The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton 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 11 21 13
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 28 12 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 8.358% 4.669% 8.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.723% 4.959% 8.427%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 5
Average daily rate £470 £450 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £450 £455
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £640 £585
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
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
321 242 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 95.82% 94.16% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 123 75
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £475 £521
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 58 24
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £12.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +61.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.07 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.65 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Architect
Hampshire

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Southampton Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 9 (23.08%) CCNA
1 9 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (23.08%) Oracle
1 9 (23.08%) MCSE
1 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) Oracle BI EE
3 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (12.82%) CRM
4 5 (12.82%) Siebel
5 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (10.26%) Data Architecture
5 4 (10.26%) .NET
6 3 (7.692%) SQL
6 3 (7.692%) C#
6 3 (7.692%) Java
6 3 (7.692%) MySQL
6 3 (7.692%) SAP
6 3 (7.692%) XML
6 3 (7.692%) ETL
6 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.692%) Migration
6 3 (7.692%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (7.692%) Business Analysis
6 3 (7.692%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (7.692%) Data Migration
7 2 (5.128%) Analytics
7 2 (5.128%) Investment Management

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 3 (7.692%) XML
3 2 (5.128%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (5.128%) Hibernate
3 2 (5.128%) Spring
3 2 (5.128%) JSP
4 1 (2.564%) DHTML
4 1 (2.564%) J2EE
4 1 (2.564%) ADO.NET
4 1 (2.564%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.564%) CSS
4 1 (2.564%) SOAP
4 1 (2.564%) Web Services
4 1 (2.564%) XSL
4 1 (2.564%) XSLT
4 1 (2.564%) WinForms
4 1 (2.564%) WCF
4 1 (2.564%) WF
4 1 (2.564%) LINQ
4 1 (2.564%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.564%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.564%) TeamSite
1 1 (2.564%) ESB
1 1 (2.564%) Magento
Business Applications
1 3 (7.692%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.128%) SAP ERP
2 2 (5.128%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.564%) Siebel Analytics
3 1 (2.564%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.128%) Intranet
1 2 (5.128%) Internet
2 1 (2.564%) Extranet
2 1 (2.564%) Firewall
2 1 (2.564%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (7.692%) MySQL
3 2 (5.128%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.128%) SAP BI
3 2 (5.128%) SAP BW
3 2 (5.128%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.128%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.564%) OLTP
4 1 (2.564%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.564%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.564%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.564%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.564%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (7.692%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (5.128%) Marketing
2 2 (5.128%) Banking
2 2 (5.128%) Retail
2 2 (5.128%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.564%) Life Science
1 1 (2.564%) Data Integration
1 1 (2.564%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.564%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.128%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
1 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (12.82%) CRM
3 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (10.26%) Data Architecture
4 3 (7.692%) ETL
4 3 (7.692%) Migration
4 3 (7.692%) Business Analysis
4 3 (7.692%) Data Migration
5 2 (5.128%) Analytics
5 2 (5.128%) Investment Management
5 2 (5.128%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (5.128%) Integration Testing
5 2 (5.128%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (5.128%) TOGAF
5 2 (5.128%) ERP
5 2 (5.128%) EAI
6 1 (2.564%) OOD
6 1 (2.564%) SOA
6 1 (2.564%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.692%) SQL
1 3 (7.692%) C#
1 3 (7.692%) Java
2 2 (5.128%) ABAP
2 2 (5.128%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.564%) PHP
3 1 (2.564%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.564%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) CCNA
1 9 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (23.08%) MCSE
1 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.128%) CCA
2 2 (5.128%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (5.128%) CCIE
3 1 (2.564%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.128%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.564%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.564%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.564%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) Siebel
3 3 (7.692%) SAP
3 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.128%) VMware
4 2 (5.128%) Cisco
5 1 (2.564%) Informatica
5 1 (2.564%) Citrix
5 1 (2.564%) Guidewire
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