Technical Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Technical Architecture
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 130 139
Rank change year-on-year +31 +9 -33
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 15 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.50% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.56% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 17
10th Percentile £512 - £477
25th Percentile £619 £550 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £613 £605
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +1.24% +18.05%
75th Percentile £788 £716 £688
90th Percentile £881 £766 £730
England median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +12.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,621 2,126 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.55% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,460 2,360
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £484
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.43% +16.75%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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
Warwickshire +10 9 £750 -6.25%
Birmingham +9 4 £638 -5.56% 1
Shropshire - 1 £400 -
Coventry - 1 £500 -
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (6.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (6.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) LAN
1 6 (40.00%) MPLS
1 6 (40.00%) PBX
1 6 (40.00%) VoIP
1 6 (40.00%) VPN
1 6 (40.00%) WAN
1 6 (40.00%) WLAN
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (33.33%) DHCP
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) Internet
2 5 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) IPsec
3 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.67%) SSL
General
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (13.33%) Billing
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Architect
2 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Market Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) IoT
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Analytics
1 7 (46.67%) SOA
2 6 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 6 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 6 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 6 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 6 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 6 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (13.33%) Business Transformation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Management
6 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Perl
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CCIE
1 6 (40.00%) CCIE Data Center
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 5 (33.33%) Symantec
2 5 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) VMware