North Yorkshire Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the North Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Sale Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	38
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	25	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	6.527 %	1.566 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£367
Average daily rate	£369	£417
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£467
UK excluding London average daily rate	£466	£463
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.60	£44.51
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Job Titles North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	383	511
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.505 %	0.542 %
Daily rates quoted	86	136
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£352
Average daily rate	£351	£370
% change on same period last year	-5.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.04	£24.18
Average hourly rate	£18.57	£26.16
% change on same period last year	-29.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.10	£28.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Architect Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Architect within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Harrogate	-	16	-	-
York	-4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 29 (80.56 %) Cisco 2 26 (72.22 %) TCP/IP 3 25 (69.44 %) CCDA 3 25 (69.44 %) CCDP 3 25 (69.44 %) Cisco Certification 3 25 (69.44 %) Firewall 4 23 (63.89 %) CCNP 5 22 (61.11 %) SSL 6 21 (58.33 %) Finance 7 19 (52.78 %) ITIL 7 19 (52.78 %) PRINCE2 8 17 (47.22 %) CCIE 9 16 (44.44 %) HP 10 15 (41.67 %) OpenView 11 11 (30.56 %) Financial Institution

12 7 (19.44 %) Java 12 7 (19.44 %) SOA 13 6 (16.67 %) ATM 13 6 (16.67 %) Government 14 5 (13.89 %) Banking 14 5 (13.89 %) Auditing 14 5 (13.89 %) SC Cleared 14 5 (13.89 %) Security Cleared 15 4 (11.11 %) Network Design 15 4 (11.11 %) OpenView Configuration Management 16 3 (8.333 %) Internet 16 3 (8.333 %) Unix 16 3 (8.333 %) Windows 16 3 (8.333 %) Linux 17 2 (5.556 %) MCSE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 2 (5.556 %) .NET 1 2 (5.556 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.778 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.556 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 1 (2.778 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 26 (72.22 %) TCP/IP 2 25 (69.44 %) Firewall 3 22 (61.11 %) SSL 4 6 (16.67 %) ATM 5 3 (8.333 %) Internet 6 2 (5.556 %) OSPF 6 2 (5.556 %) SAN 6 2 (5.556 %) LAN 6 2 (5.556 %) WAN 6 2 (5.556 %) FTP 6 2 (5.556 %) RIP 6 2 (5.556 %) Frame Relay 6 2 (5.556 %) iSCSI 7 1 (2.778 %) Cisco PIX
General 1 21 (58.33 %) Finance 2 11 (30.56 %) Financial Institution 3 6 (16.67 %) Government 4 5 (13.89 %) Banking 4 5 (13.89 %) Auditing	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.556 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.778 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 3 (8.333 %) Unix 1 3 (8.333 %) Windows 1 3 (8.333 %) Linux 2 1 (2.778 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (52.78 %) ITIL 1 19 (52.78 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (19.44 %) SOA 3 5 (13.89 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (13.89 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (11.11 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 7 (19.44 %) Java	Qualifications 1 25 (69.44 %) CCDA 1 25 (69.44 %) CCDP 1 25 (69.44 %) Cisco Certification 2 23 (63.89 %) CCNP 3 17 (47.22 %) CCIE 4 2 (5.556 %) MCSE 4 2 (5.556 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.556 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 2 (5.556 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (2.778 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 15 (41.67 %) OpenView 2 4 (11.11 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 29 (80.56 %) Cisco 2 16 (44.44 %) HP 3 2 (5.556 %) Citrix 3 2 (5.556 %) IBM 3 2 (5.556 %) Oracle 4 1 (2.778 %) Red Hat