Lead Architect Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead 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 Lead 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
Lead Architect
Rank 186 194 239
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 17 24 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.266% 0.305% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.288% 0.334% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 6
Average daily rate £600 £475 £545
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.31% -12.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £411
10% offered a daily rate of more than £698 £785 £713
UK excluding London average daily rate £558 £525 £463
% change year-on-year
+6.19% +13.51%
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%
Lead Architect
London

Lead Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Lead Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Lead Architect Daily Rate Trend

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Lead Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Lead 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 Lead 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 Lead Architect in their job title.

1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (17.50%) Technical Architecture
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) Oracle
4 6 (15.00%) Java
4 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) Windows
4 6 (15.00%) TOGAF
5 5 (12.50%) WebSphere
5 5 (12.50%) SAP
6 4 (10.00%) OO
6 4 (10.00%) C#
6 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (10.00%) J2EE
6 4 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (10.00%) Life Science
6 4 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (10.00%) Retail
6 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (10.00%) Change Management
6 4 (10.00%) SharePoint 2013
6 4 (10.00%) Pega
7 3 (7.500%) SC Cleared
7 3 (7.500%) Security Cleared

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

Application Development
1 5 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 4 (10.00%) J2EE
3 3 (7.500%) jQuery
3 3 (7.500%) WCF
3 3 (7.500%) WPF
3 3 (7.500%) Spring
3 3 (7.500%) .NET
3 3 (7.500%) HTML
3 3 (7.500%) Web Services
3 3 (7.500%) XML
3 3 (7.500%) XSLT
4 2 (5.000%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.000%) Middleware
4 2 (5.000%) Silverlight
4 2 (5.000%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.000%) JSON
4 2 (5.000%) REST
5 1 (2.500%) MapReduce
5 1 (2.500%) Task Parallel Library
5 1 (2.500%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (10.00%) SharePoint 2013
2 3 (7.500%) Apache
3 2 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (5.000%) WebLogic
3 2 (5.000%) IIS
4 1 (2.500%) Apache Pig
4 1 (2.500%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.500%) Drupal
4 1 (2.500%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (2.500%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) RMDS
1 2 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.500%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (2.500%) SAP SCM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.000%) SAN
1 2 (5.000%) Internet
1 2 (5.000%) HTTP
1 2 (5.000%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.500%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.500%) Sqoop
3 1 (2.500%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.500%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.500%) Xcelsius
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (2.500%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.500%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.500%) SAP BI
3 1 (2.500%) MySQL
3 1 (2.500%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.500%) GitHub
1 1 (2.500%) PHPUnit
1 1 (2.500%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (2.500%) Subversion
1 1 (2.500%) Selenium
1 1 (2.500%) Maven
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Retail
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.500%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.000%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.500%) International Banking
6 1 (2.500%) Private Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (10.00%) Life Science
2 2 (5.000%) Equities
3 1 (2.500%) Open Source
3 1 (2.500%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.500%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.500%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.500%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.500%) Linux
3 2 (5.000%) Solaris
4 1 (2.500%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.500%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.500%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (17.50%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (15.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (10.00%) OO
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (10.00%) Project Management
3 4 (10.00%) Change Management
4 3 (7.500%) E-Commerce
5 2 (5.000%) Benchmarking
5 2 (5.000%) BPR
5 2 (5.000%) ETL
5 2 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (5.000%) CRM
5 2 (5.000%) Web Development
5 2 (5.000%) Migration
5 2 (5.000%) Programme Management
5 2 (5.000%) Unit Testing
5 2 (5.000%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (5.000%) Complex Event Processing
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) SQL
2 6 (15.00%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (5.000%) C
5 1 (2.500%) Bash shell
5 1 (2.500%) XPath
5 1 (2.500%) XQuery
5 1 (2.500%) VBA
5 1 (2.500%) PHP
5 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.500%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.500%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.500%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.500%) GIAC
2 1 (2.500%) CISM
2 1 (2.500%) Degree
2 1 (2.500%) CEH
2 1 (2.500%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.500%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.500%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.500%) XenApp
2 1 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) SAP
3 4 (10.00%) Pega
4 3 (7.500%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.500%) Sybase
5 2 (5.000%) Informatica
5 2 (5.000%) NetApp
5 2 (5.000%) EMC
5 2 (5.000%) Cisco
5 2 (5.000%) DataSynapse
5 2 (5.000%) hybris
5 2 (5.000%) 29West
6 1 (2.500%) Tableau
6 1 (2.500%) Talend
6 1 (2.500%) VMware
6 1 (2.500%) Citrix
6 1 (2.500%) Business Objects
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