Enterprise Architecture Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Enterprise Architecture
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.46% 3.09% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 3.57% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £561 -
25th Percentile £625 £588 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £653 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +16.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £569
90th Percentile - £754 -
East of England median daily rate £800 £653 £575
% change year-on-year +22.61% +13.48% -14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Enterprise 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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 140 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.04% 86.42% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 72 151
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £647 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 4
10th Percentile £30.09 £24.30 £51.63
25th Percentile £39.48 £30.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% -9.09% -3.93%
75th Percentile £90.75 £58.75 £58.88
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.70 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £20.88 £28.34 £22.00
% change year-on-year -26.33% +28.80% -2.22%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
Bedford - 1 £650 - 1
Enterprise Architecture
East of England

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware