Northampton Technical Architect Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts within the Northampton 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 Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Architect
Location Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	3.600 %	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	£446	£475
% change on same period last year	-6.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.77	£48.10
% change on same period last year	-9.00 %
Job Titles Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	250	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.338 %	0.168 %
Daily rates quoted	132	44
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£346
Average daily rate	£432	£373
% change on same period last year	+15.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£454	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.78	£18.16
Average hourly rate	£16.89	£19.86
% change on same period last year	-14.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.99	£21.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Technical Architect Northamptonshire

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.

Technical Architect
Demand Trend

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

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 20 (90.91 %) Finance 1 20 (90.91 %) WebSphere 2 19 (86.36 %) Java 3 13 (59.09 %) UML 3 13 (59.09 %) SOA 3 13 (59.09 %) Chordiant 3 13 (59.09 %) Technical Architecture 3 13 (59.09 %) Internet 3 13 (59.09 %) Banking 4 10 (45.45 %) Spring 4 10 (45.45 %) Hibernate 4 10 (45.45 %) Struts 5 8 (36.36 %) Financial Institution 6 6 (27.27 %) MVC 6 6 (27.27 %) EJB

6 6 (27.27 %) JDBC 6 6 (27.27 %) Servlets 6 6 (27.27 %) SQL 6 6 (27.27 %) J2EE 6 6 (27.27 %) Oracle 6 6 (27.27 %) SQL Server 6 6 (27.27 %) DB2 6 6 (27.27 %) JBuilder 6 6 (27.27 %) JBoss 6 6 (27.27 %) NetBeans 6 6 (27.27 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 6 (27.27 %) Eclipse 6 6 (27.27 %) IBM 6 6 (27.27 %) JDeveloper 7 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (90.91 %) WebSphere 2 10 (45.45 %) Spring 2 10 (45.45 %) Struts 2 10 (45.45 %) Hibernate 3 6 (27.27 %) NetBeans 3 6 (27.27 %) MVC 3 6 (27.27 %) J2EE 3 6 (27.27 %) EJB 3 6 (27.27 %) JDBC 3 6 (27.27 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 6 (27.27 %) JBoss 2 2 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (4.545 %) SAS
Business Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Communications & Networking 1 13 (59.09 %) Internet 2 2 (9.091 %) Network Security 2 2 (9.091 %) LAN 2 2 (9.091 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (27.27 %) SQL Server 1 6 (27.27 %) DB2 2 1 (4.545 %) OLAP 2 1 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 6 (27.27 %) JBuilder 1 6 (27.27 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 1 6 (27.27 %) Eclipse 1 6 (27.27 %) JDeveloper
General 1 20 (90.91 %) Finance 2 13 (59.09 %) Banking 3 8 (36.36 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (4.545 %) Telecoms	Operating Systems 1 2 (9.091 %) Windows 1 2 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (4.545 %) UNIX 2 1 (4.545 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (59.09 %) UML 1 13 (59.09 %) SOA 1 13 (59.09 %) Technical Architecture 2 2 (9.091 %) Network Design 3 1 (4.545 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 19 (86.36 %) Java 2 6 (27.27 %) SQL
System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 13 (59.09 %) Chordiant 2 6 (27.27 %) IBM 2 6 (27.27 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.545 %) Cognos 3 1 (4.545 %) Teradata