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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 218 246
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 -15
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 174 243 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.06% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.19% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 167 226
10th Percentile £470 £500 £475
25th Percentile £531 £554 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +0.84%
75th Percentile £738 £694 £700
90th Percentile £845 £743 £788
UK median daily rate £646 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -0.62% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 2
10th Percentile £86.20 £61.98 £72.50
25th Percentile £86.50 £69.06 £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 £80.44 £86.23
90th Percentile - £81.45 £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 17,136 20,443 27,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.74% 89.32% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,222 14,032 18,934
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,099 1,246 1,342
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.10
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
% change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%

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 25 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 25 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 +10 52 £650 +12.17% 15
North of England +37 47 £719 +19.75% 20
North West +42 32 £694 +39.40% 13
Midlands +33 27 £550 -12.00% 25
East of England +9 20 £650 +13.04% 7
West Midlands +12 19 £613 -2.00% 12
South East -37 18 £647 -4.64% 53
Scotland +24 15 £619 +3.21% 6
Yorkshire -3 10 £719 +17.69% 3
East Midlands +15 8 £445 -15.56% 13
North East +13 5 £897 +39.60% 4
Wales +12 2 £569 -5.21% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
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 9 (5.17%) Confluence
2 7 (4.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (4.02%) Temenos T24
2 5 (2.87%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.84%) Azure
2 31 (17.82%) AWS
3 19 (10.92%) PaaS
4 16 (9.20%) SaaS
5 9 (5.17%) IaaS
6 8 (4.60%) GCP
7 7 (4.02%) Apigee
7 7 (4.02%) Kong
8 6 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.87%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.87%) Serverless
10 4 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.72%) Boomi
11 3 (1.72%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.72%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.15%) GitHub
13 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.49%) WAN
2 11 (6.32%) VoIP
3 9 (5.17%) PBX
3 9 (5.17%) SDH
4 7 (4.02%) LAN
5 4 (2.30%) Junos
5 4 (2.30%) VSAN
6 3 (1.72%) Network Security
7 2 (1.15%) 4G
7 2 (1.15%) 5G
7 2 (1.15%) BGP
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.15%) Firewall
7 2 (1.15%) OSPF
7 2 (1.15%) SAN
7 2 (1.15%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.15%) VPN
7 2 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.57%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.17%) OLAP
1 9 (5.17%) OLTP
2 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (2.30%) Metadata
5 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.15%) Power BI
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.57%) DTS
7 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (11.49%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (8.62%) JIRA
3 2 (1.15%) kappa
3 2 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.57%) JUnit
4 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.86%) Finance
3 35 (20.11%) Banking
4 33 (18.97%) Telecoms
5 27 (15.52%) Public Sector
6 23 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (8.05%) Aerospace
7 14 (8.05%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (7.47%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.02%) Aeronautics
9 7 (4.02%) Digital Economy
9 7 (4.02%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.02%) Retail
10 5 (2.87%) Marketing
11 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.72%) Automotive
12 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.72%) Electronics
12 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 139 (79.89%) Architect
2 82 (47.13%) Solutions Architect
3 31 (17.82%) Enterprise Architect
4 11 (6.32%) Lead
4 11 (6.32%) Technical Architect
5 10 (5.75%) Cloud Architect
6 9 (5.17%) Senior
7 8 (4.60%) Network Architect
8 7 (4.02%) AWS Architect
8 7 (4.02%) Business Architect
8 7 (4.02%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.02%) Lead Architect
8 7 (4.02%) Senior Architect
9 5 (2.87%) Consultant
9 5 (2.87%) Lead Enterprise Architect
10 4 (2.30%) Integration Architect
10 4 (2.30%) IT Manager
10 4 (2.30%) Salesforce Architect
10 4 (2.30%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.30%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.90%) SOAP
2 11 (6.32%) J2EE
2 11 (6.32%) Web Services
3 8 (4.60%) Kafka
3 8 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (4.02%) IBM Integration Bus
5 6 (3.45%) Apache Camel
5 6 (3.45%) Spring
5 6 (3.45%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.45%) Spring Integration
6 4 (2.30%) .NET
6 4 (2.30%) RAML
6 4 (2.30%) REST
7 3 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.72%) Middleware
8 2 (1.15%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.15%) JSON
9 1 (0.57%) JMS
9 1 (0.57%) JSON Schema
9 1 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.17%) Blackberry
2 9 (5.17%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.02%) DataPower
5 5 (2.87%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.72%) IoT
7 3 (1.72%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.15%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.72%) Windows
2 2 (1.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (39.66%) Roadmaps
2 67 (38.51%) TOGAF
3 44 (25.29%) Agile
4 41 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (22.99%) Business Strategy
6 39 (22.41%) ArchiMate
7 34 (19.54%) IT Strategy
8 31 (17.82%) Strategic Roadmap
9 29 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (16.09%) ITIL
11 27 (15.52%) Architecture Governance
12 26 (14.94%) DevOps
13 25 (14.37%) Technology Strategy
14 24 (13.79%) Migration
15 23 (13.22%) Decision-Making
16 22 (12.64%) BPMN
17 21 (12.07%) Computer Science
17 21 (12.07%) Project Delivery
18 17 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 17 (9.77%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.05%) Java
2 6 (3.45%) SQL
3 3 (1.72%) Python
4 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 49 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 33 (18.97%) Degree
4 20 (11.49%) DV Cleared
5 18 (10.34%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (6.32%) HND
7 10 (5.75%) CCNP
7 10 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.30%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.72%) MCSE
10 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.57%) CISM
12 1 (0.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) Accessibility
1 8 (4.60%) NCSC
2 4 (2.30%) NIST
3 2 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.15%) GDPR
3 2 (1.15%) GRC
3 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.15%) PMO
3 2 (1.15%) QA
4 1 (0.57%) COBIT
4 1 (0.57%) GxP
4 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.45%) vSphere
3 4 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.72%) Docker
4 3 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.87%) VxRail
3 4 (2.30%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.15%) Terraform
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.52%) IBM
3 26 (14.94%) Cisco
4 22 (12.64%) Juniper
4 22 (12.64%) Nokia
5 17 (9.77%) VMware
6 15 (8.62%) Google
7 10 (5.75%) Oracle
7 10 (5.75%) SAP
8 9 (5.17%) Avaya
8 9 (5.17%) Ericsson
8 9 (5.17%) Ribbon
9 7 (4.02%) BMC
9 7 (4.02%) Remedy
9 7 (4.02%) TSYS
10 6 (3.45%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.87%) Dell
11 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
12 4 (2.30%) Ciena
12 4 (2.30%) Sparx