Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Contract Architect Skill Set in Cambridgeshire
Period
to 16 October 2018

The median contractor rate for an Architect was £550 per day in advertised job vacancies in Cambridgeshire during the 6 months to 16 October 2018.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Architect
East of England > Cambridgeshire
6 months to
16 Oct 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 27 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 64 83 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.33% 6.15% 6.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.66% 6.56% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 59
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £550 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +15.79% -14.80%
10th Percentile £471 £380 £406
90th Percentile £681 £750 £583
East of England median daily rate £550 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - -
East of England median hourly rate £35.00 - £42.84

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire
Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 1,131 1,265 1,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 93.70% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 641 530
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £425 £375 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
10th Percentile £260 £200 £181
90th Percentile £575 £525 £506
East of England median daily rate £425 £415 £388
% change year-on-year +2.38% +7.13% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 135 94
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.50 £35.00 £24.69
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -50.00% +41.77% +20.43%
10th Percentile £11.50 £12.25 £10.10
90th Percentile £48.75 £47.50 £47.28
East of England median hourly rate £17.36 £18.00 £20.32
% change year-on-year -3.56% -11.42% -4.94%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Architect in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Architect in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge -7 33 £550 -15.38% 18
Peterborough +18 20 £525 +16.67% 4
Architect
East of England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 16 October 2018, Architect contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 17 (26.56%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (20.31%) Java
3 11 (17.19%) Finance
4 10 (15.63%) Amazon AWS
5 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Azure
5 9 (14.06%) REST
5 9 (14.06%) .NET
6 8 (12.50%) Web Services
6 8 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 8 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 8 (12.50%) Mobile App
6 8 (12.50%) SaaS
6 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (10.94%) Information Architecture
7 7 (10.94%) Cloud Foundry
7 7 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (10.94%) Middleware
8 6 (9.38%) SOA
8 6 (9.38%) E-Commerce
8 6 (9.38%) CRM
8 6 (9.38%) Spring
8 6 (9.38%) Knowledge Management
8 6 (9.38%) Google
8 6 (9.38%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (9.38%) Mule
8 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 6 (9.38%) OAuth
8 6 (9.38%) Microservices
8 6 (9.38%) Google Cloud Platform

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.94%) Cloud Foundry
2 6 (9.38%) Mule
3 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.13%) IBM Connections
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.56%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.56%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.56%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) Amazon AWS
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Azure
3 8 (12.50%) SaaS
4 6 (9.38%) Google Cloud Platform
5 4 (6.25%) Azure Active Directory
5 4 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.25%) IaaS
5 4 (6.25%) Office 365
5 4 (6.25%) PaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.13%) G Suite
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Firewall
1 4 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (3.13%) LAN
2 2 (3.13%) OpenVPN
2 2 (3.13%) SAN
2 2 (3.13%) VPN
2 2 (3.13%) WAN
2 2 (3.13%) Wireless
3 1 (1.56%) DNS
3 1 (1.56%) SMS
3 1 (1.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Hive
3 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.13%) MySQL
3 2 (3.13%) OLAP
3 2 (3.13%) OLTP
3 2 (3.13%) Power BI
3 2 (3.13%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (3.13%) Spotfire
4 1 (1.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (1.56%) Hudson
2 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 11 (17.19%) Finance
2 4 (6.25%) Marketing
2 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.56%) Legal
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) .NET
1 9 (14.06%) REST
2 8 (12.50%) Web Services
3 7 (10.94%) Middleware
4 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
4 6 (9.38%) OAuth
4 6 (9.38%) Spring
5 5 (7.81%) jQuery
5 5 (7.81%) React
5 5 (7.81%) SOAP
6 3 (4.69%) J2EE
6 3 (4.69%) JSON
7 1 (1.56%) EDI
7 1 (1.56%) LDAP
7 1 (1.56%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.81%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) CESG
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.13%) Fintech
5 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.56%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Unix
2 3 (4.69%) Android
2 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.69%) Windows
3 2 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 8 (12.50%) TOGAF
3 7 (10.94%) Information Architecture
4 6 (9.38%) CRM
4 6 (9.38%) E-Commerce
4 6 (9.38%) Knowledge Management
4 6 (9.38%) Microservices
4 6 (9.38%) SOA
5 5 (7.81%) Identity Management
5 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (7.81%) Security Architecture
6 4 (6.25%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (6.25%) Marketing Automation
6 4 (6.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (6.25%) Service Design
6 4 (6.25%) Software Engineering
6 4 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (6.25%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Java
2 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.13%) PHP
4 1 (1.56%) C
4 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.56%) Python
4 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) CCNP
3 4 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.13%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (3.13%) CISSP
4 2 (3.13%) ISSAP
4 2 (3.13%) MCSE
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CCIE
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) GLP
2 1 (1.56%) GMP
2 1 (1.56%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.13%) Stealthwatch
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (1.56%) MOM
3 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Google
3 5 (7.81%) MicroStrategy
4 4 (6.25%) Marketo
4 4 (6.25%) MuleSoft
4 4 (6.25%) SAP
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco
5 3 (4.69%) Talend
6 2 (3.13%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.13%) Citrix
6 2 (3.13%) IBM
6 2 (3.13%) New Relic
6 2 (3.13%) Tableau
6 2 (3.13%) VMware
7 1 (1.56%) Acronis
7 1 (1.56%) HP
7 1 (1.56%) Veeam