The first table below looks at the demand for TOGAF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TOGAF over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Somerset 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
Rank 26 34 32
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 5 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.874% 0.592% 1.724%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.155% 1.000% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £458 - £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year
-3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £56.25 - £37.50
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
97 100 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 55.75% 59.17% 56.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 46
Average daily rate £350 £400 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +12.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £230 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £433 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
Average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +63.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.23 £22.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £25.00 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
TOGAF
South West

TOGAF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset TOGAF Jobs Demand Trend

TOGAF
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset TOGAF Daily Rate Trend

TOGAF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOGAF within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Taunton - 5 £458 -
TOGAF
South West

TOGAF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing TOGAF 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 TOGAF.

1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) UML
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) ISO 9000
2 5 (71.43%) Change Management
3 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
3 4 (57.14%) MODAF
3 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
4 3 (42.86%) COBIT
4 3 (42.86%) WCF
4 3 (42.86%) WPF
4 3 (42.86%) WF
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
4 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
4 3 (42.86%) VB6
4 3 (42.86%) Subversion
4 3 (42.86%) Zachman Framework
4 3 (42.86%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) TickIT
4 3 (42.86%) ITSM
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft

TOGAF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing TOGAF 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 TOGAF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
1 3 (42.86%) WCF
1 3 (42.86%) WPF
1 3 (42.86%) WF
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) ASP
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) XML
1 3 (42.86%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Subversion
1 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) UML
2 5 (71.43%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) Change Management
3 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
3 4 (57.14%) MODAF
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
4 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
4 3 (42.86%) Zachman Framework
4 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) ITSM
4 3 (42.86%) RAD
5 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Change Control
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) VB6
1 3 (42.86%) C
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) VBScript
1 3 (42.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (42.86%) ISEB Practitioner
2 3 (42.86%) ISEB
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) MCSD
3 2 (28.57%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO 9000
2 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (42.86%) COBIT
3 3 (42.86%) TickIT
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle