OSS Architect Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the OSS 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 OSS Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OSS Architect
Rank 522 530 563
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +33
Contract jobs requiring an OSS Architect 19 35 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.060% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.065% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
Average daily rate £475 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £510 £383 £685
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -44.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
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 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

OSS Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OSS Architect Jobs Demand Trend

OSS Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

OSS Architect Daily Rate Trend

OSS Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSS Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +30 18 £475 +18.75%
South East +15 16 £510 +39.72%
Berkshire +5 8 £510 +39.72%
Hampshire - 8 - -
Reading +9 3 - -
London +25 2 £475 -13.63%
City of London - 2 £475 -
Maidenhead - 1 - -

OSS Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited OSS 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 OSS Architect in their job title.

1 42 (77.78%) Telecoms
2 30 (55.56%) TOGAF
3 20 (37.04%) ITIL
4 18 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 18 (33.33%) eTOM
5 15 (27.78%) HP
6 13 (24.07%) BMC
6 13 (24.07%) Remedy
6 13 (24.07%) BSS
6 13 (24.07%) Remedy ITSM
7 11 (20.37%) Netcool
8 9 (16.67%) Nokia NetAct
9 8 (14.81%) 3G
9 8 (14.81%) Nokia
9 8 (14.81%) EMC
9 8 (14.81%) Citrix
9 8 (14.81%) Degree
9 8 (14.81%) 2G
10 7 (12.96%) Service Management
10 7 (12.96%) Project Management
10 7 (12.96%) Fault Management
10 7 (12.96%) Performance Management
11 6 (11.11%) Ionix
11 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (11.11%) ITSM
11 6 (11.11%) Resource Management
11 6 (11.11%) UNIX
11 6 (11.11%) Windows
11 6 (11.11%) Sun

OSS Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited OSS 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 OSS Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.704%) Web Services
1 2 (3.704%) J2EE
Applications
1 2 (3.704%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.704%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.704%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.852%) Metrica
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) BSS
2 9 (16.67%) Nokia NetAct
3 8 (14.81%) 3G
3 8 (14.81%) 2G
4 6 (11.11%) IPv4
5 5 (9.259%) UMTS
5 5 (9.259%) CDMA
5 5 (9.259%) GPRS
6 4 (7.407%) LTE
6 4 (7.407%) GSM
7 3 (5.556%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (3.704%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.852%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 42 (77.78%) Telecoms
2 3 (5.556%) Billing
3 2 (3.704%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.407%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (7.407%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.704%) Data Integration
2 2 (3.704%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.852%) NGOSS
3 1 (1.852%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) UNIX
1 6 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) TOGAF
2 20 (37.04%) ITIL
3 18 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 18 (33.33%) eTOM
4 7 (12.96%) Service Management
4 7 (12.96%) Project Management
4 7 (12.96%) Fault Management
4 7 (12.96%) Performance Management
5 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (11.11%) ITSM
5 6 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 5 (9.259%) CRM
6 5 (9.259%) Business Transformation
7 4 (7.407%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.407%) Incident Management
7 4 (7.407%) Service Delivery
8 3 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (5.556%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (5.556%) Integration Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (3.704%) PMP
2 2 (3.704%) PMI Certification
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Netcool
2 6 (11.11%) Ionix
3 2 (3.704%) OpenView
4 1 (1.852%) TeMIP
Vendors
1 15 (27.78%) HP
2 13 (24.07%) BMC
2 13 (24.07%) Remedy
3 8 (14.81%) Nokia
3 8 (14.81%) EMC
3 8 (14.81%) Citrix
4 6 (11.11%) Sun
5 3 (5.556%) NetCracker
5 3 (5.556%) Ericsson
5 3 (5.556%) Oracle
6 2 (3.704%) Greenplum
6 2 (3.704%) Salesforce.com
6 2 (3.704%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.704%) Cramer
6 2 (3.704%) OPNET
7 1 (1.852%) Amdocs
7 1 (1.852%) Redknee
7 1 (1.852%) IBM
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