The first table below looks at the demand for Enterprise Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Enterprise Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham 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
Enterprise Architecture
Rank 47 45 41
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -4
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 2 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.444% 1.447% 0.409%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.662% 2.338% 0.712%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
Average daily rate £333 £513 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £470 £488 £475
% change year-on-year
-3.58% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £57.75 £37.00
% change year-on-year
-17.74% +56.08%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
302 385 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.11% 61.90% 57.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 210 175
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £228 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 9
Average hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% -18.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £119.80 £34.80 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Enterprise Architecture
West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Enterprise Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Enterprise Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Enterprise Architecture
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Enterprise 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 Enterprise Architecture.

1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (25.00%) Drupal
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) Pressflow
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) CSS

Enterprise Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Enterprise 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 Enterprise Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
1 1 (25.00%) Pressflow
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification