The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architecture
Rank 109 101 97
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 1 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.054% 0.492% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.699% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 1
Average daily rate - £355 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +57.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £374 £388
% change year-on-year
-6.41% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £43.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-13.29% +57.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1278 1574 1154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.78% 70.46% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 868 548
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 60
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -29.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £170.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Architecture across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Yorkshire Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Software Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture.

1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Framework
2 7 (70.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 5 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (50.00%) NUnit
3 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) CSS
4 4 (40.00%) HTML
5 3 (30.00%) OOP
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) NHS
5 3 (30.00%) Kanban
6 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (20.00%) Sun Identity Manager
6 2 (20.00%) SPML
6 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (20.00%) NetBeans
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (70.00%) .NET
1 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (70.00%) .NET Framework
1 7 (70.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 5 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 4 (40.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) SPML
4 2 (20.00%) WCF
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) JDBC
4 2 (20.00%) JSP
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) DHTML
4 2 (20.00%) J2EE
5 1 (10.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) GlassFish
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) NUnit
1 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (20.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (10.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (50.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) OOP
2 3 (30.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Sun