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The first part of the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Yorkshire region.

 Architect
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank374272
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Up+30
Matching contract IT job ads474361
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire3.082 %2.836 %1.733 %
As % of the Job Titles category3.364 %3.076 %1.851 %
Daily rates quoted19723
Average daily rate£411£390£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.250 %-2.500 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£370£300£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£529£548
UK excluding London average daily rate£425£450£450
% change year-on-year
-5.550 %-
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£36.18£40.00£40.00
% change year-on-year
-9.550 %-
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
139713983295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire91.61 %92.22 %93.63 %
Daily rates quoted554386740
Average daily rate£323£325£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.610 %-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£188£210£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£455£470£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted127152352
Average hourly rate£15.00£20.50£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.82 %-8.880 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£8.50£10.79£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.50£30.50£32.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Architect EnglandArchitect
England

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.

Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Architect across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Yorkshire Architect Demand Trend

Architect
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Architect across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Yorkshire Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
West YorkshireUp+141£411+5.25 %
South YorkshireDown-21£550-3.93 %
Architect EnglandArchitect
England

Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

118 (21.43 %)Finance
216 (19.05 %)Oracle
313 (15.48 %)Microsoft
412 (14.29 %)NHS
412 (14.29 %).NET
510 (11.90 %)SQL Server
510 (11.90 %)SharePoint
510 (11.90 %)Banking
69 (10.71 %)Retail
69 (10.71 %)Datawarehouse
69 (10.71 %)Windows
69 (10.71 %)Retail Banking
78 (9.524 %)Data Architecture
78 (9.524 %)Java
78 (9.524 %)Enterprise Architecture
87 (8.333 %)Health
87 (8.333 %)Spring
87 (8.333 %)PRINCE2
87 (8.333 %)Informix
87 (8.333 %)E-Commerce
87 (8.333 %)Data Modelling
96 (7.143 %)MS Visio
96 (7.143 %)Siebel
96 (7.143 %)UNIX
96 (7.143 %)HTML
96 (7.143 %)HPUX
96 (7.143 %)Linux
96 (7.143 %)C
96 (7.143 %)Hibernate
96 (7.143 %)MVC

Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
112 (14.29 %).NET
27 (8.333 %)Spring
36 (7.143 %)HTML
36 (7.143 %)Hibernate
45 (5.952 %)J2EE
45 (5.952 %)CSS
45 (5.952 %)RESTful
45 (5.952 %).NET Framework
54 (4.762 %)Adobe Flex
54 (4.762 %)WCF
54 (4.762 %)JSP
54 (4.762 %)Middleware
63 (3.571 %)SOAP
63 (3.571 %)Struts
63 (3.571 %)RSS
72 (2.381 %)JSTL
72 (2.381 %)ASP.NET
72 (2.381 %)Web Services
72 (2.381 %)ODBC
72 (2.381 %)Lucene
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
110 (11.90 %)SharePoint
25 (5.952 %)WebLogic
25 (5.952 %)LiveCycle
33 (3.571 %)Apache
33 (3.571 %)Tomcat
42 (2.381 %)Exchange Server 2007
42 (2.381 %)MS Exchange
42 (2.381 %)CMS
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (7.143 %)MS Visio
23 (3.571 %)MS Excel
31 (1.190 %)MS Office
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (5.952 %)Temenos T24
23 (3.571 %)Oracle Applications
23 (3.571 %)Oracle EBS R12
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (3.571 %)LAN
13 (3.571 %)WAN
13 (3.571 %)TCP/IP
13 (3.571 %)Internet
22 (2.381 %)NAS
22 (2.381 %)CTI
22 (2.381 %)SAN
31 (1.190 %)Firewall
31 (1.190 %)EIGRP
31 (1.190 %)OSPF
31 (1.190 %)BGP
31 (1.190 %)LDAP
31 (1.190 %)DNS
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (11.90 %)SQL Server
29 (10.71 %)Datawarehouse
37 (8.333 %)Informix
44 (4.762 %)ETL
53 (3.571 %)SQL Server 2005
62 (2.381 %)MySQL
71 (1.190 %)OLAP
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (3.571 %)Ant
13 (3.571 %)Eclipse
22 (2.381 %)JUnit
22 (2.381 %)Log4j
31 (1.190 %)ERwin
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
118 (21.43 %)Finance
210 (11.90 %)Banking
39 (10.71 %)Retail
39 (10.71 %)Retail Banking
47 (8.333 %)Health
54 (4.762 %)Insurance
54 (4.762 %)Government
63 (3.571 %)Advertising
72 (2.381 %)Education
81 (1.190 %)Financial Institution
81 (1.190 %)Manufacturing
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
112 (14.29 %)NHS
25 (5.952 %)Mainframe
34 (4.762 %)Smartcard
43 (3.571 %)Management Information System
43 (3.571 %)Ergonomics
52 (2.381 %)CMDB
52 (2.381 %)EMV
61 (1.190 %)W3C
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (10.71 %)Windows
26 (7.143 %)UNIX
26 (7.143 %)HPUX
26 (7.143 %)Linux
32 (2.381 %)Red Hat Linux
41 (1.190 %)Windows XP
41 (1.190 %)Windows Server 2003
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
18 (9.524 %)Data Architecture
18 (9.524 %)Enterprise Architecture
27 (8.333 %)PRINCE2
27 (8.333 %)E-Commerce
27 (8.333 %)Data Modelling
36 (7.143 %)MVC
36 (7.143 %)Stakeholder Management
44 (4.762 %)Kanban
44 (4.762 %)Business Intelligence
44 (4.762 %)Business Analysis
44 (4.762 %)Process Management
53 (3.571 %)Migration
53 (3.571 %)TOGAF
53 (3.571 %)RUP
53 (3.571 %)Dimensional Modelling
62 (2.381 %)Information Architecture
62 (2.381 %)Software Architecture
62 (2.381 %)BPMN
62 (2.381 %)Data Migration
62 (2.381 %)PRINCE
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18 (9.524 %)Java
26 (7.143 %)C
35 (5.952 %)JavaScript
44 (4.762 %)C#
44 (4.762 %)C++
53 (3.571 %)SQL
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (3.571 %)Security Cleared
21 (1.190 %)BC Cleared
21 (1.190 %)Degree
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (4.762 %)Active Directory
22 (2.381 %)VMware Infrastructure
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (2.381 %)ZENworks
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
116 (19.05 %)Oracle
213 (15.48 %)Microsoft
36 (7.143 %)Siebel
45 (5.952 %)Adobe
45 (5.952 %)Red Hat
45 (5.952 %)Temenos
45 (5.952 %)HP
53 (3.571 %)VMware
53 (3.571 %)JBoss
53 (3.571 %)NetApp
62 (2.381 %)Novell
62 (2.381 %)Sun
71 (1.190 %)SAP
71 (1.190 %)Cognos
71 (1.190 %)Cisco
71 (1.190 %)CheckPoint