The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 160 137 110
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Architect 44 48 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.875% 1.053% 1.702%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.912% 1.099% 1.779%
Number of salaries quoted 17 44 64
Average salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £49,200 £45,000 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £70,000 £61,750
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year
-1.70% +6.36%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4823 4368 3992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.92% 95.83% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3997 3832 3397
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Technical Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Technical Architect Salary Trend

Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Technical Architect Salary Histogram

Technical Architect
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham -4 30 £51,250 -6.81%
Shropshire - 4 £50,000 -
Staffordshire -1 1 £48,000 +1.05%
Worcestershire - 1 £45,000 -
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 68 (64.15%) VMware
2 59 (55.66%) Active Directory
3 57 (53.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (41.51%) Hyper-V
5 38 (35.85%) NetApp
6 36 (33.96%) SCCM
7 35 (33.02%) Microsoft
8 34 (32.08%) SCOM
9 33 (31.13%) Citrix
10 31 (29.25%) XenDesktop
11 30 (28.30%) SharePoint
12 29 (27.36%) MS Exchange
13 23 (21.70%) Technical Architecture
14 22 (20.75%) Cisco
15 21 (19.81%) HP
16 18 (16.98%) MS Excel
17 16 (15.09%) SQL
18 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
18 15 (14.15%) Windows
19 13 (12.26%) XenServer
19 13 (12.26%) vSphere
20 12 (11.32%) Exchange Server 2010
20 12 (11.32%) Windows Server 2008
20 12 (11.32%) DHCP
20 12 (11.32%) DNS
20 12 (11.32%) Firewall
21 11 (10.38%) IBM
22 10 (9.434%) Oracle
22 10 (9.434%) Exchange Server 2003
22 10 (9.434%) Back Office

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (6.604%) .NET
2 4 (3.774%) XML
3 3 (2.830%) Middleware
3 3 (2.830%) J2EE
4 2 (1.887%) Struts
4 2 (1.887%) Web Services
4 2 (1.887%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.887%) CSS
4 2 (1.887%) HTML
4 2 (1.887%) Spring
4 2 (1.887%) Spring MVC
4 2 (1.887%) jQuery
5 1 (0.943%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.943%) WCF
5 1 (0.943%) WPF
5 1 (0.943%) Silverlight
5 1 (0.943%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.943%) Tapestry
5 1 (0.943%) Ajax
5 1 (0.943%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 30 (28.30%) SharePoint
2 29 (27.36%) MS Exchange
3 12 (11.32%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (9.434%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (9.434%) Exchange Server 2007
5 9 (8.491%) Lync
6 4 (3.774%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.887%) Apache
7 2 (1.887%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.887%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.943%) Jetty
8 1 (0.943%) ESB
8 1 (0.943%) SAS
8 1 (0.943%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 18 (16.98%) MS Excel
2 9 (8.491%) Office 365
2 9 (8.491%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.547%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.943%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.943%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.32%) DHCP
1 12 (11.32%) DNS
1 12 (11.32%) Firewall
2 10 (9.434%) NAS
3 9 (8.491%) SAN
4 2 (1.887%) HTTP
4 2 (1.887%) LAN
4 2 (1.887%) WAN
5 1 (0.943%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.943%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.943%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (0.943%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (0.943%) GIS
2 1 (0.943%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.943%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.887%) JUnit
2 1 (0.943%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.943%) Eclipse
General
1 10 (9.434%) Back Office
2 6 (5.660%) Retail
3 5 (4.717%) Finance
4 4 (3.774%) Advertising
5 3 (2.830%) Banking
5 3 (2.830%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.943%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.943%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.943%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (0.943%) Mobile Computing
1 1 (0.943%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (0.943%) Oracle Exalogic
1 1 (0.943%) iPhone
1 1 (0.943%) Computer Science
1 1 (0.943%) CLARiiON
1 1 (0.943%) Clustering
1 1 (0.943%) Client/Server
1 1 (0.943%) N-Tier
1 1 (0.943%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.15%) Windows
2 12 (11.32%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (8.491%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (4.717%) Solaris
5 4 (3.774%) Linux
5 4 (3.774%) AIX
6 3 (2.830%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.830%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.70%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (6.604%) TOGAF
3 6 (5.660%) SOA
3 6 (5.660%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (4.717%) Waterfall
4 5 (4.717%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (4.717%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (3.774%) ITIL
5 4 (3.774%) Migration
5 4 (3.774%) Service Delivery
6 3 (2.830%) Security Architecture
6 3 (2.830%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (2.830%) Project Management
6 3 (2.830%) MVC
6 3 (2.830%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (1.887%) PRINCE2
7 2 (1.887%) RUP
7 2 (1.887%) UML
8 1 (0.943%) Kanban
8 1 (0.943%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.09%) SQL
2 7 (6.604%) C#
3 6 (5.660%) Java
4 4 (3.774%) COBOL
5 3 (2.830%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.830%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.943%) XPath
6 1 (0.943%) C++
6 1 (0.943%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (4.717%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.774%) MCSE
2 4 (3.774%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (3.774%) Degree
2 4 (3.774%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (3.774%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.830%) VCAP
3 3 (2.830%) CCEE
3 3 (2.830%) VCDX
3 3 (2.830%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (0.943%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.943%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.604%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (2.830%) QA
3 2 (1.887%) SLA
4 1 (0.943%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (55.66%) Active Directory
2 57 (53.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (41.51%) Hyper-V
4 31 (29.25%) XenDesktop
5 13 (12.26%) XenServer
5 13 (12.26%) vSphere
6 9 (8.491%) UAG
7 3 (2.830%) PowerHA
7 3 (2.830%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.943%) PowerConvert
Systems Management
1 36 (33.96%) SCCM
2 34 (32.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 68 (64.15%) VMware
2 38 (35.85%) NetApp
3 35 (33.02%) Microsoft
4 33 (31.13%) Citrix
5 22 (20.75%) Cisco
6 21 (19.81%) HP
7 11 (10.38%) IBM
8 10 (9.434%) Oracle
8 10 (9.434%) 3PAR
9 4 (3.774%) PlateSpin
10 3 (2.830%) Novell
11 2 (1.887%) Twitter
12 1 (0.943%) Fundtech
12 1 (0.943%) Cognos
12 1 (0.943%) EMC
12 1 (0.943%) Sun
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Design and delivery oversight of Microsoft SharePoint/MOSS architecture... Microsoft Infrastructure (Active Directory, SQL Server, Exchange) Windows Communication Foundation... In addition, we also deliver services and solutions on...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £55,000 to £75,000 per annum (dep on exp), plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Midlands
Main Duties: As a Technical architect your main duties will include: - Providing support to clients - Help and support with design on projects - Work with the business development team -...
Intapeople
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Car allowance and Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
SCCM and SCOM 2007... office365. App-V... Windows 7... Microsoft Methodology - MOF and MSA. TOGAF... Key Words: Microsoft, Infrastructure, Technical Architect, Windows 2003 / 2008, Active Directory, SCCM, SCOM,...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £65K basic + 5K Car Allow + Excellent bonus and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013