Tyne and Wear Architect Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts within the Tyne and Wear 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 Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Sale Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	20
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	20	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	4.684 %	6.472 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£563
Average daily rate	£395	£588
% change on same period last year	-32.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£613
UK excluding London average daily rate	£466	£463
% change on same period last year	+0.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.60	£44.51
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Job Titles Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	427	479
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.563 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	97	100
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£289
Average daily rate	£330	£307
% change on same period last year	+7.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.76	£23.09
Average hourly rate	£25.09	£24.77
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£26.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Architect North 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Tyne and Wear 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 Architect across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Tyne and Wear 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 Architect within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle Upon Tyne	-1	11	£310	-40.95 %
Newcastle	-5	9	£480	-26.15 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (26.47 %) Government 2 7 (20.59 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 5 (14.71 %) Unix 3 5 (14.71 %) TOGAF 4 4 (11.76 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 4 (11.76 %) UML 4 4 (11.76 %) SQL 4 4 (11.76 %) .NET 4 4 (11.76 %) C# 4 4 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (11.76 %) DSDM 4 4 (11.76 %) MS Excel 4 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft 4 4 (11.76 %) ISEB 4 4 (11.76 %) Telecoms

5 3 (8.824 %) Migration 5 3 (8.824 %) Zachman Framework 5 3 (8.824 %) MVS 5 3 (8.824 %) ETL 5 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint 5 3 (8.824 %) Oracle 5 3 (8.824 %) SSADM 5 3 (8.824 %) XML 5 3 (8.824 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 3 (8.824 %) VME 5 3 (8.824 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 2 (5.882 %) AquaLogic 6 2 (5.882 %) MOS 6 2 (5.882 %) Network Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (11.76 %) .NET 1 4 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (8.824 %) XML 2 3 (8.824 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 2 (5.882 %) WebServices 4 1 (2.941 %) ASP 4 1 (2.941 %) HTML 4 1 (2.941 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint 1 3 (8.824 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (5.882 %) WebLogic 3 1 (2.941 %) PowerExchange
Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.941 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) BusinessWorks 1 1 (2.941 %) Staffware 1 1 (2.941 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.941 %) VoIP 1 1 (2.941 %) SAN 1 1 (2.941 %) Internet 1 1 (2.941 %) Firewall 1 1 (2.941 %) Intrusion Detection	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (8.824 %) ETL 2 2 (5.882 %) RDBMS 2 2 (5.882 %) PowerCenter 2 2 (5.882 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (2.941 %) Data Mart 3 1 (2.941 %) BODI
General 1 9 (26.47 %) Government 2 4 (11.76 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.941 %) Finance 3 1 (2.941 %) Health 3 1 (2.941 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.941 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 5 (14.71 %) Unix 2 3 (8.824 %) MVS 2 3 (8.824 %) VME 3 1 (2.941 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (20.59 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 5 (14.71 %) TOGAF 3 4 (11.76 %) UML 3 4 (11.76 %) DSDM 3 4 (11.76 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 3 (8.824 %) Zachman Framework 4 3 (8.824 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (8.824 %) SSADM 4 3 (8.824 %) Migration 5 2 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (5.882 %) Data Management 5 2 (5.882 %) Service Management 5 2 (5.882 %) Process Management 5 2 (5.882 %) Network Design 5 2 (5.882 %) SOA 6 1 (2.941 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (2.941 %) Project Management 6 1 (2.941 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (2.941 %) OO 6 1 (2.941 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 4 (11.76 %) C# 1 4 (11.76 %) SQL 2 2 (5.882 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (2.941 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 4 (11.76 %) ISEB 2 2 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (5.882 %) MOS 3 1 (2.941 %) CISSP 3 1 (2.941 %) CCNA
System Software 1 2 (5.882 %) AquaLogic 2 1 (2.941 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft 2 3 (8.824 %) Oracle 3 2 (5.882 %) Nortel 3 2 (5.882 %) Cisco 3 2 (5.882 %) BEA 3 2 (5.882 %) Informatica 4 1 (2.941 %) MicroStrategy 4 1 (2.941 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (2.941 %) TIBCO 4 1 (2.941 %) BT 4 1 (2.941 %) VMware 4 1 (2.941 %) Finjan 4 1 (2.941 %) Juniper 4 1 (2.941 %) Siebel