Surrey Technical Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts within the Surrey region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Architect
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Corsham Crawley Croydon Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	93
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	16	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.828 %	0.549 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£483
Average daily rate	£458	£498
% change on same period last year	-8.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£517	£513
UK excluding London average daily rate	£441	£469
% change on same period last year	-6.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£44.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£48.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.04	£45.91
% change on same period last year	-14.95 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1933	2185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.549 %	2.318 %
Daily rates quoted	549	538
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£331
Average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	270	266
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.68	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£22.40	£22.84
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.13	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Technical Architect South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Technical Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architect across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Architect across the Surrey region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Technical Architect within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Walton-on-Thames	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 12 (38.71 %) SQL 2 9 (29.03 %) Business Intelligence 3 7 (22.58 %) Datawarehouse 3 7 (22.58 %) Java 3 7 (22.58 %) Oracle 3 7 (22.58 %) DataStage 4 6 (19.35 %) WebSphere MQ 4 6 (19.35 %) Cognos 4 6 (19.35 %) J2EE 4 6 (19.35 %) Data Modelling 4 6 (19.35 %) Insurance 4 6 (19.35 %) WebSphere 4 6 (19.35 %) WebSphere Message Broker 5 5 (16.13 %) QA 5 5 (16.13 %) Unix

5 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 5 5 (16.13 %) Transact-SQL 5 5 (16.13 %) Shell Script 5 5 (16.13 %) Finance 6 4 (12.90 %) BizTalk Server 6 4 (12.90 %) WebServices 6 4 (12.90 %) SOA 6 4 (12.90 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 4 (12.90 %) Release Management 7 3 (9.677 %) Technical Architecture 7 3 (9.677 %) Spring 7 3 (9.677 %) RAD 7 3 (9.677 %) ClearCase 7 3 (9.677 %) JMS 7 3 (9.677 %) UML

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Technical 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 Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (19.35 %) J2EE 1 6 (19.35 %) WebSphere 2 4 (12.90 %) WebServices 3 3 (9.677 %) JMS 3 3 (9.677 %) .NET 3 3 (9.677 %) SOAP 3 3 (9.677 %) Hibernate 3 3 (9.677 %) Spring 4 2 (6.452 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (6.452 %) Middleware 5 1 (3.226 %) WSDL 5 1 (3.226 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 6 (19.35 %) WebSphere MQ 1 6 (19.35 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 4 (12.90 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (3.226 %) WebLogic Portal
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.452 %) SAN 2 1 (3.226 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (22.58 %) Datawarehouse 1 7 (22.58 %) DataStage 2 5 (16.13 %) SQL Server 3 4 (12.90 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 3 (9.677 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 3 (9.677 %) ClearCase 2 1 (3.226 %) ERwin 2 1 (3.226 %) Borland Together	General 1 6 (19.35 %) Insurance 2 5 (16.13 %) Finance 3 2 (6.452 %) Retail 4 1 (3.226 %) Billing 4 1 (3.226 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.226 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 5 (16.13 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (29.03 %) Business Intelligence 2 6 (19.35 %) Data Modelling 3 4 (12.90 %) SOA 3 4 (12.90 %) Release Management 4 3 (9.677 %) Technical Architecture 4 3 (9.677 %) UML 4 3 (9.677 %) RAD 5 2 (6.452 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (6.452 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (3.226 %) CRM 6 1 (3.226 %) OO 6 1 (3.226 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (3.226 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (3.226 %) Zachman Framework 6 1 (3.226 %) TOGAF 6 1 (3.226 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 12 (38.71 %) SQL 2 7 (22.58 %) Java 3 5 (16.13 %) Transact-SQL 3 5 (16.13 %) Shell Script 4 2 (6.452 %) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (16.13 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (3.226 %) Active Directory 1 1 (3.226 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 7 (22.58 %) Oracle 2 6 (19.35 %) Cognos 3 3 (9.677 %) SAP 4 1 (3.226 %) Vignette 4 1 (3.226 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.226 %) Microsoft 4 1 (3.226 %) Sun 4 1 (3.226 %) EMC 4 1 (3.226 %) Citrix 4 1 (3.226 %) BEA 4 1 (3.226 %) Borland