The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills 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 Technical Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architecture
Rank 108 132 124
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -8
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 10 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.452% 0.132% 0.216%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.684% 0.204% 0.325%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
Average daily rate £425 £510 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £510 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £510 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1461 1956 1845
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.08% 64.77% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 928 830
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 176 190
Average hourly rate £35.11 £32.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.71% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £12.58 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £49.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architecture across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East of England Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architecture across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East of England Technical Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Technical Architecture Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Suffolk +13 2 £288 -
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £425 -16.66%
Essex - 2 £263 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £475 - 1
Bedfordshire - 2 £425 - 3
Norfolk - - - -
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture.

1 10 (40.00%) .NET
2 8 (32.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) Windows
3 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
4 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (24.00%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (20.00%) Finance
5 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (20.00%) Silverlight
5 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (16.00%) WCF
6 4 (16.00%) MVC
6 4 (16.00%) SOA
6 4 (16.00%) WAN
6 4 (16.00%) Oracle
6 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
6 4 (16.00%) VB
7 3 (12.00%) VB.NET
7 3 (12.00%) MS Office
7 3 (12.00%) SQL
7 3 (12.00%) CRM

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (40.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 4 (16.00%) WCF
3 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.000%) WPF
4 2 (8.000%) LINQ
4 2 (8.000%) NHibernate
4 2 (8.000%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (8.000%) MSMQ
4 2 (8.000%) Web Services
4 2 (8.000%) XML
4 2 (8.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (4.000%) XHTML
5 1 (4.000%) CSS
5 1 (4.000%) J2EE
5 1 (4.000%) HTML
5 1 (4.000%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (4.000%) Middleware
5 1 (4.000%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (24.00%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (8.000%) MS Exchange
4 2 (8.000%) WebLogic
4 2 (8.000%) Apache
4 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (4.000%) NServiceBus
5 1 (4.000%) Windows Azure
5 1 (4.000%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (4.000%) Umbraco
5 1 (4.000%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Office
2 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.000%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.000%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) WAN
2 3 (12.00%) LAN
3 2 (8.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (8.000%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.000%) MS Access
5 1 (4.000%) MySQL
5 1 (4.000%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.000%) Billing
2 2 (8.000%) Marketing
3 1 (4.000%) Electronics
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.000%) Publishing
3 1 (4.000%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Manager
5 2 (8.000%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (8.000%) Telephony Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Designer
5 2 (8.000%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.000%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Information Security Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Author
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Author
6 1 (4.000%) Systems Designer
6 1 (4.000%) Information Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.000%) Solutions Designer
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.000%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.000%) IaaS
2 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) Open Source
2 1 (4.000%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.000%) Solaris
5 1 (4.000%) UNIX
5 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (16.00%) MVC
2 4 (16.00%) SOA
3 3 (12.00%) CRM
4 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.000%) TOGAF
4 2 (8.000%) Business Analysis
4 2 (8.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.000%) Data Mapping
4 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.000%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.000%) E-Commerce
4 2 (8.000%) ITIL
4 2 (8.000%) Project Management
5 1 (4.000%) Change Control
5 1 (4.000%) UML
5 1 (4.000%) OOP
5 1 (4.000%) OO
5 1 (4.000%) Quality Management
5 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) VB
3 3 (12.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.000%) C++
4 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.000%) Perl
4 1 (4.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.000%) Degree
1 1 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.000%) VMware
3 2 (8.000%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.000%) BMC
4 1 (4.000%) CA
4 1 (4.000%) EMC
4 1 (4.000%) Citrix
4 1 (4.000%) BEA