The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 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 Essex 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
Architect
Rank 43 39 46
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.995% 1.446% 1.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.096% 1.535% 1.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £400 £220 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -51.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
365 391 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 90.80% 94.22% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 184 168
Average daily rate £300 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £105 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 58 68
Average hourly rate £28.00 £26.28 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.54% -4.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £41.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Architect
East of England

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Essex 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
Chelmsford - 1 £400 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Architect
East of England

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) SOA
2 2 (20.00%) VoIP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) CCIP
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) CCDP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) UML
2 2 (20.00%) Siemens
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
2 2 (20.00%) DPNSS
2 2 (20.00%) Q.931
2 2 (20.00%) H.323
2 2 (20.00%) BT
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Kofax
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Lync
2 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (20.00%) Document Management
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 1 (10.00%) JPA
1 1 (10.00%) EJB 3.0
1 1 (10.00%) JMS
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) EJB
1 1 (10.00%) JSP
1 1 (10.00%) Servlets
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) XSD
1 1 (10.00%) XSLT
1 1 (10.00%) JAXB
1 1 (10.00%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (20.00%) Lync
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (10.00%) Tuxedo
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) VoIP
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
2 2 (20.00%) DPNSS
2 2 (20.00%) Q.931
2 2 (20.00%) H.323
2 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (20.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) PVCS
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (10.00%) IIBA
1 1 (10.00%) EMC Centera
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 1 (10.00%) VME
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) SOA
1 2 (20.00%) UML
1 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (20.00%) Document Management
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) CCIP
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) CCDP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Siemens
1 2 (20.00%) BT
1 2 (20.00%) Kofax
2 1 (10.00%) Civica
2 1 (10.00%) Fujitsu
2 1 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) BEA
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) CA
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
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Posted: 30 April 2013