West Midlands Technical Architect Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Architect
Location Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Street Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	97
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	51	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	1.699 %	1.284 %
Daily rates quoted	17	7
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£391
Average daily rate	£401	£405
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£446	£475
% change on same period last year	-6.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.67	£47.00
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£50.50
% change on same period last year	-24.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.33	£54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.77	£48.10
% change on same period last year	-9.00 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3001	3349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.057 %	3.303 %
Daily rates quoted	750	771
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£326
Average daily rate	£343	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	296	469
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.60	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£21.09	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Technical Architect England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Technical Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architect across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Architect across the West Midlands region.

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Architect across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Architect across the West Midlands region.

Technical Architect
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Shropshire	-	19	£356	-
Warwickshire	0	11	£368	-
Birmingham	+15	7	£450	+30.21 %
Herefordshire	+3	5	£430	+72.00 %
Coventry	-	1	-	-

Technical Architect England

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 32 (45.07 %) J2EE 2 26 (36.62 %) UML 3 20 (28.17 %) RUP 3 20 (28.17 %) Oracle 4 17 (23.94 %) Windows 5 15 (21.13 %) Java 6 14 (19.72 %) SQL Server 7 13 (18.31 %) OOA/OOD 8 12 (16.90 %) WebLogic 8 12 (16.90 %) HTML 8 12 (16.90 %) IBM 8 12 (16.90 %) Microsoft 8 12 (16.90 %) Government 9 10 (14.08 %) Web Development 9 10 (14.08 %) .NET

10 9 (12.68 %) SAP 10 9 (12.68 %) UNIX 10 9 (12.68 %) WebSphere 10 9 (12.68 %) Security Cleared 11 8 (11.27 %) Finance 11 8 (11.27 %) EJB 12 7 (9.859 %) SQL 12 7 (9.859 %) Active Directory 12 7 (9.859 %) SAN 13 6 (8.451 %) Local Government 13 6 (8.451 %) VMware 13 6 (8.451 %) Firewall 13 6 (8.451 %) Windows Server 2003 13 6 (8.451 %) MS Visio 13 6 (8.451 %) VMware Infrastructure

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 32 (45.07 %) J2EE 2 12 (16.90 %) HTML 3 10 (14.08 %) .NET 4 9 (12.68 %) WebSphere 5 8 (11.27 %) EJB 6 5 (7.042 %) JSP 7 4 (5.634 %) SAP Basis 7 4 (5.634 %) JSR 168 8 3 (4.225 %) Spring 8 3 (4.225 %) WBIMB 8 3 (4.225 %) XML 8 3 (4.225 %) JMS 8 3 (4.225 %) Hibernate 8 3 (4.225 %) SOAP 9 2 (2.817 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (2.817 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (1.408 %) WinForms 10 1 (1.408 %) Struts 10 1 (1.408 %) WebServices 10 1 (1.408 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 12 (16.90 %) WebLogic 2 5 (7.042 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (7.042 %) WebLogic Portal 3 3 (4.225 %) MQSeries 4 2 (2.817 %) NetWeaver 4 2 (2.817 %) ESB 5 1 (1.408 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.408 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 6 (8.451 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.408 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (9.859 %) SAN 2 6 (8.451 %) Firewall 3 2 (2.817 %) Wi-Fi 3 2 (2.817 %) Wireless 3 2 (2.817 %) GPRS 3 2 (2.817 %) DHCP 3 2 (2.817 %) VPN 3 2 (2.817 %) DNS 3 2 (2.817 %) 3G 4 1 (1.408 %) Internet 4 1 (1.408 %) LAN 4 1 (1.408 %) WAN 4 1 (1.408 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (19.72 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.225 %) TOAD 3 1 (1.408 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.408 %) GIS 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (1.408 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (1.408 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.408 %) ETL	Development Applications 1 1 (1.408 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.408 %) ClearCase 1 1 (1.408 %) NUnit
General 1 12 (16.90 %) Government 2 8 (11.27 %) Finance 3 6 (8.451 %) Local Government 4 3 (4.225 %) Automotive 5 2 (2.817 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.408 %) Construction	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.225 %) Thin Client 1 3 (4.225 %) Clustering 1 3 (4.225 %) Fat Client 2 2 (2.817 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 17 (23.94 %) Windows 2 9 (12.68 %) UNIX 3 6 (8.451 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (7.042 %) Windows XP 5 3 (4.225 %) Red Hat Linux 5 3 (4.225 %) Windows NT 5 3 (4.225 %) Linux 6 2 (2.817 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (1.408 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (36.62 %) UML 2 20 (28.17 %) RUP 3 13 (18.31 %) OOA/OOD 4 10 (14.08 %) Web Development 5 9 (12.68 %) Security Cleared 6 5 (7.042 %) Use Case 6 5 (7.042 %) Project Management 6 5 (7.042 %) Service Management 6 5 (7.042 %) Content Management 7 4 (5.634 %) ERP 7 4 (5.634 %) OOD 7 4 (5.634 %) SOA 7 4 (5.634 %) Supply Chain Management 7 4 (5.634 %) Technical Architecture 8 3 (4.225 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (2.817 %) SAP Implementation 9 2 (2.817 %) Network Load Balancing 9 2 (2.817 %) Migration 9 2 (2.817 %) Change Management 10 1 (1.408 %) Data Security
Programming Languages 1 15 (21.13 %) Java 2 7 (9.859 %) SQL 3 2 (2.817 %) C# 3 2 (2.817 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 1 (1.408 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.225 %) QA 2 1 (1.408 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 7 (9.859 %) Active Directory 2 6 (8.451 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.408 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 1 (1.408 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 20 (28.17 %) Oracle 2 12 (16.90 %) IBM 2 12 (16.90 %) Microsoft 3 9 (12.68 %) SAP 4 6 (8.451 %) VMware 5 5 (7.042 %) Adobe 6 4 (5.634 %) Citrix 6 4 (5.634 %) Pega 7 3 (4.225 %) Red Hat 7 3 (4.225 %) webMethods 7 3 (4.225 %) BEA 7 3 (4.225 %) Cisco 8 2 (2.817 %) Sun 8 2 (2.817 %) HP 9 1 (1.408 %) Dell 9 1 (1.408 %) CA 9 1 (1.408 %) Mercator 9 1 (1.408 %) ESRI 9 1 (1.408 %) CheckPoint