The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. 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 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 advertised for the Warwickshire region.

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
Architect
Rank 29 8 13
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2 20 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.966% 8.197% 6.977%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.047% 8.584% 7.576%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 10
Average daily rate £550 £400 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -15.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
191 233 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 92.27% 95.49% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 103 71
Average daily rate £325 £320 £353
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -9.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 28
Average hourly rate £13.00 £16.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.21% -34.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.70 £12.25 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £31.00 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Architect
West Midlands

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Warwickshire Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Warwickshire Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 6 (28.57%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (23.81%) Supplier Management
3 5 (23.81%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 5 (23.81%) SOA
4 4 (19.05%) Citrix
4 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
4 4 (19.05%) MSI
4 4 (19.05%) SCCM
4 4 (19.05%) Requirements Management
4 4 (19.05%) XenApp
4 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
5 3 (14.29%) WebSphere
5 3 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 3 (14.29%) TIBCO
5 3 (14.29%) SLA
5 3 (14.29%) IBM
6 2 (9.524%) Process Management
6 2 (9.524%) Content Management
7 1 (4.762%) Document Management
7 1 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (4.762%) Operations Management

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 3 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.762%) J2EE
2 1 (4.762%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) SharePoint
1 6 (28.57%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MSI
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Automotive
2 1 (4.762%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
2 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.762%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Migration
1 6 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 5 (23.81%) Supplier Management
2 5 (23.81%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (23.81%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
2 5 (23.81%) SOA
3 4 (19.05%) Requirements Management
4 2 (9.524%) Process Management
4 2 (9.524%) Content Management
5 1 (4.762%) Document Management
5 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (4.762%) Operations Management
5 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (4.762%) Workflow
5 1 (4.762%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.762%) Information Security
5 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.762%) B2B
5 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (4.762%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) XenApp
2 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.762%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (4.762%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Citrix
2 3 (14.29%) TIBCO
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (4.762%) VMware
3 1 (4.762%) NetApp
3 1 (4.762%) Cognos
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Posted: 21 May 2013