The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems 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
System Architect
Rank 468 468 515
Rank change year-on-year
0 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Architect 45 91 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.108% 0.171% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.117% 0.184% 0.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 29
Average daily rate £525 £470 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.70% -14.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £319 £379 £380
10% offered a daily rate of more than £597 £600 £750
UK excluding London average daily rate £418 £425 £625
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -32.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £57.50 £47.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.05% +17.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £57.50 - -
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%
Systems Architect
UK

Systems Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Systems Architect Daily Rate Trend

Systems Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Systems Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Systems Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems 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 +7 30 £525 +10.52%
South East +10 9 £475 -5.00%
East of England +11 3 £300 -29.41%
West Midlands +7 1 - -
Systems Architect
UK

Systems Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 22 (20.00%) SQL
2 21 (19.09%) Finance
3 17 (15.45%) Banking
4 16 (14.55%) Oracle
5 15 (13.64%) SharePoint
6 14 (12.73%) Telecoms
7 13 (11.82%) SOA
7 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
8 12 (10.91%) Java
9 10 (9.091%) .NET
9 10 (9.091%) HP
9 10 (9.091%) BMC
9 10 (9.091%) Project Management
9 10 (9.091%) Performance Management
9 10 (9.091%) Security Cleared
9 10 (9.091%) Pega
10 9 (8.182%) Migration
10 9 (8.182%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.182%) TOGAF
10 9 (8.182%) EMC
10 9 (8.182%) ITIL
11 8 (7.273%) SQL Server
11 8 (7.273%) Linux
11 8 (7.273%) Citrix
11 8 (7.273%) ITSM
11 8 (7.273%) Retail
12 7 (6.364%) VMware
12 7 (6.364%) Degree
12 7 (6.364%) SC Cleared
12 7 (6.364%) Data Architecture

Systems Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 10 (9.091%) .NET
2 7 (6.364%) J2EE
3 5 (4.545%) WebSphere
4 4 (3.636%) Middleware
4 4 (3.636%) Application Packaging
5 3 (2.727%) WSDL
5 3 (2.727%) CSS
5 3 (2.727%) SOAP
5 3 (2.727%) HTML
6 2 (1.818%) Web Services
6 2 (1.818%) XML
6 2 (1.818%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.909%) Spring
7 1 (0.909%) JSON
7 1 (0.909%) LAMP
7 1 (0.909%) jQuery
7 1 (0.909%) WebKit
7 1 (0.909%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.909%) OpenGL
7 1 (0.909%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 15 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.636%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.818%) Lync
3 2 (1.818%) SugarCRM
4 1 (0.909%) ESB
4 1 (0.909%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.909%) Apache
4 1 (0.909%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.909%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.909%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (6.364%) MS Office
2 5 (4.545%) MS Excel
3 4 (3.636%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.636%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.364%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.727%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.909%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.909%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.545%) Nokia NetAct
2 4 (3.636%) Firewall
2 4 (3.636%) BSS
3 3 (2.727%) HTTP
4 2 (1.818%) 3GPP
4 2 (1.818%) Intranet
4 2 (1.818%) Extranet
4 2 (1.818%) Wireless
4 2 (1.818%) 4G
4 2 (1.818%) NAS
4 2 (1.818%) LTE
4 2 (1.818%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.818%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.909%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.909%) SAN
5 1 (0.909%) WAN
5 1 (0.909%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.273%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.455%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (2.727%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.818%) GIS
5 1 (0.909%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.909%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.909%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (0.909%) DataStage
5 1 (0.909%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.909%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.909%) MS Access
5 1 (0.909%) MySQL
5 1 (0.909%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (3.636%) JUnit
1 4 (3.636%) Eclipse
1 4 (3.636%) LoadRunner
1 4 (3.636%) JMeter
2 1 (0.909%) Subversion
2 1 (0.909%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 21 (19.09%) Finance
2 17 (15.45%) Banking
3 14 (12.73%) Telecoms
4 8 (7.273%) Retail
5 5 (4.545%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.636%) Military
6 4 (3.636%) Billing
7 1 (0.909%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.909%) German Language
7 1 (0.909%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.909%) Publishing
7 1 (0.909%) Back Office
7 1 (0.909%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.909%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.636%) CMDB
2 3 (2.727%) CESG
2 3 (2.727%) Smart Meter
2 3 (2.727%) Open Source
3 2 (1.818%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.818%) Clustering
3 2 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.909%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.909%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.909%) Data Conversion
4 1 (0.909%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.909%) iSeries
4 1 (0.909%) SaaS
4 1 (0.909%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.909%) N-Tier
4 1 (0.909%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.273%) Linux
2 7 (6.364%) Windows
3 3 (2.727%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.909%) Android
5 1 (0.909%) CentOS
5 1 (0.909%) Tizen
5 1 (0.909%) MeeGo
5 1 (0.909%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.909%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (11.82%) SOA
2 10 (9.091%) Project Management
2 10 (9.091%) Performance Management
3 9 (8.182%) Migration
3 9 (8.182%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (8.182%) TOGAF
3 9 (8.182%) ITIL
4 8 (7.273%) ITSM
5 7 (6.364%) Data Architecture
5 7 (6.364%) CRM
6 6 (5.455%) UML
6 6 (5.455%) OO
6 6 (5.455%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (5.455%) MODAF
7 5 (4.545%) Fault Management
7 5 (4.545%) Risk Management
7 5 (4.545%) Service Management
7 5 (4.545%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (3.636%) Change Management
8 4 (3.636%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.00%) SQL
2 12 (10.91%) Java
3 5 (4.545%) C#
4 3 (2.727%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.727%) VB
5 2 (1.818%) C
5 2 (1.818%) C++
5 2 (1.818%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.909%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.909%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.909%) Perl
6 1 (0.909%) PHP
6 1 (0.909%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.364%) Degree
2 7 (6.364%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.727%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.727%) CCIE
4 1 (0.909%) CCAA
4 1 (0.909%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.909%) CCA
4 1 (0.909%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (0.909%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.818%) GxP
1 2 (1.818%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.455%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.545%) VMware ESX
3 2 (1.818%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.818%) XenApp
3 2 (1.818%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (4.545%) Ionix
1 5 (4.545%) Netcool
2 1 (0.909%) SCCM
2 1 (0.909%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (14.55%) Oracle
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.091%) HP
3 10 (9.091%) BMC
3 10 (9.091%) Pega
4 9 (8.182%) EMC
5 8 (7.273%) Citrix
6 7 (6.364%) VMware
6 7 (6.364%) Remedy
6 7 (6.364%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.364%) Business Objects
7 6 (5.455%) SAP
7 6 (5.455%) IBM
8 5 (4.545%) Nokia
9 4 (3.636%) Crossbeam
10 3 (2.727%) NetApp
10 3 (2.727%) Cisco
11 2 (1.818%) JBoss
11 2 (1.818%) Epicor
12 1 (0.909%) Brocade
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