The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex 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 Sussex 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 39 46 44
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 3 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.771% 1.502% 1.364%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.831% 1.572% 1.478%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
Average daily rate £450 £450 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.34%
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 Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
361 636 406
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 92.80% 95.50% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 378 194
Average daily rate £380 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £490 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 45
Average hourly rate £25.38 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.34% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £32.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Architect
South East

Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex Technical Architect Daily 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 Sussex 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
Crawley +3 2 £450 -2.70%
Horsham +7 1 - -
Technical Architect
South East

Technical Architect
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) MCP
2 2 (50.00%) MCSD
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) SAP

Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCP
1 2 (50.00%) MCSD
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) SAP