The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Leeds 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
Software Architecture
Rank - 56 -
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 0 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 1.266% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.783% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 0
Average daily rate - £355 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £374 £388
% change year-on-year
-6.41% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £43.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-13.29% +57.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Software Architecture
West Yorkshire

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Software Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Software 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 Software Architecture.

1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
1 5 (83.33%) NHibernate
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
1 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 5 (83.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (50.00%) NHS
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (33.33%) DHTML
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Xcode
4 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) OOP
4 1 (16.67%) OO

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Software 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 Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) NHibernate
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
1 5 (83.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) DHTML
3 1 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) NUnit
1 5 (83.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Developer
2 5 (83.33%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) OOP
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared