Chester Architect Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the Chester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Ripon Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	10	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.975 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£235	-
Average daily rate	£235	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£235	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£491	£468
% change on same period last year	+5.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£47.89	£40.31
% change on same period last year	+18.80 %
Job Titles Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	201	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	27	24
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£273
Average daily rate	£269	£281
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.35	£26.61
Average hourly rate	£23.83	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-11.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£27.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Architect Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Chester region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 5 (45.45 %) Information Management 2 3 (27.27 %) SLA 2 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 2 3 (27.27 %) SAP 2 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 3 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 4 1 (9.091 %) AIX 4 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (9.091 %) SAN 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Mainframe 4 1 (9.091 %) IBM 4 1 (9.091 %) Migration

4 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (9.091 %) FMCG

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) SAN
General 1 1 (9.091 %) FMCG	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2 1 (9.091 %) AIX 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) Information Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Technical Architecture 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (27.27 %) SLA	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 1 3 (27.27 %) SAP 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) IBM