Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Blackpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Blackpool region.

 Architect
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank5813
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Up+5
Matching contract IT job ads465
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Blackpool13.33 %12.24 %10.00 %
As % of the Job Titles category13.33 %12.50 %10.42 %
Daily rates quoted420
Average daily rate£375£469-
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00 %-
UK excluding London average daily rate£425£465£450
% change year-on-year
-8.600 %+3.330 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£36.00£40.00£40.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-
Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Blackpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
304848
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Blackpool100.00 %97.96 %96.00 %
Daily rates quoted18165
Average daily rate£278£400£448
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.50 %-10.61 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£133£325£313
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£610£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£350
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted163
Average hourly rate£47.00£19.00£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+147.36 %-15.55 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.60£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-12.00 %-9.090 %
Architect LancashireArchitect
Lancashire

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.

Architect
Demand Trend

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

Blackpool Architect Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Blackpool Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Blackpool region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

Blackpool Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Blackpool Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool 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.

18 (72.73 %)Government
25 (45.45 %)Oracle
33 (27.27 %)Management Information System
33 (27.27 %)Oracle EBS
33 (27.27 %)Resource Management
42 (18.18 %)Data Integration
42 (18.18 %)Information Architecture
42 (18.18 %)Finance
51 (9.091 %)E-business
51 (9.091 %)SAP
51 (9.091 %)CRM
51 (9.091 %)ERP
51 (9.091 %)Data Modelling
51 (9.091 %)SOA
51 (9.091 %)IBM
51 (9.091 %)Middleware
51 (9.091 %)Mainframe
51 (9.091 %)Information Management
51 (9.091 %)Document Management
51 (9.091 %)ICL
51 (9.091 %)WebSphere
51 (9.091 %)Technical Architecture
51 (9.091 %)StreamServe
51 (9.091 %)Law
51 (9.091 %)Migration
51 (9.091 %)Oracle ERP
51 (9.091 %)C
51 (9.091 %)Data Architecture
51 (9.091 %)Computer Science
51 (9.091 %)Release Management

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool 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.

Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (9.091 %)Middleware
11 (9.091 %)WebSphere
Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (27.27 %)Oracle EBS
21 (9.091 %)Oracle ERP
Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
18 (72.73 %)Government
22 (18.18 %)Finance
31 (9.091 %)Law
Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (27.27 %)Management Information System
22 (18.18 %)Data Integration
31 (9.091 %)Mainframe
31 (9.091 %)Computer Science
31 (9.091 %)IBM Mainframe
Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (27.27 %)Resource Management
22 (18.18 %)Information Architecture
31 (9.091 %)Release Management
31 (9.091 %)ERD
31 (9.091 %)Data Protection
31 (9.091 %)Data Architecture
31 (9.091 %)CRM
31 (9.091 %)ERP
31 (9.091 %)Data Modelling
31 (9.091 %)SOA
31 (9.091 %)E-business
31 (9.091 %)Migration
31 (9.091 %)Information Management
31 (9.091 %)Document Management
31 (9.091 %)Technical Architecture
Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (9.091 %)C
Blackpool IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (45.45 %)Oracle
21 (9.091 %)SAP
21 (9.091 %)IBM
21 (9.091 %)ICL
21 (9.091 %)StreamServe