The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior 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
Senior Architect
Rank 190 194 217
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 13 23 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.202% 0.293% 0.196%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.219% 0.320% 0.214%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 8
Average daily rate £563 £455 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.62% -11.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £350 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £825 £548 £658
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year
-7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £55.00 - £45.00
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%
Senior Architect
London

Senior Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior Architect Daily Rate Trend

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Architect across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Senior Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Senior 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 Senior 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 Senior Architect in their job title.

1 9 (39.13%) Banking
2 7 (30.43%) J2EE
3 5 (21.74%) Pega
4 4 (17.39%) Spring
4 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
4 4 (17.39%) WebSphere
4 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
4 4 (17.39%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle
4 4 (17.39%) SOAP
4 4 (17.39%) OO
5 3 (13.04%) Windows
5 3 (13.04%) HTTP
5 3 (13.04%) WSDL
5 3 (13.04%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (13.04%) Scrum
5 3 (13.04%) Finance
5 3 (13.04%) TDD
5 3 (13.04%) Application Packaging
5 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Data Mapping
6 2 (8.696%) Open Source
6 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
6 2 (8.696%) Axure RP
6 2 (8.696%) BDD
6 2 (8.696%) Data Architecture
6 2 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (8.696%) Marketing

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

Application Development
1 7 (30.43%) J2EE
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) WebSphere
2 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
2 4 (17.39%) SOAP
3 3 (13.04%) WSDL
3 3 (13.04%) Application Packaging
4 2 (8.696%) CSS
4 2 (8.696%) Web Services
5 1 (4.348%) XHTML
5 1 (4.348%) JMS
5 1 (4.348%) XML
5 1 (4.348%) Struts
5 1 (4.348%) HTML
5 1 (4.348%) EJB
5 1 (4.348%) .NET
5 1 (4.348%) Spring MVC
5 1 (4.348%) RESTful
5 1 (4.348%) Struts2
5 1 (4.348%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.348%) CMS
2 1 (4.348%) Joomla!
2 1 (4.348%) Drupal
2 1 (4.348%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.348%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTP
2 2 (8.696%) WAN
3 1 (4.348%) SAN
3 1 (4.348%) LAN
3 1 (4.348%) Firewall
3 1 (4.348%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.348%) OmniPeek
3 1 (4.348%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.348%) DB2
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
1 1 (4.348%) GIS
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Axure RP
2 1 (4.348%) JUnit
2 1 (4.348%) Rational Rose
General
1 9 (39.13%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.696%) Marketing
5 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.348%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.348%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Open Source
1 2 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 1 (4.348%) UNIX
2 1 (4.348%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (17.39%) OO
2 3 (13.04%) Scrum
2 3 (13.04%) TDD
2 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
2 3 (13.04%) Data Mapping
3 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
3 2 (8.696%) BDD
3 2 (8.696%) Data Architecture
3 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (8.696%) SOA
3 2 (8.696%) Project Management
3 2 (8.696%) CRM
3 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.348%) UML
4 1 (4.348%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.348%) Data Modelling
4 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.348%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Java
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 1 (4.348%) XPath
2 1 (4.348%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) OpenView
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Pega
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 2 (8.696%) Cisco
4 1 (4.348%) IBM
4 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.348%) Adobe
4 1 (4.348%) HP
4 1 (4.348%) Juniper
4 1 (4.348%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.348%) F5
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