Manchester Architect Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the Manchester 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 Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	41
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	14	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	1.259 %	2.444 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£440	£400
Average daily rate	£440	£483
% change on same period last year	-8.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£567
UK excluding London average daily rate	£462	£459
% change on same period last year	+0.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£17.95
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£17.95
% change on same period last year	+136.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£17.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.88	£45.20
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1112	1064
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.498 %	1.065 %
Daily rates quoted	207	214
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£332
Average daily rate	£337	£355
% change on same period last year	-5.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	153	134
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.03	£17.66
Average hourly rate	£20.74	£19.48
% change on same period last year	+6.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.45	£21.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.87	£25.62
% change on same period last year	-6.81 %
Architect North West

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 Architect across the Manchester 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 Architect across the Manchester 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 Architect across the Manchester region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 4 September 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
Altrincham	-	2	£440	-
Sale	-	2	-	-
Stockport	-	1	-	-
Salford	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited 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 Architect in their job title.

1 10 (35.71 %) Finance 2 8 (28.57 %) C# 2 8 (28.57 %) .NET 3 5 (17.86 %) J2EE 3 5 (17.86 %) SQL Server 3 5 (17.86 %) WebServices 3 5 (17.86 %) SOA 3 5 (17.86 %) Banking 4 4 (14.29 %) WebSphere 4 4 (14.29 %) Zachman Framework 4 4 (14.29 %) TOGAF 4 4 (14.29 %) RUP 4 4 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 4 (14.29 %) Java 4 4 (14.29 %) SQL

4 4 (14.29 %) WebLogic 4 4 (14.29 %) Windows 4 4 (14.29 %) RDBMS 5 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 5 3 (10.71 %) Smartcard 5 3 (10.71 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (10.71 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (7.143 %) QA 6 2 (7.143 %) Insurance 6 2 (7.143 %) Wonderware 6 2 (7.143 %) CCTV 6 2 (7.143 %) SCADA 6 2 (7.143 %) Business Development 6 2 (7.143 %) IIS 6 2 (7.143 %) CRM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited 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 Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (28.57 %) .NET 2 5 (17.86 %) J2EE 2 5 (17.86 %) WebServices 3 4 (14.29 %) WebSphere 4 3 (10.71 %) .NET Framework 4 3 (10.71 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (3.571 %) SOAP 5 1 (3.571 %) XML 5 1 (3.571 %) Middleware 5 1 (3.571 %) AJAX 5 1 (3.571 %) WCF 5 1 (3.571 %) WPF 5 1 (3.571 %) WF 5 1 (3.571 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 4 (14.29 %) WebLogic 2 2 (7.143 %) IIS 2 2 (7.143 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (3.571 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (3.571 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (7.143 %) WAN 1 2 (7.143 %) LAN 2 1 (3.571 %) VoIP 2 1 (3.571 %) CTI 2 1 (3.571 %) Internet 2 1 (3.571 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2 4 (14.29 %) RDBMS 3 2 (7.143 %) EDRMS 4 1 (3.571 %) Data Mart 4 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (3.571 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (3.571 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Visual Studio	General 1 10 (35.71 %) Finance 2 5 (17.86 %) Banking 3 2 (7.143 %) Insurance 4 1 (3.571 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (3.571 %) Online Banking 4 1 (3.571 %) Retail 4 1 (3.571 %) Back Office 4 1 (3.571 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.71 %) Smartcard 2 2 (7.143 %) Mainframe 2 2 (7.143 %) CCTV 2 2 (7.143 %) SCADA 2 2 (7.143 %) N-Tier 3 1 (3.571 %) Blog 3 1 (3.571 %) AS400 3 1 (3.571 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 4 (14.29 %) Windows 2 2 (7.143 %) Windows XP 2 2 (7.143 %) UNIX 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.571 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (17.86 %) SOA 2 4 (14.29 %) RUP 2 4 (14.29 %) Zachman Framework 2 4 (14.29 %) TOGAF 3 2 (7.143 %) EAI 3 2 (7.143 %) Business Development 3 2 (7.143 %) CRM 4 1 (3.571 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (3.571 %) UML 4 1 (3.571 %) OO 4 1 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (3.571 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (3.571 %) Unified Process 4 1 (3.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (3.571 %) Data Architecture 4 1 (3.571 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (3.571 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (3.571 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (3.571 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (3.571 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 8 (28.57 %) C# 2 4 (14.29 %) Java 2 4 (14.29 %) SQL 3 1 (3.571 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (3.571 %) Smalltalk
Qualifications 1 1 (3.571 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.143 %) QA 2 1 (3.571 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (7.143 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (14.29 %) Oracle 2 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 3 2 (7.143 %) Anite 3 2 (7.143 %) Wonderware 4 1 (3.571 %) EMC 4 1 (3.571 %) Business Objects 4 1 (3.571 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.571 %) IBM