FMC Architecture Salary Survey

FMC

Technology Architecture

Salary Survey2013/2014

In late 2013 FMC Surveyed over 1000 architects across England, Scotland and Wales to produce the first ever architecture salary survey. The participants were divided into 6 main areas depending on their specific architecture experience;

Architecture Management

Enterprise Architecture

Business Architecture

Information Architecture

Application Architecture

Technology Architecture

The survey covered areas such as gender, geographical location, industry, motivations for leaving, whether the candidate was passive or active, ability to work from home and the total benefits offered including shares, car allowance and pension.

The results provide an insight in to architecture and a variety of information that generic salary surveys ignore.

FMC Architecture Salary Survey

Introduction

FMC CommentOne of the vagaries of architecture is that you can have two candidates with the same job title but in reality they are performing totally different roles. This obviously can lead to a small percentage of errors within the survey.

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The Salary Bandings Table

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A r c h i t e c t u r e M a n a g e m e n tCTO 84,550 95,000 107,000 120,000 124,000 140,000 111,758

Chief Architect / Head of Architecture 80,100 90,000 102,500 117,000 130,000 140,000 109,933

Global Head of Architecture 81,880 92,000 112,000 132,500 140,000 140,000 116,397Head of Application /

Integration Architecture 65,845 73,983 85,000 97,000 103,000 123,000 91,305

Head of Business Architecture 68,085 76,500 98,000 105,000 111,000 125,000 97,264Head of Data / Information

Architecture 74,048 83,200 98,500 110,000 125,000 125,000 102,625

Head of Infrastructure Architecture 71,200 80,000 85,000 94,400 105,000 120,000 92,600

Head of Solution Architecture 62,300 70,000 92,000 110,000 110,000 120,000 94,050

E n t e r p r i s e A r c h i t e c t u r eEnterprise Architect 60,080 74,000 86,500 92,000 110,000 130,000 86,116

Enterprise Solution Architect 63,480 69,000 75,000 93,000 99,500 137,500 79,996Principal Enterprise Architect 72,004 83,700 98,500 120,000 120,000 123,500 97,841

Enterprise Integration Architect 65,780 71,500 75,000 98,000 104,000 104,000 82,856Enterprise Infrastructure

Architect 63,920 76,000 80,000 87,000 89,000 110,000 80,384

B u s i n e s s A r c h i t e c t u r eBusiness Architect 63,985 67,000 80,000 88,000 101,000 110,000 84,998

Business Process Architect 54,750 65,600 70,700 82,500 86,000 100,000 71,910

D a t a A r c h i t e c t u r eBusiness Intelligence Architect 58,685 60,500 77,500 85,000 120,000 120,000 80,337

Data Architect 53,350 55,000 71,750 78,500 92,000 105,000 70,120Data Warehouse Architect 58,900 62,000 76,000 105,000 105,000 110,000 81,380

Database Architect 60,620 69,000 74,000 79,500 84,000 84,000 72,824Enterprise Data / Information

Architect 66,240 69,000 79,500 87,500 101,000 118,000 80,648

Appl icat ion and Integrat ion Archi tectureEAI Architect 54,720 57,000 63,000 70,000 92,000 102,000 73,120

Lead Solution Architect 71,440 76,000 86,000 100,000 110,000 115,000 93,073ERP Architect 70,200 80,000 90,000 102,500 111,000 125,000 97,283

Software Architect 40,000 55,000 68,000 76,000 110,000 130,000 70,615Solution Architect 57,778 59,539 71,500 77,500 93,500 98,500 76,386

T e c h n o l o g y A r c h i t e c t u r eInfrastructure Solution

Architect 48,500 50,000 60,000 75,000 85,500 100,000 69,833

Lead Infrastructure Architect 64,505 66,500 77,550 83,000 102,000 113,500 84,509Network Architect 58,200 60,000 79,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 82,867

Pre Sales Architect 62,565 64,500 70,500 80,500 85,000 85,000 74,678Security Architect 62,371 64,300 75,000 85,000 105,000 105,000 82,779Service Architect 73,950 85,000 97,000 100,000 104,000 104,000 93,992Storage Architect 82,450 85,000 90,500 96,000 96,000 105,000 92,492Systems Architect 54,320 56,000 64,000 70,000 75,000 85,000 67,387

Technical Design Authority 67,900 70,000 85,000 87,900 91,500 100,000 83,717

Salary increases over the past 12 months are very consistent across the various architecture Domains.

On average 31% of Architects received no increase with 39% receiving under 2%, so a whopping 70% of architects received at best a salary in line with inflation or lower.

The figure of 18% of Architects who received a pay increase of 5% or higher matched perfectly the 18% who had moved jobs in the last year.

The lowest band of increase was those who had received a pay rise of between 3%-5%. These are in line with those who had received the highest bonus proportion and are therefore can be considered the highest performing architects in the survey.

The vast majority of candidates who are happy in their current role state that they require a 10%-15% increase in the current cash element of their roles to move. However, only 2/3rds of candidates who moved in the last year managed to achieve this with only 1/3rds of Enterprise Architects hitting this target increase.

