Hertfordshire Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone 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 Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	14
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	71	153
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.152 %
As % of the category below	5.441 %	8.698 %
Daily rates quoted	45	110
Average minimum daily rate	£455	£366
Average daily rate	£493	£390
% change on same period last year	+26.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£530	£414
UK excluding London average daily rate	£465	£455
% change on same period last year	+2.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£42.64	£36.25
% change on same period last year	+17.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.29	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.84	£48.54
% change on same period last year	-11.73 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1305	1759
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.722 %	1.752 %
Daily rates quoted	476	710
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£325
Average daily rate	£382	£344
% change on same period last year	+11.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	162	182
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.24	£23.26
Average hourly rate	£26.44	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+8.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.64	£25.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Architect East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Hertfordshire 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 Architect across the Hertfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Stevenage	+13	9	-	-
Watford	-23	3	£450	+22.63 %
Rickmansworth	-	3	£290	-

Architect East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 51 (36.96 %) Retail 2 35 (25.36 %) Java 3 29 (21.01 %) Oracle 4 24 (17.39 %) SQL 5 23 (16.67 %) XML 6 20 (14.49 %) .NET 7 19 (13.77 %) WebServices 8 18 (13.04 %) J2EE 9 16 (11.59 %) OO 10 14 (10.14 %) XHTML 10 14 (10.14 %) CSS 11 13 (9.420 %) PL/SQL 11 13 (9.420 %) XSLT 12 12 (8.696 %) ASP.NET 12 12 (8.696 %) HTML

12 12 (8.696 %) WebLogic 12 12 (8.696 %) AJAX 12 12 (8.696 %) Computer Science 13 11 (7.971 %) C++ 13 11 (7.971 %) JavaScript 13 11 (7.971 %) UML 13 11 (7.971 %) Telecoms 13 11 (7.971 %) Finance 14 10 (7.246 %) BizTalk Server 14 10 (7.246 %) HTTP 14 10 (7.246 %) ITIL 14 10 (7.246 %) XSL 15 9 (6.522 %) Spring 15 9 (6.522 %) LAMP 15 9 (6.522 %) Hibernate

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 23 (16.67 %) XML 2 20 (14.49 %) .NET 3 19 (13.77 %) WebServices 4 18 (13.04 %) J2EE 5 14 (10.14 %) XHTML 5 14 (10.14 %) CSS 6 13 (9.420 %) XSLT 7 12 (8.696 %) ASP.NET 7 12 (8.696 %) HTML 7 12 (8.696 %) AJAX 8 10 (7.246 %) XSL 9 9 (6.522 %) Spring 9 9 (6.522 %) LAMP 9 9 (6.522 %) Hibernate 10 6 (4.348 %) Java EE 11 3 (2.174 %) Middleware 11 3 (2.174 %) SOAP 11 3 (2.174 %) CORBA 11 3 (2.174 %) J2ME 11 3 (2.174 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 12 (8.696 %) WebLogic 2 10 (7.246 %) BizTalk Server 3 9 (6.522 %) IIS 4 3 (2.174 %) JBoss 5 1 (0.725 %) CMS 5 1 (0.725 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (0.725 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (2.174 %) SAP ERP 2 2 (1.449 %) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking 1 10 (7.246 %) HTTP 2 6 (4.348 %) Firewall 3 4 (2.899 %) Internet 4 3 (2.174 %) DVB 4 3 (2.174 %) LAN 4 3 (2.174 %) WAN 4 3 (2.174 %) Network Security 5 2 (1.449 %) BSS 5 2 (1.449 %) VoIP 5 2 (1.449 %) Broadband 6 1 (0.725 %) EIGRP 6 1 (0.725 %) VRRP 6 1 (0.725 %) MPLS 6 1 (0.725 %) OSPF 6 1 (0.725 %) BGP 6 1 (0.725 %) SAN 6 1 (0.725 %) ADSL 6 1 (0.725 %) GPRS 6 1 (0.725 %) GSM 6 1 (0.725 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (5.072 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 5 (3.623 %) RDBMS 3 4 (2.899 %) Oracle Reports 3 4 (2.899 %) SQL Server 3 4 (2.899 %) DB2 4 2 (1.449 %) Reference Data 5 1 (0.725 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.725 %) MySQL 5 1 (0.725 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.725 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 5 (3.623 %) Eclipse 2 3 (2.174 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (1.449 %) JIRA 3 2 (1.449 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (1.449 %) ClearCase 3 2 (1.449 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (0.725 %) PowerBuilder 4 1 (0.725 %) JUnit	General 1 51 (36.96 %) Retail 2 11 (7.971 %) Telecoms 2 11 (7.971 %) Finance 3 5 (3.623 %) Financial Institution 4 3 (2.174 %) Government 5 2 (1.449 %) Banking 5 2 (1.449 %) Billing 6 1 (0.725 %) Health 6 1 (0.725 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.725 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.725 %) Games 6 1 (0.725 %) Pensions 6 1 (0.725 %) Wholesale Banking 6 1 (0.725 %) Online Games
Miscellaneous 1 12 (8.696 %) Computer Science 2 4 (2.899 %) Handset 2 4 (2.899 %) Mainframe 3 1 (0.725 %) iDTV 3 1 (0.725 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 9 (6.522 %) UNIX 1 9 (6.522 %) Windows 2 4 (2.899 %) Windows Mobile 3 2 (1.449 %) VMS 4 1 (0.725 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.725 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (11.59 %) OO 2 11 (7.971 %) UML 3 10 (7.246 %) ITIL 4 8 (5.797 %) Configuration Management 5 7 (5.072 %) GAP Analysis 5 7 (5.072 %) B2B 5 7 (5.072 %) OOP 6 6 (4.348 %) Technical Architecture 6 6 (4.348 %) Network Design 6 6 (4.348 %) ERP 6 6 (4.348 %) SOA 7 5 (3.623 %) Change Management 7 5 (3.623 %) Six Sigma 7 5 (3.623 %) EAI 7 5 (3.623 %) Asset Management 8 4 (2.899 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (2.899 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (2.899 %) Service Management 8 4 (2.899 %) Security Management 8 4 (2.899 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 35 (25.36 %) Java 2 24 (17.39 %) SQL 3 13 (9.420 %) PL/SQL 4 11 (7.971 %) C++ 4 11 (7.971 %) JavaScript 5 4 (2.899 %) C 6 2 (1.449 %) PHP 6 2 (1.449 %) C#
Qualifications 1 5 (3.623 %) Degree 2 4 (2.899 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (0.725 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (0.725 %) CCIE 3 1 (0.725 %) CCSP 3 1 (0.725 %) CCNP 3 1 (0.725 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (4.348 %) PCI DSS 2 5 (3.623 %) COBIT
System Software 1 3 (2.174 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 6 (4.348 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 29 (21.01 %) Oracle 2 8 (5.797 %) BEA 2 8 (5.797 %) CA 3 7 (5.072 %) Cisco 4 6 (4.348 %) SAP 4 6 (4.348 %) Nortel 5 5 (3.623 %) BT 5 5 (3.623 %) EMC 6 4 (2.899 %) IBM 6 4 (2.899 %) Microsoft 7 3 (2.174 %) ADIC 7 3 (2.174 %) Juniper 7 3 (2.174 %) Symbian 8 2 (1.449 %) Lombardi 8 2 (1.449 %) Amdocs 8 2 (1.449 %) Siebel 8 2 (1.449 %) Vignette 8 2 (1.449 %) PeopleSoft 9 1 (0.725 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (0.725 %) Nokia