Solutions Designer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Designer
Rank 421 431 445
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 97 132 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.234% 0.247% 0.224%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.253% 0.267% 0.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 74 68
Average daily rate £400 £475 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £363 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £497 £550 £500
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
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
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 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Designer
UK

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Solutions Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Solutions Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Solutions Designer across the England region.

England Solutions Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Designer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 46 £385 -23.00%
South East -12 26 £400 -15.78%
North West +13 11 £300 -21.82%
East of England +5 7 £495 +10.00%
East Midlands +2 4 £685 +44.21%
Yorkshire -2 2 £388 -
Solutions Designer
UK

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 39 (22.94%) Telecoms
2 36 (21.18%) Oracle
3 28 (16.47%) Migration
4 24 (14.12%) Finance
5 18 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (10.00%) .NET
7 16 (9.412%) Windows
7 16 (9.412%) Data Modelling
8 15 (8.824%) SOA
8 15 (8.824%) Web Services
9 14 (8.235%) Oracle BI EE
10 13 (7.647%) Technical Architecture
10 13 (7.647%) Banking
10 13 (7.647%) SQL
11 12 (7.059%) IBM
11 12 (7.059%) Billing
11 12 (7.059%) Logistics
12 11 (6.471%) Retail
12 11 (6.471%) Oracle 11g
12 11 (6.471%) Security Cleared
12 11 (6.471%) ITIL
12 11 (6.471%) ETL
13 10 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (5.882%) Java
13 10 (5.882%) Middleware
13 10 (5.882%) DV Cleared
13 10 (5.882%) Meridio
14 9 (5.294%) Microsoft
14 9 (5.294%) SQL Server

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 17 (10.00%) .NET
2 15 (8.824%) Web Services
3 10 (5.882%) Middleware
4 8 (4.706%) Spring
5 7 (4.118%) JDBC
5 7 (4.118%) Servlets
5 7 (4.118%) EJB
5 7 (4.118%) J2EE
5 7 (4.118%) JMS
5 7 (4.118%) Struts
6 6 (3.529%) XML
7 3 (1.765%) WebSphere
8 2 (1.176%) XML Schema
8 2 (1.176%) WSDL
8 2 (1.176%) SOAP
8 2 (1.176%) HTML
8 2 (1.176%) Ajax
8 2 (1.176%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.176%) WCF
8 2 (1.176%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (4.118%) WebLogic
1 7 (4.118%) Tomcat
2 6 (3.529%) CMS
2 6 (3.529%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.941%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.765%) Apache
5 2 (1.176%) Documentum
5 2 (1.176%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.588%) ESB
6 1 (0.588%) Drupal
6 1 (0.588%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.588%) FileNet
6 1 (0.588%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.529%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.353%) MS Office
3 3 (1.765%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (1.765%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.588%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.706%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (4.118%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (2.353%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (2.353%) CSG Singleview
3 4 (2.353%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.176%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.588%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.588%) Taleo
5 1 (0.588%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.941%) 3G
1 5 (2.941%) SAN
1 5 (2.941%) Internet
2 4 (2.353%) DNS
2 4 (2.353%) SNMP
2 4 (2.353%) DHCP
2 4 (2.353%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.353%) BSS
2 4 (2.353%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (1.765%) RNC
3 3 (1.765%) 2G
3 3 (1.765%) WAN
4 2 (1.176%) HTTP
4 2 (1.176%) VoIP
4 2 (1.176%) MPLS
4 2 (1.176%) Firewall
4 2 (1.176%) Wireless
4 2 (1.176%) Network Security
4 2 (1.176%) NGN
5 1 (0.588%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.235%) Oracle BI EE
2 11 (6.471%) Oracle 11g
3 10 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.294%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.529%) TOAD
5 6 (3.529%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (3.529%) SAP HANA
6 4 (2.353%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.176%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.176%) BusinessObjects XI
8 1 (0.588%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.588%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.588%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.588%) GIS
8 1 (0.588%) DataStage
8 1 (0.588%) MySQL
8 1 (0.588%) DB2
8 1 (0.588%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.588%) OLTP
8 1 (0.588%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (4.118%) JUnit
2 2 (1.176%) XMLSpy
2 2 (1.176%) PeopleTools
3 1 (0.588%) Selenium
3 1 (0.588%) Subversion
General
1 39 (22.94%) Telecoms
2 24 (14.12%) Finance
3 13 (7.647%) Banking
4 12 (7.059%) Billing
5 11 (6.471%) Retail
6 5 (2.941%) Marketing
7 3 (1.765%) Local Government
8 2 (1.176%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.176%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.588%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.588%) Legal
9 1 (0.588%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.529%) Mainframe
2 5 (2.941%) CMDB
3 4 (2.353%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (2.353%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (2.353%) iSeries
4 3 (1.765%) Tandem
5 2 (1.176%) Data Integration
5 2 (1.176%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.588%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.588%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.588%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.588%) Data Extraction
6 1 (0.588%) iPad
6 1 (0.588%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.588%) EPoS
6 1 (0.588%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.412%) Windows
2 8 (4.706%) Linux
3 7 (4.118%) Windows XP
4 5 (2.941%) UNIX
5 2 (1.176%) AIX
5 2 (1.176%) SUSE
6 1 (0.588%) Android
6 1 (0.588%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.588%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.47%) Migration
2 18 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (9.412%) Data Modelling
4 15 (8.824%) SOA
5 13 (7.647%) Technical Architecture
6 12 (7.059%) Logistics
7 11 (6.471%) ITIL
7 11 (6.471%) ETL
8 10 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (4.706%) Project Management
10 7 (4.118%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (4.118%) Service Management
10 7 (4.118%) E-Commerce
11 6 (3.529%) Business Analysis
11 6 (3.529%) Data Cleansing
11 6 (3.529%) Data Mapping
11 6 (3.529%) Release Management
12 5 (2.941%) Enterprise Architecture
12 5 (2.941%) CRM
13 4 (2.353%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.647%) SQL
2 10 (5.882%) Java
3 6 (3.529%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.941%) T-SQL
4 5 (2.941%) VB.NET
5 4 (2.353%) C#
6 2 (1.176%) PHP
6 2 (1.176%) PeopleCode
7 1 (0.588%) PHP5
7 1 (0.588%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (6.471%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.882%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.706%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.353%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.353%) CCNA
5 2 (1.176%) CISSP
6 1 (0.588%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.765%) QA
2 1 (0.588%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (3.529%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.941%) XenDesktop
3 4 (2.353%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.176%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.588%) UAG
5 1 (0.588%) XenApp
5 1 (0.588%) XenServer
5 1 (0.588%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.176%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 36 (21.18%) Oracle
2 12 (7.059%) IBM
3 10 (5.882%) Meridio
4 9 (5.294%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.706%) JBoss
6 7 (4.118%) Informatica
7 6 (3.529%) Cognos
7 6 (3.529%) SAP
7 6 (3.529%) BMC
7 6 (3.529%) Citrix
7 6 (3.529%) VMware
8 5 (2.941%) Cisco
8 5 (2.941%) EMC
8 5 (2.941%) Business Objects
9 4 (2.353%) Siebel
9 4 (2.353%) HP
9 4 (2.353%) Brocade
10 3 (1.765%) Huawei
10 3 (1.765%) Ericsson
11 2 (1.176%) PeopleSoft
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