Software Architecture Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Architecture over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Architecture
Rank 333 353 411
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +58
Contract jobs citing Software Architecture 52 53 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.241% 0.198% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.323% 0.276% 0.117%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 33 12
Average daily rate £475 £488 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £350 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £538 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £355 £394
% change year-on-year
-1.40% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +50.90%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Architecture across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Software Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Software Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Architecture across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Software Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Software Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Software Architecture Hourly Rate Trend

Software Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Architecture within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 9 £475 -10.58%
Chiswick - 2 £375 -
Canary Wharf -8 1 £425 -
Uxbridge - 1 £350 -
Software Architecture
England

Software Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture.

1 32 (40.00%) Java
2 31 (38.75%) XML
3 28 (35.00%) Banking
4 24 (30.00%) C#
4 24 (30.00%) OO
5 23 (28.75%) Finance
6 22 (27.50%) SOA
7 21 (26.25%) Web Services
7 21 (26.25%) SQL
7 21 (26.25%) Investment Banking
7 21 (26.25%) Multithreading
8 19 (23.75%) TDD
9 18 (22.50%) WebLogic
10 17 (21.25%) JMS
10 17 (21.25%) Scrum
10 17 (21.25%) Spring
11 15 (18.75%) WebSphere
11 15 (18.75%) .NET
12 14 (17.50%) Unit Testing
13 13 (16.25%) WCF
13 13 (16.25%) WebSphere Application Server
14 12 (15.00%) Computer Science
14 12 (15.00%) Wealth Management
14 12 (15.00%) Pega
14 12 (15.00%) Requirements Analysis
15 11 (13.75%) Agile Software Development
15 11 (13.75%) Hibernate
15 11 (13.75%) SQL Server
15 11 (13.75%) OOP
16 10 (12.50%) Apache

Software Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Software Architecture also 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 that cited Software Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (38.75%) XML
2 21 (26.25%) Web Services
3 17 (21.25%) JMS
3 17 (21.25%) Spring
4 15 (18.75%) WebSphere
4 15 (18.75%) .NET
5 13 (16.25%) WCF
6 11 (13.75%) Hibernate
7 9 (11.25%) JSON
8 7 (8.750%) REST
8 7 (8.750%) JDBC
8 7 (8.750%) XSLT
9 6 (7.500%) ASP.NET
9 6 (7.500%) Ajax
9 6 (7.500%) Java EE
10 5 (6.250%) EJB
10 5 (6.250%) CSS
10 5 (6.250%) J2EE
10 5 (6.250%) EJB 3.0
11 4 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 18 (22.50%) WebLogic
2 13 (16.25%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (12.50%) Apache
4 9 (11.25%) Tomcat
5 4 (5.000%) SharePoint
5 4 (5.000%) TIBCO EMS
5 4 (5.000%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (5.000%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (3.750%) CMS
7 2 (2.500%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (2.500%) WebSphere Process Server
7 2 (2.500%) IIS
7 2 (2.500%) ESB
7 2 (2.500%) Confluence
8 1 (1.250%) Mule
8 1 (1.250%) Apache Solr
8 1 (1.250%) EPiServer CMS
8 1 (1.250%) GemFire
8 1 (1.250%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (1.250%) MSMQ
Applications
1 2 (2.500%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.250%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.000%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.250%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.250%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.750%) HTTP
2 2 (2.500%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.250%) DNS
3 1 (1.250%) Internet
3 1 (1.250%) DSL
3 1 (1.250%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.250%) LDAP
3 1 (1.250%) GSM
3 1 (1.250%) LAN
3 1 (1.250%) VoIP
3 1 (1.250%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.25%) MySQL
3 7 (8.750%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (5.000%) Essbase
6 3 (3.750%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.750%) DB2
6 3 (3.750%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.750%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.500%) SAP Data Services
7 2 (2.500%) BusinessObjects XI
8 1 (1.250%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (1.250%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.250%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (1.250%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JUnit
2 7 (8.750%) Subversion
3 4 (5.000%) Maven
3 4 (5.000%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.000%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.000%) Ant
4 3 (3.750%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.750%) FitNesse
4 3 (3.750%) TestNG
4 3 (3.750%) HttpUnit
5 2 (2.500%) JIRA
5 2 (2.500%) Rational Rose
5 2 (2.500%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.500%) Hudson
6 1 (1.250%) MSI
6 1 (1.250%) NUnit
General
1 28 (35.00%) Banking
2 23 (28.75%) Finance
3 21 (26.25%) Investment Banking
4 6 (7.500%) Front Office
5 3 (3.750%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.750%) Music
6 2 (2.500%) Retail
7 1 (1.250%) Billing
7 1 (1.250%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.250%) Law
7 1 (1.250%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 44 (55.00%) Developer
2 33 (41.25%) Architect
3 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 11 (13.75%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (12.50%) Programmer
5 10 (12.50%) Consultant
5 10 (12.50%) Analyst
6 9 (11.25%) Java Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Developer Analyst
6 9 (11.25%) Android Developer
7 6 (7.500%) Technical Architect
8 5 (6.250%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.250%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (6.250%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (6.250%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 5 (6.250%) Real Time Engineer
9 4 (5.000%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.000%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (5.000%) SharePoint Developer
10 3 (3.750%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (8.750%) Derivative
3 6 (7.500%) Open Source
4 5 (6.250%) Fixed Income
5 4 (5.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.500%) Streaming Music
6 2 (2.500%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.250%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.250%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.250%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.250%) iPhone
7 1 (1.250%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.250%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.250%) Equities
7 1 (1.250%) IVR
7 1 (1.250%) Exotic Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Android
2 7 (8.750%) Linux
3 3 (3.750%) UNIX
4 2 (2.500%) Windows
5 1 (1.250%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.250%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.250%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.00%) OO
2 22 (27.50%) SOA
3 21 (26.25%) Multithreading
4 19 (23.75%) TDD
5 17 (21.25%) Scrum
6 14 (17.50%) Unit Testing
7 12 (15.00%) Wealth Management
7 12 (15.00%) Requirements Analysis
8 11 (13.75%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (13.75%) OOP
9 10 (12.50%) Workflow
10 9 (11.25%) UML
11 6 (7.500%) TOGAF
11 6 (7.500%) Data Architecture
12 5 (6.250%) Workflow Management
12 5 (6.250%) MVC
12 5 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (5.000%) Configuration Management
13 4 (5.000%) E-Commerce
13 4 (5.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) Java
2 24 (30.00%) C#
3 21 (26.25%) SQL
4 7 (8.750%) C
4 7 (8.750%) C++
5 6 (7.500%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.500%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.250%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.250%) Python
7 4 (5.000%) Ruby
7 4 (5.000%) XPath
8 3 (3.750%) Scala
9 2 (2.500%) Objective-C
9 2 (2.500%) PHP5
9 2 (2.500%) PHP
10 1 (1.250%) VB
10 1 (1.250%) F#
Qualifications
1 7 (8.750%) Degree
2 2 (2.500%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.250%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.250%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.250%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.250%) QA
2 2 (2.500%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.250%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.250%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.250%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (1.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Pega
2 10 (12.50%) Oracle
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.000%) TIBCO
4 4 (5.000%) ION Trading
4 4 (5.000%) IBM
5 2 (2.500%) Zend
5 2 (2.500%) JBoss
6 1 (1.250%) Informatica
6 1 (1.250%) StreamServe
6 1 (1.250%) ATG
6 1 (1.250%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.250%) Cerillion
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