South Wales Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the South Wales 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	25	13
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	31	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	5.326 %	8.350 %
Daily rates quoted	17	8
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£431
Average daily rate	£521	£481
% change on same period last year	+8.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£591	£531
UK excluding London average daily rate	£466	£463
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
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	£43.60	£44.51
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Job Titles South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	582	515
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.767 %	0.546 %
Daily rates quoted	152	121
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£352
Average daily rate	£389	£381
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.50	£20.97
Average hourly rate	£26.91	£21.81
% change on same period last year	+23.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.32	£22.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 South Wales 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 South Wales 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 South Wales 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 South Wales 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 South Wales 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
Newport	-6	16	£545	-12.78 %
Cardiff	+6	10	£358	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 28 (36.36 %) Finance 2 21 (27.27 %) Insurance 3 12 (15.58 %) Migration 4 11 (14.29 %) SQL Server 5 10 (12.99 %) SAP 5 10 (12.99 %) Banking 6 9 (11.69 %) UML 7 8 (10.39 %) Data Modelling 8 7 (9.091 %) Cognos 8 7 (9.091 %) Unix 8 7 (9.091 %) .NET 8 7 (9.091 %) Microsoft 8 7 (9.091 %) Government 9 6 (7.792 %) Management Information System 9 6 (7.792 %) Retail

9 6 (7.792 %) Mainframe 9 6 (7.792 %) COBOL 9 6 (7.792 %) Datawarehouse 9 6 (7.792 %) Linux 9 6 (7.792 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (6.494 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 5 (6.494 %) Oracle 10 5 (6.494 %) SOA 10 5 (6.494 %) SQL 10 5 (6.494 %) SAN 10 5 (6.494 %) Business Intelligence 10 5 (6.494 %) Service Management 11 4 (5.195 %) Zachman Framework 11 4 (5.195 %) TOGAF 11 4 (5.195 %) Document Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 7 (9.091 %) .NET 2 3 (3.896 %) J2EE 2 3 (3.896 %) .NET Framework 3 2 (2.597 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.299 %) XML 4 1 (1.299 %) AJAX 4 1 (1.299 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.299 %) WCF 4 1 (1.299 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.494 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (2.597 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.299 %) ESB 3 1 (1.299 %) WebLogic
Business Applications 1 2 (2.597 %) Oracle Financials	Communications & Networking 1 5 (6.494 %) SAN 2 3 (3.896 %) WAN 3 2 (2.597 %) LAN 3 2 (2.597 %) MPLS 4 1 (1.299 %) DHCP 4 1 (1.299 %) DNS 4 1 (1.299 %) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 6 (7.792 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (3.896 %) ETL 3 3 (3.896 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.896 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 2 (2.597 %) DB2 4 2 (2.597 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.299 %) DTS 5 1 (1.299 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 2 (2.597 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (1.299 %) StarTeam 2 1 (1.299 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 1 (1.299 %) Visual Studio
General 1 28 (36.36 %) Finance 2 21 (27.27 %) Insurance 3 10 (12.99 %) Banking 4 7 (9.091 %) Government 5 6 (7.792 %) Retail 6 3 (3.896 %) Education 7 2 (2.597 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (1.299 %) Publishing 8 1 (1.299 %) Billing 8 1 (1.299 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (1.299 %) Back Office 8 1 (1.299 %) Telecoms 8 1 (1.299 %) Retail Banking	Miscellaneous 1 6 (7.792 %) Mainframe 1 6 (7.792 %) Management Information System 2 3 (3.896 %) Data Extraction 2 3 (3.896 %) Data Integration 3 2 (2.597 %) Thin Client 3 2 (2.597 %) Smartcard 3 2 (2.597 %) AS400 3 2 (2.597 %) Fat Client 4 1 (1.299 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.299 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 7 (9.091 %) Unix 2 6 (7.792 %) Linux 3 3 (3.896 %) Windows XP 3 3 (3.896 %) Windows 4 1 (1.299 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.58 %) Migration 2 9 (11.69 %) UML 3 8 (10.39 %) Data Modelling 4 6 (7.792 %) Security Cleared 5 5 (6.494 %) SOA 5 5 (6.494 %) Business Intelligence 5 5 (6.494 %) Service Management 6 4 (5.195 %) Zachman Framework 6 4 (5.195 %) TOGAF 6 4 (5.195 %) Document Management 6 4 (5.195 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 3 (3.896 %) DoDAF 7 3 (3.896 %) Stakeholder Management 7 3 (3.896 %) Service Delivery 7 3 (3.896 %) E-business 7 3 (3.896 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (3.896 %) Project Management 7 3 (3.896 %) SC Cleared 8 2 (2.597 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (2.597 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 6 (7.792 %) COBOL 2 5 (6.494 %) SQL 3 3 (3.896 %) Java 4 1 (1.299 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.299 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (1.299 %) Shell Script 4 1 (1.299 %) C#	Qualifications 1 2 (2.597 %) CCIE 1 2 (2.597 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.299 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.299 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 2 (2.597 %) Terminal Server 1 2 (2.597 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (2.597 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (1.299 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.299 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 10 (12.99 %) SAP 2 7 (9.091 %) Cognos 2 7 (9.091 %) Microsoft 3 5 (6.494 %) Oracle 4 4 (5.195 %) IBM 5 2 (2.597 %) Sybase 5 2 (2.597 %) Citrix 5 2 (2.597 %) BEA 5 2 (2.597 %) Novell 5 2 (2.597 %) VMware 6 1 (1.299 %) Cisco