The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architecture
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 25 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 11.74% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 25 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £355 £394
% change year-on-year
-1.40% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +50.90%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
153 118 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 71.83% 63.78% 63.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 39 61
Average daily rate £350 £400 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +1.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £275 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 12
Average hourly rate £39.00 £16.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+143.75% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Architecture
Hampshire

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Architecture across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Basingstoke Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Architecture across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Software Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Basingstoke Software Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Architecture across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Software Architecture Hourly Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Software Architecture 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Software Architecture.

1 37 (100.00%) SQL
1 37 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 37 (100.00%) SOAP
1 37 (100.00%) BDD
2 36 (97.30%) Git (software)
3 35 (94.59%) MVC
3 35 (94.59%) Hibernate
3 35 (94.59%) JMS
3 35 (94.59%) JAXB
3 35 (94.59%) Web Services
3 35 (94.59%) EJB
3 35 (94.59%) Java
3 35 (94.59%) Spring Security
3 35 (94.59%) Spring Web Flow
3 35 (94.59%) JPA
3 35 (94.59%) Spring
3 35 (94.59%) JTA
3 35 (94.59%) Web Development
3 35 (94.59%) Java EE
3 35 (94.59%) JSON
3 35 (94.59%) Spring MVC
3 35 (94.59%) REST
4 34 (91.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 34 (91.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (91.89%) Maven
4 34 (91.89%) jQuery
4 34 (91.89%) Mockito
4 34 (91.89%) JavaScript
4 34 (91.89%) HTML
4 34 (91.89%) JUnit

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Software Architecture also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (100.00%) SOAP
2 35 (94.59%) Web Services
2 35 (94.59%) JMS
2 35 (94.59%) JAXB
2 35 (94.59%) Hibernate
2 35 (94.59%) Spring
2 35 (94.59%) JTA
2 35 (94.59%) EJB
2 35 (94.59%) Java EE
2 35 (94.59%) JSON
2 35 (94.59%) Spring MVC
2 35 (94.59%) JPA
2 35 (94.59%) Spring Security
2 35 (94.59%) Spring Web Flow
2 35 (94.59%) REST
3 34 (91.89%) jQuery
3 34 (91.89%) CSS
3 34 (91.89%) HTML
4 23 (62.16%) JSP
4 23 (62.16%) Apache CXF
Application Platforms
1 17 (45.95%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (8.108%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 34 (91.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 34 (91.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (37.84%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.108%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 36 (97.30%) Git (software)
2 34 (91.89%) Mockito
2 34 (91.89%) JUnit
2 34 (91.89%) Maven
3 16 (43.24%) Selenium
4 12 (32.43%) JBehave
5 2 (5.405%) NUnit
General
1 3 (8.108%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (97.30%) Developer
2 34 (91.89%) Java Developer
3 10 (27.03%) Technical Leader
4 4 (10.81%) Lead Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Technical Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Architect
7 1 (2.703%) Software Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) BDD
2 35 (94.59%) Web Development
2 35 (94.59%) MVC
3 31 (83.78%) UML
3 31 (83.78%) OOD
3 31 (83.78%) Pair Programming
4 16 (43.24%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (43.24%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (43.24%) Dependency Injection
5 9 (24.32%) TDD
6 3 (8.108%) Scrum
6 3 (8.108%) SOA
6 3 (8.108%) OO
7 2 (5.405%) Multithreading
7 2 (5.405%) Change Data Capture
7 2 (5.405%) AOP
7 2 (5.405%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) SQL
2 35 (94.59%) Java
3 34 (91.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.108%) C#
5 2 (5.405%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 29 (78.38%) JBoss
2 12 (32.43%) Twitter
3 2 (5.405%) Microsoft