The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 25 39 31
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 26 26 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 4.745% 3.714% 3.282%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.221% 3.886% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 7
Average daily rate £455 £474 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.95% +5.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £413 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £618 £552 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
498 669 493
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 90.88% 95.57% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 318 238
Average daily rate £340 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 82 85
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% +62.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.50 £11.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £49.55 £33.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Architect
East of England

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge +17 17 £435 -0.57%
Peterborough +2 7 £475 -6.86%
Huntingdon +5 1 £425 -19.04%
Architect
East of England

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 26 (43.33%) Oracle
2 24 (40.00%) .NET
3 19 (31.67%) Java
3 19 (31.67%) BizTalk Server
3 19 (31.67%) Finance
4 18 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (28.33%) SOA
5 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
5 17 (28.33%) ESB
6 16 (26.67%) SharePoint
7 13 (21.67%) SAP
7 13 (21.67%) SQL Server
8 12 (20.00%) SAP PI
9 11 (18.33%) Windows Azure
9 11 (18.33%) J2EE
9 11 (18.33%) VLDB
9 11 (18.33%) Contract for Difference
9 11 (18.33%) TDD
10 10 (16.67%) Multithreading
11 9 (15.00%) Systems Analysis
11 9 (15.00%) Validation
11 9 (15.00%) WSDL
11 9 (15.00%) XML Schema
11 9 (15.00%) Web Services
11 9 (15.00%) XML
11 9 (15.00%) N-Tier
12 8 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 8 (13.33%) Citrix
12 8 (13.33%) Talend Open Studio
12 8 (13.33%) Talend

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 24 (40.00%) .NET
2 12 (20.00%) SAP PI
3 11 (18.33%) J2EE
4 9 (15.00%) WSDL
4 9 (15.00%) XML Schema
4 9 (15.00%) Web Services
4 9 (15.00%) XML
5 7 (11.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (11.67%) WebSphere
6 5 (8.333%) Middleware
7 3 (5.000%) HTML5
7 3 (5.000%) Silverlight
7 3 (5.000%) Flash
8 1 (1.667%) HTML
8 1 (1.667%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.667%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 19 (31.67%) BizTalk Server
2 17 (28.33%) ESB
3 16 (26.67%) SharePoint
4 11 (18.33%) Windows Azure
5 6 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (5.000%) SugarCRM
7 1 (1.667%) Lync
7 1 (1.667%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.667%) MS Exchange
7 1 (1.667%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (8.333%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.667%) SAP MII
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.667%) HTTP
2 3 (5.000%) xDSL
2 3 (5.000%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.000%) Broadband
2 3 (5.000%) Ethernet
2 3 (5.000%) DNS
3 2 (3.333%) VoIP
3 2 (3.333%) WAN
3 2 (3.333%) Intranet
3 2 (3.333%) Extranet
4 1 (1.667%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.667%) SAN
4 1 (1.667%) MPLS
4 1 (1.667%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.33%) VLDB
3 5 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.333%) dBASE
5 1 (1.667%) GIS
5 1 (1.667%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.667%) DB2
5 1 (1.667%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.667%) PowerBuilder
General
1 19 (31.67%) Finance
2 5 (8.333%) Retail
3 2 (3.333%) Banking
4 1 (1.667%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.667%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Contract for Difference
2 9 (15.00%) N-Tier
3 4 (6.667%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.000%) Streaming Media
5 2 (3.333%) NHS
5 2 (3.333%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.667%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.667%) iPad
6 1 (1.667%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (6.667%) Linux
3 1 (1.667%) Android
3 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (28.33%) SOA
3 11 (18.33%) TDD
4 10 (16.67%) Multithreading
5 9 (15.00%) Systems Analysis
5 9 (15.00%) Validation
6 8 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 7 (11.67%) Waterfall
7 7 (11.67%) Information Architecture
7 7 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (11.67%) ITIL
8 6 (10.00%) RAD
8 6 (10.00%) Service Management
8 6 (10.00%) Workflow
9 5 (8.333%) Migration
9 5 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.333%) Unified Process
9 5 (8.333%) E-business
9 5 (8.333%) TOGAF
9 5 (8.333%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.67%) Java
2 4 (6.667%) Python
2 4 (6.667%) SQL
3 3 (5.000%) C++
4 2 (3.333%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.667%) Perl
5 1 (1.667%) VBScript
5 1 (1.667%) VB
5 1 (1.667%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (3.333%) CCNA
2 2 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.333%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.667%) XenDesktop
1 1 (1.667%) VMware ESX
1 1 (1.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.667%) MOM
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) Oracle
2 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
3 13 (21.67%) SAP
4 8 (13.33%) Citrix
4 8 (13.33%) Talend
5 5 (8.333%) webMethods
6 3 (5.000%) Adobe
7 2 (3.333%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.333%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.667%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.667%) VMware
8 1 (1.667%) AppSense
8 1 (1.667%) Wonderware
8 1 (1.667%) Cisco
8 1 (1.667%) Informatica
8 1 (1.667%) CODA
8 1 (1.667%) Sage
8 1 (1.667%) TIBCO
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