The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET 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 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
.NET Architect
Rank 488 531 552
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +21
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 25 28 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.060% 0.052% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.057% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 16
Average daily rate £450 £475 £490
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -3.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £400 £390
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £600 £725
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Architect
UK

.NET Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England .NET Architect Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Architect across the England region.

England .NET Architect Daily Rate Trend

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Architect across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England .NET Architect Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing .NET Architect across the England region.

England .NET Architect Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Architect within the 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
London +33 13 £500 +5.26%
South East +17 5 £450 -5.26%
East of England +20 4 £500 +17.64%
East Midlands -2 2 £363 -27.50%
Yorkshire - 1 £325 -
.NET Architect
UK

.NET Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited .NET 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 .NET Architect in their job title.

1 68 (100.00%) .NET
2 56 (82.35%) C#
3 32 (47.06%) TDD
4 30 (44.12%) Agile Software Development
5 28 (41.18%) OO
6 25 (36.76%) SOA
7 24 (35.29%) Retail
8 23 (33.82%) Windows
9 16 (23.53%) Scrum
9 16 (23.53%) ASP.NET
9 16 (23.53%) SQL Server
10 15 (22.06%) SQL
11 13 (19.12%) WCF
12 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
13 11 (16.18%) MVVM
13 11 (16.18%) BDD
14 8 (11.76%) Multithreading
15 7 (10.29%) XML
15 7 (10.29%) MS Excel
15 7 (10.29%) Domain-Driven Design
16 6 (8.824%) N-Tier
17 5 (7.353%) Oracle
17 5 (7.353%) VB.NET
17 5 (7.353%) MVC
17 5 (7.353%) Finance
17 5 (7.353%) BizTalk Server
17 5 (7.353%) WPF
17 5 (7.353%) SC Cleared
17 5 (7.353%) Security Cleared
17 5 (7.353%) Big Data

.NET Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 68 (100.00%) .NET
2 16 (23.53%) ASP.NET
3 13 (19.12%) WCF
4 7 (10.29%) XML
5 5 (7.353%) WPF
6 4 (5.882%) HTML
7 3 (4.412%) Web Services
7 3 (4.412%) XSLT
7 3 (4.412%) Middleware
7 3 (4.412%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.412%) Silverlight
7 3 (4.412%) RESTful
7 3 (4.412%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.941%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (2.941%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 1 (1.471%) ADO.NET
9 1 (1.471%) ASP
9 1 (1.471%) J2EE
9 1 (1.471%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.471%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.353%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (4.412%) CMS
3 2 (2.941%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.471%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.471%) MSMQ
4 1 (1.471%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.471%) Internet
1 1 (1.471%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.353%) Big Data
3 4 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (4.412%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.471%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.412%) JIRA
1 3 (4.412%) Git (software)
1 3 (4.412%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (4.412%) SpecFlow
2 2 (2.941%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (35.29%) Retail
2 5 (7.353%) Finance
3 3 (4.412%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.412%) Banking
4 1 (1.471%) Marketing
4 1 (1.471%) Billing
4 1 (1.471%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.824%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.471%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.471%) Mathematics
2 1 (1.471%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.471%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.06%) TDD
2 30 (44.12%) Agile Software Development
3 28 (41.18%) OO
4 25 (36.76%) SOA
5 16 (23.53%) Scrum
6 11 (16.18%) MVVM
6 11 (16.18%) BDD
7 8 (11.76%) Multithreading
8 7 (10.29%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (7.353%) MVC
10 4 (5.882%) CRM
10 4 (5.882%) E-Commerce
10 4 (5.882%) UML
11 3 (4.412%) EAI
11 3 (4.412%) Content Management
11 3 (4.412%) AOP
12 2 (2.941%) Dependency Injection
12 2 (2.941%) Unit Testing
12 2 (2.941%) Continuous Integration
12 2 (2.941%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (82.35%) C#
2 15 (22.06%) SQL
3 5 (7.353%) VB.NET
4 4 (5.882%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.412%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.471%) Java
6 1 (1.471%) VBA
6 1 (1.471%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (7.353%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.353%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.882%) Degree
3 2 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.941%) MCP
3 2 (2.941%) MCSD
4 1 (1.471%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.471%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.353%) Oracle
3 3 (4.412%) Sitecore
3 3 (4.412%) Tableau
4 2 (2.941%) Endeca
5 1 (1.471%) RedPrairie
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