The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lead Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Architect
Rank 67 82 80
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 3 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.359% 0.179% 0.480%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.395% 0.195% 0.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £525 £408 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £558 £525 £463
% change year-on-year
+6.19% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
760 1028 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.20% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 347 409
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 61 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.58 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.56% +24.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.60 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Architect
Berkshire

Lead Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Lead Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Lead Architect Daily Rate Trend

Lead Architect
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Information Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) CESG
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Information Management
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Information Governance
4 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) MVC

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) CESG
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Information Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Information Management
3 2 (33.33%) Information Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared