Middlesex Solutions Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT contracts within the Middlesex 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 Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Solution Architect
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hinckley Jersey Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Plymouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£497	£476
% change on same period last year	+4.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	524	661
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.698 %	0.669 %
Daily rates quoted	132	147
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£282
Average daily rate	£338	£301
% change on same period last year	+12.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.36	£24.34
Average hourly rate	£25.55	£25.16
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.75	£25.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Solutions 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.

Solutions Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solutions Architect across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 4 (50.00 %) EMC 2 3 (37.50 %) SAN 2 3 (37.50 %) CLARiiON 2 3 (37.50 %) Symmetrix 3 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) Sun 4 1 (12.50 %) Great Plains 4 1 (12.50 %) CommVault 4 1 (12.50 %) Legato 4 1 (12.50 %) Internet 4 1 (12.50 %) Middleware 4 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server

4 1 (12.50 %) XML 4 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 1 (12.50 %) UML 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 4 1 (12.50 %) SOA 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (12.50 %) EMC Centera 4 1 (12.50 %) NetBackup 4 1 (12.50 %) Programme Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Retail 4 1 (12.50 %) ProClarity 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) XML 1 1 (12.50 %) Middleware 1 1 (12.50 %) MDX	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint
Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Great Plains	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) SAN 2 1 (12.50 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Automotive 1 1 (12.50 %) Retail 1 1 (12.50 %) Marketing
Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) CLARiiON 1 3 (37.50 %) Symmetrix 2 1 (12.50 %) EMC Centera 2 1 (12.50 %) Celerra 2 1 (12.50 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) UML 1 1 (12.50 %) SOA 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Programme Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Analysis	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Legato
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) EMC 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) Sun 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) CommVault 3 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 3 1 (12.50 %) ProClarity