The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Architecture over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architecture
Rank 53 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 22 13 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.410% 1.360% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.374% 2.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 0
Average daily rate £365 £335 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.95% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
652 646 627
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 71.41% 67.57% 57.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 299 267
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 53
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £32.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Technical Architecture
South East

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Buckinghamshire Technical Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes +7 11 £276 -17.53%
Amersham - - - -
Marlow - - - -
Technical Architecture
South East

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 15 (38.46%) Oracle
2 13 (33.33%) Information Management
2 13 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (28.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (25.64%) Data Quality
5 8 (20.51%) Business Analysis
6 7 (17.95%) Data Modelling
7 6 (15.38%) Retail
7 6 (15.38%) WebSphere
8 5 (12.82%) IBM
9 4 (10.26%) ISEB
9 4 (10.26%) E-Commerce
9 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Portal
9 4 (10.26%) IBM InfoSphere
10 3 (7.692%) Talend
10 3 (7.692%) Data Integration
10 3 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (7.692%) Talend Open Studio
10 3 (7.692%) ESB
10 3 (7.692%) Service Management
10 3 (7.692%) Service Delivery
10 3 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (7.692%) Management Information System
10 3 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (7.692%) VMware
10 3 (7.692%) Logistics
10 3 (7.692%) UNIX
10 3 (7.692%) Windows

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 11 (28.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (15.38%) WebSphere
3 3 (7.692%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Portal
2 3 (7.692%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.128%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.128%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.692%) OLTP
3 1 (2.564%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (7.692%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (2.564%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (15.38%) Retail
2 1 (2.564%) Spanish Language
2 1 (2.564%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.564%) Finance
2 1 (2.564%) Banking
2 1 (2.564%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (64.10%) Architect
2 18 (46.15%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Oracle Architect
4 7 (17.95%) Analyst
5 6 (15.38%) Business Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Technical Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Business Process Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Process Analyst
7 3 (7.692%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (5.128%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (5.128%) Project Administrator
8 2 (5.128%) Administrator
8 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.564%) Telecoms Business Analyst
9 1 (2.564%) Performance Test Manager
9 1 (2.564%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 1 (2.564%) Virtualisation Architect
9 1 (2.564%) Designer
9 1 (2.564%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.692%) Data Integration
1 3 (7.692%) Management Information System
1 3 (7.692%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.564%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (7.692%) UNIX
1 3 (7.692%) Windows
2 1 (2.564%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Information Management
1 13 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (20.51%) Business Analysis
3 7 (17.95%) Data Modelling
4 4 (10.26%) E-Commerce
5 3 (7.692%) Service Management
5 3 (7.692%) Service Delivery
5 3 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.692%) Logistics
5 3 (7.692%) ETL
6 2 (5.128%) BPR
6 2 (5.128%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.128%) SOA
6 2 (5.128%) Requirements Management
6 2 (5.128%) Data Management
6 2 (5.128%) Master Data Management
7 1 (2.564%) Performance Testing
7 1 (2.564%) Data Migration
7 1 (2.564%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.692%) SQL
2 2 (5.128%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.564%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) IBM
3 3 (7.692%) Talend
3 3 (7.692%) VMware
3 3 (7.692%) Intel
4 2 (5.128%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.128%) NetApp
5 1 (2.564%) Open Text