The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications 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 Applications Architect in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Architect
Rank 194 214 238
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +24
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 9 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.141% 0.051% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.153% 0.056% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
Average daily rate £425 £469 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.33% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £345 £520
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £531 £680
UK excluding London average daily rate £505 £450 £550
% change year-on-year
+12.22% -18.18%
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
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
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 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Architect
London

Applications Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Applications Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Applications Architect Daily Rate Trend

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Architect across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Applications Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Applications 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 Applications Architect in their job title.

1 8 (40.00%) .NET
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) C#
3 6 (30.00%) Multithreading
3 6 (30.00%) WCF
3 6 (30.00%) MVVM
4 5 (25.00%) OO
5 4 (20.00%) UML
5 4 (20.00%) TDD
5 4 (20.00%) Banking
5 4 (20.00%) Finance
5 4 (20.00%) Big Data
5 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Back Office
6 3 (15.00%) Automated Testing
7 2 (10.00%) RUP
7 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (10.00%) XML
7 2 (10.00%) XSLT
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle
7 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (10.00%) Logistics
7 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (10.00%) Retail
7 2 (10.00%) User Stories
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration

Applications Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Applications 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 Applications Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (40.00%) .NET
2 6 (30.00%) WCF
3 2 (10.00%) XML
3 2 (10.00%) XSLT
4 1 (5.000%) MapReduce
4 1 (5.000%) NHibernate
4 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.000%) SOAP
4 1 (5.000%) Web Services
4 1 (5.000%) XSD
4 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) Apache Pig
1 1 (5.000%) IIS
1 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Project
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Visio
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.000%) Pentaho
3 1 (5.000%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.000%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.000%) Sqoop
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MSTest
1 1 (5.000%) Moq
1 1 (5.000%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (5.000%) Maven
1 1 (5.000%) NUnit
General
1 4 (20.00%) Banking
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Back Office
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.000%) Billing
4 1 (5.000%) Front Office
4 1 (5.000%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.000%) Smartphone
2 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (30.00%) MVVM
2 5 (25.00%) OO
3 4 (20.00%) UML
3 4 (20.00%) TDD
4 3 (15.00%) Scrum
4 3 (15.00%) Automated Testing
5 2 (10.00%) RUP
5 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (10.00%) Logistics
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) User Stories
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (5.000%) Investment Management
6 1 (5.000%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.000%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.00%) XPath
4 1 (5.000%) Bash shell
4 1 (5.000%) Java
4 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.000%) XQuery
4 1 (5.000%) Python
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.000%) Apache Flume
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
2 1 (5.000%) 3PAR
2 1 (5.000%) Talend
2 1 (5.000%) VMware
2 1 (5.000%) IBM
2 1 (5.000%) HP
2 1 (5.000%) EMC
2 1 (5.000%) Informatica
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