Enterprise Architecture Contracts in England

Enterprise Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 262 241
Rank change year-on-year +41 -21 +1
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 295 323 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.21% 0.87% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.00% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 221 360
10th Percentile £487 £475 £513
25th Percentile £550 £538 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £664
Median % change year-on-year - -2.07% +2.08%
75th Percentile £738 £744 £750
90th Percentile £825 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £630 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.89% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £58.50 £61.50
25th Percentile - £63.75 £65.75
Median hourly rate £100.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -3.57% -14.49%
75th Percentile - £75.44 £80.63
90th Percentile - £88.00 £81.50
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +48.15% -3.57% -14.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in England

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in England

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in England

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in England

Enterprise Architecture
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 Enterprise Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +14 138 £650 - 158
South East +74 48 £630 -2.03% 75
North of England +18 39 £610 -15.86% 32
South West +28 36 £650 - 23
North West +21 30 £562 -16.74% 18
Midlands +20 20 £600 +5.26% 24
West Midlands +11 16 £600 +5.26% 20
Yorkshire +6 7 £650 -18.70% 10
East Midlands +11 4 £800 +4.58% 2
East of England +13 2 £675 +1.89% 13
North East -3 2 £750 -16.38% 4
Enterprise Architecture
UK

Enterprise Architecture
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 13 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.03%) NetWeaver
2 6 (2.03%) SAP EP
3 5 (1.69%) CMS
4 4 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.34%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.34%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) SAP CRM
2 5 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Endur
3 2 (0.68%) Maximo
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.68%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.34%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 103 (34.92%) Azure
2 49 (16.61%) AWS
3 27 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (8.47%) IaaS
4 25 (8.47%) PaaS
4 25 (8.47%) SaaS
5 17 (5.76%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.76%) GCP
6 10 (3.39%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.05%) Azure App Service
7 9 (3.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 9 (3.05%) Azure Storage
7 9 (3.05%) Serverless
8 7 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.37%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.69%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.46%) Firewall
2 12 (4.07%) Network Security
3 9 (3.05%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.68%) DNS
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
4 2 (0.68%) IPsec
4 2 (0.68%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.68%) LAN
4 2 (0.68%) MQTT
4 2 (0.68%) SSL
4 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.68%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.68%) WAN
5 1 (0.34%) Broadband
5 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.34%) GPON
5 1 (0.34%) Modbus
5 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.37%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.37%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.69%) Metadata
4 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.69%) Power BI
5 4 (1.36%) Big Data
6 3 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.02%) DB2
6 3 (1.02%) OLTP
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.02%) Tableau
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.68%) MySQL
7 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.05%) JIRA
2 4 (1.36%) ERwin
3 2 (0.68%) Git
3 2 (0.68%) GitLab
3 2 (0.68%) Maven
4 1 (0.34%) Hudson
4 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
General
1 103 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 70 (23.73%) Finance
3 33 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.80%) Banking
6 19 (6.44%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.39%) Retail
9 7 (2.37%) Billing
9 7 (2.37%) Marketing
9 7 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.02%) Military
12 2 (0.68%) Aviation
12 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 219 (74.24%) Architect
2 77 (26.10%) Solutions Architect
3 60 (20.34%) Enterprise Architect
4 35 (11.86%) Lead
5 26 (8.81%) Technical Architect
6 19 (6.44%) Azure Architect
7 16 (5.42%) Senior
8 14 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
8 14 (4.75%) Lead Architect
8 14 (4.75%) Security Architect
9 13 (4.41%) Analyst
9 13 (4.41%) SAP Architect
10 11 (3.73%) Senior Architect
11 9 (3.05%) Consultant
11 9 (3.05%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.71%) Applications Architect
12 8 (2.71%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.71%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.71%) Salesforce Architect
12 8 (2.71%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.78%) Web Services
2 11 (3.73%) Middleware
3 10 (3.39%) REST
4 9 (3.05%) .NET
4 9 (3.05%) AngularJS
4 9 (3.05%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.37%) HTML
5 7 (2.37%) SAP PI
6 6 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (2.03%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (2.03%) SAPUI5
7 5 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (1.69%) Spring
8 4 (1.36%) Node.js
8 4 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.02%) Kafka
9 3 (1.02%) SAML
9 3 (1.02%) SOAP
9 3 (1.02%) XML
10 2 (0.68%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.75%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.05%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.71%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.37%) CMDB
9 7 (2.37%) IoT
10 6 (2.03%) Blockchain
10 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.76%) Windows
2 15 (5.08%) Linux
3 11 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.37%) Unix
5 4 (1.36%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.68%) HPUX
6 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Solaris
6 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (30.51%) Roadmaps
2 76 (25.76%) Agile
3 64 (21.69%) TOGAF
4 53 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (15.59%) DevOps
7 43 (14.58%) Business Strategy
7 43 (14.58%) Collaborative Working
8 41 (13.90%) Technical Leadership
9 36 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (11.86%) IT Strategy
10 35 (11.86%) Microservices
11 34 (11.53%) Analytics
12 32 (10.85%) Migration
13 30 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (9.83%) Strategic Roadmap
15 28 (9.49%) CI/CD
15 28 (9.49%) Data Architecture
16 25 (8.47%) Architectural Design
16 25 (8.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.10%) Java
1 18 (6.10%) SQL
2 15 (5.08%) Python
3 11 (3.73%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.39%) Bicep
4 10 (3.39%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.03%) ABAP
6 5 (1.69%) Apex Code
6 5 (1.69%) C#
7 3 (1.02%) Go
7 3 (1.02%) Scala
8 2 (0.68%) Bash
8 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.68%) VB
8 2 (0.68%) VBScript
9 1 (0.34%) COBOL
9 1 (0.34%) Magik
9 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (25.08%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.15%) Degree
4 21 (7.12%) Azure Certification
5 17 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.07%) CISSP
8 11 (3.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (3.05%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.71%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.03%) CCNP
11 6 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.03%) CISM
11 6 (2.03%) MCSE
12 5 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.69%) PMP
13 4 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.08%) NIST
2 11 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.05%) GDPR
3 9 (3.05%) QA
4 7 (2.37%) NCSC
5 6 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.36%) GRC
7 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.68%) PMO
9 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) FISMA
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) PSD2
9 1 (0.34%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.05%) vSphere
4 8 (2.71%) Docker
5 5 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.68%) RACF
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (5.08%) Terraform
2 13 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.69%) Ansible
5 3 (1.02%) Data Guard
5 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.68%) Packer
6 2 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.46%) Oracle
2 22 (7.46%) ServiceNow
3 21 (7.12%) VMware
4 20 (6.78%) SAP
5 15 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.07%) Google
7 7 (2.37%) IBM
8 6 (2.03%) Ariba
8 6 (2.03%) Cisco
9 4 (1.36%) Adobe
9 4 (1.36%) Planview
10 3 (1.02%) Apple
10 3 (1.02%) Databricks
10 3 (1.02%) Okta
10 3 (1.02%) Ping Identity
10 3 (1.02%) Sparx
11 2 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.68%) Commvault
11 2 (0.68%) Virgin Media