The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Architect in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certified Architect over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA)
Rank 837 886 848
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -38
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certified Architect 21 10 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.008% 0.019%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.071% 0.030% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 23
Average salary £65,000 £62,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% +66.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £87,500 £70,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £37,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+75.67% -26.00%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29773 33643 32244
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.62% 27.82% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23976 28605 26864
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

Microsoft Certified Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Microsoft Certified Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certified Architect
Salary Trend

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

Microsoft Certified Architect Salary Trend

Microsoft Certified Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft Certified Architect over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Microsoft Certified Architect Salary Histogram

Microsoft Certified Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certified Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +41 18 £65,000 +4.00%
London +30 8 £65,000 -7.14%
East of England - 6 £65,000 -
Bedfordshire - 6 £65,000 -
City of London +10 2 £83,750 +139.28%
Surrey +16 1 £87,500 +136.48%
South East +7 1 £87,500 +136.48%
Docklands, London - 1 £60,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £36,000 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £36,000 -

Microsoft Certified Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Microsoft Certified Architect also 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 that cited Microsoft Certified Architect.

1 32 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (43.75%) Finance
4 12 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 11 (34.38%) Windows
6 10 (31.25%) MCITP
7 9 (28.13%) ITIL
7 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
8 8 (25.00%) PRINCE2
8 8 (25.00%) MCSE
8 8 (25.00%) IBM
8 8 (25.00%) IBM Certification
8 8 (25.00%) Business Development
9 7 (21.88%) MS Excel
10 6 (18.75%) MCDBA
10 6 (18.75%) SQL
10 6 (18.75%) T-SQL
10 6 (18.75%) Project Management
10 6 (18.75%) Clustering
10 6 (18.75%) MCTS
10 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (15.63%) Unified Communications
11 5 (15.63%) Mitel
11 5 (15.63%) .NET
11 5 (15.63%) MCP
11 5 (15.63%) WAN
12 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
12 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
12 4 (12.50%) Replication

Microsoft Certified Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Microsoft Certified Architect also 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 that cited Microsoft Certified Architect. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (15.63%) .NET
2 3 (9.375%) ADO.NET
2 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET
2 3 (9.375%) WCF
3 2 (6.250%) COM
3 2 (6.250%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 4 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (9.375%) Lync
2 3 (9.375%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.250%) MS Office
3 1 (3.125%) MS Project
3 1 (3.125%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) WAN
1 5 (15.63%) Unified Communications
2 3 (9.375%) MGW
2 3 (9.375%) Internet
3 2 (6.250%) SAN
4 1 (3.125%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.125%) IP Telephony
4 1 (3.125%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (6.250%) DTS
3 2 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.250%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.250%) Advertising
3 2 (6.250%) Banking
3 2 (6.250%) Retail
4 1 (3.125%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Architect
2 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Mitel Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 4 (12.50%) DBA
5 3 (9.375%) Consultant
5 3 (9.375%) .NET Architect
6 2 (6.250%) Installations Engineer
6 2 (6.250%) Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Database Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (6.250%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.125%) Principle Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Security Specialist
7 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Consultant
7 1 (3.125%) Active Directory Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Clustering
2 4 (12.50%) PMI
2 4 (12.50%) Replication
3 3 (9.375%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (9.375%) Linux
4 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.250%) UNIX
5 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
3 8 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 8 (25.00%) Business Development
4 6 (18.75%) Project Management
5 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) BCP
5 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (12.50%) Document Management
5 4 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (9.375%) Use Case
6 3 (9.375%) SOA
6 3 (9.375%) Knowledge Management
6 3 (9.375%) Scrum
6 3 (9.375%) UML
6 3 (9.375%) RUP
7 2 (6.250%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.250%) Service Management
7 2 (6.250%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
1 6 (18.75%) T-SQL
2 3 (9.375%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (31.25%) MCITP
3 8 (25.00%) MCSE
3 8 (25.00%) IBM Certification
4 6 (18.75%) MCDBA
4 6 (18.75%) MCTS
5 5 (15.63%) MCP
6 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 4 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (12.50%) PMI Certification
7 3 (9.375%) Degree
8 2 (6.250%) RHCA
9 1 (3.125%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) COBIT
2 2 (6.250%) QA
2 2 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.375%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.250%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) IBM
3 5 (15.63%) Mitel
4 3 (9.375%) Polycom
4 3 (9.375%) Tandberg
4 3 (9.375%) Sitecore
4 3 (9.375%) Dialogic
4 3 (9.375%) Cisco
4 3 (9.375%) Avaya
4 3 (9.375%) Siemens
4 3 (9.375%) VMware
5 2 (6.250%) Embarcadero
5 2 (6.250%) SAP
6 1 (3.125%) Oracle
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