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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 120 147
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 -26
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 11 9 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.41% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.46% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 19
10th Percentile £583 £524 £486
25th Percentile £619 £541 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -18.52% +50.00%
75th Percentile £775 £613 £694
90th Percentile - £725 £775
England median daily rate £588 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +9.27%

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 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +2 7 £750 -6.25%
Birmingham +12 3 £638 - 1
Coventry +10 1 £500 -4.76% 1
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 (18.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) IaaS
1 1 (9.09%) PaaS
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
1 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
1 6 (54.55%) MPLS
1 6 (54.55%) PBX
1 6 (54.55%) VoIP
1 6 (54.55%) VPN
1 6 (54.55%) WAN
1 6 (54.55%) WLAN
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (45.45%) DHCP
2 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) Internet
2 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) IPsec
3 1 (9.09%) Kerberos
3 1 (9.09%) SSL
General
1 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) JSON
2 2 (18.18%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) SOA
2 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 6 (54.55%) Architectural Design
2 6 (54.55%) Customer Requirements
2 6 (54.55%) Data Analytics
2 6 (54.55%) ITIL
2 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
2 6 (54.55%) Network Architecture
2 6 (54.55%) Performance Management
2 6 (54.55%) Programme Management
2 6 (54.55%) Resource Management
2 6 (54.55%) Storage Management
3 5 (45.45%) Project Delivery
3 5 (45.45%) TOGAF
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Business Transformation
4 2 (18.18%) Revenue Recognition
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CCIE
1 6 (54.55%) CCIE Data Center
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) CheckPoint
2 5 (45.45%) Infoblox
2 5 (45.45%) Palo Alto
2 5 (45.45%) Symantec
2 5 (45.45%) Zscaler
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow