South West Technical Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	141
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	22	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	0.527 %	0.417 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£514
Average daily rate	£433	£554
% change on same period last year	-21.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£455	£593
UK excluding London average daily rate	£447	£461
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.93	£46.39
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4172	5513
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.561 %	5.578 %
Daily rates quoted	1410	1472
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£337
Average daily rate	£368	£356
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	527	707
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.83	£24.47
Average hourly rate	£26.74	£26.19
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.65	£27.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Technical Architect England

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 Technical Architect across the South West 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 Technical Architect across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architect across the South West 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 jobs citing Technical Architect within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Bristol	+21	12	-	-
Wiltshire	+13	6	£433	-
Somerset	-	1	-	-
Gloucestershire	-9	1	-	-
Dorset	+4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 27 (55.10 %) Security Cleared 2 17 (34.69 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (24.49 %) Government 4 11 (22.45 %) Microsoft 4 11 (22.45 %) HP 5 10 (20.41 %) VMware 5 10 (20.41 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 8 (16.33 %) MODAF 6 8 (16.33 %) Disaster Recovery 6 8 (16.33 %) Oracle 7 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 7 6 (12.24 %) .NET 7 6 (12.24 %) Project Management 7 6 (12.24 %) CCNA 7 6 (12.24 %) Cisco Certification

7 6 (12.24 %) DoDAF 8 5 (10.20 %) Finance 8 5 (10.20 %) Project Planning 8 5 (10.20 %) Military 8 5 (10.20 %) CESG 8 5 (10.20 %) CESG CLAS 8 5 (10.20 %) Microsoft Certification 8 5 (10.20 %) C# 8 5 (10.20 %) Windows 8 5 (10.20 %) UML 8 5 (10.20 %) MCSE 8 5 (10.20 %) Cisco 9 4 (8.163 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (8.163 %) SOA 9 4 (8.163 %) XSLT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (12.24 %) .NET 2 4 (8.163 %) XSLT 3 3 (6.122 %) J2EE 4 2 (4.082 %) WebServices 5 1 (2.041 %) WSDL 5 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere 5 1 (2.041 %) WCF 5 1 (2.041 %) WF 5 1 (2.041 %) WSE	Application Platforms 1 3 (6.122 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (4.082 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (4.082 %) SharePoint 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) MS Project 1 2 (4.082 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.041 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.082 %) SAN 1 2 (4.082 %) Network Security 2 1 (2.041 %) Internet 2 1 (2.041 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.041 %) LDAP 2 1 (2.041 %) LAN 2 1 (2.041 %) WAN 2 1 (2.041 %) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2 4 (8.163 %) OLAP 2 4 (8.163 %) Oracle OLAP 2 4 (8.163 %) Oracle BI EE 3 3 (6.122 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 2 (4.082 %) DB2 4 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (4.082 %) Oracle OWB 4 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (2.041 %) RDBMS 5 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) ARTiSAN 2 1 (2.041 %) Rational Rose
General 1 12 (24.49 %) Government 2 5 (10.20 %) Military 2 5 (10.20 %) Finance 3 3 (6.122 %) Back Office 3 3 (6.122 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 5 (10.20 %) CESG 1 5 (10.20 %) CESG CLAS 2 2 (4.082 %) AS400 3 1 (2.041 %) Thin Client 3 1 (2.041 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 5 (10.20 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (55.10 %) Security Cleared 2 17 (34.69 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (16.33 %) MODAF 3 8 (16.33 %) Disaster Recovery 4 6 (12.24 %) Project Management 4 6 (12.24 %) DoDAF 5 5 (10.20 %) UML 5 5 (10.20 %) Project Planning 6 4 (8.163 %) Technical Architecture 6 4 (8.163 %) SOA 6 4 (8.163 %) Business Intelligence 7 3 (6.122 %) DSDM 7 3 (6.122 %) TOGAF 7 3 (6.122 %) Requirements Analysis 7 3 (6.122 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (4.082 %) PRINCE2 9 1 (2.041 %) ITIL 9 1 (2.041 %) Data Modelling 9 1 (2.041 %) OOD 9 1 (2.041 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 5 (10.20 %) C# 2 3 (6.122 %) C 3 2 (4.082 %) Java 4 1 (2.041 %) SQL 4 1 (2.041 %) C++	Qualifications 1 6 (12.24 %) Cisco Certification 1 6 (12.24 %) CCNA 2 5 (10.20 %) MCSE 2 5 (10.20 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (6.122 %) CCDA 4 1 (2.041 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (2.041 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.041 %) SLA	System Software 1 10 (20.41 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 4 (8.163 %) Oracle RAC 3 2 (4.082 %) Active Directory 4 1 (2.041 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 11 (22.45 %) Microsoft 1 11 (22.45 %) HP 2 10 (20.41 %) VMware 3 8 (16.33 %) Oracle 4 5 (10.20 %) Cisco 5 4 (8.163 %) Citrix 6 2 (4.082 %) Sun 7 1 (2.041 %) Intel 7 1 (2.041 %) IBM 7 1 (2.041 %) Chordiant 7 1 (2.041 %) Telelogic