Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 9 February 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 currently tracked.

LinkArchitect
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank243238
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Up+6
Matching permanent IT job ads489348928732
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK6.214 %4.840 %4.321 %
As % of the Job Titles category6.656 %5.185 %4.588 %
Salaries quoted382538696886
Average salary£65,000£60,000£65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-7.690 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£45,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£95,000£85,000£87,500
UK excluding London average salary£60,000£57,500£60,000
% change year-on-year
+4.340 %-4.160 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7351394340190321
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.36 %93.34 %94.18 %
Salaries quoted6085779289154271
Average salary£40,000£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.890 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000

Architect
Demand Trend

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

Architect Demand Trend

Architect
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Architect over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 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 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+124410£64,000+6.66 %
LondonUp+112090£70,000+3.70 %
South EastUp+81014£60,000+9.09 %
City of LondonUp+13534£75,000+7.14 %
North WestUp+38345£60,000+9.09 %
BerkshireDown-6319£55,000-4.34 %
East of EnglandUp+2261£60,000-
SurreyUp+27237£65,000+13.04 %
West MidlandsDown-3225£50,000-9.09 %
YorkshireUp+28175£50,000+6.38 %
HertfordshireUp+4161£60,000-4.00 %
West YorkshireUp+47142£52,500+9.37 %
CheshireUp+26140£60,000+15.38 %
ScotlandUp+21122£55,000+4.76 %
ManchesterUp+28117£58,750-2.08 %
South WestDown-15116£50,000-1.96 %
ReadingUp+4106£55,000-8.33 %
HampshireUp+5100£60,000+14.28 %
East MidlandsUp+6398£50,000-15.25 %
CambridgeshireNo change091£52,000-9.56 %
LeedsUp+3789£55,000+10.00 %
EdinburghUp+2888£54,500-5.21 %
CambridgeUp+884£50,750-15.41 %
BirminghamDown-673£55,000-8.33 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2272£55,000+3.77 %
Docklands, LondonUp+1344£75,000+1.69 %
Milton KeynesUp+1740£55,000-
NottinghamshireUp+3237£52,500+5.00 %
MiddlesexUp+1937£64,000+11.30 %
West SussexUp+2136£65,000+23.80 %

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

11858 (20.86 %)Finance
21440 (16.17 %)Java
31259 (14.13 %).NET
41254 (14.08 %)Microsoft
51155 (12.97 %)Oracle
6932 (10.46 %)SAP
7883 (9.912 %)Enterprise Architecture
8836 (9.385 %)Windows
9835 (9.374 %)C#
10832 (9.340 %)SOA
11805 (9.037 %)J2EE
12772 (8.666 %)Banking
13766 (8.599 %)MS Visio
14755 (8.476 %)SQL Server
15705 (7.914 %)SQL
16632 (7.095 %)UNIX
17627 (7.039 %)TOGAF
18592 (6.646 %)Business Intelligence
19588 (6.601 %)Degree
20559 (6.275 %)Datawarehouse
21549 (6.163 %)Technical Architecture
22521 (5.849 %)Data Modelling
23473 (5.310 %)Retail
24442 (4.962 %)OO
25441 (4.951 %)UML
26440 (4.939 %)ASP.NET
27436 (4.894 %)CRM
28428 (4.805 %)Linux
29426 (4.782 %)Cisco
30425 (4.771 %)Security Cleared

