Technical Architecture Contracts in the Midlands

Technical Architecture
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 150 174
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -48
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 16 16 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.58% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.53% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 23
10th Percentile £524 £524 £459
25th Percentile £619 £541 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £825 £613 £688
90th Percentile £875 £725 £700
England median daily rate £588 £605 £625
% change year-on-year -2.89% -3.20% +10.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 3,046 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.26% 88.47% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 2,126 3,289
10th Percentile £235 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 151
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.05
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the Midlands

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the Midlands

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the Midlands

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the Midlands

Technical Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +32 15 £750 +36.36% 1
East Midlands +18 1 £800 +52.38% 2
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) NetSuite
1 2 (12.50%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (12.50%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) IaaS
1 1 (6.25%) PaaS
1 1 (6.25%) SaaS
1 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) LAN
1 7 (43.75%) WAN
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) MPLS
2 6 (37.50%) PBX
2 6 (37.50%) VoIP
2 6 (37.50%) VPN
2 6 (37.50%) WLAN
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (31.25%) DHCP
3 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) Internet
3 5 (31.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.25%) IPsec
4 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.25%) Multicast
4 1 (6.25%) SSL
General
1 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Billing
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Architect
2 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Market Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Analytics
2 7 (43.75%) SOA
3 6 (37.50%) Architectural Design
3 6 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (37.50%) Data Analytics
3 6 (37.50%) ITIL
3 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 6 (37.50%) Network Architecture
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Management
3 6 (37.50%) Programme Management
3 6 (37.50%) Resource Management
3 6 (37.50%) Storage Management
4 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
4 5 (31.25%) TOGAF
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 2 (12.50%) Data Management
7 2 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) CCIE
1 6 (37.50%) CCIE Data Center
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) CheckPoint
2 5 (31.25%) Infoblox
2 5 (31.25%) Palo Alto
2 5 (31.25%) Symantec
2 5 (31.25%) Zscaler
3 2 (12.50%) Bloomberg
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow