The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Merseyside 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 20 27 28
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 7 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.704% 3.659% 2.878%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.867% 3.913% 3.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 5
Average daily rate £415 £454 £535
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.59% -15.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £413 £383
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £479 £850
UK excluding London average daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
181 230 260
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 95.77% 93.50% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 108 131
Average daily rate £340 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £465 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 38 45
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -19.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £10.59 £11.11
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £22.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Architect
North West

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Merseyside Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Liverpool +5 6 £415 -8.59% 4
Architect
North West

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 5 (35.71%) Data Migration
5 4 (28.57%) MS Visio
5 4 (28.57%) Supplier Management
5 4 (28.57%) MS Project
5 4 (28.57%) MS Office
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle
6 3 (21.43%) Windows
7 2 (14.29%) Java
7 2 (14.29%) CRM
7 2 (14.29%) Siebel
7 2 (14.29%) IBM
7 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
7 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
8 1 (7.143%) SAP Security
8 1 (7.143%) vSphere
8 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
8 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (7.143%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (7.143%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (7.143%) Retail
8 1 (7.143%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (7.143%) Data Architecture
8 1 (7.143%) WebSphere

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (7.143%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.143%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint 2013
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Visio
1 4 (28.57%) MS Project
1 4 (28.57%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) SAN
1 1 (7.143%) Firewall
1 1 (7.143%) DHCP
1 1 (7.143%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (7.143%) DB2
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) ERwin
General
1 1 (7.143%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.143%) UNIX
3 1 (7.143%) AIX
3 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) Project Management
2 5 (35.71%) Data Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Supplier Management
4 2 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Security
5 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
5 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.143%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.143%) PDM
5 1 (7.143%) ITIL
5 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.143%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.143%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (7.143%) SCCM
1 1 (7.143%) SCOM
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Siebel
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (7.143%) NetApp
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Sun
3 1 (7.143%) VMware
3 1 (7.143%) SAP
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