The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry 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 24 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 Coventry 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Architect
Rank 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 0.995% 3.089% 0.556%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.081% 3.347% 0.621%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year
- -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £43.50
All Job Titles
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
185 239 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 92.04% 92.28% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 95 73
Average daily rate £325 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 6
Average hourly rate £37.80 £19.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.94% +4.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Architect
West Midlands

Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) FTP
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (12.50%) LDAP
3 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (12.50%) PLM

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) Java EE
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ENOVIA
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
2 1 (12.50%) iPhone
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) PLM
3 1 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft