Technical Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 84 149
Rank change year-on-year -12 +65 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 10 45 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.53% 1.99% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 2.11% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 30 20
10th Percentile £435 £634 £448
25th Percentile £525 £700 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £745 £579
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% +28.73% +65.36%
75th Percentile £750 - £638
90th Percentile £758 £813 £699
England median daily rate £650 £678 £645
% change year-on-year -4.13% +5.12% +17.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,733 2,135 3,434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 94.59% 96.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,459 2,490
10th Percentile £255 £250 £225
25th Percentile £360 £386 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 75
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.47 £14.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.38 £23.15
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 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
Birmingham -15 5 £650 -12.75% 2
Shropshire - 2 £425 -
Warwickshire +2 1 £625 -15.25%
Solihull - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £750 - 1
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) QA
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (20.00%) Data Science
2 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (10.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (10.00%) SDLC
3 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware