The first table below looks at the demand for the .NET Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited .NET 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 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
.NET Architect
Rank 372 393 445
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +52
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Architect 20 20 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.087% 0.075% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.081% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 9
Average daily rate £550 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £415 £435
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £725
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year
-2.70% +2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21207 24646 29107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.96% 92.55% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14319 15934 18765
Average daily rate £450 £435 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -8.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 611 670
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.97 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
.NET Architect
England

.NET Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London .NET Architect Jobs Demand Trend

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

London .NET Architect Daily Rate Trend

.NET Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing .NET Architect across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London .NET Architect Daily Rate Histogram

.NET Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London .NET Architect Hourly Rate Trend

.NET Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Architect within the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
City of London +7 10 £550 +15.78% 4
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England

.NET Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (75.00%) C#
3 18 (56.25%) WCF
4 15 (46.88%) TDD
5 13 (40.63%) SQL Server
5 13 (40.63%) Multithreading
5 13 (40.63%) MVVM
6 11 (34.38%) SQL
7 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
8 9 (28.13%) OO
9 8 (25.00%) Tableau
9 8 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (21.88%) Dependency Injection
11 6 (18.75%) BDD
11 6 (18.75%) Scrum
11 6 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (18.75%) ASP.NET
12 5 (15.63%) Windows
12 5 (15.63%) SOA
12 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (15.63%) MVC
12 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
12 5 (15.63%) Finance
12 5 (15.63%) WPF
12 5 (15.63%) Big Data
13 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
13 4 (12.50%) Degree
13 4 (12.50%) VBA
13 4 (12.50%) MS Excel
13 4 (12.50%) N-Tier

.NET Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (56.25%) WCF
3 6 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 5 (15.63%) WPF
5 4 (12.50%) XML
6 3 (9.375%) XSLT
6 3 (9.375%) Middleware
6 3 (9.375%) Web Services
6 3 (9.375%) Silverlight
6 3 (9.375%) RESTful
6 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (9.375%) Unity DI Container
7 2 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 2 (6.250%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.125%) JSON
8 1 (3.125%) MSMQ
8 1 (3.125%) ASP
8 1 (3.125%) HTML5
8 1 (3.125%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (6.250%) CMS
3 1 (3.125%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (3.125%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (3.125%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) Internet
1 1 (3.125%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (15.63%) Big Data
4 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.375%) JIRA
1 3 (9.375%) Git (software)
1 3 (9.375%) SpecFlow
2 2 (6.250%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
1 5 (15.63%) Finance
2 2 (6.250%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.125%) Mathematics
2 1 (3.125%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) TDD
2 13 (40.63%) Multithreading
2 13 (40.63%) MVVM
3 9 (28.13%) OO
4 8 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (21.88%) Dependency Injection
6 6 (18.75%) BDD
6 6 (18.75%) Scrum
7 5 (15.63%) MVC
7 5 (15.63%) SOA
8 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
9 3 (9.375%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (9.375%) CRM
9 3 (9.375%) UML
9 3 (9.375%) EAI
10 2 (6.250%) Domain-Driven Design
10 2 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
11 1 (3.125%) Unit Testing
11 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
11 1 (3.125%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) C#
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) VBA
4 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Tableau
3 2 (6.250%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle
City, London
A C# / .net / developer / architect / engineer is required by a leading Investment Bank to work within Commodities.
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
East London
As part of an energetic team of developers, the ideal candidate will be able to provide solutions as well as ideas to make future projects a success. Main...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
City, London
A Lead C# / .net / developer / architect / engineer is required by a leading Investment Bank to work within Market Risk. You will be responsible for: The enhancement of the...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £700 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
C#/.NET/WebApi/ASP.NET/MVC4/Restful API/HTTP/SQL Server/SOA/Microsoft/Git/Architect/Agile/TDD/BDD/Specflow/Scrum) An emerging player in the Financial Services sector...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £500 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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