The first table below looks at the demand for the Business 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 Business Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Architect
Rank 194 202 232
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Business Architect 7 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.111% 0.141% 0.142%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.120% 0.154% 0.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 11
Average daily rate £500 £525 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £446 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £673 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
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
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £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 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Business Architect
London

Business Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Business Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Business Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Business Architect Daily Rate Trend

Business Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Architect across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Business Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Business Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Business 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 Business Architect in their job title.

1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Change Management
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Project Management
2 4 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (18.75%) IPTV
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (12.50%) Workflow
4 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) BPR
4 2 (12.50%) XML
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (12.50%) UML
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.250%) Xcelsius
5 1 (6.250%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
5 1 (6.250%) Data Visualisation

Business Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Business 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 Business Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) XSLT
2 1 (6.250%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) Xcelsius
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (6.250%) SQLPlus
3 1 (6.250%) SAP BI
3 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.250%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (6.250%) JDeveloper
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) IPTV
2 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
2 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Project Management
1 4 (25.00%) Change Management
2 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) BPR
3 2 (12.50%) UML
3 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (12.50%) Workflow
4 1 (6.250%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (6.250%) SOA
4 1 (6.250%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (6.250%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.250%) BPEL
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (6.250%) BPMN
4 1 (6.250%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.250%) XQuery
2 1 (6.250%) XPath
2 1 (6.250%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) MCSD
1 1 (6.250%) MCDBA
1 1 (6.250%) ISEB
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.250%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (6.250%) MCITP
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
1 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
1 4 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.250%) Remedy
4 1 (6.250%) Tableau