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The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 19 June 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 currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 244 198 254
Rank change year-on-year
-46 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 354 517 427
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.736% 0.891% 0.686%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.798% 0.963% 0.741%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 322 217
Average daily rate £450 £469 £462
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +1.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £360 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £571
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £453
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 5
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +6.93%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Technical Architect Hourly Rate Histogram

Technical Architect
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
England -48 340 £450 -5.26% 95
London -23 176 £457 -9.52% 55
South East -14 74 £425 -5.55% 11
City of London -13 43 £500 -0.99% 14
Hampshire +1 27 £404 -13.11% 1
South West +46 25 £475 +2.70% 8
Berkshire +3 25 £500 +11.11% 2
East of England +9 16 £425 -4.22% 4
North West -7 16 £381 -10.29% 9
Reading +6 15 £513 +25.15% 1
Cheshire -6 11 £375 -3.16% 3
Buckinghamshire -9 11 £375 -6.25% 2
Wiltshire - 10 £450 - 2
Bristol +25 9 £500 +14.28% 5
West Midlands +9 9 £425 -5.55% 3
Midlands +13 7 - -
Portsmouth -6 7 - - 1
Cambridgeshire +14 6 £413 -
Essex +2 6 - -
Milton Keynes -4 6 £400 - 1
Yorkshire -17 6 £425 +13.33% 2
Cambridge - 6 £413 -
Birmingham +11 5 £320 -28.88% 2
Surrey +7 5 £500 +25.00% 2
East Midlands -2 5 £395 -13.42% 1
Gloucestershire +25 4 £575 - 1
Edinburgh -1 4 £335 -4.28%
Basingstoke -3 4 £375 -
Scotland -19 4 £335 -17.79%
West Sussex +7 3 £450 -

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 201 (28.67%) Windows
2 148 (21.11%) Oracle
3 125 (17.83%) Microsoft
3 125 (17.83%) VMware
4 110 (15.69%) Java
5 106 (15.12%) Citrix
6 97 (13.84%) Security Cleared
7 96 (13.69%) Technical Architecture
8 93 (13.27%) SQL
9 85 (12.13%) Linux
10 83 (11.84%) Cisco
11 82 (11.70%) Migration
11 82 (11.70%) TOGAF
12 79 (11.27%) Finance
13 77 (10.98%) .NET
14 76 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
15 73 (10.41%) SAN
16 72 (10.27%) UNIX
17 70 (9.986%) Active Directory
18 69 (9.843%) Enterprise Architecture
19 66 (9.415%) SQL Server
20 62 (8.845%) ITIL
20 62 (8.845%) SC Cleared
21 60 (8.559%) Firewall
22 59 (8.417%) IBM
23 55 (7.846%) Web Services
23 55 (7.846%) Hyper-V
24 52 (7.418%) HP
24 52 (7.418%) Project Management
25 51 (7.275%) Banking

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 77 (10.98%) .NET
2 55 (7.846%) Web Services
3 40 (5.706%) XML
4 37 (5.278%) J2EE
5 34 (4.850%) WebSphere
6 29 (4.137%) Middleware
7 26 (3.709%) Spring
8 23 (3.281%) SOAP
9 18 (2.568%) ASP.NET
9 18 (2.568%) REST
10 17 (2.425%) HTML
10 17 (2.425%) CSS
11 12 (1.712%) JMS
12 11 (1.569%) WCF
12 11 (1.569%) RESTful
12 11 (1.569%) HTML5
12 11 (1.569%) Hibernate
12 11 (1.569%) Ajax
12 11 (1.569%) .NET Framework
13 10 (1.427%) Mason
Application Platforms
1 37 (5.278%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.565%) MS Exchange
3 27 (3.852%) Apache
4 20 (2.853%) CMS
5 16 (2.282%) WebLogic
6 14 (1.997%) ESB
7 12 (1.712%) Lync
8 11 (1.569%) IIS
9 10 (1.427%) Windows Azure
9 10 (1.427%) Amazon AWS
9 10 (1.427%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (1.284%) BizTalk Server
10 9 (1.284%) Tomcat
11 8 (1.141%) Exchange Server 2003
12 7 (0.999%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (0.999%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.999%) CloudStack
12 7 (0.999%) Exchange Server 2010
12 7 (0.999%) NetWeaver
12 7 (0.999%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 32 (4.565%) MS Excel
2 9 (1.284%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.999%) MS Office
4 4 (0.571%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.143%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 12 (1.712%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.999%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (0.571%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.571%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.428%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.285%) Maximo
5 2 (0.285%) SAP SRM
5 2 (0.285%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.285%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.285%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.143%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.143%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.143%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.143%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.143%) Oracle CRM
6 1 (0.143%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 73 (10.41%) SAN
2 60 (8.559%) Firewall
3 41 (5.849%) LAN
4 38 (5.421%) WAN
5 21 (2.996%) Internet
6 19 (2.710%) HTTP
7 17 (2.425%) NAS
7 17 (2.425%) Ethernet
8 14 (1.997%) Intranet
8 14 (1.997%) LDAP
8 14 (1.997%) DNS
9 12 (1.712%) Network Security
10 11 (1.569%) VoIP
10 11 (1.569%) VPN
10 11 (1.569%) Wireless
11 10 (1.427%) NetScaler
12 9 (1.284%) Unified Communications
12 9 (1.284%) DHCP
12 9 (1.284%) SSL
13 8 (1.141%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.415%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.994%) Oracle 11g
3 25 (3.566%) Oracle 8/8i
4 17 (2.425%) DB2
5 16 (2.282%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.997%) MySQL
7 13 (1.854%) SQL Server 2005
8 12 (1.712%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (1.712%) SQL Server 2008
9 11 (1.569%) Oracle BI EE
9 11 (1.569%) Oracle ODI
10 9 (1.284%) EDRMS
11 8 (1.141%) GIS
11 8 (1.141%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.999%) MarkLogic
12 7 (0.999%) Oracle 10g
12 7 (0.999%) Oracle OWB
13 6 (0.856%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.856%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.856%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (1.854%) JUnit
2 10 (1.427%) Subversion
3 9 (1.284%) Git (software)
3 9 (1.284%) Maven
4 7 (0.999%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (0.999%) Eclipse
5 6 (0.856%) JMeter
6 5 (0.713%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.713%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.713%) Ant
7 4 (0.571%) MSI
7 4 (0.571%) Selenium
7 4 (0.571%) Talend Open Studio
7 4 (0.571%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.428%) TestNG
8 3 (0.428%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.428%) EasyMock
8 3 (0.428%) jMock
8 3 (0.428%) FitNesse
8 3 (0.428%) Visual Studio
General
1 79 (11.27%) Finance
2 51 (7.275%) Banking
3 41 (5.849%) Retail
4 26 (3.709%) Telecoms
5 15 (2.140%) Publishing
5 15 (2.140%) Manufacturing
6 14 (1.997%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.712%) Marketing
8 6 (0.856%) Front Office
8 6 (0.856%) Back Office
9 4 (0.571%) Legal
9 4 (0.571%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.571%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.428%) French Language
11 2 (0.285%) Law
11 2 (0.285%) Advertising
11 2 (0.285%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.285%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.285%) German Language
11 2 (0.285%) Italian Language
Miscellaneous
1 20 (2.853%) Management Information System
2 19 (2.710%) Open Source
2 19 (2.710%) SaaS
2 19 (2.710%) Mainframe
3 17 (2.425%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (2.140%) Computer Science
5 14 (1.997%) NHS
5 14 (1.997%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.854%) IaaS
6 13 (1.854%) PaaS
7 12 (1.712%) Data Integration
8 11 (1.569%) Clustering
9 10 (1.427%) Thin Client
9 10 (1.427%) Fat Client
10 9 (1.284%) IBM Mainframe
10 9 (1.284%) iPad
10 9 (1.284%) Mathematics
11 8 (1.141%) Cryptography
11 8 (1.141%) Physics
12 7 (0.999%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 201 (28.67%) Windows
2 85 (12.13%) Linux
3 72 (10.27%) UNIX
4 46 (6.562%) Windows Server 2008
5 39 (5.563%) Windows 7
6 30 (4.280%) AIX
6 30 (4.280%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (3.852%) Solaris
8 18 (2.568%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (1.427%) Apple iOS
10 9 (1.284%) Windows XP
11 7 (0.999%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.856%) Windows 8
13 5 (0.713%) Android
13 5 (0.713%) HPUX
14 4 (0.571%) CentOS
14 4 (0.571%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.428%) Windows NT
16 2 (0.285%) Windows Vista
16 2 (0.285%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (13.69%) Technical Architecture
2 82 (11.70%) Migration
2 82 (11.70%) TOGAF
3 69 (9.843%) Enterprise Architecture
4 62 (8.845%) ITIL
5 52 (7.418%) Project Management
6 43 (6.134%) SOA
7 31 (4.422%) UML
8 29 (4.137%) Service Management
8 29 (4.137%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (4.137%) Data Modelling
8 29 (4.137%) E-Commerce
9 28 (3.994%) Agile Software Development
10 25 (3.566%) Scrum
11 24 (3.424%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (3.138%) ETL
13 21 (2.996%) CRM
14 19 (2.710%) Service Delivery
15 18 (2.568%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (2.425%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 110 (15.69%) Java
2 93 (13.27%) SQL
3 35 (4.993%) C
4 24 (3.424%) C#
5 23 (3.281%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.282%) C++
7 13 (1.854%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.712%) PHP
9 11 (1.569%) Perl
9 11 (1.569%) VB
10 10 (1.427%) XPath
10 10 (1.427%) XQuery
10 10 (1.427%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.284%) Python
12 8 (1.141%) Ruby
13 7 (0.999%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.856%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.713%) Bash shell
16 4 (0.571%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.571%) Scala
Qualifications
