The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Sheffield 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
Architect
Rank 21 13 26
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 2.000% 6.897% 3.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.206% 7.194% 3.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
Average daily rate £500 £414 £455
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.84% -9.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £394 £391
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £500 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
136 139 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 90.67% 95.86% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 71 76
Average daily rate £300 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £165 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 20
Average hourly rate £12.44 £20.06 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.98% -45.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.79 £12.00 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Architect
South Yorkshire

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sheffield Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Sheffield Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) IPsec
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) FatWire
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle OWB
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (10.00%) ProxySG
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Nortel Alteon
4 1 (10.00%) Java EE
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) SCCM
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (30.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Java EE
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) WebCenter
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (10.00%) Nortel Alteon
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle OWB
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (10.00%) Migration
1 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (10.00%) Content Management
1 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (10.00%) ERP
1 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (10.00%) ETL
1 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCIE
1 1 (10.00%) CCSP
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) CCDA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) ProxySG
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) FatWire
2 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Intel
2 1 (10.00%) Nortel
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) F5
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