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The salary median for Central London based architects is between the 50% and 90% percentile and of course is higher than the regional averages. The lower end salary median figures are often those who work in the North West, North East, Midlands or Scotland. Those that are based in London work in the public or not for profit sectors Home based consultants are paid very well - often because of their specialists skills are in high demand by the consultancies that they work for. They are rarely found outside of a consulting company or IT vendor. Roles in the Southern Home Counties (Sussex, Kent and Surrey) pay significantly less than both London but also the M4 Corridor and Northern Home Counties. The dominant middle lies between 60,000 and 80,000, and that is at least 10,000 less than the Central London figures. The North West region has an exceptionally narrow distribution: almost all the respondents had a salary between 50,000 and 80,000.

FMC CommentAs line with what we have experienced this year, Business Architecture is in high demand and we have placed a number of Business Architects who have achieved >15% salary increase.

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We have broken down the information on average pay rises further to see what roles were offering the greater pay increases.

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The motivations of an architect are vitally importantto understand. When you are you are dealing with a candidate market that is 80% - 90% passive you need to understand what motivates people.The most motivating factor for any architect when looking for a new role is career opportunity and increase in salary no surprises there! 25% of architects would move for a similar

package if they believed it was the right career opportunity though that is very subjective depending on the candidate.

The majority of home based architects would move in order to work a manager they could learn from.

84% of architects in permanent roles would describe themselves as passive and not looking to move, therefore they would need to be enticed away from their current position.

The higher you climb in the architecture hierarchy the more important that support from the CIO is in regards to motivations for moving. For a Chief Architect it is the most important motivating factor.

Candidates at the Solution and Design level of architecture are far more motivated by the opportunity learn more technical skills.

Interesting company reputation is twice as important for home based architects than it is for those who are in the office 5 days a week.

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Although home based working has manyadvantages, the survey showed that there aredefinite disadvantages too.

More than 50% of those who like to would like have more ownership of a programme from an architecture perspective. This is the least important this factor is for those who work in the office 5 days a week. Lack of ownership is often a reason given by those in consulting who are looking to exit the industry and move to an end user company. Only 8% of architects have to be in the office 5 days a week. The highest level of anytime home based work, with more than 40% is East Anglia, Home Countries North, Scotland, North West, North East and the South West.

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Industry VariationsIt was not possible to list every industry in the survey as the results would be too diluted to be useable but FMC focused on the ones that are most common in their demand for architects.


Industry Sectors by Pay

Architects in Investment Banking earn 1.5 times the median base salary of those employed in the government sector.

Mobile Telecommunications have definitely lower median income, only 72,000. However, their dominant middle is between 65,000 and 96,000, meaning there are still a large number of architects earning well above the median figure.


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Female architects earn on average 14.3% lessthan their male counter parts. This could be for awhole variety of reasons the most common onebeing that females due to family commitmentsare more likely to work 4 days a week or less. 54% of the female employees marked that theycan work from home anytime, in comparison only40% of male ones.

When recruiting ourselves, FMC has not noticed any major differences between the salaries offered for male and female candidates. However, 95% of our database is male so a female architect is rare to say the least!

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Length of Time in Employment

The average amount that a company would put in an architects pension is 8%. The consulting industry is likely along with the defence sector and IT vendor to put in the lowest contribution to an architects fund.

Pension, Bonus and Other Benefits

Which Jobs Have Vested Stock

Options Vested stock options have a measurable correlation with the base salary. The lowest paying jobs have a median pay out of 5,000, the middle 10,000, while the highest paying jobs have a median of 20,000. The effective upper bounds are 10,000, 18,000, 25,000 and 50,000, respectively.

The Lead Enterprise and Chief Architects have the highest and most reliable proportion of jobs with vested stock options: near 45% of the respondents had this incentive.

Less reliable, but still strong trend, that more or less 30% of TIA Solution Architects and Lead Solution Architects, Principal Architects and Lead Solution Architects have vested stock options.

Those who would like to have a role with a lower commute time receive, on average 5% less bonus.

Somewhat surprisingly only 50% of those surveyed received a car allowance.

FMC CommentIt has often been the case, that due to the complexityof current remuneration packages with certainclients, many architects do not know the true worthof their current package. It is often only revealedwhen candidates are close to being offered a newrole, frequently complicating the offer process.


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About FMC Technology

If you are an architect wishing to discuss your next career move, an Architecturehiring manager looking at increasing the size of their team or a HR professional wishing to discuss the salary bands please do not hesitate to get in touch with FMC.

Ben ClarkDirector FMC Technology


FMC Technology has been established since 2006 and has delivered an enviable reputation for delivery and quality of service for some of the most demanding and high profile clients in Europe.

Commentary by FMC

Copyright FMC Technology

At FMC we are finding an ever increasing demand for architects. The improvement in the economy and the realisation of the tangible business benefits that the architecture function can bring a business are becoming more known throughout industry. With the increased globalisation of companies and need to integrate new mobile technologies a clear architecture vision is essential in todays market.

As a result we are seeing a clear correlation of demand outstripping supply, particularly for permanent resources. This is seeing architecture salaries rise and candidates being given the opportunity to move for salary increase in excess of 10% for what they are receiving currently.

While most candidates would describe themselves as passive, there is only a handful that would say no to the right opportunity if it was presented to them.

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FMC Architecture Salary Survey