Technical Architecture Contracts in the South West

Technical Architecture
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 149 137
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 12 18 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.38% 0.50% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.55% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 34
10th Percentile £557 £577 £473
25th Percentile £563 £597 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £594 £696 £670
90th Percentile £609 £748 £776
England median daily rate £588 £605 £625
% change year-on-year -2.89% -3.20% +10.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the South West

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the South West

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the South West

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the South West

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +19 5 £575 -14.81% 7
Gloucestershire +10 5 £588 +2.17% 1
Wiltshire -6 1 £675 +3.85%
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Architect
2 8 (66.67%) Technical Architect
3 3 (25.00%) IT Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) ArchiMate
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 4 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Product Management
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (16.67%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Degree
3 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 4 (33.33%) NCSC
2 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco