The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 22 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 Leicestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 33 - 26
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 2 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.943% - 2.609%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.000% - 2.727%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £400
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
200 199 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 94.34% 92.13% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 51 57
Average daily rate £325 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £150 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £505 £545
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 32 33
Average hourly rate £13.50 £11.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -66.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
East Midlands

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Technical Architect Daily 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Loughborough - 1 - -
Technical Architect
East Midlands

Technical Architect
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) WPF
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) iPad
3 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) MFC
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) Device Driver
3 1 (33.33%) Perforce
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) WPF
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) MFC
3 1 (33.33%) WinForms
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) iPad
1 1 (33.33%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Perforce