Enterprise Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Enterprise Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Enterprise Solution Architect daily rate in England is £649, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 490 514
Rank change year-on-year -86 +24 +87
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Solutions Architect 55 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.051% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.055% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 14
10th Percentile £506 £596 £536
25th Percentile £542 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £649 £600 £628
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -4.38% -6.06%
75th Percentile £788 £638 £655
90th Percentile £800 £713 £693
UK median daily rate £649 £610 £630
% change year-on-year +6.43% -3.17% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 42,051 25,317 31,124
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 91.70% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,530 16,429 20,502
10th Percentile £328 £286 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,118 1,308 1,828
10th Percentile £15.74 £13.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Enterprise Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Enterprise Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in England

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Enterprise Solutions Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Enterprise Solutions Architect job vacancies in England

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Solutions Architect in England

Enterprise Solutions 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 Enterprise Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
London -22 37 £625 -7.41% 51
North of England -49 12 £750 +20.97% 5
North West -43 9 - - 1
Midlands -56 3 - - 2
West Midlands -57 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £750 - 4
South East - 2 £631 - 9
South West -48 1 £750 +25.00% 4
Enterprise Solutions Architect
UK

Enterprise Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, Enterprise Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Enterprise Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (21.82%) Integration Patterns
2 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (14.55%) TOGAF
4 6 (10.91%) Azure
4 6 (10.91%) Roadmaps
4 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 5 (9.09%) Migration
5 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.27%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (7.27%) Event-Driven
6 4 (7.27%) Network Security
6 4 (7.27%) Oracle
6 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.27%) SDLC
6 4 (7.27%) Security Architecture
6 4 (7.27%) Security Operations
6 4 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (5.45%) AI
7 3 (5.45%) Application Security
7 3 (5.45%) AWS
7 3 (5.45%) Business Case
7 3 (5.45%) Business Strategy
7 3 (5.45%) CRM
7 3 (5.45%) Data Architecture
7 3 (5.45%) Okta
7 3 (5.45%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (5.45%) SaaS

Enterprise Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
2 1 (1.82%) SAP FSCM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) AWS
2 3 (5.45%) SaaS
3 2 (3.64%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.82%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) Network Security
2 2 (3.64%) 3GPP
2 2 (3.64%) RFID
3 1 (1.82%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.82%) DKIM
3 1 (1.82%) DMARC
3 1 (1.82%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) LAN
3 1 (1.82%) MPLS
3 1 (1.82%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.82%) SMS
3 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Delta Lake
1 1 (1.82%) Power BI
General
1 13 (23.64%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.09%) Finance
2 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Banking
3 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Retail
4 1 (1.82%) Local Government
4 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Middleware
2 1 (1.82%) Kafka
2 1 (1.82%) REST
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) TM Forum
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) Integration Patterns
2 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (14.55%) TOGAF
4 6 (10.91%) Roadmaps
4 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.09%) Migration
6 4 (7.27%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (7.27%) Event-Driven
6 4 (7.27%) SDLC
6 4 (7.27%) Security Architecture
6 4 (7.27%) Security Operations
6 4 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (5.45%) AI
7 3 (5.45%) Application Security
7 3 (5.45%) Business Case
7 3 (5.45%) Business Strategy
7 3 (5.45%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (5.45%) SIEM
7 3 (5.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.82%) MBA
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.82%) GRC
1 1 (1.82%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Okta
3 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.64%) Databricks
4 2 (3.64%) SAP
4 2 (3.64%) Temenos
5 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.82%) Charles River
5 1 (1.82%) Foundry
5 1 (1.82%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft