The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design Authority role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Design Authority in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Authority (TDA)
Rank 378 389 425
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Authority 3 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.048% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.052% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
Average daily rate £515 £500 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £407 £407 £460
10% offered a daily rate of more than £623 £523 £640
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £435
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Design Authority
England

Technical Design Authority
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Technical Design Authority Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Design Authority
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Technical Design Authority Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design Authority
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Design Authority across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Technical Design Authority Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Design Authority
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Technical Design Authority 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 Design Authority in their job title.

1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Demandware
3 1 (14.29%) hybris
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (14.29%) JPA
3 1 (14.29%) DataPower
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) JSF
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) ATG
3 1 (14.29%) JSON

Technical Design Authority
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) JMX
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) JSF
2 1 (14.29%) Ajax
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) SVG
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DataStage
1 1 (14.29%) IBM InfoSphere
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
1 2 (28.57%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) EMC
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) ATG
2 1 (14.29%) hybris
2 1 (14.29%) Demandware