Hampshire Solutions Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT contracts within the Hampshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Solution Architect
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hinckley Jersey Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	107
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	14	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.665 %	0.728 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£412
Average daily rate	-	£444
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£496	£467
% change on same period last year	+6.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.75	£40.00
% change on same period last year	+4.37 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2106	2609
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.772 %	2.765 %
Daily rates quoted	463	662
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£343
Average daily rate	£374	£365
% change on same period last year	+2.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	391	517
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.52	£28.51
Average hourly rate	£27.35	£30.13
% change on same period last year	-9.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.18	£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.40	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Solutions Architect South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Solutions Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solutions Architect across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Solutions Architect within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basingstoke	+19	3	-	-
Southampton	-	1	-	-

Solutions Architect South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 7 (25.00 %) UML 2 6 (21.43 %) XML 2 6 (21.43 %) WSDL 2 6 (21.43 %) IBM 3 5 (17.86 %) XML Schema 3 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 3 5 (17.86 %) WebServices 3 5 (17.86 %) TOGAF 4 4 (14.29 %) AWD 4 4 (14.29 %) Retail 4 4 (14.29 %) SOA 5 3 (10.71 %) MySQL 5 3 (10.71 %) Java 5 3 (10.71 %) GPRS 5 3 (10.71 %) GSM

5 3 (10.71 %) Marketing 5 3 (10.71 %) Network Design 5 3 (10.71 %) Government 6 2 (7.143 %) Finance 6 2 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (7.143 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 2 (7.143 %) Use Case 6 2 (7.143 %) Data Architecture 6 2 (7.143 %) Microsoft 6 2 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (7.143 %) OO 7 1 (3.571 %) RAD 7 1 (3.571 %) RUP 7 1 (3.571 %) DSDM 7 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 6 (21.43 %) XML 1 6 (21.43 %) WSDL 2 5 (17.86 %) XML Schema 2 5 (17.86 %) WebServices 3 1 (3.571 %) J2EE 3 1 (3.571 %) Java EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.571 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Spatial
Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) AWD 2 1 (3.571 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.71 %) GPRS 1 3 (10.71 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (10.71 %) MySQL 2 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.571 %) OLAP 2 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (3.571 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Rational Rose	General 1 4 (14.29 %) Retail 2 3 (10.71 %) Marketing 2 3 (10.71 %) Government 3 2 (7.143 %) Finance 4 1 (3.571 %) Construction 4 1 (3.571 %) Electric 4 1 (3.571 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (3.571 %) Military 4 1 (3.571 %) Banking 4 1 (3.571 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.571 %) Statistics	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (25.00 %) UML 2 5 (17.86 %) TOGAF 3 4 (14.29 %) SOA 4 3 (10.71 %) Network Design 5 2 (7.143 %) Data Architecture 5 2 (7.143 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 2 (7.143 %) Use Case 5 2 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (7.143 %) OO 6 1 (3.571 %) RAD 6 1 (3.571 %) RUP 6 1 (3.571 %) DSDM 6 1 (3.571 %) ERP 6 1 (3.571 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.571 %) Data Security 6 1 (3.571 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (3.571 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (3.571 %) MODAF
Programming Languages 1 3 (10.71 %) Java	System Software 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 6 (21.43 %) IBM 2 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 3 2 (7.143 %) Microsoft 4 1 (3.571 %) Ericsson