The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Berkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Architect
Rank 121 132 127
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 4 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.162% 0.096% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.177% 0.105% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £475 £460 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.26% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £450 £550
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £55.00 - -
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2254 2850 2643
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.26% 91.35% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 1009 1009
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 122 184
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.94% -41.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Architect
South East

Applications Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Architect across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Berkshire Applications Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Architect across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Applications Architect Daily Rate Trend

Applications Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Architect across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Applications Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +8 2 £450 -1.09%
Applications Architect
South East

Applications Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Applications 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Applications Architect in their job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) C#
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
5 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) Web Services
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (25.00%) Citrix
5 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) WinForms
6 1 (12.50%) Ajax
6 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (12.50%) Java EE
6 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) NetApp

Applications Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Applications 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Applications Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) WinForms
2 1 (12.50%) Ajax
2 1 (12.50%) Java EE
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) EDRMS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) VMware