The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical 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 advertised for the City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 166 169 207
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 35 44 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.556% 0.566% 0.396%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.601% 0.617% 0.431%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 26
Average daily rate £544 £475 £465
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.47% +2.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £372 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £620 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +8.00%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Architect
London

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Technical Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Technical Architect Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Technical Architect Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architect across the City of London region.

City of London Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Technical Architect in their job title.

1 18 (27.69%) Java
2 17 (26.15%) Windows
3 15 (23.08%) Finance
4 14 (21.54%) Banking
5 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 10 (15.38%) MS Exchange
6 10 (15.38%) .NET
7 9 (13.85%) Cisco
7 9 (13.85%) Technical Architecture
8 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
8 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
8 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
8 8 (12.31%) Citrix
8 8 (12.31%) Salesforce.com
9 7 (10.77%) EDRMS
9 7 (10.77%) DRM
9 7 (10.77%) CMS
9 7 (10.77%) J2EE
9 7 (10.77%) Oracle
9 7 (10.77%) SQL
9 7 (10.77%) Mason
10 6 (9.231%) E-Commerce
10 6 (9.231%) HTTP
10 6 (9.231%) Active Directory
10 6 (9.231%) VMware
11 5 (7.692%) SAN
11 5 (7.692%) Middleware
11 5 (7.692%) MS Excel
11 5 (7.692%) C
11 5 (7.692%) Linux

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (15.38%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) J2EE
2 7 (10.77%) Mason
3 5 (7.692%) Middleware
3 5 (7.692%) Web Services
4 4 (6.154%) XML
4 4 (6.154%) Visualforce
4 4 (6.154%) WebSphere
5 3 (4.615%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.615%) Hibernate
5 3 (4.615%) Spring
5 3 (4.615%) RESTful
6 2 (3.077%) REST
6 2 (3.077%) XML Schema
6 2 (3.077%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 2 (3.077%) ASP
6 2 (3.077%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.077%) Java EE
6 2 (3.077%) Spring MVC
6 2 (3.077%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.38%) MS Exchange
2 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
3 7 (10.77%) CMS
4 4 (6.154%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (4.615%) Drupal
5 3 (4.615%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (4.615%) IIS
5 3 (4.615%) Apache
6 2 (3.077%) Documentum
6 2 (3.077%) Umbraco
6 2 (3.077%) Alfresco
6 2 (3.077%) Liferay
6 2 (3.077%) Force.com
6 2 (3.077%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.538%) Adobe CQ
7 1 (1.538%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.538%) Lync
7 1 (1.538%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.538%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (1.538%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.231%) HTTP
2 5 (7.692%) SAN
3 3 (4.615%) Internet
4 2 (3.077%) Firewall
4 2 (3.077%) Intranet
4 2 (3.077%) Network Security
5 1 (1.538%) BT 21CN
5 1 (1.538%) NAS
5 1 (1.538%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.538%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.538%) BSS
5 1 (1.538%) DNS
5 1 (1.538%) LAN
5 1 (1.538%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) EDRMS
2 3 (4.615%) MySQL
3 2 (3.077%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (3.077%) MarkLogic
3 2 (3.077%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.538%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.538%) VLDB
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.538%) EDMS
4 1 (1.538%) IDOL
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.538%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.538%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (3.077%) Visual Studio
1 2 (3.077%) Eclipse
1 2 (3.077%) CruiseControl
1 2 (3.077%) Subversion
1 2 (3.077%) Maven
1 2 (3.077%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (23.08%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Banking
3 3 (4.615%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.615%) Marketing
4 2 (3.077%) Billing
4 2 (3.077%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.538%) Games
5 1 (1.538%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.538%) Law
5 1 (1.538%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.538%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.154%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (4.615%) SaaS
2 3 (4.615%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.077%) Clustering
3 2 (3.077%) SWIFT
3 2 (3.077%) Open Source
4 1 (1.538%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.538%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.538%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.538%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.538%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.538%) Heroku
4 1 (1.538%) Derivative
4 1 (1.538%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.538%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.538%) RMADS
4 1 (1.538%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.538%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.538%) iPhone
4 1 (1.538%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Windows
2 5 (7.692%) Linux
3 3 (4.615%) UNIX
4 2 (3.077%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.077%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.538%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.538%) Android
5 1 (1.538%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.85%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (10.77%) DRM
3 6 (9.231%) E-Commerce
4 5 (7.692%) Test Strategy
5 4 (6.154%) Migration
5 4 (6.154%) Scrum
6 3 (4.615%) Data Management
6 3 (4.615%) TOGAF
6 3 (4.615%) Load Balancing
6 3 (4.615%) Data Modelling
6 3 (4.615%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (4.615%) MVC
6 3 (4.615%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (3.077%) Multithreading
7 2 (3.077%) Capacity Management
7 2 (3.077%) Domain-Driven Design
7 2 (3.077%) BDD
7 2 (3.077%) Workflow
7 2 (3.077%) RDF
7 2 (3.077%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) Java
2 7 (10.77%) SQL
3 5 (7.692%) C
3 5 (7.692%) Apex Code
4 3 (4.615%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.615%) PHP
5 2 (3.077%) XQuery
5 2 (3.077%) XPath
6 1 (1.538%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.538%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.538%) C#
6 1 (1.538%) C++
6 1 (1.538%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.077%) Degree
3 1 (1.538%) CCIE
3 1 (1.538%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (9.231%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.154%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.615%) VMware ESX
4 2 (3.077%) XenApp
5 1 (1.538%) XenServer
5 1 (1.538%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.538%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.154%) SCCM
2 2 (3.077%) Puppet
3 1 (1.538%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (1.538%) SCOM
3 1 (1.538%) HP SIM
3 1 (1.538%) OpenView
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Cisco
3 8 (12.31%) Citrix
3 8 (12.31%) Salesforce.com
4 7 (10.77%) Oracle
5 6 (9.231%) VMware
6 4 (6.154%) Sitecore
7 3 (4.615%) HP
7 3 (4.615%) Informatica
8 2 (3.077%) Sybase
8 2 (3.077%) Business Objects
8 2 (3.077%) IBM
8 2 (3.077%) ATG
8 2 (3.077%) Brocade
8 2 (3.077%) hybris
9 1 (1.538%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.538%) Rackspace
9 1 (1.538%) Netezza
9 1 (1.538%) Adobe
9 1 (1.538%) SAP
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