Berkshire Technical Architecture Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Architecture over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Architecture
Location Andover Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northern Ireland Norwich Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West Southampton Surrey Swindon Telford UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	137
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	8	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.495 %	0.226 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£475	£400
Average daily rate	£506	£430
% change on same period last year	+17.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£538	£460
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£430
% change on same period last year	-4.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.00	£46.25
% change on same period last year	-13.51 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1617	2213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.547 %	2.371 %
Daily rates quoted	496	763
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£351
Average daily rate	£391	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	182
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.95	£32.29
Average hourly rate	£24.56	£34.23
% change on same period last year	-28.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.17	£36.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Technical Architecture 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.

Technical Architecture
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture 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	+23	6	£506	+15.05 %
Maidenhead	-	1	-	-
Slough	+7	1	-	-

Technical Architecture South East

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture.

1 13 (68.42 %) Oracle 2 8 (42.11 %) HTTP 2 8 (42.11 %) SQL 2 8 (42.11 %) XML 2 8 (42.11 %) Government 2 8 (42.11 %) Replication 2 8 (42.11 %) SC Cleared 2 8 (42.11 %) Security Cleared 3 7 (36.84 %) Clustering 3 7 (36.84 %) Finance 3 7 (36.84 %) Load Balancing 3 7 (36.84 %) .NET 3 7 (36.84 %) BizTalk Server 4 6 (31.58 %) B2B 4 6 (31.58 %) C#

4 6 (31.58 %) HTML 4 6 (31.58 %) IIS 4 6 (31.58 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (31.58 %) WebServices 4 6 (31.58 %) AJAX 5 5 (26.32 %) ESB 6 4 (21.05 %) .NET Framework 6 4 (21.05 %) Oracle Application Server 6 4 (21.05 %) WCF 6 4 (21.05 %) WebLogic Portal 6 4 (21.05 %) ITIL 6 4 (21.05 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (21.05 %) SOAP 6 4 (21.05 %) SQL Server 6 4 (21.05 %) WebLogic

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (42.11 %) XML 2 7 (36.84 %) .NET 3 6 (31.58 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (31.58 %) HTML 3 6 (31.58 %) WebServices 3 6 (31.58 %) AJAX 4 4 (21.05 %) .NET Framework 4 4 (21.05 %) WCF 4 4 (21.05 %) UDDI 4 4 (21.05 %) SOAP 4 4 (21.05 %) J2EE 5 1 (5.263 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 7 (36.84 %) BizTalk Server 2 6 (31.58 %) IIS 3 5 (26.32 %) ESB 4 4 (21.05 %) WebLogic 4 4 (21.05 %) WebLogic Portal 4 4 (21.05 %) Oracle Application Server 5 1 (5.263 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Business Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (5.263 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 8 (42.11 %) HTTP 2 2 (10.53 %) HTTPS 2 2 (10.53 %) Internet 2 2 (10.53 %) Firewall 3 1 (5.263 %) Network Security 3 1 (5.263 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (21.05 %) SQL Server 2 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (5.263 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 8 (42.11 %) Government 2 7 (36.84 %) Finance 3 3 (15.79 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (5.263 %) Telecoms 4 1 (5.263 %) Health 4 1 (5.263 %) Military 4 1 (5.263 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 9 (47.37 %) Architect 2 8 (42.11 %) Technical Architect 3 2 (10.53 %) Consultant 3 2 (10.53 %) Technical Designer 4 1 (5.263 %) Applications Architect 4 1 (5.263 %) Security Architect 4 1 (5.263 %) Network Architect 4 1 (5.263 %) Data Consultant 4 1 (5.263 %) Citrix Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 8 (42.11 %) Replication 2 7 (36.84 %) Clustering 3 3 (15.79 %) CESG 4 1 (5.263 %) Fat Client 4 1 (5.263 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 3 (15.79 %) UNIX 1 3 (15.79 %) Windows 2 1 (5.263 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (42.11 %) SC Cleared 1 8 (42.11 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (36.84 %) Load Balancing 3 6 (31.58 %) B2B 4 4 (21.05 %) ITIL 4 4 (21.05 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (21.05 %) SOA 5 2 (10.53 %) Disaster Recovery 5 2 (10.53 %) Validation 6 1 (5.263 %) Programme Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Information Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Project Management 6 1 (5.263 %) Service Management 6 1 (5.263 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 8 (42.11 %) SQL 2 6 (31.58 %) C# 3 1 (5.263 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (5.263 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (5.263 %) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.263 %) ISO27001 1 1 (5.263 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 2 (10.53 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 13 (68.42 %) Oracle 2 4 (21.05 %) Microsoft 3 2 (10.53 %) Cisco 3 2 (10.53 %) VMware 4 1 (5.263 %) Citrix 4 1 (5.263 %) TIBCO