The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Solutions Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lead Solutions Architect 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 England 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
Lead Solution Architect
Rank 482 531 548
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Solutions Architect 31 28 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.075% 0.052% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.057% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 10
Average daily rate £600 £525 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +13.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £538 £463
% change year-on-year
-11.62% +16.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Lead Solutions Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect across the England region.

England Lead Solutions Architect Daily Rate Trend

Lead Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Lead Solutions Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Solutions Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Solutions Architect within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +46 25 £600 +14.28%
South East +15 3 £475 -9.52%
North West +9 1 - -
Midlands +2 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Lead Solutions Architect
UK

Lead Solutions Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Lead Solutions 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 Lead Solutions Architect in their job title.

1 22 (45.83%) Finance
2 20 (41.67%) Banking
3 11 (22.92%) TOGAF
4 10 (20.83%) WebSphere
4 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (16.67%) Oracle
6 7 (14.58%) Technical Architecture
6 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (12.50%) Retail Banking
7 6 (12.50%) ESB
7 6 (12.50%) Retail
7 6 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
7 6 (12.50%) Java
7 6 (12.50%) Windows
7 6 (12.50%) Manufacturing
7 6 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (10.42%) NetApp
8 5 (10.42%) Internet
8 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
8 5 (10.42%) SAP
8 5 (10.42%) SOA
8 5 (10.42%) Online Banking
8 5 (10.42%) Pega
9 4 (8.333%) DataPower
9 4 (8.333%) NAS
9 4 (8.333%) 29West
9 4 (8.333%) LogLogic
9 4 (8.333%) Complex Event Processing
9 4 (8.333%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (8.333%) DataSynapse

Lead Solutions Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Lead Solutions 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 Lead Solutions Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (20.83%) WebSphere
2 4 (8.333%) XSLT
2 4 (8.333%) XML
2 4 (8.333%) HTML
2 4 (8.333%) BAPI
2 4 (8.333%) Middleware
3 2 (4.167%) Apache Flex
3 2 (4.167%) J2EE
4 1 (2.083%) XSD
4 1 (2.083%) WSDL
4 1 (2.083%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.50%) ESB
2 4 (8.333%) WebSphere Process Server
2 4 (8.333%) WebLogic
2 4 (8.333%) IIS
2 4 (8.333%) Apache
2 4 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (8.333%) TeamSite
3 3 (6.250%) SAS
4 2 (4.167%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (2.083%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.083%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Business Applications
1 4 (8.333%) RMDS
2 1 (2.083%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.083%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) Internet
2 4 (8.333%) NAS
2 4 (8.333%) SAN
3 1 (2.083%) CTI
3 1 (2.083%) 3G
3 1 (2.083%) 4G
3 1 (2.083%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 4 (8.333%) DB2
2 1 (2.083%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.083%) MySQL
2 1 (2.083%) Data Warehouse
General
1 22 (45.83%) Finance
2 20 (41.67%) Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Retail Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Retail
3 6 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.250%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (2.083%) Publishing
6 1 (2.083%) Automotive
6 1 (2.083%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.083%) Front Office
6 1 (2.083%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (10.42%) Online Banking
3 4 (8.333%) DataPower
3 4 (8.333%) Life Science
3 4 (8.333%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.167%) IVR
4 2 (4.167%) Equities
5 1 (2.083%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.083%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.083%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.083%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (8.333%) Solaris
2 4 (8.333%) Linux
3 2 (4.167%) Windows 7
3 2 (4.167%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.083%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) TOGAF
2 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (14.58%) Technical Architecture
3 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
5 5 (10.42%) SOA
6 4 (8.333%) Complex Event Processing
6 4 (8.333%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (8.333%) Programme Management
6 4 (8.333%) Benchmarking
7 3 (6.250%) Data Modelling
7 3 (6.250%) Analytics
8 2 (4.167%) Software Architecture
8 2 (4.167%) Investment Management
8 2 (4.167%) Business Transformation
8 2 (4.167%) Information Management
8 2 (4.167%) Business Analysis
8 2 (4.167%) E-Commerce
9 1 (2.083%) Web Design
9 1 (2.083%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) Java
2 4 (8.333%) C
2 4 (8.333%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.333%) SQL
3 1 (2.083%) Ada
3 1 (2.083%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) Degree
2 2 (4.167%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.167%) MBA
3 1 (2.083%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (8.333%) Tivoli
1 4 (8.333%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (2.083%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Oracle
2 5 (10.42%) NetApp
2 5 (10.42%) SAP
2 5 (10.42%) Pega
3 4 (8.333%) 29West
3 4 (8.333%) LogLogic
3 4 (8.333%) DataSynapse
3 4 (8.333%) Cisco
3 4 (8.333%) Sybase
3 4 (8.333%) HP
3 4 (8.333%) EMC
4 3 (6.250%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.250%) Mantas
4 3 (6.250%) Actimize
5 2 (4.167%) IBM
5 2 (4.167%) Citrix
6 1 (2.083%) VMware
6 1 (2.083%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.083%) Murex
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