The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 West Midlands 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Architect
Rank 71 65 79
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Architect 22 40 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.286% 1.790% 1.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.406% 1.938% 1.121%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 8
Average daily rate £438 £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £460 £489
% change year-on-year
+3.26% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £36.00
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1565 2064 1784
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 91.47% 92.35% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 976 761
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 151 146
Average hourly rate £18.50 £15.56 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.89% -13.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Architect
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Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solutions Architect across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

West Midlands Solutions Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Solutions Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Solutions Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Architect within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Birmingham +10 10 £425 - 8
Staffordshire +12 3 £475 -
Coventry -9 3 - -
Shropshire - - - -
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England

Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 12 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
3 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 8 (16.67%) .NET
5 7 (14.58%) SAP
5 7 (14.58%) CRM
6 6 (12.50%) Automotive
6 6 (12.50%) SOA
6 6 (12.50%) C#
7 5 (10.42%) Data Modelling
7 5 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (8.333%) Manufacturing
8 4 (8.333%) VMware
8 4 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (8.333%) ERP
8 4 (8.333%) Project Management
8 4 (8.333%) Telecoms
8 4 (8.333%) HTML
8 4 (8.333%) Windows
8 4 (8.333%) CSS
9 3 (6.250%) SQL Server
9 3 (6.250%) SQL
9 3 (6.250%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (6.250%) E-Commerce
9 3 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (6.250%) Mobile Device Management

Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (8.333%) HTML
2 4 (8.333%) CSS
3 2 (4.167%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.083%) SAML
4 1 (2.083%) Middleware
4 1 (2.083%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (2.083%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.083%) Silverlight
4 1 (2.083%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.083%) Java EE
4 1 (2.083%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.083%) Apache
2 1 (2.083%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.083%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.250%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.167%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (4.167%) SAP CRM
2 2 (4.167%) SAP CO
2 2 (4.167%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.083%) SAP SRM
3 1 (2.083%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.083%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.083%) ENOVIA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) LDAP
1 1 (2.083%) LAN
1 1 (2.083%) WAN
1 1 (2.083%) SMTP
1 1 (2.083%) FTP
1 1 (2.083%) HTTP
1 1 (2.083%) VPN
1 1 (2.083%) H.323
1 1 (2.083%) SAN
1 1 (2.083%) Firewall
1 1 (2.083%) Internet
1 1 (2.083%) Network Security
1 1 (2.083%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.250%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.083%) OLAP
3 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Automotive
3 4 (8.333%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.333%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.083%) Banking
4 1 (2.083%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.250%) Data Integration
2 3 (6.250%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.250%) SaaS
2 3 (6.250%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.167%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.083%) SCADA
4 1 (2.083%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.333%) Windows
2 3 (6.250%) Android
3 2 (4.167%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.083%) Linux
4 1 (2.083%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 7 (14.58%) CRM
3 6 (12.50%) SOA
4 5 (10.42%) Data Modelling
4 5 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (8.333%) ERP
5 4 (8.333%) Project Management
6 3 (6.250%) E-Commerce
6 3 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (6.250%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (6.250%) Data Architecture
6 3 (6.250%) SAP Implementation
6 3 (6.250%) Requirements Management
7 2 (4.167%) Logistics
7 2 (4.167%) Project Planning
7 2 (4.167%) Migration
7 2 (4.167%) Asset Management
7 2 (4.167%) Waterfall
7 2 (4.167%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) C#
2 3 (6.250%) SQL
3 2 (4.167%) Java
4 1 (2.083%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.083%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.083%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.250%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.083%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.083%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.58%) SAP
3 4 (8.333%) VMware
4 1 (2.083%) Oracle
4 1 (2.083%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (2.083%) EMC
4 1 (2.083%) Citrix
4 1 (2.083%) IBM
Birmingham, West Midlands
Austin Fraser have been retained by a leading consultancy to resource an experienced SAP Solution Architect.The end client is based in the Midlands. The project is expected...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Austin Fraser have been retained by a leading consultancy to resource an experienced SAP Solution Architect... The succesful candidate will have experience in implementations, and experience in logistics...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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