Technical Architect Contracts in the South West

Technical Architect
England > South West

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the South West is £706 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 108 124
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 35 59 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.10% 1.63% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.76% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 51 32
10th Percentile £540 £550 £515
25th Percentile £581 £579 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £706 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -3.85% +7.00%
75th Percentile £773 £723 £681
90th Percentile £788 £763 £766
England median daily rate £675 £675 £638
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 2,964 3,354 3,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 92.50% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,517 2,538
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 267 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.62 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +9.94%
75th Percentile £70.96 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £69.43
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the South West

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the South West

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the South West

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the South West

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Wiltshire -22 17 £775 +17.42%
Gloucestershire +5 8 £588 -2.08%
Bristol +26 4 £500 -31.03% 5
Dorset +8 4 £763 +22.00% 1
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
3 16 (45.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (42.86%) Finance
4 15 (42.86%) DV Cleared
5 14 (40.00%) Agile
5 14 (40.00%) Azure
6 13 (37.14%) Public Sector
7 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
8 11 (31.43%) Programme Management
8 11 (31.43%) Waterfall
9 9 (25.71%) Marketing
9 9 (25.71%) Degree
9 9 (25.71%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (25.71%) Manufacturing
9 9 (25.71%) Electronics
9 9 (25.71%) Telecoms
9 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
9 9 (25.71%) SAP
9 9 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (22.86%) 3G
10 8 (22.86%) Technical Architecture
10 8 (22.86%) 4G
10 8 (22.86%) Strategic Thinking
10 8 (22.86%) Roadmaps
10 8 (22.86%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (17.14%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (17.14%) Technology Strategy
11 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) 3G
1 8 (22.86%) 4G
2 5 (14.29%) LAN
3 4 (11.43%) WAN
4 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Finance
3 13 (37.14%) Public Sector
4 9 (25.71%) Electronics
4 9 (25.71%) Manufacturing
4 9 (25.71%) Marketing
4 9 (25.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (40.00%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Programme Management
3 11 (31.43%) Waterfall
4 9 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (25.71%) Digital Marketing
5 8 (22.86%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (22.86%) Roadmaps
5 8 (22.86%) Strategic Thinking
5 8 (22.86%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (17.14%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (11.43%) ArchiMate
8 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Modelling
8 4 (11.43%) ITIL
8 4 (11.43%) Performance Testing
8 4 (11.43%) Requirements Analysis
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
4 9 (25.71%) Degree
5 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (11.43%) HND
6 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
1 9 (25.71%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (5.71%) Hyperion
2 2 (5.71%) Pegasus
2 2 (5.71%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco
3 1 (2.86%) Dell
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow