The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Architect in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Architect
Rank 524 570 579
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Architect 6 8 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.014% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.015% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
Average daily rate £825 £650 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% +59.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Senior Systems Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Systems Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Systems Architect Daily Rate Trend

Senior Systems Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Systems Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Systems Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Architect within the UK 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
England +47 6 £825 +26.92%
London +20 6 £825 +26.92%
City of London +14 5 £825 +54.20%

Senior Systems Architect
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Architect in their job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Pega
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (30.00%) Application Packaging
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Data Mapping
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) J2EE
2 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
2 3 (30.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) HTTP
2 3 (30.00%) WSDL
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Clustering

Senior Systems Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Systems 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 Senior Systems Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) J2EE
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
1 3 (30.00%) WSDL
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (30.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) OO
1 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (30.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Pega
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) VMware