The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 20 June 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 South West 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Architect
Rank 109 133 123
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.049% 0.065% 0.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.069% 0.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £550 £538
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.36% +2.32%
UK excluding London average daily rate £513 £481 £463
% change year-on-year
+6.49% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1903 2899 2849
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 93.42% 94.03% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1138 1739 1420
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £226 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £483 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 174 253
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% -3.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.58 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
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Lead Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Lead Architect Daily Rate Trend

Lead Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Average Daily Rate
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Lead Architect
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
4 2 (33.33%) Information Management
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Sun
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) Intel
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (16.67%) Symantec
5 1 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) UNIX
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Solaris
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (16.67%) VMS
5 1 (16.67%) ATG
5 1 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

General
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Information Management
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Intel
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ATG
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
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