The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solutions 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 Guildford 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 Architect
Rank 30 20 19
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.917% 1.653% 1.504%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.980% 1.869% 1.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £550 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.41% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year
- -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £43.50
All Job Titles
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
204 107 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 93.58% 88.43% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 48 51
Average daily rate £323 £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.85% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £247 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £17.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.58% -47.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £16.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £56.50 £47.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Architect
Surrey

Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 20 (83.33%) Radio Access Network
2 16 (66.67%) 2G
2 16 (66.67%) 3G
3 15 (62.50%) Telecoms
4 13 (54.17%) Migration
5 12 (50.00%) Ericsson
6 11 (45.83%) LTE
7 5 (20.83%) 4G
7 5 (20.83%) RNC
8 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 4 (16.67%) Resource Management
9 3 (12.50%) Finance
9 3 (12.50%) GSM
9 3 (12.50%) WCDMA
10 2 (8.333%) SMTP
10 2 (8.333%) Cisco
10 2 (8.333%) Sun
10 2 (8.333%) Juniper
10 2 (8.333%) SAN
10 2 (8.333%) Solaris
10 2 (8.333%) McAfee
10 2 (8.333%) Radware
10 2 (8.333%) Internet
10 2 (8.333%) Firewall
10 2 (8.333%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (8.333%) Network Load Balancing
10 2 (8.333%) NAS
10 2 (8.333%) Customer Engagement
11 1 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (4.167%) Waterfall

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) Spring
1 1 (4.167%) WebSphere
1 1 (4.167%) Middleware
1 1 (4.167%) J2EE
1 1 (4.167%) ASP
1 1 (4.167%) EJB
1 1 (4.167%) Web Services
1 1 (4.167%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (4.167%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) Radio Access Network
2 16 (66.67%) 2G
2 16 (66.67%) 3G
3 11 (45.83%) LTE
4 5 (20.83%) 4G
4 5 (20.83%) RNC
5 3 (12.50%) GSM
5 3 (12.50%) WCDMA
6 2 (8.333%) SMTP
6 2 (8.333%) SAN
6 2 (8.333%) Internet
6 2 (8.333%) Firewall
6 2 (8.333%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (8.333%) NAS
7 1 (4.167%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) ClearCase
1 1 (4.167%) RequisitePro
1 1 (4.167%) Ant
General
1 15 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) Solaris
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
2 1 (4.167%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Migration
2 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 2 (8.333%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (8.333%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (4.167%) Waterfall
4 1 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
4 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.167%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.167%) VB6
1 1 (4.167%) NATURAL
1 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.167%) SQL
1 1 (4.167%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
1 1 (4.167%) SCJP
1 1 (4.167%) ISEB
1 1 (4.167%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Ericsson
2 2 (8.333%) Cisco
2 2 (8.333%) Sun
2 2 (8.333%) Juniper
2 2 (8.333%) McAfee
2 2 (8.333%) Radware
3 1 (4.167%) HP
3 1 (4.167%) Citrix
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle