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited 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 Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1457 (13.48%) .NET
2 833 (7.707%) Web Services
3 791 (7.319%) J2EE
4 676 (6.255%) XML
5 629 (5.820%) WebSphere
6 584 (5.403%) HTML
7 530 (4.904%) Spring
8 528 (4.885%) CSS
8 528 (4.885%) Middleware
9 492 (4.552%) ASP.NET
10 348 (3.220%) WCF
11 312 (2.887%) jQuery
12 294 (2.720%) HTML5
13 283 (2.618%) REST
14 241 (2.230%) .NET Framework
15 232 (2.147%) SOAP
16 224 (2.073%) Hibernate
17 206 (1.906%) Java EE
18 200 (1.850%) JMS
19 187 (1.730%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 680 (6.292%) SharePoint
2 274 (2.535%) CMS
3 273 (2.526%) ESB
4 258 (2.387%) Apache
5 251 (2.322%) MS Exchange
6 243 (2.248%) WebLogic
7 237 (2.193%) IIS
8 228 (2.110%) Lync
9 216 (1.999%) BizTalk Server
10 161 (1.490%) SharePoint 2010
11 155 (1.434%) NetWeaver
12 153 (1.416%) Drupal
13 149 (1.379%) Exchange Server 2010
14 147 (1.360%) Windows Azure
15 112 (1.036%) MQSeries
16 103 (0.953%) Tomcat
17 99 (0.916%) SharePoint Server
17 99 (0.916%) SAS
18 94 (0.870%) WebSphere Application Server
19 80 (0.740%) Documentum
Applications
1 904 (8.364%) MS Excel
2 225 (2.082%) MS Office
3 114 (1.055%) MS Visio
4 104 (0.962%) Office 365
5 48 (0.444%) MS PowerPoint
6 35 (0.324%) InfoPath
7 29 (0.268%) SPSS
7 29 (0.268%) MS Project
8 28 (0.259%) Photoshop
9 23 (0.213%) PowerPivot
10 19 (0.176%) Adobe Illustrator
11 18 (0.167%) Fireworks
12 16 (0.148%) OmniGraffle
13 8 (0.074%) DOC1
14 6 (0.056%) Google Apps
15 5 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
15 5 (0.046%) FastStats
16 4 (0.037%) Windchill
17 3 (0.028%) Revit
18 2 (0.019%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 204 (1.887%) Dynamics CRM
2 138 (1.277%) Oracle EBS
3 121 (1.120%) Oracle BPM
4 77 (0.712%) Dynamics AX
5 67 (0.620%) Oracle ERP
6 38 (0.352%) SAP CRM
7 37 (0.342%) SAP HR
8 34 (0.315%) Dynamics NAV
9 32 (0.296%) Oracle EBS R12
10 28 (0.259%) SAP BPC
11 26 (0.241%) Oracle Applications
12 25 (0.231%) Summit
13 24 (0.222%) SAP HCM
13 24 (0.222%) SAP FI
14 23 (0.213%) Maximo
14 23 (0.213%) Remedy ITSM
14 23 (0.213%) SAP ERP
15 21 (0.194%) SAP FI/CO
15 21 (0.194%) SAP CO
15 21 (0.194%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 501 (4.635%) Firewall
2 427 (3.951%) SAN
3 418 (3.868%) WAN
4 415 (3.840%) Internet
5 362 (3.349%) LAN
6 277 (2.563%) DNS
7 251 (2.322%) Network Security
8 205 (1.897%) MPLS
9 204 (1.887%) TCP/IP
10 199 (1.841%) NAS
11 175 (1.619%) HTTP
12 166 (1.536%) VPN
13 165 (1.527%) Wireless
14 138 (1.277%) DHCP
15 137 (1.268%) Unified Communications
16 111 (1.027%) BGP
17 109 (1.009%) OSPF
18 88 (0.814%) BSS
19 80 (0.740%) SSL
20 76 (0.703%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1530 (14.16%) SQL Server
2 771 (7.134%) Data Warehouse
3 329 (3.044%) MySQL
4 312 (2.887%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 289 (2.674%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 273 (2.526%) Big Data
7 235 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
8 225 (2.082%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 211 (1.952%) DB2
10 184 (1.702%) OLAP
11 168 (1.554%) NoSQL
12 161 (1.490%) RDBMS
13 128 (1.184%) SQL Server 2005
14 120 (1.110%) BusinessObjects
15 118 (1.092%) PostgreSQL
16 99 (0.916%) SAP BW
17 97 (0.897%) Oracle 11g
18 82 (0.759%) MarkLogic
19 80 (0.740%) MongoDB
20 79 (0.731%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 199 (1.841%) Visual Studio
2 123 (1.138%) Team Foundation Server
3 89 (0.823%) ERwin
4 85 (0.786%) Subversion
5 68 (0.629%) Rational DOORS
6 63 (0.583%) Maven
7 59 (0.546%) JUnit
8 40 (0.370%) Axure RP
9 37 (0.342%) Eclipse
9 37 (0.342%) Git (software)
10 35 (0.324%) ClearCase
11 34 (0.315%) Jenkins
12 33 (0.305%) Ant
13 27 (0.250%) NUnit
14 26 (0.241%) Selenium
15 20 (0.185%) VSS/SourceSafe
16 19 (0.176%) CruiseControl
17 17 (0.157%) PhoneGap
18 16 (0.148%) MSBuild
18 16 (0.148%) Cucumber
General
1 2404 (22.24%) Finance
2 1017 (9.410%) Retail
3 1003 (9.280%) Banking
4 573 (5.302%) Telecoms
5 237 (2.193%) Marketing
6 235 (2.174%) Investment Banking
7 201 (1.860%) Back Office
8 191 (1.767%) Advertising
9 181 (1.675%) Manufacturing
10 174 (1.610%) Publishing
11 138 (1.277%) Legal
12 113 (1.046%) Games
12 113 (1.046%) Billing
13 95 (0.879%) Electronics
13 95 (0.879%) Retail Banking
14 77 (0.712%) Military
15 70 (0.648%) Pharmaceutical
16 69 (0.638%) Front Office
17 65 (0.601%) Financial Institution
18 62 (0.574%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 412 (3.812%) Enterprise Software
2 342 (3.164%) SaaS
3 329 (3.044%) Management Information System
4 298 (2.757%) Computer Science
5 283 (2.618%) Open Source
6 279 (2.581%) Mobile App
7 193 (1.786%) PaaS
8 190 (1.758%) IaaS
9 183 (1.693%) N-Tier
10 152 (1.406%) Cloud Computing
11 138 (1.277%) Mainframe
12 132 (1.221%) Data Integration
13 128 (1.184%) Clustering
14 117 (1.083%) Mathematics
15 112 (1.036%) Digital Media
16 108 (0.999%) PKI
17 104 (0.962%) Replication
18 92 (0.851%) Blackberry
19 85 (0.786%) iPhone
20 83 (0.768%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1422 (13.16%) Windows
2 775 (7.171%) Linux
3 644 (5.959%) UNIX
4 330 (3.053%) Windows Server 2008
5 288 (2.665%) Android
6 241 (2.230%) Apple iOS
7 207 (1.915%) Windows Server 2003
8 172 (1.591%) Solaris
9 137 (1.268%) Windows 7
10 91 (0.842%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 91 (0.842%) AIX
11 87 (0.805%) Windows Server 2012
12 50 (0.463%) Windows XP
13 38 (0.352%) Windows Mobile
13 38 (0.352%) Windows 8
14 30 (0.278%) Windows Vista
15 28 (0.259%) Debian
16 27 (0.250%) Windows 2000
17 24 (0.222%) HPUX
18 13 (0.120%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1374 (12.71%) TOGAF
2 1273 (11.78%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1071 (9.909%) SOA
4 1035 (9.576%) Business Intelligence
5 926 (8.568%) E-Commerce
6 915 (8.466%) Technical Architecture
7 803 (7.430%) Project Management
8 743 (6.875%) UML
9 714 (6.606%) Data Modelling
10 706 (6.532%) Agile Software Development
11 690 (6.384%) ITIL
12 687 (6.356%) CRM
13 685 (6.338%) Stakeholder Management
14 546 (5.052%) ETL
15 540 (4.996%) OO
16 510 (4.719%) Migration
17 472 (4.367%) Data Architecture
18 451 (4.173%) Data Management
19 407 (3.766%) Scrum
20 402 (3.719%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1947 (18.01%) Java
2 1376 (12.73%) SQL
3 913 (8.447%) C#
4 555 (5.135%) JavaScript
5 289 (2.674%) C++
6 278 (2.572%) T-SQL
7 274 (2.535%) PHP
8 208 (1.925%) C
9 119 (1.101%) PL/SQL
10 111 (1.027%) Python
10 111 (1.027%) Perl
11 97 (0.897%) Ruby
12 90 (0.833%) PowerShell
13 83 (0.768%) Objective-C
14 61 (0.564%) VB.NET
15 57 (0.527%) XQuery
16 49 (0.453%) Shell Script
17 48 (0.444%) COBOL
18 42 (0.389%) Bash shell
19 38 (0.352%) VB
Qualifications
1 981 (9.077%) Degree
2 571 (5.283%) Security Cleared
3 420 (3.886%) Cisco Certification
4 393 (3.636%) SC Cleared
5 262 (2.424%) Microsoft Certification
6 222 (2.054%) CCIE
7 200 (1.850%) CCNP
8 182 (1.684%) CISSP
9 160 (1.480%) CCNA
10 154 (1.425%) MCSE
11 116 (1.073%) DV Cleared
12 110 (1.018%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 83 (0.768%) CCDA
14 72 (0.666%) CCDP
15 71 (0.657%) CISM
16 64 (0.592%) MCITP
17 54 (0.500%) Citrix Certification
18 44 (0.407%) MCTS
19 42 (0.389%) JNCIE
19 42 (0.389%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 332 (3.072%) QA
2 169 (1.564%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (1.203%) Data Quality
4 88 (0.814%) PCI DSS
5 86 (0.796%) SLA
6 58 (0.537%) COBIT
7 48 (0.444%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 27 (0.250%) Basel III
9 25 (0.231%) JSP 440
9 25 (0.231%) WAI
10 24 (0.222%) ISO 9001
11 16 (0.148%) ISO 8583
12 14 (0.130%) BS7799
13 12 (0.111%) HMG Infosec
14 10 (0.093%) DO-178B
14 10 (0.093%) HL7
15 8 (0.074%) ISO/IEC 17799
15 8 (0.074%) BS15000
16 6 (0.056%) Basel II
17 4 (0.037%) FATCA
System Software
1 806 (7.457%) VMware Infrastructure
2 553 (5.117%) Active Directory
3 316 (2.924%) vSphere
4 304 (2.813%) Hyper-V
5 179 (1.656%) XenDesktop
6 153 (1.416%) XenApp
6 153 (1.416%) XenServer
7 113 (1.046%) VMware ESX
8 99 (0.916%) UAG
9 49 (0.453%) NFS
10 48 (0.444%) vCloud
11 47 (0.435%) Microsoft App-V
12 43 (0.398%) Forefront TMG
13 38 (0.352%) Squid
14 37 (0.342%) VMware ESXi
15 33 (0.305%) Terminal Services
16 23 (0.213%) Xen
17 20 (0.185%) Oracle RAC
18 15 (0.139%) VMware Server
19 13 (0.120%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 166 (1.536%) SCCM
2 119 (1.101%) SCOM
3 82 (0.759%) NetBackup
4 73 (0.675%) Tivoli
5 28 (0.259%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 24 (0.222%) Puppet
7 22 (0.204%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 19 (0.176%) CA Endevor
