Enterprise Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Enterprise Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 231 252
Rank change year-on-year -8 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 160 233 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.99% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.11% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 162 233
10th Percentile £489 £506 £463
25th Percentile £531 £556 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +0.84%
75th Percentile £738 £697 £700
90th Percentile £849 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £648 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -0.31% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £86.20 £57.48 £72.50
25th Percentile £86.50 - £75.12
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.49% +68.78%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.81 £86.23
90th Percentile - £81.55 £87.42
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -3.57% -14.49% +68.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Enterprise 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South West +19 52 £650 +6.12% 15
North of England +21 39 £725 +17.89% 31
North West +23 25 £675 +12.50% 18
Midlands +28 20 £570 -5.00% 12
East of England +5 19 £663 +4.74% 5
South East -18 19 £647 -4.64% 14
West Midlands +18 17 £570 -8.80% 5
Scotland +34 15 £619 +3.21% 8
Yorkshire +3 9 £800 +30.48% 4
North East +13 5 £897 +39.60% 9
East Midlands +22 3 £765 +45.71% 7
Wales +16 2 £569 +19.74% 3
Enterprise Architecture
UK

Enterprise Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (3.75%) Confluence
2 5 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.13%) Temenos T24
3 4 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.63%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.63%) Azure
2 26 (16.25%) AWS
3 17 (10.63%) PaaS
4 15 (9.38%) SaaS
5 8 (5.00%) GCP
6 7 (4.38%) IaaS
7 6 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.13%) Apigee
8 5 (3.13%) Kong
8 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.13%) Serverless
9 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.88%) iPaaS
10 3 (1.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.25%) GitHub
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.63%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.13%) WAN
2 11 (6.88%) VoIP
3 9 (5.63%) PBX
3 9 (5.63%) SDH
4 8 (5.00%) LAN
5 4 (2.50%) Junos
5 4 (2.50%) VSAN
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.88%) Network Security
7 2 (1.25%) 4G
7 2 (1.25%) 5G
7 2 (1.25%) BGP
7 2 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.25%) Firewall
7 2 (1.25%) OSPF
7 2 (1.25%) SAN
7 2 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.25%) VPN
7 2 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.38%) OLAP
1 7 (4.38%) OLTP
2 5 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.13%) Oracle OLAP
3 4 (2.50%) Metadata
4 3 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.25%) Power BI
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.63%) DTS
6 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (8.13%) JIRA
3 2 (1.25%) kappa
3 2 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.13%) Finance
3 33 (20.63%) Telecoms
4 28 (17.50%) Banking
4 28 (17.50%) Public Sector
5 23 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (8.75%) Aerospace
7 14 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.00%) Marketing
9 7 (4.38%) Aeronautics
9 7 (4.38%) Digital Economy
9 7 (4.38%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.38%) Retail
10 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Electronics
10 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Automotive
11 2 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 127 (79.38%) Architect
2 70 (43.75%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (18.75%) Enterprise Architect
4 11 (6.88%) Senior
5 9 (5.63%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (5.63%) Network Architect
5 9 (5.63%) Technical Architect
6 8 (5.00%) Lead
7 7 (4.38%) Senior Architect
8 6 (3.75%) Business Architect
8 6 (3.75%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.13%) AWS Architect
10 4 (2.50%) Consultant
10 4 (2.50%) IT Manager
10 4 (2.50%) ITSM Specialist
10 4 (2.50%) Salesforce Architect
10 4 (2.50%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 4 (2.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.50%) Service Management Specialist
10 4 (2.50%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.63%) Web Services
2 8 (5.00%) J2EE
3 7 (4.38%) SOAP
4 6 (3.75%) Kafka
4 6 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (3.13%) IBM Integration Bus
6 4 (2.50%) .NET
6 4 (2.50%) Apache Camel
6 4 (2.50%) Spring
6 4 (2.50%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.50%) Spring Integration
7 3 (1.88%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.88%) Middleware
8 2 (1.25%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.25%) JSON
9 1 (0.63%) gRPC
9 1 (0.63%) JSON Schema
9 1 (0.63%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.63%) RAML
9 1 (0.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.63%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.63%) Blackberry
2 9 (5.63%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.13%) DataPower
5 5 (3.13%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.88%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.88%) IoT
7 3 (1.88%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.25%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.25%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Windows
2 2 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (41.25%) TOGAF
2 62 (38.75%) Roadmaps
3 40 (25.00%) ArchiMate
3 40 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (23.75%) Agile
5 32 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 30 (18.75%) ITIL
7 29 (18.13%) IT Strategy
8 28 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (16.88%) Architecture Governance
10 26 (16.25%) Decision-Making
11 24 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
12 23 (14.38%) DevOps
12 23 (14.38%) Project Delivery
13 22 (13.75%) BPMN
13 22 (13.75%) Migration
14 21 (13.13%) Computer Science
15 20 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
16 18 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (11.25%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.88%) Java
2 5 (3.13%) SQL
3 3 (1.88%) Python
4 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 43 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 35 (21.88%) Degree
4 20 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 18 (11.25%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (6.88%) HND
7 10 (6.25%) CCNP
7 10 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.50%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.88%) MCSE
10 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.25%) PMP
12 1 (0.63%) CISSP
12 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) NCSC
2 5 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.50%) NIST
4 2 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.25%) GDPR
4 2 (1.25%) GRC
4 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.25%) PMO
5 1 (0.63%) COBIT
5 1 (0.63%) GxP
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.63%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 12 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.75%) vSphere
3 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (3.13%) VxRail
2 4 (2.50%) vCenter Server
3 3 (1.88%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.25%) Terraform
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.88%) Cisco
3 25 (15.63%) IBM
4 22 (13.75%) Juniper
4 22 (13.75%) Nokia
5 17 (10.63%) VMware
6 15 (9.38%) Google
7 10 (6.25%) SAP
8 9 (5.63%) Avaya
8 9 (5.63%) Ericsson
8 9 (5.63%) Ribbon
9 8 (5.00%) Oracle
10 7 (4.38%) BMC
10 7 (4.38%) Remedy
11 6 (3.75%) Palo Alto
12 5 (3.13%) Dell
12 5 (3.13%) Sparx
12 5 (3.13%) TSYS
13 4 (2.50%) Ciena
13 4 (2.50%) Salesforce