The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 33 25 34
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.391% 4.610% 1.761%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.413% 4.833% 1.866%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 5
Average daily rate £500 £438 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +13.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -32.50%
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
242 269 268
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 94.53% 95.39% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 141 174
Average daily rate £300 £318 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% -2.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £165 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 23
Average hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+59.09% -35.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £10.60 £14.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Architect
Yorkshire

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
(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
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Job
Vacancies
Sheffield -7 1 £500 +20.84% 2
Doncaster - - - -
Architect
Yorkshire

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle OWB
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) IPsec
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) FatWire
3 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Intranet
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (11.11%) WebCenter
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (11.11%) FWSM
1 1 (11.11%) BIG-IP
1 1 (11.11%) Nortel Alteon
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle OWB
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle ODI
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
2 1 (11.11%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
1 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
1 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
2 1 (11.11%) Content Management
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCIE
1 1 (11.11%) CCSP
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) CCDA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) FatWire
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Intel
3 1 (11.11%) Nortel
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco