The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh 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
Technical Architecture
Rank 56 59 65
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +6
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 1 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.120% 0.368% 0.232%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.175% 0.550% 0.350%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £449 £405
% change year-on-year
-5.29% +10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Technical Architecture
Scotland

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (80.00%) SOA
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) JBoss
1 4 (80.00%) Zachman Framework
1 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) Novell eDirectory
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) EDI
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Finance

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (20.00%) EDI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
1 4 (80.00%) Zachman Framework
1 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Novell eDirectory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
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Rate: market day rate
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