The first table below looks at the demand for TOGAF skills 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 TOGAF over the 3 months to 20 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 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
Rank 96 129 102
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -27
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 21 11 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.022% 0.335% 0.618%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.544% 0.491% 0.959%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 13
Average daily rate £478 £506 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.67% +1.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £391 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £693 £621 £605
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £56.25 - £37.50
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1360 2239 1773
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.18% 68.10% 64.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1384 912
Average daily rate £375 £390 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 111 125
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.25 £16.85 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.75 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
TOGAF
England

TOGAF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West TOGAF Daily Rate Trend

TOGAF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TOGAF across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South West TOGAF Daily Rate Histogram

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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Dorset - 7 £685 -
Somerset +6 5 £458 -
Wiltshire +6 5 £450 -
Bristol +10 2 £350 -46.15%
TOGAF
England

TOGAF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 24 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 23 (44.23%) SC Cleared
2 23 (44.23%) Zachman Framework
3 19 (36.54%) Finance
4 17 (32.69%) Data Modelling
4 17 (32.69%) Business Analysis
5 16 (30.77%) Banking
6 15 (28.85%) Waterfall
7 14 (26.92%) Enterprise Architecture
7 14 (26.92%) UML
8 13 (25.00%) SOA
8 13 (25.00%) Retail
9 12 (23.08%) Data Quality
9 12 (23.08%) Kimball Methodology
9 12 (23.08%) Inmon Methodology
9 12 (23.08%) Metadata Management
9 12 (23.08%) ERwin
9 12 (23.08%) ETL
10 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (21.15%) Corporate Banking
11 9 (17.31%) MODAF
11 9 (17.31%) SQL
11 9 (17.31%) Change Management
12 8 (15.38%) .NET
13 7 (13.46%) Oracle
13 7 (13.46%) Java
13 7 (13.46%) ITIL
13 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
14 6 (11.54%) IBM
14 6 (11.54%) Microsoft

TOGAF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 8 (15.38%) .NET
2 5 (9.615%) Middleware
3 3 (5.769%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.769%) WCF
3 3 (5.769%) WPF
3 3 (5.769%) WF
3 3 (5.769%) ASP
3 3 (5.769%) CSS
3 3 (5.769%) XML
3 3 (5.769%) XSL
3 3 (5.769%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.54%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.923%) SharePoint 2013
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.846%) SAN
1 2 (3.846%) Firewall
2 1 (1.923%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server
1 3 (5.769%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) ERwin
2 3 (5.769%) Subversion
2 3 (5.769%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (36.54%) Finance
2 16 (30.77%) Banking
3 13 (25.00%) Retail
4 11 (21.15%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (5.769%) Local Government
5 3 (5.769%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.846%) Games
6 2 (3.846%) Legal
6 2 (3.846%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (67.31%) Architect
2 22 (42.31%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (25.00%) Consultant
4 6 (11.54%) Technical Architect
5 5 (9.615%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (7.692%) Data Consultant
7 3 (5.769%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.769%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.846%) SharePoint Architect
8 2 (3.846%) Cisco Architect
9 1 (1.923%) Java Architect
9 1 (1.923%) Enterprise Applications Architect
9 1 (1.923%) Java Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.923%) Management Consultant
9 1 (1.923%) Applications Architect
9 1 (1.923%) Security Architect
9 1 (1.923%) Development Manager
9 1 (1.923%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Integration
2 2 (3.846%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.846%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.923%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.923%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.846%) UNIX
2 1 (1.923%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Zachman Framework
2 17 (32.69%) Business Analysis
2 17 (32.69%) Data Modelling
3 15 (28.85%) Waterfall
4 14 (26.92%) UML
4 14 (26.92%) Enterprise Architecture
5 13 (25.00%) SOA
6 12 (23.08%) ETL
6 12 (23.08%) Kimball Methodology
6 12 (23.08%) Inmon Methodology
6 12 (23.08%) Metadata Management
7 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (17.31%) Change Management
8 9 (17.31%) MODAF
9 7 (13.46%) ITIL
10 5 (9.615%) Data Analysis
10 5 (9.615%) Data Governance
11 4 (7.692%) PRINCE2
12 3 (5.769%) RAD
12 3 (5.769%) BPR
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) Java
3 5 (9.615%) C
3 5 (9.615%) VB.NET
4 3 (5.769%) VB6
4 3 (5.769%) VBScript
4 3 (5.769%) VB
4 3 (5.769%) C#
4 3 (5.769%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 23 (44.23%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) ISEB
4 3 (5.769%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.769%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (5.769%) MCSD
4 3 (5.769%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (5.769%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.846%) BC Cleared
5 2 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (9.615%) ISO 9000
4 3 (5.769%) TickIT
4 3 (5.769%) COBIT
5 1 (1.923%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle
2 6 (11.54%) IBM
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Informatica
2 6 (11.54%) Ab Initio
2 6 (11.54%) DataFlux
3 2 (3.846%) Cisco
3 2 (3.846%) VMware
4 1 (1.923%) Juniper
4 1 (1.923%) SAP