The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design 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 Design Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Architect
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.149% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.159% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £470 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £470 - £390
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1891 3019 2707
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.08% 93.04% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1135 1811 1344
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 136 187 244
Average hourly rate £15.30 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.80 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £38.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Design Architect
England

Technical Design Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Technical Design Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Design Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Design Architect across the South West region.

South West Technical Design Architect Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design 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 Design Architect within the South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Wiltshire - 2 £470 -
Bristol - 1 £470 -
Technical Design Architect
England

Technical Design Architect
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Technical Design 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 Design Architect in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Military
3 1 (33.33%) Maximo
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) BMC
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (33.33%) Netcool
3 1 (33.33%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 1 (33.33%) Remedy
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

Technical Design Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Technical Design 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 Design Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 1 (33.33%) Netcool
1 1 (33.33%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) BMC
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy