The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Architect role in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 23 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architect
Rank - - 149
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Architect 0 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - - 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.103%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3456 3124 2922
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 95.13% 97.32% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2762 2613 2443
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Architect
Yorkshire

Software Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Software Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architect
Salary Trend

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

West Yorkshire Software Architect Salary Trend

Software Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 16 (76.19%) Oracle
2 14 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
4 11 (52.38%) .NET
5 9 (42.86%) VB.NET
5 9 (42.86%) XML
6 8 (38.10%) Visual Studio
6 8 (38.10%) Project Management
6 8 (38.10%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (33.33%) FTP
7 7 (33.33%) Finance
7 7 (33.33%) SQL
7 7 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
8 6 (28.57%) C#
8 6 (28.57%) OO
8 6 (28.57%) MS Excel
8 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (23.81%) Data Management
9 5 (23.81%) Agile Project Management
10 4 (19.05%) Software Architecture
10 4 (19.05%) QA
10 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
10 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
10 4 (19.05%) OOP
10 4 (19.05%) OOA/OOD
10 4 (19.05%) IIS
11 3 (14.29%) MS Office
11 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
11 3 (14.29%) VBScript

Software Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

Application Development
1 11 (52.38%) .NET
2 9 (42.86%) XML
3 2 (9.524%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (9.524%) jQuery
3 2 (9.524%) WCF
3 2 (9.524%) .NET Framework
3 2 (9.524%) NHibernate
3 2 (9.524%) Web Services
3 2 (9.524%) WinForms
3 2 (9.524%) XSLT
3 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
3 2 (9.524%) CSS
3 2 (9.524%) HTML
4 1 (4.762%) J2EE
4 1 (4.762%) SOAP
4 1 (4.762%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (19.05%) IIS
3 2 (9.524%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (9.524%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 3 (14.29%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) FTP
2 2 (9.524%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.762%) MySQL
4 1 (4.762%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Visual Studio
2 7 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (14.29%) Rational Application Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Subversion
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Spanish Language
2 2 (9.524%) Financial Institution
2 2 (9.524%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) E-Learning
1 2 (9.524%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.762%) Equities
2 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Project Management
2 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 6 (28.57%) OO
3 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (23.81%) Data Management
4 5 (23.81%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (19.05%) Software Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) OOP
5 4 (19.05%) OOA/OOD
6 3 (14.29%) ITIL
7 2 (9.524%) Master Data Management
7 2 (9.524%) Scrum
7 2 (9.524%) ERP
8 1 (4.762%) RUP
8 1 (4.762%) RAD
8 1 (4.762%) UML
8 1 (4.762%) Configuration Management
8 1 (4.762%) Test Automation
8 1 (4.762%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) VB.NET
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 3 (14.29%) VBScript
4 3 (14.29%) VB
4 3 (14.29%) VB6
5 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.762%) Java
6 1 (4.762%) C++
6 1 (4.762%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Oracle
2 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.524%) SAP
4 1 (4.762%) JBoss