The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 49 53 55
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 6 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.130% 1.289% 0.166%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.207% 1.366% 0.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 0
Average daily rate £400 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
497 659 570
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 93.60% 94.41% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 272 216
Average daily rate £325 £315 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £173 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 48 75
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £35.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
Buckinghamshire

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (52.94%) Oracle
4 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
5 7 (41.18%) Windows
5 7 (41.18%) HP
5 7 (41.18%) Firewall
5 7 (41.18%) Cryptography
5 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
6 6 (35.29%) NAS
6 6 (35.29%) QA
6 6 (35.29%) SAN
6 6 (35.29%) StorageTek
6 6 (35.29%) OpenView
6 6 (35.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (35.29%) Sun
6 6 (35.29%) Citrix
7 5 (29.41%) JMS
7 5 (29.41%) SQL
8 4 (23.53%) .NET
8 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
8 4 (23.53%) SOA
8 4 (23.53%) Clustering
8 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
9 3 (17.65%) Lync
9 3 (17.65%) XenApp
9 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
9 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (17.65%) Internet

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 5 (29.41%) JMS
2 4 (23.53%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) SOAP
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) XML
5 1 (5.882%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) Lync
3 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.882%) IIS
3 1 (5.882%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Firewall
2 6 (35.29%) NAS
2 6 (35.29%) SAN
3 3 (17.65%) Internet
3 3 (17.65%) iSCSI
3 3 (17.65%) SMTP
4 1 (5.882%) Network Security
4 1 (5.882%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (5.882%) Banking
1 1 (5.882%) Front Office
1 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Cryptography
2 4 (23.53%) Clustering
3 3 (17.65%) Client/Server
4 2 (11.76%) Fat Client
4 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
5 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
3 3 (17.65%) Windows NT
3 3 (17.65%) UNIX
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) SOA
2 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) Time Management
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Network Design
4 1 (5.882%) Logistics
4 1 (5.882%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.882%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) ActionScript
2 2 (11.76%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (5.882%) C#
3 1 (5.882%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) MCTS
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (17.65%) CCSP
4 3 (17.65%) CCNA
4 3 (17.65%) ISEB
4 3 (17.65%) MCSE
4 3 (17.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 3 (17.65%) XenApp
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) OpenView
1 6 (35.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (5.882%) SCCM
2 1 (5.882%) SCOM
2 1 (5.882%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle
2 7 (41.18%) HP
3 6 (35.29%) StorageTek
3 6 (35.29%) Sun
3 6 (35.29%) Citrix
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.882%) ProCurve
5 1 (5.882%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.882%) Lotus
5 1 (5.882%) Juniper
5 1 (5.882%) Cisco