Kent Technical Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts within the Kent 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 Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Architect
Location Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.519 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£425	-
Average daily rate	£458	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£490	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£445	£479
% change on same period last year	-7.03 %
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	£45.44	£47.97
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Job Titles Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	385	551
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.508 %	0.549 %
Daily rates quoted	139	115
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£298
Average daily rate	£298	£312
% change on same period last year	-4.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	109
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.44	£22.15
Average hourly rate	£20.97	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-14.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£26.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Technical 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architect across the Kent 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 Technical Architect across the Kent 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 Technical Architect across the Kent 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 jobs citing Technical Architect within the Kent region over the 3 months to 21 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
Dover	-	1	£550	-

Technical Architect South East

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 5 (71.43 %) Migration 1 5 (71.43 %) Java 1 5 (71.43 %) J2EE 1 5 (71.43 %) BPEL 1 5 (71.43 %) Logistics 2 3 (42.86 %) Swing 3 2 (28.57 %) SOA 4 1 (14.29 %) Epiphany 4 1 (14.29 %) LAN 4 1 (14.29 %) VoIP 4 1 (14.29 %) WAN 4 1 (14.29 %) VPN 4 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 4 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory 4 1 (14.29 %) SAN

4 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (14.29 %) Marketing 4 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (71.43 %) J2EE 2 3 (42.86 %) Swing	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) LAN 1 1 (14.29 %) VoIP 1 1 (14.29 %) WAN 1 1 (14.29 %) VPN 1 1 (14.29 %) SAN	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Marketing
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) Migration 1 5 (71.43 %) BPEL 1 5 (71.43 %) Logistics 2 2 (28.57 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 5 (71.43 %) Java
System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) Epiphany 1 1 (14.29 %) Cisco