The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 20 June 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Designer
Rank 414 452 436
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 127 128 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.260% 0.224% 0.251%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.282% 0.242% 0.271%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 71 97
Average daily rate £400 £443 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.60% +2.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £360 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
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
45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2142 2525 2941
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 £41.77 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Solutions Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Solutions Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Solutions Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +27 116 £400 -9.60% 14
London +52 58 £400 - 6
City of London +23 27 £388 -35.41% 1
South East -2 24 £400 -15.78% 3
Berkshire +8 22 £400 +3.22% 1
North West +17 20 £300 -21.82% 2
Reading +10 14 £400 -6.43% 1
Cheshire +6 11 - - 2
East of England +10 10 £495 +18.20% 2
Scotland -15 8 £420 -4.00% 1
Edinburgh -2 4 - - 1
Manchester - 4 £319 -
Slough -9 3 £370 +37.03%
Hampshire -6 2 £425 -
East Midlands -11 1 - -
Glasgow -19 1 - -
North Wales - - - -
South West - - - -
Wales - - - -
Kent - - - -
Middlesex - - - -
Norfolk - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Flintshire - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Stroud - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - - 1
Milton Keynes - - - -

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 56 (23.83%) Oracle
2 42 (17.87%) Telecoms
2 42 (17.87%) Finance
3 34 (14.47%) Migration
3 34 (14.47%) Middleware
4 33 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (12.34%) Banking
5 29 (12.34%) Windows
5 29 (12.34%) SOA
6 26 (11.06%) Data Modelling
7 25 (10.64%) Java
8 23 (9.787%) IBM
9 22 (9.362%) Oracle BI EE
10 19 (8.085%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (8.085%) ETL
11 17 (7.234%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (7.234%) .NET
11 17 (7.234%) ITIL
11 17 (7.234%) Oracle 11g
12 16 (6.809%) Linux
12 16 (6.809%) UML
13 15 (6.383%) CRM
13 15 (6.383%) Web Services
13 15 (6.383%) Mainframe
13 15 (6.383%) Technical Architecture
13 15 (6.383%) Retail
14 14 (5.957%) Agile Software Development
14 14 (5.957%) Billing
14 14 (5.957%) Microsoft
14 14 (5.957%) UNIX

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 34 (14.47%) Middleware
2 17 (7.234%) .NET
3 15 (6.383%) Web Services
4 11 (4.681%) Spring
4 11 (4.681%) JMS
5 10 (4.255%) Struts
5 10 (4.255%) J2EE
5 10 (4.255%) XML
5 10 (4.255%) EJB
5 10 (4.255%) JDBC
5 10 (4.255%) Servlets
6 8 (3.404%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.277%) SOAP
8 2 (0.851%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.851%) HTML
8 2 (0.851%) WSDL
8 2 (0.851%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.851%) XML Schema
8 2 (0.851%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.851%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 10 (4.255%) Tomcat
1 10 (4.255%) WebLogic
2 7 (2.979%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (2.553%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (2.553%) CMS
4 4 (1.702%) Apache
4 4 (1.702%) ESB
5 2 (0.851%) Documentum
5 2 (0.851%) CICS
6 1 (0.426%) Drupal
6 1 (0.426%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (0.426%) Mule
6 1 (0.426%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.426%) FileNet
6 1 (0.426%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.426%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Applications
1 10 (4.255%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.553%) MS Office
3 5 (2.128%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (2.128%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.426%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.255%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (3.830%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (2.128%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.702%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.277%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 3 (1.277%) CSG Singleview
6 2 (0.851%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 2 (0.851%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.851%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.426%) Taleo
7 1 (0.426%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.426%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.681%) SAN
2 6 (2.553%) Internet
3 5 (2.128%) 3G
3 5 (2.128%) WAN
4 4 (1.702%) NAS
4 4 (1.702%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (1.702%) SNMP
4 4 (1.702%) DHCP
4 4 (1.702%) MPLS
4 4 (1.702%) DNS
4 4 (1.702%) BSS
4 4 (1.702%) NGN
4 4 (1.702%) Network Security
5 3 (1.277%) RNC
5 3 (1.277%) Firewall
5 3 (1.277%) 2G
6 2 (0.851%) Nokia NetAct
6 2 (0.851%) 4G
6 2 (0.851%) HTTP
6 2 (0.851%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.362%) Oracle BI EE
2 17 (7.234%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (7.234%) Oracle 11g
3 13 (5.532%) Oracle ODI
4 11 (4.681%) Oracle 10g
5 10 (4.255%) TOAD
6 9 (3.830%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.553%) SAP HANA
7 6 (2.553%) Oracle 8/8i
7 6 (2.553%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (2.128%) DecisionStream
8 5 (2.128%) Cognos Powerplay
8 5 (2.128%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (1.702%) Essbase
9 4 (1.702%) BusinessObjects XI
10 3 (1.277%) DB2
11 2 (0.851%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.426%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
12 1 (0.426%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.426%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.106%) Rational Application Developer
2 10 (4.255%) JUnit
3 2 (0.851%) Talend Open Studio
3 2 (0.851%) PeopleTools
3 2 (0.851%) XMLSpy
4 1 (0.426%) Selenium
4 1 (0.426%) Subversion
General
1 42 (17.87%) Telecoms
1 42 (17.87%) Finance
2 29 (12.34%) Banking
3 15 (6.383%) Retail
4 14 (5.957%) Billing
5 5 (2.128%) Marketing
6 4 (1.702%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.702%) Local Government
6 4 (1.702%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.277%) Legal
8 2 (0.851%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.426%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.426%) Publishing
9 1 (0.426%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.383%) Mainframe
2 12 (5.106%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (4.255%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.404%) Tandem
4 8 (3.404%) CMDB
5 6 (2.553%) Replication
6 5 (2.128%) iSeries
7 3 (1.277%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.277%) Open Source
7 3 (1.277%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.851%) Data Integration
9 1 (0.426%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.426%) Computer Science
9 1 (0.426%) Ontologies
9 1 (0.426%) EPoS
9 1 (0.426%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.426%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.426%) iPad
9 1 (0.426%) Data Extraction
9 1 (0.426%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.34%) Windows
2 16 (6.809%) Linux
3 14 (5.957%) UNIX
4 11 (4.681%) Windows XP
5 6 (2.553%) AIX
6 2 (0.851%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.851%) HPUX
6 2 (0.851%) Solaris
6 2 (0.851%) zOS
6 2 (0.851%) SUSE
7 1 (0.426%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.426%) Android
7 1 (0.426%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (14.47%) Migration
2 33 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (12.34%) SOA
4 26 (11.06%) Data Modelling
5 19 (8.085%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (8.085%) ETL
6 17 (7.234%) ITIL
7 16 (6.809%) UML
8 15 (6.383%) CRM
8 15 (6.383%) Technical Architecture
9 14 (5.957%) Agile Software Development
10 12 (5.106%) Logistics
11 11 (4.681%) eTOM
11 11 (4.681%) E-Commerce
11 11 (4.681%) Project Management
12 10 (4.255%) Service Management
13 9 (3.830%) Risk Management
13 9 (3.830%) Data Mapping
14 8 (3.404%) Information Security
14 8 (3.404%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.64%) Java
2 14 (5.957%) SQL
3 5 (2.128%) C#
4 3 (1.277%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.851%) PHP
5 2 (0.851%) PeopleCode
6 1 (0.426%) PHP5
6 1 (0.426%) C
6 1 (0.426%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.426%) VBScript
6 1 (0.426%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (5.106%) Security Cleared
2 11 (4.681%) DV Cleared
3 9 (3.830%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.553%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.553%) CCNA
5 4 (1.702%) CISSP
6 3 (1.277%) Degree
7 1 (0.426%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.702%) QA
2 1 (0.426%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (3.404%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.553%) XenDesktop
3 5 (2.128%) VMware ESX
4 2 (0.851%) SRDF
4 2 (0.851%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.851%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.426%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.426%) UAG
5 1 (0.426%) XenApp
5 1 (0.426%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (0.851%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (0.851%) OpenView
2 1 (0.426%) Netcool
2 1 (0.426%) Ionix
2 1 (0.426%) Cacti
Vendors
1 56 (23.83%) Oracle
2 23 (9.787%) IBM
3 14 (5.957%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.106%) JBoss
5 11 (4.681%) Meridio
5 11 (4.681%) Cognos
5 11 (4.681%) EMC
6 10 (4.255%) BMC
7 8 (3.404%) Cisco
7 8 (3.404%) HP
7 8 (3.404%) VMware
8 7 (2.979%) Informatica
8 7 (2.979%) Citrix
8 7 (2.979%) Business Objects
9 6 (2.553%) SAP
9 6 (2.553%) Huawei
10 5 (2.128%) Brocade
10 5 (2.128%) Siebel
11 4 (1.702%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.702%) Teradata
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