Berkshire Architect Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dudley Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Ripon Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	31
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	147	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.182 %
As % of the category below	5.949 %	4.694 %
Daily rates quoted	61	58
Average minimum daily rate	£466	£438
Average daily rate	£502	£466
% change on same period last year	+7.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£538	£495
UK excluding London average daily rate	£488	£458
% change on same period last year	+6.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	£52.33
Average hourly rate	£53.33	£54.00
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£56.67	£55.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£48.29	£40.92
% change on same period last year	+17.99 %
Job Titles Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2471	3622
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.892 %	3.881 %
Daily rates quoted	665	1004
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£334
Average daily rate	£363	£354
% change on same period last year	+2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	179	429
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.41	£25.90
Average hourly rate	£22.81	£27.38
% change on same period last year	-16.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.21	£28.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Architect South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+12	66	£450	-5.51 %
Newbury	+6	19	£801	+82.98 %
Bracknell	+5	19	£535	+8.55 %
Slough	+12	6	£453	-
Maidenhead	0	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited 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 Architect in their job title.

1 75 (21.37 %) Telecoms 1 75 (21.37 %) Government 2 66 (18.80 %) Security Cleared 3 59 (16.81 %) Windows 4 52 (14.81 %) Oracle 5 50 (14.25 %) Microsoft 6 47 (13.39 %) Finance 7 43 (12.25 %) UNIX 7 43 (12.25 %) SC Cleared 8 39 (11.11 %) ITIL 9 35 (9.972 %) Java 10 31 (8.832 %) SQL 10 31 (8.832 %) Windows Server 2003 11 30 (8.547 %) Business Intelligence 12 28 (7.977 %) Data Modelling

13 27 (7.692 %) XML 13 27 (7.692 %) Enterprise Architecture 14 26 (7.407 %) Firewall 15 24 (6.838 %) SAN 15 24 (6.838 %) Billing 16 23 (6.553 %) Datawarehouse 16 23 (6.553 %) Service Management 17 22 (6.268 %) Active Directory 18 20 (5.698 %) MS Exchange 18 20 (5.698 %) Solaris 18 20 (5.698 %) SQL Server 18 20 (5.698 %) Project Management 19 19 (5.413 %) ERwin 19 19 (5.413 %) Cisco 19 19 (5.413 %) Data Architecture

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited 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 Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 27 (7.692 %) XML 2 16 (4.558 %) J2EE 3 14 (3.989 %) .NET 3 14 (3.989 %) WebServices 4 10 (2.849 %) .NET Framework 5 9 (2.564 %) SOAP 6 7 (1.994 %) Middleware 7 5 (1.425 %) XSL 7 5 (1.425 %) HTML 8 4 (1.140 %) Hibernate 8 4 (1.140 %) JMS 8 4 (1.140 %) Spring 9 3 (0.855 %) MFC 9 3 (0.855 %) ATL 10 2 (0.570 %) SAML 10 2 (0.570 %) AWT 10 2 (0.570 %) SAX 10 2 (0.570 %) CSS 10 2 (0.570 %) XSLT 10 2 (0.570 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 20 (5.698 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (1.994 %) CMS 3 6 (1.709 %) IIS 3 6 (1.709 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 5 (1.425 %) ATG Dynamo 5 3 (0.855 %) ESB 5 3 (0.855 %) Office Communications Server 5 3 (0.855 %) WebLogic 5 3 (0.855 %) LiveLink 6 2 (0.570 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 2 (0.570 %) SAS 6 2 (0.570 %) NetWeaver 7 1 (0.285 %) Oracle Spatial 7 1 (0.285 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 1 (0.285 %) MQSeries 7 1 (0.285 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.285 %) JBoss 7 1 (0.285 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (0.285 %) ArcGIS 7 1 (0.285 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 14 (3.989 %) MS Visio 2 3 (0.855 %) MS Excel 2 3 (0.855 %) Shockwave 3 1 (0.285 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (0.285 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 11 (3.134 %) Oracle EBS 2 9 (2.564 %) SoftGrid 3 2 (0.570 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (0.570 %) WebTrends 4 1 (0.285 %) Dynamics CRM 4 1 (0.285 %) SAP ERP 4 1 (0.285 %) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking 1 26 (7.407 %) Firewall 2 24 (6.838 %) SAN 3 13 (3.704 %) Network Security 4 10 (2.849 %) X.500 4 10 (2.849 %) TCP/IP 5 9 (2.564 %) VoIP 6 8 (2.279 %) Internet 6 8 (2.279 %) 3G 6 8 (2.279 %) ATM 6 8 (2.279 %) BSS 7 7 (1.994 %) GPRS 7 7 (1.994 %) GSM 7 7 (1.994 %) UMTS 8 6 (1.709 %) Wireless 8 6 (1.709 %) MPLS 8 6 (1.709 %) Ethernet 8 6 (1.709 %) HTTP 9 5 (1.425 %) Intrusion Detection 9 5 (1.425 %) VPN 9 5 (1.425 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (6.553 %) Datawarehouse 2 20 (5.698 %) SQL Server 3 16 (4.558 %) SQL Server 2005 4 14 (3.989 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 13 (3.704 %) Data Mart 5 13 (3.704 %) DTS 6 12 (3.419 %) ETL 7 9 (2.564 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 9 (2.564 %) DataStage 8 4 (1.140 %) BusinessObjects 9 2 (0.570 %) Oracle 10g 9 2 (0.570 %) MySQL 10 1 (0.285 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 1 (0.285 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 1 (0.285 %) Oracle Reports 10 1 (0.285 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 19 (5.413 %) ERwin 2 13 (3.704 %) Visual Studio 3 6 (1.709 %) MSI 4 3 (0.855 %) Flash 5 1 (0.285 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.285 %) JDeveloper	General 1 75 (21.37 %) Telecoms 1 75 (21.37 %) Government 2 47 (13.39 %) Finance 3 24 (6.838 %) Billing 4 15 (4.274 %) Financial Institution 5 7 (1.994 %) Construction 6 5 (1.425 %) Marketing 6 5 (1.425 %) Retail 7 4 (1.140 %) Electronics 7 4 (1.140 %) Aerospace 8 3 (0.855 %) Military 8 3 (0.855 %) Advertising 9 2 (0.570 %) Home Office 9 2 (0.570 %) FMCG 9 2 (0.570 %) Multimedia 10 1 (0.285 %) Front Office 10 1 (0.285 %) Publishing 10 1 (0.285 %) Health 10 1 (0.285 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 14 (3.989 %) Web 2.0 2 11 (3.134 %) Taxonomies 3 10 (2.849 %) CESG 3 10 (2.849 %) E-Learning 3 10 (2.849 %) PKI 4 9 (2.564 %) Management Information System 5 8 (2.279 %) Clustering 6 7 (1.994 %) STB 6 7 (1.994 %) Fat Client 6 7 (1.994 %) Thin Client 6 7 (1.994 %) AS400 7 6 (1.709 %) DTV 8 5 (1.425 %) Replication 9 4 (1.140 %) Biometrics 9 4 (1.140 %) Smartcard 10 3 (0.855 %) Client/Server 11 2 (0.570 %) Blackberry 12 1 (0.285 %) Cryptography 12 1 (0.285 %) Mainframe 12 1 (0.285 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 59 (16.81 %) Windows 2 43 (12.25 %) UNIX 3 31 (8.832 %) Windows Server 2003 4 20 (5.698 %) Solaris 5 10 (2.849 %) Windows XP 6 8 (2.279 %) AIX 6 8 (2.279 %) HPUX 7 6 (1.709 %) Windows 2000 8 2 (0.570 %) Linux 9 1 (0.285 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (0.285 %) Windows Server 2008 9 1 (0.285 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 66 (18.80 %) Security Cleared 2 43 (12.25 %) SC Cleared 3 39 (11.11 %) ITIL 4 30 (8.547 %) Business Intelligence 5 28 (7.977 %) Data Modelling 6 27 (7.692 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 23 (6.553 %) Service Management 8 20 (5.698 %) Project Management 9 19 (5.413 %) Data Architecture 10 18 (5.128 %) DV Cleared 11 17 (4.843 %) Migration 12 16 (4.558 %) PRINCE2 12 16 (4.558 %) CRM 13 14 (3.989 %) Risk Assessment 13 14 (3.989 %) Content Management 14 12 (3.419 %) Service Delivery 15 11 (3.134 %) Agile Software Development 16 10 (2.849 %) Stakeholder Management 16 10 (2.849 %) SOA 16 10 (2.849 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 35 (9.972 %) Java 2 31 (8.832 %) SQL 3 13 (3.704 %) Transact-SQL 4 9 (2.564 %) VBScript 5 8 (2.279 %) C# 6 7 (1.994 %) VB 7 6 (1.709 %) C 8 3 (0.855 %) VC++ 9 2 (0.570 %) J# 9 2 (0.570 %) C++ 10 1 (0.285 %) Korn 10 1 (0.285 %) JavaScript 10 1 (0.285 %) Perl 10 1 (0.285 %) PL/SQL 10 1 (0.285 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 5 (1.425 %) Degree 2 4 (1.140 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (1.140 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 3 (0.855 %) CCIE 3 3 (0.855 %) CCDP 3 3 (0.855 %) CCNP 4 2 (0.570 %) CCIP 4 2 (0.570 %) CCSP 4 2 (0.570 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (0.570 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (0.285 %) ISTQB 5 1 (0.285 %) JNCIA 5 1 (0.285 %) JNCIS 5 1 (0.285 %) MCSE 5 1 (0.285 %) MCAD 5 1 (0.285 %) SAP Certification 5 1 (0.285 %) CISSP 5 1 (0.285 %) ISEB 5 1 (0.285 %) CCNA 5 1 (0.285 %) CCDA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (5.128 %) ISO27001 2 2 (0.570 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.285 %) TickIT
System Software 1 22 (6.268 %) Active Directory 2 4 (1.140 %) NetBackup 3 3 (0.855 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 3 (0.855 %) ISA Server 4 2 (0.570 %) Terminal Services 4 2 (0.570 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (0.570 %) AquaLogic 5 1 (0.285 %) NFS 5 1 (0.285 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 16 (4.558 %) MIIS 2 9 (2.564 %) SCCM 3 5 (1.425 %) Netcool 4 3 (0.855 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 4 3 (0.855 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 3 (0.855 %) Unicenter 5 2 (0.570 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 52 (14.81 %) Oracle 2 50 (14.25 %) Microsoft 3 19 (5.413 %) Cisco 4 14 (3.989 %) Sun 4 14 (3.989 %) Citrix 5 13 (3.704 %) VMware 6 11 (3.134 %) HP 7 7 (1.994 %) Informatica 8 6 (1.709 %) IBM 9 5 (1.425 %) ATG 9 5 (1.425 %) Ab Initio 10 4 (1.140 %) TIBCO 10 4 (1.140 %) CA 10 4 (1.140 %) EMC 10 4 (1.140 %) BEA 10 4 (1.140 %) Business Objects 11 3 (0.855 %) ICL 11 3 (0.855 %) SAP 11 3 (0.855 %) Nokia 11 3 (0.855 %) Nortel