The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Solutions 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 West Yorkshire 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
.NET Solutions Architect
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Solutions Architect 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1185 1480 1059
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.42% 94.57% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 828 495
Average daily rate £313 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.08% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 74
Average hourly rate £12.75 £15.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £10.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Solutions Architect
Yorkshire

.NET Solutions Architect
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited .NET 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 .NET Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) Endeca
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) RedPrairie
3 1 (33.33%) SOA

.NET Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited .NET 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 .NET Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
General
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Endeca
2 1 (33.33%) RedPrairie