The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills 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 Technical Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
Technical Architecture
Rank 113 118 106
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -12
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 9 16 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.373% 0.525% 0.854%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.531% 0.836% 1.337%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 16
Average daily rate £508 £460 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.44% +40.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £474 £400 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £542 £556 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1696 1913 1945
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.37% 62.82% 63.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 994 1025
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 87 90
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architecture across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Technical Architecture Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture 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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Job
Vacancies
Cheshire -3 3 - - 3
Manchester - 3 £508 - 3
Lancashire +8 2 - - 1
Merseyside - - - - 1
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture.

1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) BC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) SAP
4 3 (17.65%) Zachman Framework
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 2 (11.76%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (11.76%) Pega
5 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (11.76%) Data Management
5 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Windows
5 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
5 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
5 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) GIS

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) DWR
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.882%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) SDH
1 1 (5.882%) DWDM
1 1 (5.882%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.76%) GIS
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Retail
1 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Legal
2 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.882%) IT Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.882%) IT Security Architect
5 1 (5.882%) SAP Architect
5 1 (5.882%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Head of Infrastructure
5 1 (5.882%) Head of Architecture
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
3 3 (17.65%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
4 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Data Management
4 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.882%) Cyber Security
5 1 (5.882%) Network Design
5 1 (5.882%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.882%) Performance Management
5 1 (5.882%) Security Architecture
5 1 (5.882%) Network Architecture
5 1 (5.882%) PRINCE
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) BC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.882%) JNCIA
5 1 (5.882%) CCNA
5 1 (5.882%) CISSP
5 1 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (11.76%) UAG
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Pega
3 1 (5.882%) Cramer
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