The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk 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 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 Suffolk 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
Architect
Rank 27 31 22
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1 10 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.690% 4.032% 5.789%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.725% 4.149% 6.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
Average daily rate £475 £425 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% +39.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
138 241 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 95.17% 97.18% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 127 83
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £258 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 12
Average hourly rate £15.00 £22.88 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.42% +22.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.10 £35.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Architect
East of England

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (54.55%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (45.45%) Windows 7
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (45.45%) Silverlight
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (45.45%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (45.45%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (36.36%) NHS
5 3 (27.27%) VB
6 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
6 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
6 2 (18.18%) CRM
6 2 (18.18%) N-Tier
6 2 (18.18%) SOA
6 2 (18.18%) Service Management
6 2 (18.18%) MVC
6 2 (18.18%) Finance

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) Silverlight
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) NHibernate
3 2 (18.18%) LINQ
3 2 (18.18%) WCF
3 2 (18.18%) WPF
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (9.091%) Spring
4 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
2 5 (45.45%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (45.45%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (18.18%) MSMQ
4 1 (9.091%) Apache Pig
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.091%) Apache Hive
5 1 (9.091%) MongoDB
5 1 (9.091%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (9.091%) Hadoop
5 1 (9.091%) CouchDB
5 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (9.091%) MySQL
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) NHS
2 2 (18.18%) N-Tier
3 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.091%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows 7
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) CRM
2 2 (18.18%) SOA
2 2 (18.18%) Service Management
2 2 (18.18%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
3 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) Information Assurance
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.091%) ETL
3 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.091%) OOD
3 1 (9.091%) UML
3 1 (9.091%) OO
3 1 (9.091%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) VB
3 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
4 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.091%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
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