The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 North East 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Solution Architect
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Solutions Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.379% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.408% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £463 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
245 441 408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 92.80% 92.26% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 223 184
Average daily rate £300 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £229 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 39 26
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.00 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +20.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.08 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.51 £36.50 £25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Microsoft Solutions Architect
England

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Microsoft 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 Microsoft Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE

Microsoft Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Microsoft 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 Microsoft Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft