The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Crawley 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
Architect
Rank 25 19 11
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4 15 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 2.424% 5.597% 10.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.500% 5.906% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 13
Average daily rate £450 £488 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
160 254 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 96.97% 94.78% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 150 94
Average daily rate £360 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £495 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 11
Average hourly rate £21.50 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.30% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £12.68 £21.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £35.00 £35.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Architect
West Sussex

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (52.17%) Data Architecture
3 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
4 6 (26.09%) SOA
4 6 (26.09%) MS Excel
4 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
4 6 (26.09%) Business Objects
4 6 (26.09%) SAP
5 5 (21.74%) TOGAF
5 5 (21.74%) Finance
5 5 (21.74%) ITIL
5 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) ETL
5 5 (21.74%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (21.74%) Information Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) Security Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) CISSP
6 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
6 4 (17.39%) .NET
6 4 (17.39%) MS Office
6 4 (17.39%) Cisco
6 4 (17.39%) CISM
6 4 (17.39%) Network Security
6 4 (17.39%) ISSAP
6 4 (17.39%) MS PowerPoint
7 3 (13.04%) Smart Meter
7 3 (13.04%) XML
8 2 (8.696%) N-Tier
8 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) XML
3 2 (8.696%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.348%) soapUI
4 1 (4.348%) WCF
4 1 (4.348%) SOAP
4 1 (4.348%) Web Services
4 1 (4.348%) WSDL
4 1 (4.348%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.348%) ESB
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) MS Excel
2 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
2 4 (17.39%) MS Office
2 4 (17.39%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
1 5 (21.74%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Smart Meter
2 2 (8.696%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.348%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.348%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Data Architecture
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 6 (26.09%) SOA
4 5 (21.74%) TOGAF
4 5 (21.74%) ITIL
4 5 (21.74%) ETL
4 5 (21.74%) Information Architecture
5 4 (17.39%) Security Architecture
6 2 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.348%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (4.348%) Scrum
7 1 (4.348%) Information Security
7 1 (4.348%) Data Security
7 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.348%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) C#
3 1 (4.348%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) CISSP
1 4 (17.39%) CISM
1 4 (17.39%) ISSAP
2 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.696%) MCP
2 2 (8.696%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.348%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Business Objects
2 6 (26.09%) SAP
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco
4 1 (4.348%) VMware
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle
4 1 (4.348%) Novell