The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 18 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 advertised for the England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 237 189 259
Rank change year-on-year
-48 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 343 500 400
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.783% 0.943% 0.700%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.847% 1.019% 0.755%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 321 210
Average daily rate £450 £465 £468
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% -0.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £360 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £598 £568
UK excluding London average daily rate £431 £438 £455
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 5
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +6.93%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
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 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
UK

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Technical Architect Hourly Rate Histogram

Technical Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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
London -29 179 £459 -8.25% 51
South East -25 73 £425 -5.55% 13
South West +41 25 £475 +5.55% 10
East of England +5 18 £438 - 7
North West -12 16 £381 -10.29% 10
West Midlands +10 8 £425 -5.55% 3
Yorkshire -22 7 £425 +13.33% 2
Midlands +11 6 - -
East Midlands -6 5 £395 -7.05% 1
South Coast +6 1 - -
North East - - - - 1
Technical Architect
UK

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 186 (28.22%) Windows
2 139 (21.09%) Oracle
3 121 (18.36%) VMware
4 120 (18.21%) Microsoft
5 105 (15.93%) Java
6 100 (15.17%) Citrix
7 94 (14.26%) Technical Architecture
8 91 (13.81%) Security Cleared
9 90 (13.66%) SQL
10 81 (12.29%) Linux
11 80 (12.14%) Cisco
11 80 (12.14%) Migration
12 76 (11.53%) Finance
13 75 (11.38%) TOGAF
13 75 (11.38%) .NET
13 75 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
14 70 (10.62%) UNIX
14 70 (10.62%) SAN
15 65 (9.863%) Enterprise Architecture
16 63 (9.560%) Active Directory
17 60 (9.105%) ITIL
18 59 (8.953%) SQL Server
19 58 (8.801%) Firewall
19 58 (8.801%) SC Cleared
20 56 (8.498%) IBM
21 55 (8.346%) Web Services
21 55 (8.346%) Hyper-V
22 51 (7.739%) Project Management
23 50 (7.587%) Banking
24 48 (7.284%) HP

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 75 (11.38%) .NET
2 55 (8.346%) Web Services
3 38 (5.766%) XML
4 35 (5.311%) J2EE
5 31 (4.704%) WebSphere
6 29 (4.401%) Middleware
7 25 (3.794%) Spring
8 22 (3.338%) SOAP
9 18 (2.731%) ASP.NET
10 16 (2.428%) HTML
10 16 (2.428%) REST
11 15 (2.276%) CSS
12 11 (1.669%) JMS
12 11 (1.669%) Hibernate
12 11 (1.669%) .NET Framework
12 11 (1.669%) WCF
12 11 (1.669%) RESTful
13 10 (1.517%) Mason
14 9 (1.366%) jQuery
14 9 (1.366%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 36 (5.463%) SharePoint
2 30 (4.552%) MS Exchange
3 26 (3.945%) Apache
4 20 (3.035%) CMS
5 15 (2.276%) WebLogic
6 14 (2.124%) ESB
7 11 (1.669%) IIS
8 10 (1.517%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (1.517%) Windows Azure
8 10 (1.517%) Amazon AWS
8 10 (1.517%) Lync
9 9 (1.366%) Tomcat
9 9 (1.366%) BizTalk Server
10 7 (1.062%) NetWeaver
10 7 (1.062%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (1.062%) Exchange Server 2007
10 7 (1.062%) Exchange Server 2010
10 7 (1.062%) OpenStack
10 7 (1.062%) CloudStack
11 6 (0.910%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (4.552%) MS Excel
2 9 (1.366%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.910%) MS Office
4 4 (0.607%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.821%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.910%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (0.607%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.607%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.303%) SAP SRM
4 2 (0.303%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.303%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.303%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.303%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.152%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.152%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.152%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.152%) Maximo
5 1 (0.152%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.152%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.62%) SAN
2 58 (8.801%) Firewall
3 41 (6.222%) LAN
4 36 (5.463%) WAN
5 21 (3.187%) Internet
6 19 (2.883%) HTTP
7 17 (2.580%) Ethernet
7 17 (2.580%) NAS
8 14 (2.124%) Intranet
9 13 (1.973%) DNS
9 13 (1.973%) LDAP
10 12 (1.821%) Network Security
11 11 (1.669%) Wireless
11 11 (1.669%) VPN
12 10 (1.517%) NetScaler
13 9 (1.366%) SSL
13 9 (1.366%) VoIP
14 8 (1.214%) DHCP
14 8 (1.214%) Unified Communications
15 7 (1.062%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.953%) SQL Server
2 28 (4.249%) Oracle 11g
3 24 (3.642%) Oracle 8/8i
4 16 (2.428%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (2.124%) DB2
6 13 (1.973%) MySQL
7 12 (1.821%) SQL Server 2008
8 11 (1.669%) SQL Server 2005
8 11 (1.669%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.517%) Oracle BI EE
9 10 (1.517%) Oracle ODI
10 9 (1.366%) EDRMS
11 7 (1.062%) GIS
11 7 (1.062%) Oracle 10g
11 7 (1.062%) Oracle OWB
11 7 (1.062%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.062%) MarkLogic
12 6 (0.910%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.910%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.759%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (1.821%) JUnit
2 10 (1.517%) Subversion
3 8 (1.214%) Maven
3 8 (1.214%) Git (software)
4 7 (1.062%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (1.062%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.910%) JMeter
6 5 (0.759%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.759%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.607%) Ant
7 4 (0.607%) MSI
7 4 (0.607%) Selenium
7 4 (0.607%) Talend Open Studio
8 3 (0.455%) TestNG
8 3 (0.455%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.455%) EasyMock
8 3 (0.455%) FitNesse
8 3 (0.455%) jMock
8 3 (0.455%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.455%) CruiseControl
General
1 76 (11.53%) Finance
2 50 (7.587%) Banking
3 40 (6.070%) Retail
4 25 (3.794%) Telecoms
5 15 (2.276%) Publishing
6 14 (2.124%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.821%) Marketing
7 12 (1.821%) Manufacturing
8 6 (0.910%) Front Office
8 6 (0.910%) Back Office
9 4 (0.607%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.607%) Legal
9 4 (0.607%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.303%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.303%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.303%) French Language
10 2 (0.303%) German Language
10 2 (0.303%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.303%) Law
10 2 (0.303%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 19 (2.883%) Management Information System
1 19 (2.883%) SaaS
2 18 (2.731%) Open Source
3 17 (2.580%) Mainframe
3 17 (2.580%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (2.124%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.973%) Computer Science
5 13 (1.973%) PaaS
5 13 (1.973%) IaaS
5 13 (1.973%) NHS
6 12 (1.821%) Data Integration
7 11 (1.669%) Clustering
8 9 (1.366%) Thin Client
8 9 (1.366%) Fat Client
8 9 (1.366%) iPad
9 8 (1.214%) IBM Mainframe
9 8 (1.214%) Mathematics
9 8 (1.214%) Cryptography
10 7 (1.062%) Physics
10 7 (1.062%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 186 (28.22%) Windows
2 81 (12.29%) Linux
3 70 (10.62%) UNIX
4 38 (5.766%) Windows Server 2008
5 37 (5.615%) Windows 7
6 30 (4.552%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (4.249%) AIX
8 27 (4.097%) Solaris
9 16 (2.428%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (1.517%) Apple iOS
11 9 (1.366%) Windows XP
12 7 (1.062%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.910%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.759%) HPUX
14 5 (0.759%) Android
15 4 (0.607%) CentOS
16 3 (0.455%) Windows NT
16 3 (0.455%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.303%) Windows 2000 Server
18 1 (0.152%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (14.26%) Technical Architecture
2 80 (12.14%) Migration
3 75 (11.38%) TOGAF
4 65 (9.863%) Enterprise Architecture
5 60 (9.105%) ITIL
6 51 (7.739%) Project Management
7 40 (6.070%) SOA
8 29 (4.401%) Data Modelling
8 29 (4.401%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (4.249%) E-Commerce
9 28 (4.249%) Service Management
10 26 (3.945%) Agile Software Development
11 25 (3.794%) UML
12 23 (3.490%) Scrum
13 22 (3.338%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (3.187%) ETL
15 19 (2.883%) CRM
16 18 (2.731%) Service Delivery
17 16 (2.428%) Project Planning
18 15 (2.276%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 105 (15.93%) Java
2 90 (13.66%) SQL
3 34 (5.159%) C
4 24 (3.642%) C#
5 22 (3.338%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.428%) C++
7 13 (1.973%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.821%) PHP
9 11 (1.669%) VB
10 10 (1.517%) XQuery
10 10 (1.517%) Perl
10 10 (1.517%) XPath
10 10 (1.517%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.366%) Python
12 7 (1.062%) VB.NET
12 7 (1.062%) Ruby
13 6 (0.910%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.759%) Bash shell
15 4 (0.607%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.455%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 91 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 58 (8.801%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.008%) DV Cleared
4 28 (4.249%) Degree
5 23 (3.490%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.428%) MCSE
7 14 (2.124%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.821%) MCITP
8 12 (1.821%) CCNA
9 9 (1.366%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (1.366%) MCTS
10 7 (1.062%) Citrix Certification
11 6 (0.910%) CCA
12 5 (0.759%) ISEB
12 5 (0.759%) MCSA
12 5 (0.759%) MCP
12 5 (0.759%) VCP4
13 4 (0.607%) CCNP
14 3 (0.455%) CCSP
14 3 (0.455%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.883%) QA
2 13 (1.973%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.303%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.152%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.152%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.152%) COBIT
4 1 (0.152%) HIPAA
System Software
1 75 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (9.560%) Active Directory
3 55 (8.346%) Hyper-V
4 38 (5.766%) XenApp
5 23 (3.490%) XenDesktop
6 21 (3.187%) XenServer
7 17 (2.580%) vSphere
8 16 (2.428%) Microsoft App-V
9 12 (1.821%) Xen
10 10 (1.517%) VMware ESX
11 9 (1.366%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.759%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.607%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.607%) UAG
14 3 (0.455%) Varnish
15 1 (0.152%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.152%) Nmap
15 1 (0.152%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
15 1 (0.152%) vCloud
15 1 (0.152%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 21 (3.187%) SCCM
2 16 (2.428%) SCOM
3 7 (1.062%) Puppet
3 7 (1.062%) OpenView
4 6 (0.910%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (0.759%) Tivoli
6 3 (0.455%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 3 (0.455%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 2 (0.303%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.303%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.303%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 2 (0.303%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.303%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (0.152%) AppDNA
8 1 (0.152%) Nagios
8 1 (0.152%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.152%) Netcool
8 1 (0.152%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.152%) MOM
8 1 (0.152%) Splunk
Vendors
1 139 (21.09%) Oracle
2 121 (18.36%) VMware
3 120 (18.21%) Microsoft
4 100 (15.17%) Citrix
5 80 (12.14%) Cisco
6 56 (8.498%) IBM
7 48 (7.284%) HP
8 37 (5.615%) Red Hat
9 32 (4.856%) NetApp
9 32 (4.856%) SAP
10 20 (3.035%) Informatica
11 17 (2.580%) Salesforce.com
12 13 (1.973%) Google
13 12 (1.821%) AppSense
14 9 (1.366%) ATG
14 9 (1.366%) Sitecore
14 9 (1.366%) hybris
14 9 (1.366%) Apple
14 9 (1.366%) Sun
15 8 (1.214%) Guidewire
Bristol, South West
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OPUS
Rate: GBP500 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
The Lync Technical Architect/Lync Integration Architect/Unified Comms Architect (Exchange, AD, Unified Comms) You will be responsible for supporting some small changes to the original designs, implementation...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £500
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Java Technical Architect World Leading Digital Agency Location: Central London A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Java Technical Architect to join a world-leading Digital Agency working across...
Creation Recruitment
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Our client seeks a Technical Architect to support a PCI-DSS Compliance programme... Technical Architects that have helped deliver compliance to the payment card industry data security standard...
Quindell Plc - Metaskil
Rate: Up to £450 pd
Posted: 12 June 2013
Havant, Hampshire
Our major blue chip client based just outside of Portsmouth, currently require a Technical Architect on an initial 3 month contract to be based in either Portsmouth or...
Advanced Resource Managers
Posted: 12 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Connectus
Rate: £25 - £30 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £500 - £575 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £500 - £575 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: market rates
Posted: 14 June 2013
South East London
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hampshire
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Unspecified Market Rate
Posted: 12 June 2013
East London
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 5 June 2013
City, London
TEKsystems
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Experis IT
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Claremont Consulting
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Chessington, Surrey
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £425 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £600 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Essex
Logic Engagements Ltd
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
i4 Recruitment
Rate: £200 - 400 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
North West London
Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Rate: From £400 to £420 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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