The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Architect
Rank 31 27 31
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 1 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.380% 3.065% 2.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.410% 3.226% 2.120%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
Average daily rate £500 £431 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.94% +12.01%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year
- -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £43.50
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
244 248 283
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 92.78% 95.02% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 131 168
Average daily rate £306 £288 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.43% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £166 £165 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 31
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.09% -26.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Architect
Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Sheffield -5 1 £500 +21.21%
Solutions Architect
Yorkshire

Solutions Architect
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 1 (33.33%) Oracle OWB
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle OWB
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
The successful Solutions Architect will have excellent ability in as many as possible of the following: Experience working on large scale deployments using the entire MS stack but...
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Posted: 21 May 2013