IT Architect Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the IT 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 IT 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
IT Architect
Rank 502 544 555
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +11
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 27 40 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.058% 0.069% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.074% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 21
Average daily rate £500 £565 £520
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.50% +8.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £432 £419 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £605 £610 £825
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £488 £425
% change year-on-year
+12.82% +14.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £25.50
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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%

IT Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IT Architect Jobs Demand Trend

IT Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

IT Architect Daily Rate Trend

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IT Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

IT Architect Daily Rate Histogram

IT Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

IT Architect Hourly Rate Trend

IT Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT 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 +34 24 £500 -11.50%
London +41 20 £500 -16.66%
City of London +18 7 £500 +8.40%
Berkshire +15 2 £550 +50.68%
South East +8 2 £550 +34.96%
Scotland -9 2 £535 -
Reading +13 1 £550 +50.68%
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Glasgow -16 1 £600 -
Midlands - 1 - -
Wembley - 1 £375 -

IT Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 29 (46.03%) Finance
2 13 (20.63%) Windows
3 11 (17.46%) TOGAF
4 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
5 9 (14.29%) Project Management
5 9 (14.29%) Banking
5 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (14.29%) VMware
6 8 (12.70%) Oracle
6 8 (12.70%) Security Architecture
7 7 (11.11%) LAN
7 7 (11.11%) WAN
7 7 (11.11%) SAN
7 7 (11.11%) Retail
7 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (9.524%) Technical Architecture
8 6 (9.524%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (9.524%) Information Security
8 6 (9.524%) Firewall
8 6 (9.524%) SOA
8 6 (9.524%) UNIX
8 6 (9.524%) Linux
8 6 (9.524%) IIS
8 6 (9.524%) SAP
8 6 (9.524%) SC Cleared
8 6 (9.524%) Security Cleared
9 5 (7.937%) vSphere
9 5 (7.937%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (7.937%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (7.937%) SharePoint 2010

IT Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (3.175%) Middleware
2 1 (1.587%) COM+
2 1 (1.587%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.524%) IIS
2 5 (7.937%) SharePoint 2010
2 5 (7.937%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.762%) ESB
4 2 (3.175%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.587%) Lync
5 1 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.587%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (6.349%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.762%) Summit
2 1 (1.587%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) LAN
1 7 (11.11%) WAN
1 7 (11.11%) SAN
2 6 (9.524%) Firewall
3 5 (7.937%) NetScreen
4 3 (4.762%) Network Security
5 2 (3.175%) VPN
5 2 (3.175%) DNS
5 2 (3.175%) HTTP
6 1 (1.587%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.587%) NAS
6 1 (1.587%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.587%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.587%) SMTP
6 1 (1.587%) DHCP
6 1 (1.587%) BSS
6 1 (1.587%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.937%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.587%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.587%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (3.175%) Ant
General
1 29 (46.03%) Finance
2 9 (14.29%) Banking
3 7 (11.11%) Retail
4 5 (7.937%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.762%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.175%) Billing
6 2 (3.175%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.175%) Legal
7 1 (1.587%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.587%) Advertising
7 1 (1.587%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.587%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.175%) Statistics
1 2 (3.175%) Fixed Income
1 2 (3.175%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (3.175%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (3.175%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.587%) EqualLogic
2 1 (1.587%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.587%) Smart Meter
2 1 (1.587%) SaaS
2 1 (1.587%) SCADA
2 1 (1.587%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.587%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Windows
2 6 (9.524%) UNIX
2 6 (9.524%) Linux
3 2 (3.175%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (3.175%) Windows 7
3 2 (3.175%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.587%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.587%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.587%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.587%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.46%) TOGAF
2 9 (14.29%) Project Management
2 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (12.70%) Security Architecture
4 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (9.524%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (9.524%) Penetration Testing
5 6 (9.524%) Information Security
5 6 (9.524%) SOA
6 5 (7.937%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (7.937%) PRINCE2
6 5 (7.937%) Asset Management
7 4 (6.349%) Zachman Framework
7 4 (6.349%) Information Assurance
8 3 (4.762%) Data Protection
8 3 (4.762%) ITIL
8 3 (4.762%) UML
8 3 (4.762%) OO
9 2 (3.175%) Migration
9 2 (3.175%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.762%) C++
1 3 (4.762%) Java
2 2 (3.175%) SQL
3 1 (1.587%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (9.524%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.524%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.937%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.937%) CCNA
2 5 (7.937%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (7.937%) MCTS
2 5 (7.937%) MCITP
3 4 (6.349%) Degree
4 2 (3.175%) CISSP
4 2 (3.175%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.587%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.587%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.587%) CISM
5 1 (1.587%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.175%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (7.937%) vSphere
2 4 (6.349%) VMware ESX
2 4 (6.349%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.349%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.587%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.587%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (7.937%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.587%) SCCM
2 1 (1.587%) SCOM
2 1 (1.587%) SCVMM
2 1 (1.587%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) VMware
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle
3 6 (9.524%) SAP
4 5 (7.937%) EMC
4 5 (7.937%) Cisco
5 3 (4.762%) JBoss
5 3 (4.762%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.762%) Informatica
6 2 (3.175%) Citrix
7 1 (1.587%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.587%) Siebel
7 1 (1.587%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.587%) IBM
7 1 (1.587%) Dell
7 1 (1.587%) Symantec
7 1 (1.587%) ATG
7 1 (1.587%) Actimize
7 1 (1.587%) Endeca
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