The first table below looks at the demand for the Principal Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Principal 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 Hertfordshire 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
Principal Solutions Architect
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.164% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
608 909 836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.45% 93.04% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 394 355
Average daily rate £400 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 85 104
Average hourly rate £17.49 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.59% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Principal Solutions Architect
East of England

Principal Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Principal Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Principal Solutions Architect
Top 10 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) E-business
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) B2C
1 1 (50.00%) Internet

Principal Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) E-business
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) B2C