Technical Architect Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. 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 22 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 advertised for the West Midlands 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Architect
Rank 90 96 65
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 9 14 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.537% 0.613% 1.840%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.581% 0.661% 1.995%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 18
Average daily rate £425 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+1.85% +8.00%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1548 2117 1704
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.31% 92.65% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 962 776
Average daily rate £325 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £457 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 165 145
Average hourly rate £19.50 £15.56 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.32% -14.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Technical Architect Daily Rate Trend

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Technical Architect Hourly Rate Trend

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 22 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
Shropshire - 2 £473 -
Birmingham +10 1 - -
Coventry - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 12 (52.17%) Migration
3 10 (43.48%) Firewall
4 9 (39.13%) Oracle
5 7 (30.43%) AIX
5 7 (30.43%) WebLogic
5 7 (30.43%) SCCM
5 7 (30.43%) Windows 7
6 6 (26.09%) Technical Architecture
6 6 (26.09%) Citrix
6 6 (26.09%) IBM
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
7 5 (21.74%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (21.74%) Windows XP
7 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (17.39%) VMware
8 4 (17.39%) MSI
8 4 (17.39%) XenApp
8 4 (17.39%) Supplier Management
9 3 (13.04%) Finance
9 3 (13.04%) AppSense
9 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
9 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
9 3 (13.04%) HPUX
10 2 (8.696%) CRM
10 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
10 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (8.696%) Windows 8
11 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (4.348%) SAP Basis
1 1 (4.348%) XML
1 1 (4.348%) .NET
1 1 (4.348%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.348%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.348%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.348%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 1 (4.348%) LAN
2 1 (4.348%) WAN
2 1 (4.348%) DHCP
2 1 (4.348%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MSI
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.348%) Back Office
2 1 (4.348%) Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) AIX
2 7 (30.43%) Windows 7
3 5 (21.74%) Windows XP
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (13.04%) HPUX
5 2 (8.696%) Windows 8
6 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.348%) Solaris
6 1 (4.348%) Linux
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Migration
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (17.39%) Supplier Management
4 2 (8.696%) CRM
4 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.348%) Master Data Management
5 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (4.348%) Project Planning
5 1 (4.348%) Data Management
5 1 (4.348%) TOGAF
5 1 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.348%) ERP
5 1 (4.348%) SOA
5 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.348%) UML
5 1 (4.348%) OO
5 1 (4.348%) ITIL
5 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.348%) C#
1 1 (4.348%) COBOL
1 1 (4.348%) Java
1 1 (4.348%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.348%) SQL
1 1 (4.348%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) XenApp
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.348%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
4 1 (4.348%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Citrix
2 6 (26.09%) IBM
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) VMware
4 3 (13.04%) AppSense
5 1 (4.348%) NetApp
5 1 (4.348%) SAP
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