The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 57 63 70
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 14 18 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.626% 1.582% 0.679%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.777% 1.718% 0.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 1
Average daily rate £525 £365 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.83% -23.15%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
788 1048 909
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.52% 92.09% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 345 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 60 40
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £11.25 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
Berkshire

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (55.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (35.00%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 6 (30.00%) Citrix
4 6 (30.00%) Information Architecture
5 5 (25.00%) vSphere
5 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (25.00%) GIS
5 5 (25.00%) VMware
5 5 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (25.00%) Time Management
6 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 4 (20.00%) VLAN
6 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (20.00%) Linux
6 4 (20.00%) Python
6 4 (20.00%) Kerberos
6 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (20.00%) Perl
6 4 (20.00%) .NET
6 4 (20.00%) Bash shell
6 4 (20.00%) Network Security
6 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (15.00%) SQL

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) WinForms
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (5.000%) Web Services
4 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.000%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.000%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) VLAN
1 4 (20.00%) Kerberos
1 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.000%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) GIS
2 1 (5.000%) EDRMS
2 1 (5.000%) IDOL
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (5.000%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (5.000%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.000%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (30.00%) TOGAF
2 6 (30.00%) Information Architecture
3 5 (25.00%) Time Management
4 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.000%) Workflow
7 1 (5.000%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
1 4 (20.00%) Perl
1 4 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (15.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.000%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) vSphere
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.000%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 1 (5.000%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Citrix
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.000%) EMC
4 1 (5.000%) Macromedia
4 1 (5.000%) Open Text
4 1 (5.000%) Meridio
4 1 (5.000%) Brocade