The first table below looks at the demand for the Functional Architect role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 currently tracked.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Architect
Rank 518 569 556
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Architect 16 17 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.029% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.031% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 3
Average daily rate £369 £575 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.86% +30.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £449 £368
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £683 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £519 £438
% change year-on-year
-34.93% +18.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £62.50 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Functional Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Functional Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Functional Architect within the UK.

Functional Architect Daily Rate Trend

Functional Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Functional Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Functional Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Functional Architect within the UK.

Functional Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Functional Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +56 16 £369 -32.95%
North West +13 7 £338 -10.00%
Manchester - 7 £338 -
London +27 6 £525 -18.44%
South East +18 3 £463 -
Surrey - 3 £463 -
City of London - 2 £600 -
Guildford - 1 £463 -

Functional Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Functional 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 Functional Architect in their job title.

1 10 (33.33%) Java
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
2 8 (26.67%) Business Analysis
3 6 (20.00%) Retail
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 6 (20.00%) JRules
4 5 (16.67%) XPath
4 5 (16.67%) Credit Risk
4 5 (16.67%) B2B
4 5 (16.67%) XQuery
4 5 (16.67%) Web Services
4 5 (16.67%) XML
4 5 (16.67%) XSLT
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) BPR
5 4 (13.33%) C++
5 4 (13.33%) UML
5 4 (13.33%) Market Risk
6 3 (10.00%) Spring
6 3 (10.00%) SAP PI
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (10.00%) Reference Data
6 3 (10.00%) OO
6 3 (10.00%) Sybase
6 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (10.00%) SAP
6 3 (10.00%) EJB
6 3 (10.00%) SAP FI
6 3 (10.00%) SAP SD

Functional Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Functional 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 Functional Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (20.00%) JRules
2 5 (16.67%) Web Services
2 5 (16.67%) XML
2 5 (16.67%) XSLT
3 3 (10.00%) Spring
3 3 (10.00%) SAP PI
3 3 (10.00%) EJB
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.333%) Middleware
4 1 (3.333%) JMS
4 1 (3.333%) J2EE
4 1 (3.333%) CORBA
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) ESB
2 1 (3.333%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (3.333%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.333%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) SAP FI
1 3 (10.00%) SAP SD
1 3 (10.00%) SAP CO
1 3 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle Payroll
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) Big Data
1 1 (3.333%) MarkLogic
1 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (3.333%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.333%) OLAP
1 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.333%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) jMock
1 1 (3.333%) Maven
1 1 (3.333%) TeamCity
1 1 (3.333%) EasyMock
1 1 (3.333%) Ant
1 1 (3.333%) JUnit
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Retail
4 3 (10.00%) Legal
4 3 (10.00%) Front Office
5 2 (6.667%) Billing
5 2 (6.667%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 4 (13.33%) Market Risk
3 3 (10.00%) Reference Data
4 2 (6.667%) Mathematics
4 2 (6.667%) Physics
4 2 (6.667%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.333%) SWIFT
5 1 (3.333%) Open Source
5 1 (3.333%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.667%) UNIX
1 2 (6.667%) Windows
1 2 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Business Analysis
2 5 (16.67%) B2B
2 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (13.33%) BPR
3 4 (13.33%) UML
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) OO
4 3 (10.00%) SOA
4 3 (10.00%) Data Management
5 2 (6.667%) Risk Management
5 2 (6.667%) ERP
5 2 (6.667%) Cash Management
5 2 (6.667%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (6.667%) Waterfall
6 1 (3.333%) Straight-Through Processing
6 1 (3.333%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.333%) Multithreading
6 1 (3.333%) Network Design
6 1 (3.333%) ETL
6 1 (3.333%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) XPath
2 5 (16.67%) XQuery
3 4 (13.33%) C++
4 3 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.667%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) Basel III
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Sybase
2 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (6.667%) Cordys
4 1 (3.333%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.333%) Hyperion
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Posted: 17 May 2013