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11259 (14.13 %).NET
2805 (9.037 %)J2EE
3440 (4.939 %)ASP.NET
4417 (4.681 %)XML
5349 (3.918 %)Web Services
6331 (3.716 %)Middleware
7266 (2.986 %)WebSphere
8229 (2.571 %)Spring
9212 (2.380 %).NET Framework
10193 (2.167 %)HTML
11165 (1.852 %)Silverlight
12161 (1.807 %)Hibernate
13157 (1.762 %)AJAX
14136 (1.527 %)Flash
15133 (1.493 %)CSS
16125 (1.403 %)Adobe Flex
17106 (1.190 %)Java EE
18104 (1.167 %)WCF
19102 (1.145 %)JMS
20100 (1.123 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1395 (4.434 %)SharePoint
2244 (2.739 %)SharePoint Server 2007
3211 (2.369 %)WebLogic
4161 (1.807 %)MS Exchange
5117 (1.313 %)NetWeaver
6105 (1.179 %)IIS
799 (1.111 %)ESB
893 (1.044 %)BizTalk Server
979 (0.887 %)CMS
979 (0.887 %)Exchange Server 2007
1078 (0.876 %)Documentum
1171 (0.797 %)Apache
1253 (0.595 %)Tomcat
1343 (0.483 %)WebSphere MQ
1343 (0.483 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1439 (0.438 %)Oracle Workflow
1538 (0.427 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1636 (0.404 %)Exchange Server 2003
1636 (0.404 %)SAS
1735 (0.393 %)ColdFusion
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1766 (8.599 %)MS Visio
2359 (4.030 %)MS Excel
3131 (1.471 %)MS Office
4119 (1.336 %)Adobe Illustrator
543 (0.483 %)MS Project
626 (0.292 %)MS PowerPoint
720 (0.225 %)Photoshop
817 (0.191 %)InfoPath
98 (0.090 %)Acrobat
107 (0.079 %)Fireworks
116 (0.067 %)Spreadsheet
124 (0.045 %)CA Clarity
124 (0.045 %)SPSS
133 (0.034 %)PrintSoft PReS
141 (0.011 %)ArchiCAD
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
178 (0.876 %)Oracle EBS
264 (0.718 %)SAP MM
358 (0.651 %)SAP IS-U
456 (0.629 %)Oracle Applications
552 (0.584 %)SAP CRM
649 (0.550 %)SAP APO
649 (0.550 %)Microsoft CRM
745 (0.505 %)SAP Retail
745 (0.505 %)Oracle EBS R12
839 (0.438 %)Dynamics CRM
938 (0.427 %)SAP HR
1032 (0.359 %)Dynamics AX
1128 (0.314 %)TIBCO iProcess
1225 (0.281 %)SAP R/3
1324 (0.269 %)SAP FI
1423 (0.258 %)Axapta
1522 (0.247 %)SAP MDM
1620 (0.225 %)RMDS
1719 (0.213 %)SAP CO
1719 (0.213 %)SAP FI/CO
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1413 (4.636 %)Internet
2254 (2.851 %)SAN
3227 (2.548 %)Firewall
4223 (2.503 %)LAN
5207 (2.324 %)WAN
6116 (1.302 %)Wireless
7106 (1.190 %)DNS
7106 (1.190 %)TCP/IP
887 (0.977 %)Network Security
978 (0.876 %)NAS
1068 (0.763 %)MPLS
1165 (0.730 %)HTTP
1165 (0.730 %)VoIP
1257 (0.640 %)BGP
1350 (0.561 %)Cisco ASA
1449 (0.550 %)OSPF
1449 (0.550 %)VPN
1548 (0.539 %)LDAP
1647 (0.528 %)IP Telephony
1742 (0.471 %)IPsec
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1755 (8.476 %)SQL Server
2559 (6.275 %)Datawarehouse
3246 (2.762 %)ETL
4183 (2.054 %)SQL Server 2005
5148 (1.661 %)MySQL
6135 (1.515 %)SQL Server 2008
7131 (1.471 %)RDBMS
8126 (1.414 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9123 (1.381 %)DB2
10119 (1.336 %)SQL Server Integration Services
11106 (1.190 %)OLAP
12105 (1.179 %)BusinessObjects
13102 (1.145 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1493 (1.044 %)SQL Server 2000
1591 (1.022 %)Oracle 8/8i
1685 (0.954 %)SAP BW
1784 (0.943 %)Oracle 10g
1878 (0.876 %)SAP BI
1954 (0.606 %)Oracle OLAP
2045 (0.505 %)OLTP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
164 (0.718 %)ERwin
260 (0.674 %)JUnit
356 (0.629 %)Visual Studio
453 (0.595 %)Subversion
550 (0.561 %)Maven
642 (0.471 %)Eclipse
737 (0.415 %)Ant
831 (0.348 %)Oracle Forms
831 (0.348 %)QuickTest Pro
924 (0.269 %)Rational Rose
1022 (0.247 %)WinRunner
1022 (0.247 %)TestDirector
1121 (0.236 %)Selenium
1220 (0.225 %)Bugzilla
1319 (0.213 %)Dreamweaver
1417 (0.191 %)NUnit
1514 (0.157 %)FitNesse
1514 (0.157 %)Rational Robot
1612 (0.135 %)Atlassian Bamboo
1711 (0.123 %)CruiseControl
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11858 (20.86 %)Finance
2772 (8.666 %)Banking
3473 (5.310 %)Retail
4395 (4.434 %)Pensions
5392 (4.401 %)Health
6337 (3.783 %)Government
7302 (3.390 %)Telecoms
8296 (3.323 %)Investment Banking
9233 (2.616 %)Insurance
10185 (2.077 %)Marketing
11148 (1.661 %)Front Office
12134 (1.504 %)Education
13116 (1.302 %)Publishing
14101 (1.134 %)Games
1596 (1.078 %)Manufacturing
1691 (1.022 %)Construction
1784 (0.943 %)Financial Institution
1880 (0.898 %)Back Office
1970 (0.786 %)Pharmaceutical
2057 (0.640 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1181 (2.032 %)Computer Science
2141 (1.583 %)FMCG
3139 (1.560 %)Derivative
4134 (1.504 %)N-Tier
5122 (1.370 %)RIA
6114 (1.280 %)Management Information System
7106 (1.190 %)Open Source
8105 (1.179 %)Data Integration
993 (1.044 %)Replication
1084 (0.943 %)SaaS
1181 (0.909 %)Client/Server
1264 (0.718 %)Cloud Computing
1361 (0.685 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1361 (0.685 %)Clustering
1458 (0.651 %)Multithreading
1552 (0.584 %)Equity Derivative
1651 (0.573 %)Web 2.0
1749 (0.550 %)PKI
1846 (0.516 %)Fixed Income
1945 (0.505 %)NHS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1836 (9.385 %)Windows
2632 (7.095 %)UNIX
3428 (4.805 %)Linux
4196 (2.200 %)Windows Server 2003
5159 (1.785 %)Solaris
6144 (1.617 %)Windows Server 2008
786 (0.965 %)AIX
861 (0.685 %)Windows 2000
951 (0.573 %)Red Hat Linux
1047 (0.528 %)Windows NT
1047 (0.528 %)HPUX
1126 (0.292 %)Android
1223 (0.258 %)Windows XP
1317 (0.191 %)Windows 7
1414 (0.157 %)Windows 2000 Server
1513 (0.146 %)Windows Mobile
1611 (0.123 %)Windows Vista
1710 (0.112 %)IRIX
188 (0.090 %)Debian
197 (0.079 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1883 (9.912 %)Enterprise Architecture
2832 (9.340 %)SOA
3627 (7.039 %)TOGAF
4592 (6.646 %)Business Intelligence
5549 (6.163 %)Technical Architecture
6521 (5.849 %)Data Modelling
7442 (4.962 %)OO
8441 (4.951 %)UML
9436 (4.894 %)CRM
10407 (4.569 %)E-Commerce
11399 (4.479 %)Zachman Framework
12383 (4.300 %)Project Management
13368 (4.131 %)Data Architecture
14337 (3.783 %)Migration
15305 (3.424 %)Agile Software Development
16265 (2.975 %)ERP
17256 (2.874 %)Stakeholder Management
18239 (2.683 %)Information Architecture
19234 (2.627 %)ITIL
20229 (2.571 %)Workflow
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11440 (16.17 %)Java
2835 (9.374 %)C#
3705 (7.914 %)SQL
4376 (4.221 %)C++
5230 (2.582 %)C
6183 (2.054 %)JavaScript
7138 (1.549 %)VB.NET
8125 (1.403 %)PHP
9109 (1.224 %)Perl
10105 (1.179 %)T-SQL
11104 (1.167 %)PL/SQL
1261 (0.685 %)Shell Script
1349 (0.550 %)VB
1432 (0.359 %)VC++
1529 (0.326 %)Python
1624 (0.269 %)PHP5
1723 (0.258 %)Ruby
1822 (0.247 %)ABAP
1921 (0.236 %)VB6
2018 (0.202 %)X++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1588 (6.601 %)Degree
2425 (4.771 %)Security Cleared
3239 (2.683 %)SC Cleared
4175 (1.965 %)Microsoft Certification
5155 (1.740 %)Cisco Certification
6133 (1.493 %)MCSE
7105 (1.179 %)ISEB
894 (1.055 %)CCNP
980 (0.898 %)CCIE
1079 (0.887 %)CCDP
1178 (0.876 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1275 (0.842 %)DV Cleared
1360 (0.674 %)CCNA
1444 (0.494 %)CISSP
1541 (0.460 %)Citrix Certification
1640 (0.449 %)CCDA
1730 (0.337 %)CCA
1829 (0.326 %)CCSP
1928 (0.314 %)ITIL Certification
2027 (0.303 %)CCEA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1116 (1.302 %)QA
256 (0.629 %)SLA
349 (0.550 %)PCI DSS
446 (0.516 %)ISO27001
521 (0.236 %)COBIT
612 (0.135 %)HL7
78 (0.090 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
87 (0.079 %)JSP 440
92 (0.022 %)BS25999
92 (0.022 %)WAI
92 (0.022 %)ISO9001
101 (0.011 %)ISO17799
101 (0.011 %)TickIT
101 (0.011 %)BS15000
101 (0.011 %)EFQM
101 (0.011 %)BS7799
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1258 (2.896 %)Active Directory
2240 (2.694 %)VMware Infrastructure
372 (0.808 %)AquaLogic
461 (0.685 %)NetBackup
560 (0.674 %)ISA Server
560 (0.674 %)Hyper-V
646 (0.516 %)XenServer
739 (0.438 %)XenDesktop
835 (0.393 %)vSphere
932 (0.359 %)XenApp
1029 (0.326 %)SRDF
1128 (0.314 %)VMware ESX
1227 (0.303 %)Xen
1323 (0.258 %)MSMQ
1422 (0.247 %)Oracle RAC
1513 (0.146 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1611 (0.123 %)Backup Exec
179 (0.101 %)PowerConvert
188 (0.090 %)Terminal Services
196 (0.067 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
188 (0.988 %)SCCM
284 (0.943 %)SCOM
344 (0.494 %)Tivoli
443 (0.483 %)MOM
531 (0.348 %)Netcool
620 (0.225 %)Netcool/Proviso
718 (0.202 %)OpenView
811 (0.123 %)Norton AntiVirus
98 (0.090 %)Unicenter
107 (0.079 %)CiscoWorks
116 (0.067 %)AutoSys
116 (0.067 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
116 (0.067 %)AppManager
124 (0.045 %)HP Quality Center
124 (0.045 %)EMC NetWorker
124 (0.045 %)Nessus
124 (0.045 %)MSI
124 (0.045 %)MAILsweeper
124 (0.045 %)BMC PATROL
124 (0.045 %)CONTROL-M
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11254 (14.08 %)Microsoft
21155 (12.97 %)Oracle
3932 (10.46 %)SAP
4426 (4.782 %)Cisco
5379 (4.255 %)VMware
6293 (3.289 %)Citrix
7207 (2.324 %)HP
8195 (2.189 %)EMC
9186 (2.088 %)IBM
10120 (1.347 %)Cognos
11113 (1.269 %)Adobe
12105 (1.179 %)Business Objects
13103 (1.156 %)JBoss
1498 (1.100 %)Informatica
1592 (1.033 %)TIBCO
1592 (1.033 %)Juniper
1688 (0.988 %)CheckPoint
1785 (0.954 %)ATG
1879 (0.887 %)Sybase
1967 (0.752 %)Siebel