The first table below looks at the demand for the Java 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 Java Architect 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Architect
Rank 364 374 386
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 13 36 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.060% 0.134% 0.155%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.145% 0.168%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 33
Average daily rate £500 £600 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £450 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £683 £800 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £488 £463 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -2.63%
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
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
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 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Architect
England

Java Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Java Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Java Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Java Architect Daily Rate Trend

Java Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Architect across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Java Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Java Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Java Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Java Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Architect within the London 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
City of London +14 2 £525 -34.37%
Canary Wharf -2 1 £425 -39.28%
Java Architect
England

Java Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java 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 Java Architect in their job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (58.70%) J2EE
3 18 (39.13%) Spring
4 17 (36.96%) Hibernate
5 14 (30.43%) Banking
5 14 (30.43%) Web Services
6 13 (28.26%) JSP
7 12 (26.09%) Oracle
8 11 (23.91%) Maven
9 10 (21.74%) SQL
9 10 (21.74%) JBoss
10 9 (19.57%) UML
10 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
10 9 (19.57%) JUnit
10 9 (19.57%) Finance
11 8 (17.39%) PL/SQL
11 8 (17.39%) Apache
11 8 (17.39%) Internet
11 8 (17.39%) SOA
12 7 (15.22%) Eclipse
12 7 (15.22%) Linux
12 7 (15.22%) Tomcat
12 7 (15.22%) HTML
12 7 (15.22%) MVC
12 7 (15.22%) Middleware
12 7 (15.22%) WebSphere
12 7 (15.22%) Spring MVC
13 6 (13.04%) Ajax
13 6 (13.04%) JSF
13 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering

Java Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java 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 Java Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (58.70%) J2EE
2 18 (39.13%) Spring
3 17 (36.96%) Hibernate
4 14 (30.43%) Web Services
5 13 (28.26%) JSP
6 7 (15.22%) HTML
6 7 (15.22%) Middleware
6 7 (15.22%) WebSphere
6 7 (15.22%) Spring MVC
7 6 (13.04%) Ajax
7 6 (13.04%) JSF
8 5 (10.87%) CSS
8 5 (10.87%) Servlets
9 4 (8.696%) Spring Security
9 4 (8.696%) .NET
10 3 (6.522%) JMS
10 3 (6.522%) Struts
10 3 (6.522%) XSLT
10 3 (6.522%) jQuery
11 2 (4.348%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.39%) Apache
2 7 (15.22%) Tomcat
3 4 (8.696%) WebLogic
3 4 (8.696%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (6.522%) MQSeries
5 2 (4.348%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (4.348%) ESB
5 2 (4.348%) TIBCO EMS
5 2 (4.348%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.174%) IIS
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (2.174%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) Internet
2 4 (8.696%) AMQP
2 4 (8.696%) Kerberos
2 4 (8.696%) LDAP
3 1 (2.174%) HTTP
3 1 (2.174%) Firewall
3 1 (2.174%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.174%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.174%) DB2
3 1 (2.174%) OLAP
3 1 (2.174%) MySQL
3 1 (2.174%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (2.174%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.174%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.174%) Big Data
3 1 (2.174%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Maven
2 9 (19.57%) JUnit
3 7 (15.22%) Eclipse
4 5 (10.87%) Git (software)
4 5 (10.87%) TeamCity
5 4 (8.696%) JMeter
5 4 (8.696%) Subversion
5 4 (8.696%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.348%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.348%) Ant
7 1 (2.174%) Selenium
7 1 (2.174%) jMock
7 1 (2.174%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (2.174%) EasyMock
7 1 (2.174%) Hudson
General
1 14 (30.43%) Banking
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 4 (8.696%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.174%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.522%) Open Source
2 1 (2.174%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.174%) Blog
2 1 (2.174%) RIA
2 1 (2.174%) Mathematics
2 1 (2.174%) Physics
2 1 (2.174%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.174%) Heroku
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 4 (8.696%) Windows
3 2 (4.348%) UNIX
4 1 (2.174%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) UML
2 8 (17.39%) SOA
3 7 (15.22%) MVC
4 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
4 6 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (13.04%) TDD
4 6 (13.04%) OO
5 5 (10.87%) Scrum
6 4 (8.696%) Load Testing
7 3 (6.522%) Asset Management
7 3 (6.522%) Multithreading
8 2 (4.348%) Time Management
8 2 (4.348%) Unit Testing
8 2 (4.348%) Software Architecture
8 2 (4.348%) Waterfall
8 2 (4.348%) BDD
8 2 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.348%) Analytics
8 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (4.348%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.39%) PL/SQL
5 6 (13.04%) C#
6 5 (10.87%) Ruby
7 3 (6.522%) C++
8 2 (4.348%) Scala
8 2 (4.348%) XQuery
9 1 (2.174%) Python
9 1 (2.174%) Perl
9 1 (2.174%) PHP
9 1 (2.174%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (8.696%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.696%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Oracle
2 10 (21.74%) JBoss
3 3 (6.522%) TIBCO
4 2 (4.348%) Pega
4 2 (4.348%) FatWire
4 2 (4.348%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (4.348%) IBM
5 1 (2.174%) Talend
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