The first table below looks at the demand for Technical 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 Technical Architecture over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architecture
Rank 164 155 209
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +54
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 46 57 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.678% 0.736% 0.420%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.915% 1.018% 0.591%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 29
Average daily rate £505 £513 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.46% -6.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £431 £408
10% offered a daily rate of more than £645 £600 £655
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Technical Architecture
London

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architecture across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Technical Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Technical Architecture Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture.

1 23 (29.87%) Banking
2 21 (27.27%) Finance
3 18 (23.38%) C#
4 16 (20.78%) .NET
5 15 (19.48%) Java
5 15 (19.48%) SQL
6 13 (16.88%) SQL Server
6 13 (16.88%) Windows
7 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
8 11 (14.29%) Oracle
9 9 (11.69%) CRM
9 9 (11.69%) Project Management
9 9 (11.69%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (10.39%) Investment Banking
10 8 (10.39%) Python
10 8 (10.39%) SOA
11 7 (9.091%) Linux
11 7 (9.091%) HTML
11 7 (9.091%) ASP.NET
11 7 (9.091%) XML
11 7 (9.091%) Retail
11 7 (9.091%) WPF
12 6 (7.792%) Silverlight
12 6 (7.792%) Pega
12 6 (7.792%) Dynamics CRM
12 6 (7.792%) Life Science
12 6 (7.792%) Manufacturing
12 6 (7.792%) Telecoms
12 6 (7.792%) MS Office
12 6 (7.792%) MS Excel

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Technical 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 Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (20.78%) .NET
2 7 (9.091%) HTML
2 7 (9.091%) ASP.NET
2 7 (9.091%) XML
2 7 (9.091%) WPF
3 6 (7.792%) Silverlight
4 5 (6.494%) MapReduce
5 4 (5.195%) WCF
5 4 (5.195%) WebSphere
5 4 (5.195%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.896%) ASP
6 3 (3.896%) jQuery
7 2 (2.597%) REST
7 2 (2.597%) SAP Basis
7 2 (2.597%) JSON
7 2 (2.597%) CSS
7 2 (2.597%) XSLT
7 2 (2.597%) Web Services
8 1 (1.299%) J2EE
8 1 (1.299%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.494%) Windows Azure
2 4 (5.195%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (3.896%) IBM Notes
3 3 (3.896%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 3 (3.896%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.597%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.597%) CMS
5 1 (1.299%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.299%) Documentum
5 1 (1.299%) SAS
5 1 (1.299%) IIS
5 1 (1.299%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.299%) SugarCRM
5 1 (1.299%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 6 (7.792%) MS Office
1 6 (7.792%) MS Excel
2 5 (6.494%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (2.597%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.299%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.792%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.299%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.494%) Firewall
2 4 (5.195%) SAN
2 4 (5.195%) HTTP
3 3 (3.896%) SSL
3 3 (3.896%) Intranet
3 3 (3.896%) Internet
4 1 (1.299%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.299%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.494%) Hadoop
2 5 (6.494%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.494%) HBase
2 5 (6.494%) Big Data
3 4 (5.195%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (5.195%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (5.195%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (5.195%) DB2
4 3 (3.896%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.896%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.597%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.597%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.299%) MySQL
6 1 (1.299%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.299%) QlikView
6 1 (1.299%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.597%) ClearQuest
2 1 (1.299%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.299%) Ant
2 1 (1.299%) Selenium
2 1 (1.299%) Maven
2 1 (1.299%) JBehave
2 1 (1.299%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 23 (29.87%) Banking
2 21 (27.27%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Investment Banking
4 7 (9.091%) Retail
5 6 (7.792%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.792%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.896%) Front Office
7 2 (2.597%) Billing
7 2 (2.597%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.299%) Advertising
8 1 (1.299%) Publishing
8 1 (1.299%) Back Office
8 1 (1.299%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.299%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.299%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (50.65%) Architect
2 15 (19.48%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (11.69%) Data Architect
4 8 (10.39%) Developer
5 7 (9.091%) Analyst
5 7 (9.091%) Lead Architect
6 6 (7.792%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.792%) Technical Architect
7 5 (6.494%) Consultant
7 5 (6.494%) .NET Developer
7 5 (6.494%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (6.494%) Big Data Architect
8 4 (5.195%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.896%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.896%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (3.896%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.597%) Business Manager
10 2 (2.597%) ASP.NET Developer
10 2 (2.597%) C# Developer
10 2 (2.597%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.792%) Life Science
2 5 (6.494%) Derivative
3 4 (5.195%) iPad
4 3 (3.896%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.896%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.896%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.896%) SaaS
4 3 (3.896%) Kindle
4 3 (3.896%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.597%) Open Source
5 2 (2.597%) SWIFT
5 2 (2.597%) iPhone
5 2 (2.597%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.597%) EPoS
5 2 (2.597%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.299%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.299%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.299%) Clustering
6 1 (1.299%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.299%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) Windows
2 7 (9.091%) Linux
3 5 (6.494%) UNIX
4 4 (5.195%) AIX
5 2 (2.597%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.597%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (11.69%) CRM
1 9 (11.69%) Project Management
1 9 (11.69%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (10.39%) SOA
3 6 (7.792%) OO
4 5 (6.494%) UML
4 5 (6.494%) E-Commerce
4 5 (6.494%) Data Modelling
4 5 (6.494%) PRINCE2
4 5 (6.494%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (6.494%) Analytics
5 4 (5.195%) Data Architecture
5 4 (5.195%) TOGAF
5 4 (5.195%) Business Analysis
5 4 (5.195%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (5.195%) Migration
5 4 (5.195%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (3.896%) ITIL
6 3 (3.896%) Validation
6 3 (3.896%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) C#
2 15 (19.48%) Java
2 15 (19.48%) SQL
3 8 (10.39%) Python
4 4 (5.195%) PHP
5 3 (3.896%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.597%) Ruby
6 2 (2.597%) C++
7 1 (1.299%) XQuery
7 1 (1.299%) C
7 1 (1.299%) Perl
7 1 (1.299%) ABAP
7 1 (1.299%) VBA
7 1 (1.299%) XPath
7 1 (1.299%) Korn
7 1 (1.299%) Scala
7 1 (1.299%) F#
7 1 (1.299%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.299%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 3 (3.896%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.597%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.597%) CCSE
2 2 (2.597%) Degree
2 2 (2.597%) ISEB
2 2 (2.597%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.896%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.299%) GxP
2 1 (1.299%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.299%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.195%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.896%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.597%) Splunk
2 1 (1.299%) Puppet
2 1 (1.299%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Oracle
3 6 (7.792%) Pega
4 5 (6.494%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.195%) Hortonworks
5 4 (5.195%) Cloudera
5 4 (5.195%) Rackspace
6 3 (3.896%) Cisco
6 3 (3.896%) IBM
6 3 (3.896%) SAP
6 3 (3.896%) VMware
6 3 (3.896%) Lotus
7 2 (2.597%) thinkFolio
7 2 (2.597%) Informatica
7 2 (2.597%) Citrix
7 2 (2.597%) Business Objects
7 2 (2.597%) Sybase
8 1 (1.299%) Cognos
8 1 (1.299%) HP
8 1 (1.299%) EMC
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