The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer role in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solutions Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Designer
Rank - 207 183
Permanent jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 0 3 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.057% 0.324%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.059% 0.337%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 14
Average salary - £42,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.20%
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -2.27%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5299 5117 4754
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 95.27% 96.88% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4210 4256 4006
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Solutions Designer
England

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Salary Trend

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

Yorkshire Solutions Designer Salary Trend

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in their job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (83.33%) Finance
3 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (66.67%) Visual Studio
5 7 (58.33%) XML
5 7 (58.33%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (58.33%) FTP
5 7 (58.33%) Waterfall
6 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (41.67%) Project Management
7 5 (41.67%) OO
7 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
7 5 (41.67%) Agile Project Management
8 4 (33.33%) Data Management
8 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 4 (33.33%) .NET
8 4 (33.33%) Scrum
8 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
9 3 (25.00%) Informatica
9 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
9 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
9 3 (25.00%) UML
9 3 (25.00%) OOP
9 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (25.00%) N-Tier
9 3 (25.00%) ETL
9 3 (25.00%) SAS
9 3 (25.00%) DSDM
9 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (58.33%) XML
2 4 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (25.00%) SAS
3 2 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (8.333%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (58.33%) Waterfall
3 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 5 (41.67%) OO
3 5 (41.67%) Agile Project Management
4 4 (33.33%) Data Management
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) UML
5 3 (25.00%) OOP
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) DSDM
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) User Stories
6 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
7 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
7 1 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) VB
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Informatica
3 3 (25.00%) Alterian
3 3 (25.00%) Unica