The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
.NET Architect
Rank 199 202 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 11 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.162% 0.129% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.175% 0.141% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 0
Average daily rate £588 £475 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.68% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6270 7082 9182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.49% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4641 5158 6680
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £285 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 170 217
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £41.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
.NET Architect
London

.NET Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London .NET Architect Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing .NET Architect across the City of London region.

City of London .NET Architect Daily Rate Trend

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Architect across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London .NET Architect Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited .NET 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 .NET Architect in their job title.

1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (94.44%) C#
3 16 (88.89%) WCF
4 13 (72.22%) Multithreading
5 12 (66.67%) MVVM
6 11 (61.11%) TDD
7 9 (50.00%) SQL
7 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
8 8 (44.44%) OO
8 8 (44.44%) Tableau
9 7 (38.89%) Dependency Injection
10 5 (27.78%) WPF
10 5 (27.78%) Finance
11 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
11 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
11 4 (22.22%) Windows
11 4 (22.22%) VBA
11 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (22.22%) Big Data
11 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
12 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 3 (16.67%) SOA
12 3 (16.67%) MVC
12 3 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
13 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
13 2 (11.11%) UML
13 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
13 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
13 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4

.NET Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited .NET 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 .NET Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 16 (88.89%) WCF
3 5 (27.78%) WPF
4 3 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.556%) Task Parallel Library
6 1 (5.556%) Web Services
6 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.556%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (22.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
1 2 (11.11%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
1 1 (5.556%) Market Risk
1 1 (5.556%) Derivative
1 1 (5.556%) Credit Derivative
1 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
1 1 (5.556%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Multithreading
2 12 (66.67%) MVVM
3 11 (61.11%) TDD
4 8 (44.44%) OO
5 7 (38.89%) Dependency Injection
6 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
7 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (16.67%) SOA
7 3 (16.67%) MVC
8 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (11.11%) UML
8 2 (11.11%) BDD
8 2 (11.11%) Scrum
9 1 (5.556%) Domain-Driven Design
9 1 (5.556%) Refactoring
9 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
9 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (5.556%) AOP
9 1 (5.556%) Change Management
9 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) VBA
4 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Tableau
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle
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A Lead C# / .net / developer / architect / engineer is required by a leading Investment Bank to work within Market Risk. You will be responsible for: The enhancement of the...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £700 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013