The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Solution Architect
Rank 198 209 235
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 5 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.102% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.111% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
Average daily rate £600 £475 £775
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.31% -38.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £570 £538 £463
% change year-on-year
+6.04% +16.21%
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
5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
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 141 183 186
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 £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Solutions Architect
London

Lead Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Lead Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Lead Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Lead Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 3 (42.86%) Life Science
2 3 (42.86%) Pega
3 2 (28.57%) NAS
3 2 (28.57%) Complex Event Processing
3 2 (28.57%) 29West
3 2 (28.57%) Middleware
3 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
3 2 (28.57%) DataSynapse
3 2 (28.57%) RMDS
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Sybase
3 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
3 2 (28.57%) IIS
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) XSLT
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Apache

Lead Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Lead Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) XML
1 2 (28.57%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) NAS
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Life Science
2 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (14.29%) Online Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Complex Event Processing
2 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Pega
2 2 (28.57%) 29West
2 2 (28.57%) DataSynapse
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Sybase
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
City of London
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Posted: 17 May 2013