The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead 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 Lead 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Architect
Rank 299 330 390
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 78 85 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.360% 0.316% 0.167%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.391% 0.341% 0.181%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 55 25
Average daily rate £600 £500 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £408
10% offered a daily rate of more than £743 £680 £740
UK excluding London average daily rate £558 £525 £463
% change year-on-year
+6.19% +13.51%
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
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
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 450 624 677
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%
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Lead Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Lead Architect Daily Rate Trend

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Lead Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Lead Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Lead 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 Architect within the London 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
City of London +8 17 £600 +26.31%
Canary Wharf - 2 £750 -
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 49 (33.56%) Banking
2 39 (26.71%) Finance
2 39 (26.71%) TOGAF
3 27 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (16.44%) Zachman Framework
5 22 (15.07%) Enterprise Architecture
6 20 (13.70%) Credit Risk
6 20 (13.70%) Retail
6 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Management
7 19 (13.01%) Degree
7 19 (13.01%) Oracle
8 17 (11.64%) Java
8 17 (11.64%) Technical Architecture
9 16 (10.96%) Windows
10 15 (10.27%) Data Architecture
11 14 (9.589%) WebSphere
12 13 (8.904%) JavaScript
13 12 (8.219%) SQL Server
13 12 (8.219%) Retail Banking
13 12 (8.219%) Computer Science
14 11 (7.534%) SQL
14 11 (7.534%) Microsoft
15 10 (6.849%) SAP
15 10 (6.849%) SOA
15 10 (6.849%) Pega
16 9 (6.164%) Data Modelling
16 9 (6.164%) Middleware
17 8 (5.479%) QA
17 8 (5.479%) Management Information System
17 8 (5.479%) OO

Lead Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (9.589%) WebSphere
2 9 (6.164%) Middleware
3 8 (5.479%) .NET
3 8 (5.479%) HTML
4 7 (4.795%) Web Services
4 7 (4.795%) jQuery
5 6 (4.110%) WCF
5 6 (4.110%) WPF
5 6 (4.110%) Silverlight
5 6 (4.110%) XML
5 6 (4.110%) XSLT
6 5 (3.425%) J2EE
6 5 (3.425%) .NET Framework
6 5 (3.425%) JSON
6 5 (3.425%) REST
7 4 (2.740%) Spring
7 4 (2.740%) BAPI
7 4 (2.740%) CSS
8 3 (2.055%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.055%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 7 (4.795%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (4.795%) ESB
2 5 (3.425%) Apache
3 4 (2.740%) SharePoint 2013
3 4 (2.740%) WebSphere Process Server
3 4 (2.740%) TeamSite
3 4 (2.740%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.740%) WebLogic
3 4 (2.740%) IIS
4 3 (2.055%) SAS
4 3 (2.055%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (1.370%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.685%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.685%) CMS
6 1 (0.685%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.685%) Drupal
6 1 (0.685%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (0.685%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.685%) Kafka
6 1 (0.685%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Applications
1 1 (0.685%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.425%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.740%) RMDS
3 1 (0.685%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.685%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.685%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.685%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.110%) Internet
2 5 (3.425%) SAN
3 4 (2.740%) NAS
4 2 (1.370%) HTTP
5 1 (0.685%) MPLS
5 1 (0.685%) CTI
5 1 (0.685%) Firewall
5 1 (0.685%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.219%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.110%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (3.425%) DB2
3 5 (3.425%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (3.425%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.740%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.055%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.370%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.370%) MySQL
7 1 (0.685%) OLAP
7 1 (0.685%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.685%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.685%) SAP BI
7 1 (0.685%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.685%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.685%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.685%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.685%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.685%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.685%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (1.370%) Selenium
2 1 (0.685%) JIRA
2 1 (0.685%) Subversion
2 1 (0.685%) Maven
2 1 (0.685%) GitHub
2 1 (0.685%) PHPUnit
2 1 (0.685%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 49 (33.56%) Banking
2 39 (26.71%) Finance
3 20 (13.70%) Retail
4 12 (8.219%) Retail Banking
5 7 (4.795%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.425%) International Banking
6 5 (3.425%) Private Banking
7 4 (2.740%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.740%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.055%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (1.370%) Legal
9 2 (1.370%) Publishing
10 1 (0.685%) Advertising
10 1 (0.685%) Law
10 1 (0.685%) Front Office
10 1 (0.685%) Back Office
10 1 (0.685%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.70%) Credit Risk
2 12 (8.219%) Computer Science
3 8 (5.479%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.110%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.425%) Online Banking
6 4 (2.740%) DataPower
6 4 (2.740%) Life Science
7 3 (2.055%) Equities
8 2 (1.370%) IVR
8 2 (1.370%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.370%) Data Integration
8 2 (1.370%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.685%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.685%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.685%) Mathematics
9 1 (0.685%) Web 2.0
9 1 (0.685%) Derivative
9 1 (0.685%) iPhone
9 1 (0.685%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.685%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.96%) Windows
2 6 (4.110%) Linux
3 4 (2.740%) Windows 7
3 4 (2.740%) Solaris
4 3 (2.055%) Windows 8
5 2 (1.370%) UNIX
6 1 (0.685%) AIX
6 1 (0.685%) Debian
6 1 (0.685%) Android
6 1 (0.685%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.685%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.685%) CentOS
6 1 (0.685%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.71%) TOGAF
2 27 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (16.44%) Zachman Framework
4 22 (15.07%) Enterprise Architecture
5 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Management
6 17 (11.64%) Technical Architecture
7 15 (10.27%) Data Architecture
8 10 (6.849%) SOA
9 9 (6.164%) Data Modelling
10 8 (5.479%) OO
11 7 (4.795%) Complex Event Processing
11 7 (4.795%) CRM
11 7 (4.795%) E-Commerce
12 6 (4.110%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (4.110%) Web Development
13 5 (3.425%) Change Management
13 5 (3.425%) IT Governance
13 5 (3.425%) Information Architecture
14 4 (2.740%) Data Governance
14 4 (2.740%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.64%) Java
2 13 (8.904%) JavaScript
3 11 (7.534%) SQL
4 7 (4.795%) C#
5 6 (4.110%) C
6 2 (1.370%) Ada
6 2 (1.370%) Python
6 2 (1.370%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.685%) ABAP
7 1 (0.685%) VBA
7 1 (0.685%) PHP
7 1 (0.685%) XQuery
7 1 (0.685%) XPath
7 1 (0.685%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.685%) Ruby
7 1 (0.685%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 19 (13.01%) Degree
2 5 (3.425%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.740%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.370%) MBA
5 1 (0.685%) CISSP
5 1 (0.685%) RHCE
5 1 (0.685%) GIAC
5 1 (0.685%) CISM
5 1 (0.685%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.479%) QA
2 4 (2.740%) SLA
3 1 (0.685%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.685%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.685%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (4.110%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.370%) XenApp
2 2 (1.370%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.685%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.685%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (0.685%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.685%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.685%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (2.740%) Tivoli
1 4 (2.740%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 3 (2.055%) SCCM
3 1 (0.685%) Nagios
3 1 (0.685%) Puppet
3 1 (0.685%) ZABBIX
3 1 (0.685%) Cacti
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) Oracle
2 11 (7.534%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.849%) SAP
3 10 (6.849%) Pega
4 6 (4.110%) Sybase
5 5 (3.425%) Cisco
6 4 (2.740%) 29West
6 4 (2.740%) LogLogic
6 4 (2.740%) DataSynapse
6 4 (2.740%) NetApp
6 4 (2.740%) HP
6 4 (2.740%) EMC
6 4 (2.740%) Business Objects
7 3 (2.055%) Citrix
7 3 (2.055%) IBM
7 3 (2.055%) Informatica
7 3 (2.055%) Mantas
7 3 (2.055%) Actimize
7 3 (2.055%) StreamBase
8 2 (1.370%) hybris
London
You will use your expert specialist skills and knowledge to define and deliver solutions within an area of specialism (Business or Technical) and will contribute to the development...
Church International
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
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Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Build/Test of connectors: Import WSDL and XSD... Co-ordination with relevant stakeholders - SOA SME, BPA SME, DSMs, Solution Architects, BPA and SOA Developmeant teams, Pega System team,...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £700 to £900 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Asset classes (Credit rates/bonds/FX/Trade Lifecycle/Equities) Focus on knowledge transfer Worked alongside desk heads Proven architecture deliverables Offshore supplier management Strong stakeholder management - Use appropriate...
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Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
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Rate: Rate Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Rate: £600 - £750 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Rate: £600 - £750 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013