The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
Technical Architecture
Rank 25 39 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.069% 0.806% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.371% 1.290% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £449 £405
% change year-on-year
-5.29% +10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 155 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 61.38% 62.50% 62.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 53
Average daily rate £350 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 8
Average hourly rate £15.16 £29.50 £17.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.61% +67.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.50 £13.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Technical Architecture
East of England

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Suffolk Technical Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing Technical Architecture 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 Technical Architecture.

1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (62.50%) Silverlight
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (37.50%) VB
4 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) MSMQ
4 2 (25.00%) CRM
4 2 (25.00%) N-Tier
4 2 (25.00%) SOA
4 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (25.00%) LINQ
4 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
4 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing Technical Architecture 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 Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) Silverlight
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) LINQ
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) WCF
3 2 (25.00%) WPF
3 2 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (62.50%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (62.50%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (25.00%) MSMQ
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 7
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) CRM
1 2 (25.00%) SOA
1 2 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Contact Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) VB
3 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft