The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Designer
Rank 51 67 56
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 6 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.920% 1.117% 1.122%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.965% 1.202% 1.185%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
Average daily rate £495 £425 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.47% +7.93%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
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
622 915 844
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.40% 92.89% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 401 372
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £478 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 90 105
Average hourly rate £18.00 £31.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.93% +91.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £11.02 £11.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Designer
East of England

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Solutions Designer Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Business Objects
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Teradata
2 4 (44.44%) BusinessObjects XI
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Information Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (22.22%) MS Office
3 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
4 1 (11.11%) DHTML
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VBScript
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) DHTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) Ajax
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (44.44%) BusinessObjects XI
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
3 2 (22.22%) Information Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Web Development
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
1 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Business Objects
1 4 (44.44%) Teradata
2 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
2 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio
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