The first table below looks at the demand for the Java 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 Java 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
Java Architect
Rank 200 206 237
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 1 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.090% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.098% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 7
Average daily rate £550 £800 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.25% +88.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £488 £463 £500
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -7.50%
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%
Java Architect
London

Java Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Java Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Java Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Java Architect Daily Rate Trend

Java Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java Architect across the City of London region.

City of London Java Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Java 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 Java 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 Java Architect in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (70.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) MVC
3 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) J2EE
3 5 (50.00%) Spring MVC
4 4 (40.00%) JUnit
4 4 (40.00%) JSP
4 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) TDD
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (40.00%) Maven
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (30.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
5 3 (30.00%) Subversion
5 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (30.00%) Servlets
5 3 (30.00%) Struts
5 3 (30.00%) Web Services
5 3 (30.00%) HTML
5 3 (30.00%) CSS
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle
5 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
5 3 (30.00%) Windows

Java 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 Java 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 Java Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (70.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (70.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 5 (50.00%) J2EE
3 4 (40.00%) JSP
4 3 (30.00%) Servlets
4 3 (30.00%) Struts
4 3 (30.00%) Web Services
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 3 (30.00%) Ajax
4 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (30.00%) jQuery
5 2 (20.00%) Spring Security
6 1 (10.00%) JSF
6 1 (10.00%) JRules
6 1 (10.00%) EJB
6 1 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (10.00%) JMS
6 1 (10.00%) Mason
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JUnit
1 4 (40.00%) Maven
2 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (30.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Rational Rose
3 1 (10.00%) Hudson
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Heroku
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) MVC
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (20.00%) UML
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (10.00%) OO
5 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
5 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce.com
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Posted: 16 May 2013