The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 80 73 89
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 23 21 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.507% 1.320% 0.865%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.620% 1.412% 0.925%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 10
Average daily rate £404 £465 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.11% +0.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £388 £437
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £580 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% +8.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.98 £24.30 £23.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.75 £27.00 £25.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +8.00%
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1420 1487 1730
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 93.05% 93.46% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 782 689 718
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.92% +0.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 217 247
Average hourly rate £17.50 £21.75 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.54% -19.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.50 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
South East

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Portsmouth +2 6 - -
Basingstoke -8 5 £375 +11.11%
Andover - 4 £463 -
Southampton -3 1 £285 -49.33%
Winchester - 1 £525 -
Technical Architect
South East

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 (66.67%) VMware
2 12 (44.44%) Firewall
3 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
4 9 (33.33%) Citrix
4 9 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 9 (33.33%) SQL
4 9 (33.33%) ITIL
4 9 (33.33%) UNIX
4 9 (33.33%) Linux
4 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (29.63%) LAN
5 8 (29.63%) WAN
5 8 (29.63%) PRINCE2
5 8 (29.63%) Oracle
5 8 (29.63%) Cisco
5 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
5 8 (29.63%) SAN
6 7 (25.93%) MS Excel
6 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (22.22%) Migration
7 6 (22.22%) Windows
7 6 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (18.52%) Java
8 5 (18.52%) Broadband
8 5 (18.52%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (18.52%) PHP
8 5 (18.52%) Project Management
8 5 (18.52%) Wireless
9 4 (14.81%) IPsec

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 4 (14.81%) SAML
2 1 (3.704%) Middleware
2 1 (3.704%) .NET
2 1 (3.704%) J2EE
2 1 (3.704%) COM
2 1 (3.704%) XML
2 1 (3.704%) XML Schema
2 1 (3.704%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) GlassFish
1 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.704%) TeamSite
2 1 (3.704%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.704%) Magento
2 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (3.704%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (25.93%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) Firewall
2 8 (29.63%) LAN
2 8 (29.63%) WAN
2 8 (29.63%) SAN
3 5 (18.52%) Broadband
3 5 (18.52%) Wireless
4 4 (14.81%) IPsec
4 4 (14.81%) 3G
4 4 (14.81%) MPLS
4 4 (14.81%) ATM
4 4 (14.81%) SSL
4 4 (14.81%) LDAP
4 4 (14.81%) GPRS
4 4 (14.81%) PSTN
4 4 (14.81%) VoIP
5 3 (11.11%) SS7
5 3 (11.11%) INAP
5 3 (11.11%) SIGTRAN
6 2 (7.407%) ISUP
7 1 (3.704%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.704%) MySQL
3 1 (3.704%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.407%) Finance
3 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
1 4 (14.81%) NHS
2 3 (11.11%) Digital Media
3 2 (7.407%) Open Source
4 1 (3.704%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) UNIX
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.704%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) ITIL
2 8 (29.63%) PRINCE2
3 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Project Management
5 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.81%) Information Security
5 4 (14.81%) Time Management
5 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy
7 2 (7.407%) Identity Management
8 1 (3.704%) CRM
8 1 (3.704%) Security Architecture
8 1 (3.704%) Network Architecture
8 1 (3.704%) Data Validation
8 1 (3.704%) Unit Testing
8 1 (3.704%) Validation
8 1 (3.704%) Scrum
8 1 (3.704%) TOGAF
8 1 (3.704%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) PHP
3 4 (14.81%) Perl
4 3 (11.11%) C
5 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.704%) VBScript
5 1 (3.704%) Python
5 1 (3.704%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) JSP 440
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) Xen
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
3 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.704%) VMware Server
4 1 (3.704%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) VMware
2 9 (33.33%) Citrix
2 9 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 8 (29.63%) Oracle
3 8 (29.63%) Cisco
3 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.81%) 3PAR
4 4 (14.81%) HP
4 4 (14.81%) JBoss
5 1 (3.704%) Salesforce.com