Software Architecture Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills 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 Software Architecture 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
Software Architecture
Rank 194 204 229
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +25
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 9 13 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.140% 0.165% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.191% 0.231% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 4
Average daily rate £475 £531 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +14.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £438 £415
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £642 £528
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £374 £388
% change year-on-year
-6.41% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +50.90%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 4714 5628 6972
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.36% 71.58% 72.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3547 4064 5163
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 97 96
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £15.00 £14.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Software Architecture
London

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Architecture across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Software Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Software Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Software Architecture Hourly Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture.

1 12 (66.67%) OO
2 11 (61.11%) C#
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 10 (55.56%) .NET
3 10 (55.56%) Banking
3 10 (55.56%) Multithreading
4 9 (50.00%) WCF
4 9 (50.00%) Web Services
5 8 (44.44%) XML
6 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
6 7 (38.89%) Derivative
7 6 (33.33%) Front Office
8 5 (27.78%) Fixed Income
8 5 (27.78%) TDD
8 5 (27.78%) Investment Banking
8 5 (27.78%) Java
9 4 (22.22%) Spring
9 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
10 3 (16.67%) JAXB
10 3 (16.67%) MVC
10 3 (16.67%) Finance
10 3 (16.67%) JDBC
10 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
10 3 (16.67%) Linux
10 3 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
10 3 (16.67%) Apache
10 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
10 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (55.56%) .NET
2 9 (50.00%) WCF
2 9 (50.00%) Web Services
3 8 (44.44%) XML
4 4 (22.22%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
5 3 (16.67%) JAXB
5 3 (16.67%) JDBC
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 3 (16.67%) DOM
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (5.556%) Middleware
7 1 (5.556%) CSS
7 1 (5.556%) XHTML
7 1 (5.556%) JMS
7 1 (5.556%) HTML
7 1 (5.556%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (5.556%) LINQ
7 1 (5.556%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) CMS
3 1 (5.556%) MSMQ
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.556%) Confluence
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) NUnit
1 1 (5.556%) Subversion
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.556%) Maven
1 1 (5.556%) JIRA
1 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.556%) Hudson
General
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Front Office
3 5 (27.78%) Investment Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) C# Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Real Time Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Real Time Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
5 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Team Leader
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (5.556%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Derivative
2 5 (27.78%) Fixed Income
3 4 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.556%) Equities
5 1 (5.556%) Open Source
5 1 (5.556%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
2 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) OO
2 10 (55.56%) Multithreading
3 5 (27.78%) TDD
4 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (16.67%) MVC
5 3 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
5 3 (16.67%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
7 1 (5.556%) Extreme Programming
7 1 (5.556%) Pair Programming
7 1 (5.556%) Performance Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.556%) Computer Architecture
7 1 (5.556%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) C#
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (11.11%) PHP5
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
4 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.556%) Python
5 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.556%) F#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Zend
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
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