The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Bradford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Architect
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 12 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 7.595% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.947% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £473 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £41.00
All Job Titles
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
151 155 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 95.57% 97.48% 97.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 41 31
Average daily rate £325 £263 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £150 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £465 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
Average hourly rate £15.25 £12.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -39.02%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Solutions Architect
West Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bradford Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 16 (84.21%) Retail
2 11 (57.89%) E-Commerce
3 9 (47.37%) Content Management
3 9 (47.37%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (47.37%) Endeca
4 7 (36.84%) Manufacturing
4 7 (36.84%) Oracle
5 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
5 6 (31.58%) MS Excel
5 6 (31.58%) WebSphere
5 6 (31.58%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (26.32%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (26.32%) Banking
6 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
6 5 (26.32%) ETL
6 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (26.32%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (26.32%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (26.32%) Oracle 9i
7 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (15.79%) SOA
8 3 (15.79%) Informatica
9 2 (10.53%) C#
9 2 (10.53%) .NET
9 2 (10.53%) RedPrairie
9 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (5.263%) ITIL

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (31.58%) WebSphere
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle 9i
2 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 16 (84.21%) Retail
2 7 (36.84%) Manufacturing
3 5 (26.32%) Banking
4 1 (5.263%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) Windows
1 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) E-Commerce
2 9 (47.37%) Content Management
2 9 (47.37%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
3 5 (26.32%) ETL
3 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) SOA
5 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.263%) Migration
5 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.263%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) C#
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Endeca
2 7 (36.84%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Informatica
4 2 (10.53%) RedPrairie
5 1 (5.263%) Microsoft