The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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.

Architect
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank243133
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7Up+2
Matching contract IT job ads341128832357
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK5.763 %4.698 %4.281 %
As % of the Job Titles category6.227 %5.068 %4.657 %
Number of daily rates quoted189613691016
Average daily rate£475£500£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00 %+11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£350£373£320
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£611£650£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£450£475£420
% change year-on-year
-5.26 %+13.09 %
Number of hourly rates quoted152832
Average hourly rate£40.00£41.00£40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.43 %+2.50 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.00£30.70£34.55
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.00£60.00£51.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.00£40.00£40.00
% change year-on-year
-32.50 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Architect within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Architect Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Architect within the UK.

Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Architect within the UK.

Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Architect Hourly Rate Histogram

Architect
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+93184£475-5.00 %
LondonUp+201685£500-
South EastUp+11633£460-3.15 %
City of LondonUp+40396£525+2.94 %
BerkshireUp+3264£435-8.42 %
North WestUp+2262£450-
East of EnglandDown-8139£450-10.00 %
West MidlandsUp+1121£450-5.26 %
South WestDown-14108£425-8.10 %
SurreyUp+2099£455-7.61 %
HampshireUp+399£480+12.94 %
LancashireUp+1289£450+21.29 %
ScotlandUp+689£458-3.68 %
YorkshireDown-1586£425+1.19 %
ReadingUp+1081£375-18.91 %
ManchesterDown-475£419-8.71 %
East MidlandsUp+467£500+8.10 %
CheshireDown-465£450+5.88 %
PrestonNew entry-55£439-
BuckinghamshireDown-454£425-12.82 %
West YorkshireDown-1154£455-1.62 %
HertfordshireDown-1652£450-14.28 %
BristolUp+947£425-17.07 %
West SussexUp+944£500+5.26 %
LeedsDown-1044£450-5.26 %
EdinburghDown-341£365-27.00 %
North EastUp+339£456+1.38 %
WalesUp+438£450+2.04 %
GlasgowUp+2733£450-5.26 %
Milton KeynesUp+432£400-23.80 %

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

11420 (22.05 %)Finance
21168 (18.14 %)Oracle
3897 (13.93 %)Java
4775 (12.04 %)Banking
5736 (11.43 %)Windows
6682 (10.59 %)SOA
7630 (9.784 %)Security Cleared
8607 (9.427 %)SQL
9596 (9.256 %)Microsoft
10552 (8.573 %)TOGAF
11539 (8.371 %).NET
12495 (7.688 %)J2EE
13486 (7.548 %)Enterprise Architecture
14460 (7.144 %)SAP
15449 (6.973 %)SQL Server
16438 (6.802 %)XML
17435 (6.756 %)Migration
18433 (6.725 %)UNIX
19424 (6.585 %)SC Cleared
20412 (6.399 %)Data Modelling
21407 (6.321 %)Telecoms
22398 (6.181 %)Business Intelligence
23394 (6.119 %)Web Services
24391 (6.072 %)Data Warehouse
25381 (5.917 %)Retail
26370 (5.746 %)Linux
27369 (5.731 %)UML
28354 (5.498 %)VMware
29328 (5.094 %)CRM
30325 (5.047 %)Middleware

