Enterprise Architect Contracts

Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK is £695 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 343 417
Rank change year-on-year +7 +74 -24
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 264 427 499
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.71% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.75% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 309 334
10th Percentile £490 £550 £513
25th Percentile £576 £617 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +3.70% +1.89%
75th Percentile £779 £800 £775
90th Percentile £850 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £72.50
25th Percentile - £70.00 £75.12
Median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -6.30% -
75th Percentile - £81.50 £86.23
90th Percentile - £81.79 £87.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
% change year-on-year - -6.30% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Enterprise Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architect within the UK 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
England +14 225 £700 - 62
London +59 135 £700 -3.78% 34
Work from Home +38 103 £663 -4.47% 27
UK excluding London -5 90 £675 +3.85% 25
Midlands +40 26 £750 +15.38% 4
West Midlands +43 25 £750 +15.38% 4
North of England +17 25 £650 - 6
South East 0 15 £750 +15.38% 5
Yorkshire +17 12 £635 -2.31% 4
North West +11 10 £638 -1.92% 2
South West -19 10 £660 +1.54% 6
Scotland +12 7 £775 +3.33% 2
East of England +2 7 £650 -17.46% 1
North East +18 3 £897 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -
East Midlands +17 1 £595 -14.70%

Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Enterprise 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 featuring Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 99 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 84 (31.82%) Roadmaps
3 61 (23.11%) Finance
3 61 (23.11%) TOGAF
4 50 (18.94%) IT Strategy
5 48 (18.18%) Public Sector
6 46 (17.42%) Social Skills
7 38 (14.39%) Data Modelling
8 37 (14.02%) Security Cleared
9 36 (13.64%) Data Architecture
10 35 (13.26%) Azure
11 33 (12.50%) SC Cleared
12 32 (12.12%) Business Strategy
13 30 (11.36%) Agile
14 29 (10.98%) Data Management
15 28 (10.61%) Technology Strategy
16 27 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
16 27 (10.23%) Telecoms
17 26 (9.85%) Analytics
17 26 (9.85%) Architectural Design
18 25 (9.47%) Microsoft
19 24 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
19 24 (9.09%) SAP
19 24 (9.09%) Banking
20 23 (8.71%) Sparx
21 22 (8.33%) Data Strategy
21 22 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
21 22 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
21 22 (8.33%) Degree
22 21 (7.95%) Data Governance

Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) Drupal
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (4.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.52%) Avolution ABACUS
4 3 (1.14%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.26%) Azure
2 15 (5.68%) AWS
3 13 (4.92%) SaaS
4 12 (4.55%) IaaS
5 11 (4.17%) PaaS
6 7 (2.65%) Akamai
6 7 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.65%) Cloudflare
6 7 (2.65%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.27%) GCP
8 4 (1.52%) Serverless
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.76%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.76%) OCI
10 2 (0.76%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.76%) SAP Fieldglass
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon Neptune
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.79%) Firewall
2 8 (3.03%) DNS
3 6 (2.27%) SAN
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.89%) DHCP
4 5 (1.89%) Internet
4 5 (1.89%) LAN
4 5 (1.89%) MPLS
4 5 (1.89%) PBX
4 5 (1.89%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.89%) VoIP
4 5 (1.89%) VPN
4 5 (1.89%) WAN
4 5 (1.89%) WLAN
5 4 (1.52%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.14%) Network Security
7 2 (0.76%) SCCP
8 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.82%) Metadata
2 11 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.27%) Power BI
5 5 (1.89%) Data Vault
6 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.14%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.14%) OLAP
7 3 (1.14%) OLTP
7 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.14%) Tableau
8 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.76%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.76%) QlikView
8 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.38%) DTS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.79%) ERwin
2 2 (0.76%) kappa
General
1 61 (23.11%) Finance
2 48 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 46 (17.42%) Social Skills
4 27 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.23%) Telecoms
5 24 (9.09%) Banking
6 20 (7.58%) Retail
7 19 (7.20%) Manufacturing
8 16 (6.06%) Marketing
9 14 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (4.92%) Electronics
11 11 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (3.41%) Legal
13 8 (3.03%) Local Government
14 6 (2.27%) Law
15 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.52%) Publishing
16 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.14%) General Ledger
16 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.65%) Web Services
2 4 (1.52%) REST
3 2 (0.76%) JSON
3 2 (0.76%) Middleware
3 2 (0.76%) SOAP
3 2 (0.76%) XML
4 1 (0.38%) D3.js
4 1 (0.38%) Kafka
4 1 (0.38%) MACH
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.58%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.44%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.79%) Wiki
5 7 (2.65%) IoT
6 6 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.89%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.14%) SCADA
10 2 (0.76%) CMDB
10 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.41%) Windows
2 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 84 (31.82%) Roadmaps
3 61 (23.11%) TOGAF
4 50 (18.94%) IT Strategy
5 38 (14.39%) Data Modelling
6 36 (13.64%) Data Architecture
7 32 (12.12%) Business Strategy
8 30 (11.36%) Agile
9 29 (10.98%) Data Management
10 28 (10.61%) Technology Strategy
11 26 (9.85%) Analytics
11 26 (9.85%) Architectural Design
12 24 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (8.33%) Data Strategy
13 22 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (7.95%) Data Governance
15 20 (7.58%) ArchiMate
15 20 (7.58%) Data Protection
16 18 (6.82%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.03%) Java
2 3 (1.14%) SQL
3 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.33%) Degree
4 11 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.27%) CISA
6 6 (2.27%) CISM
6 6 (2.27%) CISSP
6 6 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.27%) SANS
7 5 (1.89%) CCIE
7 5 (1.89%) CCIE Data Center
8 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CCNP
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.92%) GDPR
2 12 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.52%) GRC
3 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.52%) NIST
4 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.76%) FATCA
4 2 (0.76%) ISA99
4 2 (0.76%) MiFID
4 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.76%) Terraform
2 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.09%) SAP
3 23 (8.71%) Sparx
4 7 (2.65%) BiZZdesign
4 7 (2.65%) F5
4 7 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.27%) Google
5 6 (2.27%) Oracle
6 5 (1.89%) CheckPoint
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco
6 5 (1.89%) Infoblox
6 5 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.89%) Symantec
6 5 (1.89%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.14%) Informatica
8 2 (0.76%) Calypso
8 2 (0.76%) Murex
8 2 (0.76%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.76%) Splunk
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