Technical Architect Contracts in Birmingham

Technical Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 45 85
Rank change year-on-year -15 +40 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 5 34 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.66% 3.73% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 3.89% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 3
10th Percentile £558 £700 £513
25th Percentile £569 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £745 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +41.90% +50.00%
75th Percentile £750 - £547
90th Percentile - £840 £553
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £745 £595
% change year-on-year -19.46% +25.21% +70.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 703 873 1,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 95.83% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 584 946
10th Percentile £250 £263 £205
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 23
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.30 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.41 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £61.63 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Birmingham

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Birmingham

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Birmingham

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in Birmingham

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) QA
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks