The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design 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 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Architect
Rank 532 558 572
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Architect 9 7 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.012% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.013% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
Average daily rate £448 £505 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.38% +22.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £487 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £545 £624
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Technical Design Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Technical Design Architect Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Design Architect within the UK.

Technical Design Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Design Architect
Top 13 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 UK 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
England +47 8 £448 -11.38%
London +32 4 £425 -15.84%
South West - 3 £470 -
Corsham - 2 £470 -
Wiltshire - 2 £470 -
Belfast -3 1 - -
County Antrim -3 1 - -
Northern Ireland -4 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Greenwich - 1 £425 -
Essex - 1 £400 -
Chelmsford - 1 £400 -
Bristol - 1 £470 -

Technical Design Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) VMware
4 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
4 4 (26.67%) NAS
5 3 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 3 (20.00%) HPUX
5 3 (20.00%) Linux
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (20.00%) SCCM
5 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) IBM
6 2 (13.33%) Finance
6 2 (13.33%) Local Government
6 2 (13.33%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) UNIX
6 2 (13.33%) Extranet

Technical Design Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) Middleware
1 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Lync
1 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) Office 365
2 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Maximo
1 1 (6.667%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 4 (26.67%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) Extranet
4 1 (6.667%) DNS
4 1 (6.667%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (6.667%) DataStage
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Local Government
2 1 (6.667%) Military
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Video Conferencing
1 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (6.667%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.667%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (20.00%) HPUX
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
1 5 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (6.667%) Security Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.667%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.667%) XenApp
4 1 (6.667%) XenServer
4 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (6.667%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.667%) Netcool
2 1 (6.667%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (6.667%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.667%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
4 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
5 1 (6.667%) 3PAR
5 1 (6.667%) Cisco
5 1 (6.667%) Symantec
5 1 (6.667%) Remedy
5 1 (6.667%) BMC
5 1 (6.667%) Brocade