1 97 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 62 (8.845%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.993%) DV Cleared
4 30 (4.280%) Degree
5 25 (3.566%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.568%) MCSE
7 16 (2.282%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.712%) MCITP
8 12 (1.712%) CCNA
9 9 (1.284%) MCTS
9 9 (1.284%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (0.999%) Citrix Certification
11 6 (0.856%) ISEB
11 6 (0.856%) CCA
12 5 (0.713%) VCP4
12 5 (0.713%) MCP
12 5 (0.713%) MCSA
13 4 (0.571%) CCNP
14 3 (0.428%) CISSP
14 3 (0.428%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.853%) QA
2 14 (1.997%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.285%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.143%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.143%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.143%) SLA
4 1 (0.143%) COBIT
4 1 (0.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 76 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (9.986%) Active Directory
3 55 (7.846%) Hyper-V
4 39 (5.563%) XenApp
5 25 (3.566%) XenDesktop
6 23 (3.281%) XenServer
7 17 (2.425%) vSphere
8 16 (2.282%) Microsoft App-V
9 12 (1.712%) Xen
10 10 (1.427%) VMware ESX
11 9 (1.284%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.713%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.571%) UAG
13 4 (0.571%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.428%) Varnish
15 1 (0.143%) Apache Flume
15 1 (0.143%) vCloud
15 1 (0.143%) MetaFrame
15 1 (0.143%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
15 1 (0.143%) NFS
Systems Management
1 23 (3.281%) SCCM
2 16 (2.282%) SCOM
3 7 (0.999%) Puppet
3 7 (0.999%) OpenView
4 6 (0.856%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (0.713%) Tivoli
6 3 (0.428%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 3 (0.428%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (0.428%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 3 (0.428%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 2 (0.285%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.285%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.285%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 2 (0.285%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.143%) AppDNA
8 1 (0.143%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.143%) Splunk
8 1 (0.143%) Sysprep
8 1 (0.143%) HP SIM
8 1 (0.143%) Nagios
Vendors
1 148 (21.11%) Oracle
2 125 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 125 (17.83%) VMware
3 106 (15.12%) Citrix
4 83 (11.84%) Cisco
5 59 (8.417%) IBM
6 52 (7.418%) HP
7 37 (5.278%) Red Hat
8 33 (4.708%) NetApp
9 32 (4.565%) SAP
10 21 (2.996%) Informatica
11 19 (2.710%) Salesforce.com
12 13 (1.854%) AppSense
12 13 (1.854%) Google
13 10 (1.427%) ATG
14 9 (1.284%) Sitecore
14 9 (1.284%) hybris
14 9 (1.284%) Apple
14 9 (1.284%) Sun
15 8 (1.141%) EMC
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Technical Architect
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Technical Architect - .NET/JAVA/J2EE/Agile
London
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Rate: £500 - £575 per day
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Technical SME/Architect, London Banking.
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: market rates
Posted: 14 June 2013
Technical Architect - Banking - 550/day - London
South East London
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Flexcube Technical Solution Architect
City, London
TEKsystems
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Microsoft Technical Architect
East London
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 5 June 2013
Technical Solution Architect
City, London
TEKsystems
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Technical/Solutions Architect
Bristol, Avon
Experis IT
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Agile Technical Architect - Finance - London
London
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £750 - £850 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Oracle Technical Architect, 11g Exadata
City of London
Claremont Consulting
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 6 June 2013
Infrastructure Technical Architect
Chessington, Surrey
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £425 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
DV Cleared Technical & Security Architect
City of London
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £600 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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London
i4 Recruitment
Rate: £200 - 400 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
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City, London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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North West London
Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Rate: From £400 to £420 per day
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