The first table below looks at the demand for the Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Architect
Rank 39 39 22
Rank change year-on-year
0 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 89 100 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 4.497% 4.175% 5.734%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.767% 4.407% 6.144%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 57 62
Average daily rate £450 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £338 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year
+4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+44.44% -32.50%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1867 2269 1774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.34% 94.74% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1204 881
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £467 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 136 123
Average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.13 £10.30 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.60 £31.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Architect
England

Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Architect Daily Rate Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Yorkshire Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Yorkshire 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
West Yorkshire +10 76 £474 -0.26% 24
North Yorkshire +1 7 £425 +25.92% 3
East Yorkshire -5 1 £325 -18.75%
South Yorkshire -10 1 £500 +14.28% 3
Architect
England

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 73 (33.33%) Oracle
2 50 (22.83%) E-Commerce
3 44 (20.09%) Retail
4 34 (15.53%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (13.70%) VMware
6 28 (12.79%) Finance
7 27 (12.33%) ETL
7 27 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (11.87%) Enterprise Architecture
9 25 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
9 25 (11.42%) Windows
10 24 (10.96%) Linux
10 24 (10.96%) Data Modelling
11 23 (10.50%) SQL Server
11 23 (10.50%) Informatica
12 22 (10.05%) Migration
12 22 (10.05%) PHP
12 22 (10.05%) MySQL
13 21 (9.589%) Oracle BI EE
14 20 (9.132%) Content Management
15 19 (8.676%) Telecoms
15 19 (8.676%) SQL
15 19 (8.676%) Microsoft
16 18 (8.219%) Citrix
16 18 (8.219%) Red Hat
16 18 (8.219%) Firewall
16 18 (8.219%) Project Management
16 18 (8.219%) UNIX
16 18 (8.219%) Apache
16 18 (8.219%) TOGAF

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 17 (7.763%) .NET
2 10 (4.566%) WebSphere
2 10 (4.566%) Web Services
3 8 (3.653%) LAMP
4 7 (3.196%) XML
4 7 (3.196%) X-Windows
5 6 (2.740%) REST
5 6 (2.740%) Middleware
5 6 (2.740%) SOAP
6 5 (2.283%) Java EE
7 4 (1.826%) NHibernate
8 2 (0.913%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (0.913%) RESTful
8 2 (0.913%) Visualforce
8 2 (0.913%) JSON
8 2 (0.913%) JMS
9 1 (0.457%) HTML
9 1 (0.457%) CSS
9 1 (0.457%) jQuery
9 1 (0.457%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 18 (8.219%) Apache
2 16 (7.306%) Tomcat
3 9 (4.110%) ESB
3 9 (4.110%) Windows Azure
4 8 (3.653%) CloudStack
4 8 (3.653%) OpenStack
4 8 (3.653%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (2.740%) MS Exchange
6 4 (1.826%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (1.370%) Commerce Server
7 3 (1.370%) CMS
8 2 (0.913%) Liferay
8 2 (0.913%) Force.com
9 1 (0.457%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.457%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.457%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.457%) Drupal
9 1 (0.457%) WordPress
9 1 (0.457%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.457%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (3.196%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.370%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.457%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.023%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (4.566%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.370%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.913%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.219%) Firewall
2 8 (3.653%) SAN
3 7 (3.196%) HTTP
3 7 (3.196%) Internet
4 4 (1.826%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.370%) VPN
5 3 (1.370%) LAN
5 3 (1.370%) WAN
5 3 (1.370%) FTP
5 3 (1.370%) NAS
6 2 (0.913%) CTI
7 1 (0.457%) Intranet
7 1 (0.457%) IPsec
7 1 (0.457%) Wireless
7 1 (0.457%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.457%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.457%) Nortel Alteon
7 1 (0.457%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (10.50%) SQL Server
3 22 (10.05%) MySQL
4 21 (9.589%) Oracle BI EE
5 18 (8.219%) Oracle 11g
6 17 (7.763%) Oracle ODI
7 14 (6.393%) Oracle 8/8i
7 14 (6.393%) Oracle OWB
8 5 (2.283%) Oracle 10g
8 5 (2.283%) SQL Server 2008
8 5 (2.283%) SQL Server 2005
9 4 (1.826%) Big Data
10 3 (1.370%) Oracle 9i
10 3 (1.370%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.370%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.370%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.370%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.913%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.913%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.913%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (1.826%) NUnit
2 3 (1.370%) Talend Open Studio
2 3 (1.370%) MSTest
3 1 (0.457%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.457%) ERwin
3 1 (0.457%) Axure RP
General
1 44 (20.09%) Retail
2 28 (12.79%) Finance
3 19 (8.676%) Telecoms
4 12 (5.479%) Banking
5 9 (4.110%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.283%) Games
7 3 (1.370%) Online Betting
7 3 (1.370%) Billing
7 3 (1.370%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.913%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.763%) SaaS
2 16 (7.306%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.393%) Data Integration
4 12 (5.479%) PaaS
4 12 (5.479%) Open Source
4 12 (5.479%) IaaS
5 9 (4.110%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.196%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.826%) Computer Science
7 4 (1.826%) NHS
8 3 (1.370%) IVR
8 3 (1.370%) Clustering
9 2 (0.913%) Social Media
9 2 (0.913%) Web 2.0
9 2 (0.913%) Online Games
9 2 (0.913%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.913%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.457%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.457%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.42%) Windows
2 24 (10.96%) Linux
3 18 (8.219%) UNIX
4 17 (7.763%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.110%) Windows 7
6 8 (3.653%) HPUX
7 7 (3.196%) Windows 8
8 4 (1.826%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.826%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.913%) Solaris
9 2 (0.913%) AIX
9 2 (0.913%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.457%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (22.83%) E-Commerce
2 34 (15.53%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (12.33%) ETL
4 26 (11.87%) Enterprise Architecture
5 24 (10.96%) Data Modelling
6 22 (10.05%) Migration
7 20 (9.132%) Content Management
8 18 (8.219%) Project Management
8 18 (8.219%) TOGAF
9 16 (7.306%) Technical Architecture
10 15 (6.849%) SOA
11 12 (5.479%) Customer Engagement
11 12 (5.479%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (4.566%) ITIL
13 9 (4.110%) ERP
13 9 (4.110%) Performance Testing
13 9 (4.110%) Business Analysis
14 8 (3.653%) Data Migration
14 8 (3.653%) Service Management
15 7 (3.196%) OO
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.05%) PHP
2 19 (8.676%) SQL
3 9 (4.110%) Java
4 6 (2.740%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.826%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.370%) C#
7 2 (0.913%) Ruby
7 2 (0.913%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.913%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.913%) VBScript
7 2 (0.913%) VB
8 1 (0.457%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (2.740%) Degree
2 4 (1.826%) MCITP
2 4 (1.826%) MCTS
2 4 (1.826%) Avaya Certification
2 4 (1.826%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (1.826%) CCIE
3 3 (1.370%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.913%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.457%) MCSE
5 1 (0.457%) CCSP
5 1 (0.457%) CCNP
5 1 (0.457%) CCDA
5 1 (0.457%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.023%) QA
2 1 (0.457%) SLA
2 1 (0.457%) WAI
System Software
1 25 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (5.023%) Hyper-V
2 11 (5.023%) Xen
3 7 (3.196%) UAG
4 6 (2.740%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.913%) XenApp
5 2 (0.913%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.457%) XenServer
6 1 (0.457%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.457%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 11 (5.023%) SCOM
2 5 (2.283%) SCCM
3 2 (0.913%) CA Wily
3 2 (0.913%) OpenView
Vendors
1 73 (33.33%) Oracle
2 30 (13.70%) VMware
3 23 (10.50%) Informatica
4 19 (8.676%) Microsoft
5 18 (8.219%) Citrix
5 18 (8.219%) Red Hat
6 14 (6.393%) Endeca
7 9 (4.110%) RedPrairie
8 8 (3.653%) Google
9 6 (2.740%) Cisco
9 6 (2.740%) IBM
10 5 (2.283%) Avaya
10 5 (2.283%) Salesforce.com
11 4 (1.826%) F5
11 4 (1.826%) HP
11 4 (1.826%) Business Objects
12 3 (1.370%) Hyperion
12 3 (1.370%) Talend
13 1 (0.457%) SAP
13 1 (0.457%) Intel
Halifax, West Yorkshire
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Roc Search
Posted: 14 June 2013
North Yorkshire
Hands-on development using Oracle ETL tools and establish standard and templates - Oracle business suite experience including OBIEE - Define and implement ETL development standards and procedures - Define and...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £320.00 - £380.00 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
West Yorkshire
MIS, SQL, Qlikview, data. Working with a market leading company we are looking for a Data Architect / Designer to deliver data solutions with a heavy focus on data...
The Bridge Ltd
Rate: Market rate
Posted: 19 June 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
Lead Solutions Architect - Edinburgh - Bank - Up to £500/day! Our Client, a Major Bank, are currently looking for a Lead Solutions Architect to work in their Halifax Office,...
Orgtel
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
West Yorkshire
Lead collaborative working with other areas within Enterprise Architecture and Design to ensure that all solutions are complete, operable, conform to business processes and meet the business needs...
Roc Search
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £465.00 per annum + Dependent on experience
Posted: 3 June 2013
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