The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design Authority 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 Authority in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Authority (TDA)
Rank 521 549 555
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Authority 8 35 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.060% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.065% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 12
Average daily rate £525 £428 £435
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.80% -1.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £377 £420 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £505 £645
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £425 £435
% change year-on-year
+23.52% -2.29%
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
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
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 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Technical Design Authority
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Technical Design Authority Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Design Authority
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Design Authority within the UK.

Technical Design Authority Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design Authority
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Design Authority within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Technical Design Authority Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Design Authority
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Design Authority Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Design Authority
Top 10 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 Authority within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +24 7 £525 +21.38%
London +27 3 £515 +2.48%
South East +9 3 £450 +5.88%
Berkshire +14 2 £450 +5.88%
South West +27 1 £525 +23.52%
Hampshire -9 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 £525 -
Belfast - 1 - -
County Antrim - 1 - -

Technical Design Authority
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Design Authority 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 Authority in their job title.

1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Windows
4 3 (17.65%) IBM
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) EMC
4 3 (17.65%) SAN
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.76%) Workflow
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Middleware
5 2 (11.76%) EDRMS
5 2 (11.76%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
5 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 2 (11.76%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
5 2 (11.76%) HTML
5 2 (11.76%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning

Technical Design Authority
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Design Authority 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 Authority in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 1 (5.882%) JPA
3 1 (5.882%) CSS
3 1 (5.882%) SOAP
3 1 (5.882%) Web Services
3 1 (5.882%) SVG
3 1 (5.882%) Spring
3 1 (5.882%) JSF
3 1 (5.882%) Ajax
3 1 (5.882%) JSON
3 1 (5.882%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (5.882%) Lync
2 1 (5.882%) Apache
2 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 9iAS
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (5.882%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) Office 365
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) SAN
2 1 (5.882%) LAN
2 1 (5.882%) VoIP
2 1 (5.882%) WAN
2 1 (5.882%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) EDRMS
2 1 (5.882%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.882%) DataStage
2 1 (5.882%) GIS
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.882%) AIX
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.76%) Workflow
2 2 (11.76%) Project Management
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
2 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.882%) Content Management
3 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.882%) Release Management
3 1 (5.882%) Validation
3 1 (5.882%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
1 2 (11.76%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) XenServer
1 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) IBM
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) EMC
2 2 (11.76%) Citrix
3 1 (5.882%) Demandware
3 1 (5.882%) hybris
3 1 (5.882%) 3PAR
3 1 (5.882%) Meridio
3 1 (5.882%) Symantec
3 1 (5.882%) McAfee
3 1 (5.882%) Sophos
3 1 (5.882%) ATG
3 1 (5.882%) VMware
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