Technical Architecture Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 139 156
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 10 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £505 £443 £350
25th Percentile £513 £544 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £512
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.30% -5.28%
75th Percentile £540 - £550
90th Percentile £651 - £653
South East median daily rate £500 £615 £588
% change year-on-year -18.70% +4.68% +7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,650 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.60% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,849 2,109
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.18
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Berkshire +5 9 £525 +31.25% 2
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £700 +16.67% 2
Technical Architecture
South East

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) 4G
1 3 (30.00%) 5G
1 3 (30.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 5 (50.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Consultant
2 5 (50.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 5 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
2 5 (50.00%) SAP Technical Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) SAP Basis
1 5 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) IoT
1 3 (30.00%) NB-IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (50.00%) High Availability
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Data Conversion
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Kenna
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce