Data Centre Architect Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Centre 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 Data Centre 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 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.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Centre Architect
Rank 520 578 577
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Centre Architect 9 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.011% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £428 £500 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year
-15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 1 Data Centre Architect jobs
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Data Centre Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Data Centre Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Data Centre Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Data Centre Architect Daily Rate Trend

Data Centre Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Data Centre Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Data Centre Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Centre Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank 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
England +49 9 £428 -14.50%
South East - 4 £420 -
Yorkshire - 3 £425 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £425 -
Berkshire - 3 £420 -
Reading - 3 £420 -
Leeds - 2 £425 -
London +35 1 £475 -
North West +13 1 - -

Data Centre Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Data Centre 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 Data Centre Architect in their job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) UNIX
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (20.00%) SAP
4 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 2 (13.33%) LAN
5 2 (13.33%) WAN
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix
5 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
6 1 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (6.667%) Firewall
6 1 (6.667%) BladeLogic
6 1 (6.667%) Xen
6 1 (6.667%) Degree
6 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
6 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.667%) FMCG
6 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V

Data Centre Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Data Centre 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 Data Centre Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) SOAP
1 1 (6.667%) XML
1 1 (6.667%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
2 1 (6.667%) Firewall
2 1 (6.667%) NAS
2 1 (6.667%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.667%) OSPF
2 1 (6.667%) BGP
2 1 (6.667%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) FMCG
1 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (6.667%) PaaS
1 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.667%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) UNIX
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
4 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Software Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.667%) Project Management
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
1 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) VCP5
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (6.667%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.667%) Xen
2 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
1 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
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