Technical Architect Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 97 93 106
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 21 39 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.901% 1.254% 0.656%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.966% 1.368% 0.710%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 10
Average daily rate £375 £420 £444
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £356 £349
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £500 £503
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +8.00%
Search 5 Technical Architect jobs in the North West
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2173 2851 2817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.22% 91.64% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1036 1402 1393
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 171 189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Technical Architect Hourly 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheshire -10 13 £375 -25.00%
Manchester +8 6 £376 -5.93%
Merseyside +5 2 - -
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 12 (31.58%) Windows
3 11 (28.95%) SQL
4 10 (26.32%) UNIX
5 9 (23.68%) AIX
6 8 (21.05%) Migration
6 8 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
7 7 (18.42%) Banking
7 7 (18.42%) Project Management
7 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
8 6 (15.79%) Cisco
8 6 (15.79%) Middleware
8 6 (15.79%) VB
8 6 (15.79%) SAP
8 6 (15.79%) C++
8 6 (15.79%) Mainframe
8 6 (15.79%) Finance
8 6 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (13.16%) Linux
9 5 (13.16%) ITIL
9 5 (13.16%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (13.16%) CCNP
9 5 (13.16%) CCNA
9 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (10.53%) Internet
10 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
10 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (15.79%) Middleware
2 2 (5.263%) .NET
3 1 (2.632%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.632%) OLE
3 1 (2.632%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (2.632%) NetWeaver
1 1 (2.632%) CICS
1 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
1 1 (2.632%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (5.263%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.895%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Internet
2 3 (7.895%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (7.895%) Wireless
2 3 (7.895%) Extranet
2 3 (7.895%) Intranet
2 3 (7.895%) RFID
2 3 (7.895%) VPN
3 2 (5.263%) LDAP
3 2 (5.263%) Firewall
4 1 (2.632%) Network Security
4 1 (2.632%) SAN
4 1 (2.632%) DHCP
4 1 (2.632%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.632%) SNA
4 1 (2.632%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.895%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.632%) SAP BI
4 1 (2.632%) SAP BW
4 1 (2.632%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.632%) DB2
4 1 (2.632%) Crystal Reports
General
1 7 (18.42%) Banking
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (5.263%) Retail
3 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.263%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.632%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.632%) French Language
4 1 (2.632%) German Language
4 1 (2.632%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.632%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (2.632%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.895%) NHS
4 1 (2.632%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.632%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.632%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.632%) PKI
4 1 (2.632%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
2 10 (26.32%) UNIX
3 9 (23.68%) AIX
4 5 (13.16%) Linux
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.05%) Migration
2 7 (18.42%) Project Management
3 6 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (13.16%) ITIL
5 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (7.895%) Finite Element Analysis
6 3 (7.895%) Zachman Framework
6 3 (7.895%) TOGAF
6 3 (7.895%) Data Modelling
7 2 (5.263%) UML
7 2 (5.263%) OO
7 2 (5.263%) ETL
7 2 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (5.263%) Business Analysis
7 2 (5.263%) Information Security
7 2 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (5.263%) Identity Management
7 2 (5.263%) Data Management
7 2 (5.263%) Test Strategy
8 1 (2.632%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) VB
2 6 (15.79%) C++
3 3 (7.895%) Java
4 2 (5.263%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.263%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.632%) Bourne shell
5 1 (2.632%) Bash shell
5 1 (2.632%) Korn
5 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.632%) JCL
5 1 (2.632%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) CCNP
1 5 (13.16%) CCNA
1 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.895%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.895%) MCITP
3 3 (7.895%) CCDP
4 2 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.263%) CISSP
4 2 (5.263%) Degree
4 2 (5.263%) GIAC
4 2 (5.263%) CISA
5 1 (2.632%) MCTS
5 1 (2.632%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.263%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.632%) vSphere
3 1 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.632%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Tivoli
2 2 (5.263%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (2.632%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.632%) SCCM
3 1 (2.632%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 6 (15.79%) Cisco
2 6 (15.79%) SAP
3 3 (7.895%) F5
3 3 (7.895%) VMware
3 3 (7.895%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.263%) HP
4 2 (5.263%) Citrix
5 1 (2.632%) Brocade
5 1 (2.632%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.632%) CA
5 1 (2.632%) NetApp
5 1 (2.632%) IBM
5 1 (2.632%) Sun
Technical Solutions Architect - Major Blue Chip - Cheshire
Cheshire, North West
2 Years' experience in customer facing role managing network related service issues, incidents and problems 5 years practical experience working as a Network specialist with 4 years experience...
Templeton and Partners
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 9 May 2013
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