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1539 (8.371 %).NET
2495 (7.688 %)J2EE
3438 (6.802 %)XML
4394 (6.119 %)Web Services
5325 (5.047 %)Middleware
6317 (4.923 %)WebSphere
7172 (2.671 %)Spring
8171 (2.656 %)SOAP
9160 (2.485 %)HTML
10139 (2.159 %)ASP.NET
11116 (1.802 %)CSS
1299 (1.538 %)WCF
1396 (1.491 %)Hibernate
1493 (1.444 %)XSLT
1582 (1.273 %)Java EE
1676 (1.180 %)Struts
1774 (1.149 %)JMS
1870 (1.087 %)XSD
1968 (1.056 %)JSP
2066 (1.025 %).NET Framework
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1251 (3.898 %)SharePoint
2215 (3.339 %)ESB
3164 (2.547 %)WebLogic
4141 (2.190 %)IIS
5128 (1.988 %)SharePoint 2010
6127 (1.972 %)MS Exchange
7102 (1.584 %)CMS
890 (1.398 %)BizTalk Server
982 (1.273 %)Exchange Server 2010
1075 (1.165 %)SAS
1161 (0.947 %)Apache
1260 (0.932 %)WebSphere MQ
1355 (0.854 %)Oracle SOA Suite
1355 (0.854 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1451 (0.792 %)WebSphere Application Server
1548 (0.745 %)Tomcat
1646 (0.714 %)Lotus Notes
1646 (0.714 %)SharePoint Server
1743 (0.668 %)Documentum
1840 (0.621 %)Force.com
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1324 (5.032 %)MS Visio
2192 (2.982 %)MS Excel
372 (1.118 %)MS Office
443 (0.668 %)MS PowerPoint
527 (0.419 %)MS Project
527 (0.419 %)Adobe Illustrator
622 (0.342 %)InDesign
719 (0.295 %)OmniGraffle
811 (0.171 %)InfoPath
811 (0.171 %)Office 365
811 (0.171 %)Spreadsheet
910 (0.155 %)Photoshop
106 (0.093 %)Casewise Modeler
106 (0.093 %)Fireworks
115 (0.078 %)PowerPivot
122 (0.031 %)Open Workbench
122 (0.031 %)FreeHand
131 (0.016 %)MATLAB
131 (0.016 %)AutoCAD
131 (0.016 %)Acrobat
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1143 (2.221 %)Oracle EBS
297 (1.506 %)Oracle EBS R12
352 (0.808 %)Dynamics CRM
440 (0.621 %)SAP CRM
538 (0.590 %)SAP FI
630 (0.466 %)Oracle 11i
728 (0.435 %)Tridion
827 (0.419 %)SAP CO
926 (0.404 %)SAP FI/CO
1023 (0.357 %)Oracle BPM
1122 (0.342 %)Oracle Applications
1122 (0.342 %)SAP HR
1220 (0.311 %)SAP BPC
1317 (0.264 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1416 (0.248 %)Sword FircoSoft
1515 (0.233 %)Maximo
1515 (0.233 %)SAP GRC
1515 (0.233 %)Temenos T24
1515 (0.233 %)SAP IS-U
1614 (0.217 %)HFM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1273 (4.240 %)SAN
2258 (4.007 %)Firewall
3225 (3.494 %)WAN
4200 (3.106 %)Internet
5179 (2.780 %)LAN
6127 (1.972 %)BSS
7102 (1.584 %)TCP/IP
891 (1.413 %)NAS
977 (1.196 %)VPN
1075 (1.165 %)Network Security
1174 (1.149 %)VoIP
1261 (0.947 %)Unified Communications
1350 (0.777 %)DNS
1449 (0.761 %)LDAP
1540 (0.621 %)MPLS
1639 (0.606 %)Wireless
1736 (0.559 %)SSL
1736 (0.559 %)DHCP
1736 (0.559 %)HTTP
1834 (0.528 %)HTTPS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1449 (6.973 %)SQL Server
2391 (6.072 %)Data Warehouse
3318 (4.939 %)ETL
4133 (2.066 %)Oracle 11g
5110 (1.708 %)DB2
6107 (1.662 %)SQL Server 2008
7102 (1.584 %)SQL Server Integration Services
886 (1.336 %)Oracle 8/8i
984 (1.305 %)Oracle BI EE
984 (1.305 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1071 (1.103 %)RDBMS
1170 (1.087 %)MySQL
1268 (1.056 %)SAP BW
1361 (0.947 %)Oracle 10g
1361 (0.947 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1454 (0.839 %)SQL Server 2005
1454 (0.839 %)NoSQL
1552 (0.808 %)DataStage
1639 (0.606 %)GIS
1737 (0.575 %)MongoDB
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
147 (0.730 %)Axure RP
244 (0.683 %)Subversion
336 (0.559 %)ERwin
435 (0.544 %)Visual Studio
531 (0.481 %)Eclipse
624 (0.373 %)Dreamweaver
722 (0.342 %)Maven
722 (0.342 %)JUnit
818 (0.280 %)Talend Open Studio
916 (0.248 %)ClearCase
1015 (0.233 %)Ant
1113 (0.202 %)TeamCity
1212 (0.186 %)Hudson
1311 (0.171 %)Rational Rose
1410 (0.155 %)Team Foundation Server
1410 (0.155 %)NUnit
159 (0.140 %)Oracle Forms
159 (0.140 %)MSI
159 (0.140 %)JIRA
168 (0.124 %)Wise Package Studio
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11420 (22.05 %)Finance
2775 (12.04 %)Banking
3407 (6.321 %)Telecoms
4381 (5.917 %)Retail
5211 (3.277 %)Investment Banking
6108 (1.677 %)Billing
780 (1.242 %)Marketing
870 (1.087 %)Retail Banking
955 (0.854 %)Back Office
1050 (0.777 %)Publishing
1148 (0.745 %)Front Office
1247 (0.730 %)Financial Institution
1337 (0.575 %)Pharmaceutical
1432 (0.497 %)Local Government
1528 (0.435 %)Legal
1627 (0.419 %)Manufacturing
1726 (0.404 %)German Language
1822 (0.342 %)Corporate Banking
1822 (0.342 %)Advertising
1921 (0.326 %)Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1142 (2.205 %)Management Information System
299 (1.538 %)Mainframe
392 (1.429 %)Clustering
485 (1.320 %)Computer Science
583 (1.289 %)Credit Risk
682 (1.273 %)Open Source
781 (1.258 %)Replication
781 (1.258 %)SaaS
874 (1.149 %)Data Integration
964 (0.994 %)Client/Server
1057 (0.885 %)Derivative
1057 (0.885 %)Cloud Computing
1155 (0.854 %)CESG
1155 (0.854 %)N-Tier
1254 (0.839 %)PKI
1353 (0.823 %)Market Risk
1452 (0.808 %)Digital Media
1546 (0.714 %)PaaS
1643 (0.668 %)SWIFT
1643 (0.668 %)Reference Data
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1736 (11.43 %)Windows
2433 (6.725 %)UNIX
3370 (5.746 %)Linux
4179 (2.780 %)Windows Server 2008
5136 (2.112 %)AIX
6122 (1.895 %)Windows 7
797 (1.506 %)Solaris
895 (1.475 %)Windows Server 2003
948 (0.745 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1047 (0.730 %)Windows XP
1134 (0.528 %)Android
1232 (0.497 %)Apple iOS
1320 (0.311 %)zOS
1417 (0.264 %)HPUX
1512 (0.186 %)Windows NT
1610 (0.155 %)CentOS
179 (0.140 %)Oracle Linux
188 (0.124 %)Windows Vista
197 (0.109 %)Mac OS X Server
206 (0.093 %)SUSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1682 (10.59 %)SOA
2552 (8.573 %)TOGAF
3486 (7.548 %)Enterprise Architecture
4435 (6.756 %)Migration
5412 (6.399 %)Data Modelling
6398 (6.181 %)Business Intelligence
7369 (5.731 %)UML
8328 (5.094 %)CRM
9312 (4.845 %)Technical Architecture
10287 (4.457 %)Stakeholder Management
11273 (4.240 %)Agile Software Development
12270 (4.193 %)Project Management
13267 (4.147 %)ITIL
14266 (4.131 %)E-Commerce
15263 (4.084 %)OO
16244 (3.789 %)Data Architecture
17176 (2.733 %)Data Management
18175 (2.718 %)Information Architecture
19164 (2.547 %)Zachman Framework
19164 (2.547 %)Service Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1897 (13.93 %)Java
2607 (9.427 %)SQL
3278 (4.317 %)C#
4172 (2.671 %)JavaScript
5109 (1.693 %)PL/SQL
697 (1.506 %)C
774 (1.149 %)C++
866 (1.025 %)PHP
955 (0.854 %)PowerShell
1050 (0.777 %)Apex Code
1147 (0.730 %)Python
1238 (0.590 %)VBScript
1337 (0.575 %)VB
1436 (0.559 %)Shell Script
1533 (0.513 %)VB.NET
1630 (0.466 %)Ruby
1630 (0.466 %)Perl
1725 (0.388 %)T-SQL
1817 (0.264 %)Bash shell
1916 (0.248 %)COBOL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1630 (9.784 %)Security Cleared
2424 (6.585 %)SC Cleared
3193 (2.997 %)Degree
4106 (1.646 %)Cisco Certification
579 (1.227 %)Microsoft Certification
579 (1.227 %)DV Cleared
671 (1.103 %)CISSP
750 (0.777 %)MCSE
846 (0.714 %)CCNA
941 (0.637 %)BC Cleared
1037 (0.575 %)CCIE
1134 (0.528 %)ISEB
1233 (0.513 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1331 (0.481 %)MCITP
1425 (0.388 %)CISM
1523 (0.357 %)CISA
1621 (0.326 %)CCDP
1621 (0.326 %)Citrix Certification
1720 (0.311 %)CCNP
1720 (0.311 %)CCA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1165 (2.563 %)QA
244 (0.683 %)COBIT
340 (0.621 %)Data Quality
438 (0.590 %)SLA
534 (0.528 %)Solvency II
631 (0.481 %)PCI DSS
721 (0.326 %)BS7799
820 (0.311 %)ISO/IEC 27001
915 (0.233 %)ISO 9001
106 (0.093 %)JSP 440
106 (0.093 %)FATCA
106 (0.093 %)WCAG
115 (0.078 %)Basel II
124 (0.062 %)ISO/IEC 20000
133 (0.047 %)GAAP
133 (0.047 %)HL7
133 (0.047 %)CDISC
142 (0.031 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
151 (0.016 %)HIPAA
151 (0.016 %)HMG Infosec
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1269 (4.178 %)Active Directory
2240 (3.727 %)VMware Infrastructure
368 (1.056 %)XenApp
458 (0.901 %)Hyper-V
551 (0.792 %)XenDesktop
646 (0.714 %)vSphere
743 (0.668 %)VMware ESX
828 (0.435 %)VMware ESXi
926 (0.404 %)Terminal Services
1025 (0.388 %)Oracle RAC
1113 (0.202 %)Xen
1211 (0.171 %)MetaFrame
139 (0.140 %)UAG
139 (0.140 %)Citrix Presentation Server
148 (0.124 %)VMware Server
148 (0.124 %)XenServer
148 (0.124 %)NDS
156 (0.093 %)Terminal Server
165 (0.078 %)IAG
174 (0.062 %)Shibboleth
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
167 (1.041 %)SCCM
250 (0.777 %)Tivoli
348 (0.745 %)SCOM
426 (0.404 %)NetBackup
520 (0.311 %)Netcool
615 (0.233 %)OpenView Configuration Management
713 (0.202 %)CA SiteMinder
811 (0.171 %)WMI
99 (0.140 %)OpenView
99 (0.140 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
108 (0.124 %)McAfee ePO
108 (0.124 %)Oracle Identity Management
108 (0.124 %)MOM
108 (0.124 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
117 (0.109 %)Cisco UCCX
117 (0.109 %)vCenter
126 (0.093 %)EMC NetWorker
126 (0.093 %)SCVMM
126 (0.093 %)Data Guard
126 (0.093 %)Oracle Identity Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11168 (18.14 %)Oracle
2596 (9.256 %)Microsoft
3460 (7.144 %)SAP
4354 (5.498 %)VMware
5289 (4.488 %)IBM
6278 (4.317 %)Cisco
7264 (4.100 %)Citrix
8202 (3.137 %)HP
9128 (1.988 %)Siebel
10121 (1.879 %)Informatica
11113 (1.755 %)Pega
12103 (1.600 %)EMC
1394 (1.460 %)NetApp
1493 (1.444 %)JBoss
1584 (1.305 %)Salesforce.com
1682 (1.273 %)Adobe
1781 (1.258 %)CheckPoint
1878 (1.211 %)Business Objects
1964 (0.994 %)Teradata
2060 (0.932 %)Cognos