The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 North West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architect
Rank 121 - 130
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Architect 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.041% - 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% - 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £356 £400
% change year-on-year
+26.31% -10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2256 2790 2804
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.61% 91.63% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1063 1420 1441
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 172 208
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +3.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.80 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
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Software Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Software Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Software Architect Daily Rate Trend

Software Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Software Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Software Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architect within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 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
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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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Manchester - 1 £500 -
Merseyside - - - -
Software Architect
England

Software Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title.

1 4 (80.00%) NHS
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Content Management
3 2 (40.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) Replication
3 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) JMS
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (40.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (40.00%) ASP
3 2 (40.00%) JDBC
3 2 (40.00%) JSP
3 2 (40.00%) Servlets
3 2 (40.00%) Struts
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) Windows

Software Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Software 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 Software Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) ASP
2 2 (40.00%) JDBC
2 2 (40.00%) JSP
2 2 (40.00%) Servlets
2 2 (40.00%) Struts
2 2 (40.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) JMS
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) JCAPS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (40.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) NHS
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OOP
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
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