The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solutions Designer 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 East of England 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 Designer
Rank 108 114 103
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 6 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.281% 0.609% 0.908%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.300% 0.650% 0.958%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 13
Average daily rate £495 £438 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.14% -2.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1998 2770 2506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.41% 93.74% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1031 1297 1100
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 280 320
Average hourly rate £22.66 £25.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.36% +31.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.25 £41.70 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Designer
England

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solutions Designer across the East of England region.

East of England Solutions Designer Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Solutions Designer across the East of England region.

East of England Solutions Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Designer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hertfordshire 0 4 £495 +16.47%
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
Solutions Designer
England

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
1 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
1 5 (29.41%) VB.NET
1 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) Ethernet
2 4 (23.53%) Migration
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) SOA
3 3 (17.65%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) UML
4 2 (11.76%) Business Objects
4 2 (11.76%) MS Office
4 2 (11.76%) ETL
4 2 (11.76%) VoIP
4 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) CCNA
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Teradata
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.76%) BusinessObjects XI
4 2 (11.76%) Information Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Data Integration

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.882%) jQuery
3 1 (5.882%) Ajax
3 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET
3 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.882%) XML
3 1 (5.882%) DHTML
3 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.882%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Ethernet
2 2 (11.76%) VoIP
3 1 (5.882%) 3G
3 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (11.76%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Retail
2 1 (5.882%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Migration
1 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
2 3 (17.65%) SOA
3 2 (11.76%) UML
3 2 (11.76%) ETL
3 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (11.76%) Information Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Budget Control
4 1 (5.882%) QMS
4 1 (5.882%) Data Mapping
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Web Development
4 1 (5.882%) Release Management
4 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.882%) Validation
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
1 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
1 5 (29.41%) VB.NET
2 1 (5.882%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CCNA
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Business Objects
1 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
1 2 (11.76%) Teradata
2 1 (5.882%) Ab Initio
2 1 (5.882%) TIBCO
2 1 (5.882%) Cisco