Technical Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 96 128
Rank change year-on-year +3 +32 +19
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 4 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.77% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.92% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile - £512 -
25th Percentile £419 £619 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -38.77% +36.36% -9.09%
75th Percentile £522 £788 £675
90th Percentile £596 £881 £750
England median daily rate £615 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.96% -3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture 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
Coventry +9 2 £438 -12.50% 1
Shropshire -3 1 £630 +57.50% 2
Solihull - 1 £481 -
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
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 (25.00%) NetWeaver
1 1 (25.00%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) UniData
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Network Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (25.00%) SAP PI
1 1 (25.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ABAP
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Aruba
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Mitel
2 1 (25.00%) Ariba
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SAP