The first table below looks at the demand for Technical Architecture skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Architecture over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Warwickshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architecture
Rank 28 23 26
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +3
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.488% 0.803% 0.966%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.694% 1.351% 1.550%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £550 - £285
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
144 148 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 70.24% 59.44% 62.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 67 48
Average daily rate £325 £325 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £239 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 17
Average hourly rate £29.00 £16.85 £30.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.10% -44.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.65 £10.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £22.90 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Technical Architecture
West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Warwickshire Technical Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Architecture across the Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Technical Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architecture
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Supplier Management
2 4 (80.00%) MSI
2 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) NetApp
4 1 (20.00%) zOS
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
4 1 (20.00%) COBIT
4 1 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) iSeries

Technical Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing Technical Architecture also 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 that cited Technical Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) VMware