9 18 (0.167%) OpenView
10 16 (0.148%) Netcool
11 11 (0.102%) Nessus
12 10 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
12 10 (0.093%) Nagios
12 10 (0.093%) ARCserve
13 9 (0.083%) CiscoWorks
14 8 (0.074%) Cisco UCCX
14 8 (0.074%) HP Operations Orchestration
14 8 (0.074%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.074%) MOM
15 7 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2089 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 1933 (17.88%) Oracle
3 1063 (9.835%) VMware
4 871 (8.059%) Cisco
5 778 (7.198%) SAP
6 619 (5.727%) Citrix
7 563 (5.209%) IBM
8 398 (3.682%) HP
9 269 (2.489%) NetApp
10 266 (2.461%) ATG
11 252 (2.332%) EMC
12 251 (2.322%) Juniper
13 211 (1.952%) hybris
14 193 (1.786%) Informatica
15 176 (1.628%) Business Objects
16 171 (1.582%) JBoss
17 161 (1.490%) Salesforce.com
18 136 (1.258%) CheckPoint
19 133 (1.231%) Fujitsu
20 132 (1.221%) Sybase
Bristol, Avon
My client is a well-known brand in the UK who are making some significant changes to their business operating model, route to market and portfolio of services -...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Demonstrable knowledge and experience of technical architecture roles across all phases of the development lifecycle... Experience of defining the technical architecture design principles and planning, design and implementation...
Royal Mail Group
Salary: Excellent Salary & Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
Skills Require: - Architect on at least two major projects - At least 4 years in enterprise systems development using MS technology - Problem solver - Team player - working with large consultancy'...
ITHR
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
They are seeking experience of building out a Service Orientated Architecture, across an opensource environment. You will provide comprehensive and highly technical consulting and leadership to the business...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £65000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Northampton, Northamptonshire
UML) - Excellent communication skills - articulate technical solutions to different audiences Beneficial experience: - Java Frameworks - Multi-channel retail experience - TOGAF - Agile - SOA design This is an excellent opportunity for...
Recital Consulting
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum Good Benefits package
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £40000.00 - £50000.00 per annum + Negotiable+ Benefts
Posted: 10 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
FMC Select Ltd
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 5 June 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Middlesex
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £85000 - £92000 per annum + Car Allow + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Satigo
Salary: £55000.00 - £75000.00 per annum + Car, Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 19 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum TO £60K + BONUS + BENS
Posted: 19 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 70000 - 85000
Posted: 18 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + + Car + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + + Car + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + + Car + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + 18% Bonus + Car + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
North West England
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £44000.00 - £56000.00 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
North West England
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £52000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Benefits Package
Posted: 29 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City
Tesco
Salary: Competitive Salary with Excellent Benefits
Posted: 6 May 2013
City, London
Careerwise UK Limited
Salary: £53000 - £90000 per annum + bonus + benefits + discounts ++
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + 25% Bonus + 6k car + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Careerwise UK Limited
Salary: £70000 per annum + + bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £85,000 to £110,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
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