The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 22 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 Buckinghamshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 18 29 28
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 55 46 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 6.773% 4.586% 4.915%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.294% 4.899% 5.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 22
Average daily rate £469 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.23% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £300 £403
10% offered a daily rate of more than £690 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
754 939 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.86% 93.62% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 408 378
Average daily rate £315 £315 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £163 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 72 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.29 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Architect
South East

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +12 31 £475 +18.75%
Marlow - 2 £600 -
Beaconsfield - 1 £260 -
Architect
South East

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 27 (25.23%) Oracle
2 23 (21.50%) Technical Architecture
3 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
4 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
4 18 (16.82%) Enterprise Architecture
5 17 (15.89%) WebSphere
6 16 (14.95%) Retail
7 15 (14.02%) Firewall
7 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
8 14 (13.08%) E-Commerce
8 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
9 13 (12.15%) Windows
9 13 (12.15%) IBM
9 13 (12.15%) Cryptography
9 13 (12.15%) DV Cleared
10 12 (11.21%) Information Management
10 12 (11.21%) Citrix
10 12 (11.21%) Web Services
10 12 (11.21%) ITIL
10 12 (11.21%) SOA
11 11 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (10.28%) Data Quality
12 10 (9.346%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (9.346%) Migration
12 10 (9.346%) SQL
13 9 (8.411%) Java
13 9 (8.411%) .NET
13 9 (8.411%) XML
13 9 (8.411%) Middleware
14 8 (7.477%) VMware Infrastructure

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 17 (15.89%) WebSphere
2 12 (11.21%) Web Services
3 10 (9.346%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (8.411%) .NET
4 9 (8.411%) XML
4 9 (8.411%) Middleware
5 8 (7.477%) J2EE
5 8 (7.477%) JMS
6 4 (3.738%) SOAP
7 3 (2.804%) CSS
7 3 (2.804%) HTML
7 3 (2.804%) WSDL
7 3 (2.804%) XML Schema
7 3 (2.804%) WCF
7 3 (2.804%) jQuery
7 3 (2.804%) Ajax
8 2 (1.869%) WPF
8 2 (1.869%) JSON
8 2 (1.869%) BPEL4WS
8 2 (1.869%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.542%) MS Exchange
2 5 (4.673%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (4.673%) Lync
3 4 (3.738%) WebSphere Portal
3 4 (3.738%) ESB
4 3 (2.804%) IIS
4 3 (2.804%) Drupal
4 3 (2.804%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.869%) Joomla!
5 2 (1.869%) Apache
5 2 (1.869%) CMS
6 1 (0.935%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.935%) Commerce Server
6 1 (0.935%) Lotus Domino
6 1 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.935%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (2.804%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.935%) MS Project
2 1 (0.935%) MS Office
2 1 (0.935%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.935%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.02%) Firewall
2 7 (6.542%) SAN
3 6 (5.607%) NAS
4 3 (2.804%) Internet
4 3 (2.804%) SMTP
4 3 (2.804%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.869%) Network Security
5 2 (1.869%) LAN
5 2 (1.869%) WAN
6 1 (0.935%) Wireless
6 1 (0.935%) ICMP
6 1 (0.935%) LDAP
6 1 (0.935%) WLAN
6 1 (0.935%) HTTP
6 1 (0.935%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.738%) IBM InfoSphere
3 3 (2.804%) MySQL
3 3 (2.804%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.869%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.869%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.935%) GIS
5 1 (0.935%) OLTP
5 1 (0.935%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (1.869%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (0.935%) Rational Rose
2 1 (0.935%) Git (software)
General
1 16 (14.95%) Retail
2 3 (2.804%) Banking
2 3 (2.804%) Investment Banking
2 3 (2.804%) Marketing
3 2 (1.869%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.935%) Finance
4 1 (0.935%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Cryptography
2 6 (5.607%) Clustering
3 4 (3.738%) Open Source
3 4 (3.738%) CESG
4 3 (2.804%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.804%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.804%) PKI
5 2 (1.869%) SaaS
5 2 (1.869%) Social Media
5 2 (1.869%) Data Integration
5 2 (1.869%) SCADA
5 2 (1.869%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.869%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.935%) Replication
6 1 (0.935%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.935%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.935%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.15%) Windows
2 7 (6.542%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (4.673%) UNIX
4 4 (3.738%) Linux
5 3 (2.804%) Windows NT
5 3 (2.804%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.869%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.935%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.935%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.50%) Technical Architecture
2 18 (16.82%) Enterprise Architecture
3 14 (13.08%) E-Commerce
4 12 (11.21%) Information Management
4 12 (11.21%) ITIL
4 12 (11.21%) SOA
5 11 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (9.346%) Migration
7 7 (6.542%) Scrum
7 7 (6.542%) Project Management
8 6 (5.607%) TOGAF
8 6 (5.607%) Service Management
8 6 (5.607%) Data Modelling
8 6 (5.607%) UML
9 5 (4.673%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (3.738%) Information Assurance
10 4 (3.738%) Data Migration
10 4 (3.738%) CRM
10 4 (3.738%) Service Delivery
11 3 (2.804%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.346%) SQL
2 9 (8.411%) Java
3 4 (3.738%) ActionScript 2.0
3 4 (3.738%) ActionScript
3 4 (3.738%) C#
4 3 (2.804%) PHP
5 2 (1.869%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.869%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.935%) C++
6 1 (0.935%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.935%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.542%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.607%) CCSP
6 3 (2.804%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.804%) CCNA
6 3 (2.804%) CISSP
6 3 (2.804%) ISEB
6 3 (2.804%) MCP
6 3 (2.804%) MCSE
6 3 (2.804%) MCTS
7 2 (1.869%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.935%) CCNP
8 1 (0.935%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.28%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.607%) QA
3 1 (0.935%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.935%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (7.477%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.542%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.738%) XenApp
4 3 (2.804%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.935%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.935%) Varnish
5 1 (0.935%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (6.542%) OpenView
2 6 (5.607%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (1.869%) CA SiteMinder
4 1 (0.935%) OVSD
4 1 (0.935%) SCCM
4 1 (0.935%) SCOM
4 1 (0.935%) SCVMM
4 1 (0.935%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Oracle
2 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 13 (12.15%) IBM
4 12 (11.21%) Citrix
5 8 (7.477%) HP
5 8 (7.477%) VMware
5 8 (7.477%) Sun
6 6 (5.607%) StorageTek
7 3 (2.804%) SAP
7 3 (2.804%) Cisco
8 2 (1.869%) Facebook
8 2 (1.869%) Twitter
8 2 (1.869%) Talend
8 2 (1.869%) Zend
8 2 (1.869%) ATG
9 1 (0.935%) Open Text
9 1 (0.935%) Juniper
9 1 (0.935%) Lotus
9 1 (0.935%) NetApp
9 1 (0.935%) Intel