Technical Architect Contracts in the South 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 South 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 South 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 75 124 114
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 33 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.636% 0.371% 0.283%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.741% 0.398% 0.300%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 6
Average daily rate £493 £425 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.88% +3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £400 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £450 £463
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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1895 3012 2668
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 93.95% 93.11% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1138 1803 1328
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 186 243
Average hourly rate £15.40 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.55% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.70 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South 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 South West region.

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

South 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 South West region.

South 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 South 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
Bristol +22 12 £500 +17.64%
Wiltshire - 12 £444 -
Gloucestershire +35 7 £575 -
Somerset +6 2 £465 -2.10%
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 27 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (38.33%) Windows
3 22 (36.67%) UNIX
4 21 (35.00%) Cisco
4 21 (35.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 21 (35.00%) VMware
5 20 (33.33%) SAN
5 20 (33.33%) LAN
6 19 (31.67%) WAN
6 19 (31.67%) Red Hat
6 19 (31.67%) Linux
7 18 (30.00%) IBM
7 18 (30.00%) Solaris
7 18 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 18 (30.00%) Hyper-V
7 18 (30.00%) DV Cleared
8 17 (28.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (28.33%) NetApp
8 17 (28.33%) Service Management
8 17 (28.33%) Ethernet
8 17 (28.33%) HP
8 17 (28.33%) C
9 12 (20.00%) Oracle
10 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
11 7 (11.67%) iPad
11 7 (11.67%) Apple iOS
11 7 (11.67%) Mobile Device Management
11 7 (11.67%) Internet
11 7 (11.67%) TOGAF
11 7 (11.67%) .NET

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 7 (11.67%) .NET
2 3 (5.000%) J2EE
2 3 (5.000%) WCF
3 2 (3.333%) SAML
3 2 (3.333%) WSDL
3 2 (3.333%) SOAP
3 2 (3.333%) Web Services
3 2 (3.333%) XML
3 2 (3.333%) XSD
4 1 (1.667%) EJB
4 1 (1.667%) CSS
4 1 (1.667%) JSP
4 1 (1.667%) HTML
4 1 (1.667%) XSLT
4 1 (1.667%) Java RMI
4 1 (1.667%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.000%) Lync
2 2 (3.333%) GlassFish
2 2 (3.333%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.333%) Apache
3 1 (1.667%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (1.667%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 2 (3.333%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.667%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.667%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.667%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.667%) Maximo
1 1 (1.667%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.667%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.33%) SAN
1 20 (33.33%) LAN
2 19 (31.67%) WAN
3 17 (28.33%) Ethernet
4 7 (11.67%) Internet
5 3 (5.000%) Unified Communications
6 2 (3.333%) Firewall
6 2 (3.333%) Wireless
6 2 (3.333%) IPsec
6 2 (3.333%) Network Security
6 2 (3.333%) SSL
6 2 (3.333%) LDAP
7 1 (1.667%) VoIP
7 1 (1.667%) IIOP
7 1 (1.667%) HTTP
7 1 (1.667%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.667%) PABX
7 1 (1.667%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.667%) DB2
2 1 (1.667%) Informix
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (1.667%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.333%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.667%) Rational Rose
General
1 3 (5.000%) Retail
1 3 (5.000%) Finance
2 2 (3.333%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) iPad
2 3 (5.000%) NHS
2 3 (5.000%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.333%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.33%) Windows
2 22 (36.67%) UNIX
3 19 (31.67%) Linux
4 18 (30.00%) Solaris
5 17 (28.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (11.67%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.667%) AIX
7 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 17 (28.33%) Service Management
3 7 (11.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (11.67%) TOGAF
4 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (6.667%) Migration
5 4 (6.667%) Scrum
5 4 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (6.667%) Data Analysis
5 4 (6.667%) Business Analysis
5 4 (6.667%) E-Commerce
6 3 (5.000%) UML
6 3 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (3.333%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (3.333%) MVC
7 2 (3.333%) IT Governance
7 2 (3.333%) Business Continuity
7 2 (3.333%) SOA
7 2 (3.333%) OO
7 2 (3.333%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) C
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 4 (6.667%) VB.NET
3 4 (6.667%) Java
4 3 (5.000%) C#
5 2 (3.333%) Perl
5 2 (3.333%) PHP
6 1 (1.667%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.667%) MCSE
4 1 (1.667%) MCSA
4 1 (1.667%) CCNA
4 1 (1.667%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.667%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 18 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 18 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.333%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.667%) XenApp
3 1 (1.667%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.667%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.667%) Netcool
1 1 (1.667%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Cisco
1 21 (35.00%) VMware
2 19 (31.67%) Red Hat
3 18 (30.00%) IBM
4 17 (28.33%) NetApp
4 17 (28.33%) HP
5 12 (20.00%) Oracle
6 6 (10.00%) Apple
7 4 (6.667%) Microsoft
8 3 (5.000%) ATG
9 2 (3.333%) McAfee
9 2 (3.333%) Citrix
9 2 (3.333%) JBoss
10 1 (1.667%) SAP
10 1 (1.667%) Sybase
10 1 (1.667%) Dell
10 1 (1.667%) Juniper
10 1 (1.667%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.667%) Casewise
10 1 (1.667%) Sophos
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