The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical 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 Canary Wharf 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
Technical Architecture
Rank 47 46 58
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +12
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 4 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.036% 1.058% 0.583%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.254% 1.347% 0.767%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £600 £450 £506
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £449 £405
% change year-on-year
-5.29% +10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
319 297 391
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.64% 78.57% 75.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 186 295
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Technical Architecture
London

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture.

1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (60.00%) XSLT
3 6 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (60.00%) VBA
3 6 (60.00%) XML
3 6 (60.00%) Degree
3 6 (60.00%) WCF
3 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 6 (60.00%) Derivative
3 6 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (50.00%) C++
5 2 (20.00%) SQL
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (10.00%) XPath
6 1 (10.00%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (10.00%) Moq
6 1 (10.00%) BPMN
6 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
6 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
6 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (10.00%) DOM
6 1 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle
6 1 (10.00%) SQLPlus

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) XSLT
1 6 (60.00%) XML
1 6 (60.00%) WCF
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) DOM
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) SAX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQLPlus
2 1 (10.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (10.00%) Moq
1 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (10.00%) NUnit
1 1 (10.00%) CruiseControl
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Front Office
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (10.00%) VBA Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Relationships Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Client Relationship Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Excel Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Excel VBA Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (60.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) OO
2 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 6 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) BPMN
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) BPEL
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) VBA
3 5 (50.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) XPath
5 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft