The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lead Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Manchester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Architect
Rank 69 80 69
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 5 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.544% 0.307% 0.395%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.581% 0.334% 0.419%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
Average daily rate £290 £575 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-49.65% +24.32%
UK excluding London average daily rate £558 £525 £463
% change year-on-year
+6.19% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
860 1198 955
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.58% 91.80% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 592 420
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 74 75
Average hourly rate £16.20 £18.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.43% +12.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £33.32 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Architect
North West

Lead Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Lead Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Architect across the Manchester region.

Manchester Lead Architect Daily Rate Trend

Lead Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Mainframe
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) Middleware
2 4 (57.14%) RFID
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Finite Element Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Intranet
3 3 (42.86%) Internet
3 3 (42.86%) Extranet
3 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
5 1 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (14.29%) UML
5 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) SAP BW
5 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (14.29%) MS Project
5 1 (14.29%) SAP
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) OLE
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) RFID
2 3 (42.86%) Intranet
2 3 (42.86%) Internet
2 3 (42.86%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SAP BW
2 1 (14.29%) SAP BI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mainframe
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Finite Element Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Zachman Framework
2 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Logistics
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) E-business
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) ISMS
3 1 (14.29%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 1 (14.29%) Korn
1 1 (14.29%) Bourne shell
1 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft