Enterprise Architecture Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Enterprise Architecture
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 39 47
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 11 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.93% 2.50% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 2.69% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 5
10th Percentile - £625 £580
25th Percentile £513 £636 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £743 £643
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +15.55% +15.61%
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile £639 - £677
South East median daily rate £650 £625 £677
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.61% -0.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 451 260 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.12% 92.86% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 192 343
10th Percentile £227 £201 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £599
90th Percentile £640 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 35
10th Percentile £15.74 £15.85 £15.91
25th Percentile £16.13 £18.40 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.32 £38.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +59.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £29.61 £60.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £33.44 £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - -

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -10 11 £575 -22.62% 4
Enterprise Architecture
South East

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Technical Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Designer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Service Designer
4 3 (27.27%) Lead
5 2 (18.18%) Lead Designer
5 2 (18.18%) Lead Service Designer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Designer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Service Designer
6 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (9.09%) Lead Product Manager
6 1 (9.09%) Product Lead
6 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Product Manager
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) Service Design
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Behavioural Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Runbook
5 2 (18.18%) SOAR
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
3 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) CCNP
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (27.27%) MCSE
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) NCSC
1 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) COBIT
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Darktrace
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft