Technical Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 102 93
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 6 9 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.46% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.51% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 27
10th Percentile £465 £430 £623
25th Percentile £563 £500 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £600 £745
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -19.46% +22.13%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £773
90th Percentile £755 £750 £813
England median daily rate £625 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.46% - +6.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +14 2 £725 +11.54% 5
Coventry - 2 £400 -
Warwickshire +3 1 £575 -8.00%
Shropshire -4 1 £630 +48.24% 1
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SAP PI
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (16.67%) SAPUI5
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) NetWeaver
1 1 (16.67%) SAP EP
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (16.67%) SAP PI
1 1 (16.67%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) ABAP
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Ariba
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) SAP