Business Architect Contracts in England

Business Architect
UK > England

The median Business Architect daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 470 596
Rank change year-on-year +18 +126 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Business Architect 30 67 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 54 31
10th Percentile £451 £490 £525
25th Percentile £503 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £594 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £621 £675 £788
90th Percentile £806 £773 £913
UK median daily rate £588 £588 £638
% change year-on-year - -7.84% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £74.50
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,610 33,814 45,522
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.78% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,047 22,417 32,346
10th Percentile £296 £283 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,440 1,342
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +88.21%

Business Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Architect in England

Business Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Architect in England

Business Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Architect in England

Business Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Architect in England

Business Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +14 19 £600 +2.13% 8
South West +41 6 £513 -3.30%
East of England +26 2 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £613 - 5
North of England +14 1 £550 -38.68% 1
North West +8 1 £550 -18.52% 1
Business Architect
UK

Business Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Business 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 across the England region featuring Business Architect in the job title.

1 11 (36.67%) Decision-Making
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (26.67%) Business Case
4 8 (26.67%) Business Analysis
4 8 (26.67%) Project Management
5 7 (23.33%) PRINCE2
5 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
6 6 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (20.00%) Process Management
6 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (16.67%) Agile
7 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
7 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (16.67%) Scorecard
7 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
8 4 (13.33%) Business Process Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) Data Strategy
8 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 3 (10.00%) Data Management
9 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
9 3 (10.00%) Python
9 3 (10.00%) SQL
9 3 (10.00%) Data Governance
9 3 (10.00%) Azure

Business Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP PS
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Collibra
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) ER Studio
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Back Office
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Military
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
1 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Decision-Making
2 8 (26.67%) Business Analysis
2 8 (26.67%) Business Case
2 8 (26.67%) Project Management
3 7 (23.33%) PRINCE2
4 6 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 6 (20.00%) Process Management
5 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 5 (16.67%) Scorecard
6 4 (13.33%) Business Process Analysis
6 4 (13.33%) Data Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (10.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.00%) Data Management
7 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) Databricks
2 1 (3.33%) Informatica
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.33%) Talend