The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Architecture over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architecture
Rank 59 - 61
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 4 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.622% - 0.576%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.868% - 0.926%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
461 642 540
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.70% 66.32% 62.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 297 229
Average daily rate £410 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 54 80
Average hourly rate £21.50 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.84% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.88 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Technical Architecture
East of England

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - -
Rickmansworth - 1 - -
Technical Architecture
East of England

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture.

1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) VB
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) UML
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) MS Access
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Apache
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) Billing
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Publishing
4 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
4 1 (14.29%) Degree

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XHTML
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
1 1 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MS Access
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Rational Rose
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) UML
1 2 (28.57%) OOP
1 2 (28.57%) OO
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) Validation
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
2 1 (14.29%) Change Control
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Release Management
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
2 1 (14.29%) QMS
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) VB
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) BEA