The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 62 61 46
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 1 9 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% 0.921% 2.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.164% 0.990% 2.153%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 13
Average daily rate - £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +8.00%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
608 909 836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.45% 93.04% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 394 355
Average daily rate £400 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 85 104
Average hourly rate £17.49 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.59% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
East of England

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Technical Architect Daily Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) QMS
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) BEA
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) QMS
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) BEA