The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Hampshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Architect
Rank 95 94 95
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 4 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.257% 0.248% 0.490%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.276% 0.266% 0.523%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
Average daily rate £575 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.05% -13.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £505 £450 £550
% change year-on-year
+12.22% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £55.00 - -
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1450 1504 1720
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 93.31% 93.42% 93.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 694 717
Average daily rate £340 £351 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.99% +0.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 219 243
Average hourly rate £17.50 £21.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.60% -18.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.50 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Architect
South East

Applications Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Applications Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Applications Architect Daily Rate Trend

Applications Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Southampton -5 2 £575 +27.77%
Aldershot - 1 - -
Applications Architect
South East

Applications Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Architect in their job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) ILOG
3 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (20.00%) Staffware
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) HPUX
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (20.00%) MS Office
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere

Applications Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Applications 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 Applications Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (20.00%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (20.00%) Staffware
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO iProcess
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) CESG
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) E-business
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) UML
1 1 (20.00%) SOA
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) ILOG
3 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (20.00%) VMware