The first table below looks at the demand for the Chief Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Chief Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Birmingham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Chief Technical Architect
Rank - - 43
Contract jobs requiring a Chief Technical Architect 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.204%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £700
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £700
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
418 591 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.72% 95.17% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 322 250
Average daily rate £340 £325 £341
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 30
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.16 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Chief Technical Architect
West Midlands

Chief Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Chief Technical Architect across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham Chief Technical Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Chief Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Chief Technical Architect across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Chief Technical Architect Daily Rate Trend

Chief Technical Architect
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Chief Technical 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 Chief Technical Architect in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture

Chief Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Chief Technical 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 Chief Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware