The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Architect
Rank 209 214 243
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Architect 6 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.087% 0.104% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.113% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
Average daily rate £550 £470 £568
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.02% -17.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £440 £509 £750
% change year-on-year
-13.47% -32.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £57.50 - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6370 7058 9203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.39% 91.51% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4711 5127 6701
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 £320
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 154 174 214
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £43.95 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Architect
London

Systems Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Systems Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Systems Architect Daily Rate Trend

Systems Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Systems 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 Systems Architect in their job title.

1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Banking
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Pega
4 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.00%) .NET
5 3 (12.00%) J2EE
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle
5 3 (12.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (12.00%) SOAP
5 3 (12.00%) OO
5 3 (12.00%) HTTP
5 3 (12.00%) WSDL
5 3 (12.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (12.00%) Application Packaging
5 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Data Mapping
6 2 (8.000%) TOGAF
6 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (8.000%) Cisco
6 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.000%) Citrix
6 2 (8.000%) Windows
6 2 (8.000%) C#
6 2 (8.000%) Java
6 2 (8.000%) VMware
6 2 (8.000%) VMware ESX
6 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.000%) UML

Systems Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Systems 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 Systems Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
1 3 (12.00%) J2EE
1 3 (12.00%) SOAP
1 3 (12.00%) WSDL
1 3 (12.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (12.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (4.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.000%) IIS
2 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.000%) SAN
2 1 (4.000%) Firewall
2 1 (4.000%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Subversion
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Clustering
1 1 (4.000%) iSeries
1 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.000%) Windows
2 1 (4.000%) AIX
2 1 (4.000%) Linux
2 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (12.00%) OO
2 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (12.00%) Data Mapping
3 2 (8.000%) TOGAF
3 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (8.000%) UML
4 1 (4.000%) ITIL
4 1 (4.000%) RUP
4 1 (4.000%) Project Management
4 1 (4.000%) Information Security
4 1 (4.000%) Validation
4 1 (4.000%) Migration
4 1 (4.000%) TDD
4 1 (4.000%) Data Management
4 1 (4.000%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (4.000%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) C#
2 2 (8.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) CCIE
1 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) GxP
1 1 (4.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.000%) XenApp
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Pega
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.000%) Cisco
3 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.000%) Citrix
3 2 (8.000%) VMware
4 1 (4.000%) Brocade
4 1 (4.000%) Crossbeam
4 1 (4.000%) NetApp
4 1 (4.000%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.000%) HP
4 1 (4.000%) EMC
4 1 (4.000%) IBM
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