The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer 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
Solution Designer
Rank 187 215 244
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 16 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.251% 0.038% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.271% 0.042% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
Average daily rate £388 £600 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +26.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +11.76%
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%
Solutions Designer
London

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Solutions Designer Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Solutions Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in their job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) Retail
2 5 (23.81%) Spring
2 5 (23.81%) JUnit
2 5 (23.81%) WebLogic
2 5 (23.81%) EJB
2 5 (23.81%) JDBC
2 5 (23.81%) Servlets
2 5 (23.81%) Struts
2 5 (23.81%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 5 (23.81%) J2EE
2 5 (23.81%) JBoss
2 5 (23.81%) Tomcat
2 5 (23.81%) JMS
3 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 3 (14.29%) Logistics
4 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
5 2 (9.524%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (9.524%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (9.524%) CISSP
5 2 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (9.524%) WAN

Solutions Designer
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 Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (23.81%) Spring
1 5 (23.81%) EJB
1 5 (23.81%) JDBC
1 5 (23.81%) Servlets
1 5 (23.81%) Struts
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
1 5 (23.81%) J2EE
1 5 (23.81%) JMS
2 2 (9.524%) WebSphere
3 1 (4.762%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) WebLogic
1 5 (23.81%) Tomcat
2 2 (9.524%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (9.524%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) WAN
1 2 (9.524%) NGN
1 2 (9.524%) Network Security
1 2 (9.524%) MPLS
2 1 (4.762%) BSS
2 1 (4.762%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) TOAD
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (9.524%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JUnit
General
1 5 (23.81%) Retail
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (9.524%) Billing
5 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
1 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.762%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
1 2 (9.524%) Windows
1 2 (9.524%) Linux
2 1 (4.762%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
2 3 (14.29%) Project Management
2 3 (14.29%) Logistics
2 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
2 3 (14.29%) ETL
2 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 2 (9.524%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (9.524%) ITIL
3 2 (9.524%) Release Management
3 2 (9.524%) Security Architecture
3 2 (9.524%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (9.524%) Zachman Framework
3 2 (9.524%) TOGAF
4 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.762%) Scrum
4 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.762%) TDD
4 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 2 (9.524%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) CISSP
1 2 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (9.524%) CCNA
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) JBoss
3 2 (9.524%) Cisco
3 2 (9.524%) IBM
3 2 (9.524%) Cognos
4 1 (4.762%) EMC
City of London
Our London based client is looking for an experienced Solution Architect for a range of design and integration projects mainly around BizTalk. You will be responsible for leading...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
City of London
Our London based client is looking for an experienced Solution Architect for a range of design and integration projects mainly around BizTalk. You will be responsible for leading...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 8 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will have Proven Solution Design experience in addition to the following SAN, BLADE, EMC, Oracle database and Oracle Middleware application products... Or Oracle DBA's...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
Extensive experience in .Net and Java based Frameworks such as Struts, Spring etc Good experience in development methodologies such as Agile and testing tools (eg; Junit) Knowledge and...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: neg
Posted: 10 May 2013