The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer 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 Solutions Designer 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
Solution Designer
Rank 329 381 422
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 48 34 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.222% 0.126% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.241% 0.137% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 10
Average daily rate £386 £500 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.75% +2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £388 £398
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +11.76%
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%
Solutions Designer
England

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Solutions Designer Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Solutions Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Solutions Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Designer 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 +28 16 £388 -35.41%
Solutions Designer
England

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 25 (39.68%) Oracle
2 12 (19.05%) Data Modelling
2 12 (19.05%) Oracle BI EE
3 11 (17.46%) Oracle 11g
3 11 (17.46%) .NET
3 11 (17.46%) Windows
4 10 (15.87%) SOA
4 10 (15.87%) Finance
5 9 (14.29%) IBM
6 8 (12.70%) ETL
6 8 (12.70%) Linux
6 8 (12.70%) JBoss
6 8 (12.70%) Java
6 8 (12.70%) Middleware
6 8 (12.70%) Banking
6 8 (12.70%) Spring
7 7 (11.11%) Retail
7 7 (11.11%) Project Management
7 7 (11.11%) J2EE
7 7 (11.11%) JUnit
7 7 (11.11%) WebLogic
7 7 (11.11%) EJB
7 7 (11.11%) JDBC
7 7 (11.11%) Servlets
7 7 (11.11%) Tomcat
7 7 (11.11%) Struts
7 7 (11.11%) JMS
7 7 (11.11%) SQL
7 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (17.46%) .NET
2 8 (12.70%) Middleware
2 8 (12.70%) Spring
3 7 (11.11%) J2EE
3 7 (11.11%) EJB
3 7 (11.11%) JDBC
3 7 (11.11%) Servlets
3 7 (11.11%) Struts
3 7 (11.11%) JMS
4 4 (6.349%) XML
5 2 (3.175%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.175%) Web Services
5 2 (3.175%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.587%) Ajax
6 1 (1.587%) LAMP
6 1 (1.587%) SOAP
6 1 (1.587%) CSS
6 1 (1.587%) HTML
6 1 (1.587%) WSDL
6 1 (1.587%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 7 (11.11%) WebLogic
1 7 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.762%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (3.175%) Apache
3 2 (3.175%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.587%) FileNet
4 1 (1.587%) CMS
4 1 (1.587%) Drupal
4 1 (1.587%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (4.762%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.175%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.175%) MS Office
2 2 (3.175%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (7.937%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (3.175%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 2 (3.175%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.587%) Taleo
3 1 (1.587%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (1.587%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (1.587%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.524%) SAN
2 4 (6.349%) DNS
2 4 (6.349%) DHCP
2 4 (6.349%) SNMP
3 3 (4.762%) WAN
4 2 (3.175%) NGN
4 2 (3.175%) Network Security
4 2 (3.175%) MPLS
5 1 (1.587%) BSS
5 1 (1.587%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.587%) Wireless
5 1 (1.587%) LAN
5 1 (1.587%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) Oracle BI EE
2 11 (17.46%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (9.524%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (9.524%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (9.524%) TOAD
4 5 (7.937%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.587%) DataStage
5 1 (1.587%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.587%) MySQL
5 1 (1.587%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.587%) DB2
5 1 (1.587%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) JUnit
2 2 (3.175%) PeopleTools
3 1 (1.587%) Subversion
3 1 (1.587%) XMLSpy
3 1 (1.587%) Selenium
General
1 10 (15.87%) Finance
2 8 (12.70%) Banking
3 7 (11.11%) Retail
4 6 (9.524%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.937%) Billing
6 2 (3.175%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.587%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.587%) Legal
7 1 (1.587%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.937%) iSeries
2 2 (3.175%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.587%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.587%) EPoS
3 1 (1.587%) Data Extraction
3 1 (1.587%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.587%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) Linux
3 6 (9.524%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.587%) UNIX
4 1 (1.587%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Data Modelling
2 10 (15.87%) SOA
3 8 (12.70%) ETL
4 7 (11.11%) Project Management
4 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (9.524%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (7.937%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (7.937%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (7.937%) Business Analysis
6 5 (7.937%) E-Commerce
6 5 (7.937%) Data Mapping
7 4 (6.349%) Release Management
7 4 (6.349%) Logistics
8 3 (4.762%) Automated Testing
8 3 (4.762%) Validation
8 3 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (4.762%) User Stories
9 2 (3.175%) Analytics
9 2 (3.175%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.70%) Java
2 7 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (4.762%) C#
4 2 (3.175%) PeopleCode
5 1 (1.587%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.587%) PHP
5 1 (1.587%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (3.175%) CCNA
1 2 (3.175%) CISSP
1 2 (3.175%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.587%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.175%) QA
2 1 (1.587%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (7.937%) VMware ESX
1 5 (7.937%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (7.937%) XenDesktop
2 1 (1.587%) UAG
Vendors
1 25 (39.68%) Oracle
2 9 (14.29%) IBM
3 8 (12.70%) JBoss
4 6 (9.524%) EMC
4 6 (9.524%) Cognos
5 5 (7.937%) VMware
5 5 (7.937%) Brocade
5 5 (7.937%) Siebel
5 5 (7.937%) Citrix
6 4 (6.349%) HP
7 3 (4.762%) Cisco
7 3 (4.762%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.175%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.587%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.587%) Omniture
9 1 (1.587%) SumTotal
9 1 (1.587%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.587%) Business Objects
9 1 (1.587%) Informatica
9 1 (1.587%) Adobe
London
You will be responsible for producing UML sequence diagrams showing the business services required to meet the business requirements and which business function is responsible for each... UML...
Venturi
Rate: £320 - £370 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Our London based client is looking for an experienced Solution Architect for a range of design and integration projects mainly around BizTalk. You will be responsible for leading...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 8 May 2013
City of London
Our London based client is looking for an experienced Solution Architect for a range of design and integration projects mainly around BizTalk. You will be responsible for leading...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will have Proven Solution Design experience in addition to the following SAN, BLADE, EMC, Oracle database and Oracle Middleware application products... Or Oracle DBA's...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Essential Skills for the BI Solutions Designer: Experience of ETL development and implementation. Experience of Data Warehouse design, development and delivery. Proven track record of working with: Oracle...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £280 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Extensive experience in .Net and Java based Frameworks such as Struts, Spring etc Good experience in development methodologies such as Agile and testing tools (eg; Junit) Knowledge and...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: neg
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
Wide experience in implementing SAN and distributed storage infrastructures with in-depth knowledge of EMC products such as vMAX (Essential) Experience with common application infrastructure deployment models for...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £450 - £500
Posted: 21 May 2013