Enterprise Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Enterprise Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Enterprise Solution Architect daily rate in England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 521 617
Rank change year-on-year +48 +96 +81
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Solutions Architect 15 10 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.027% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.030% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 25
10th Percentile £599 £510 £553
25th Percentile £617 £531 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £623 £706
Median % change year-on-year +28.51% -11.86% +4.63%
75th Percentile - £680 £750
90th Percentile - £691 £840
UK median daily rate £800 £650 £706
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.96% +4.63%

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 22,371 33,770 45,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,864 22,424 32,556
10th Percentile £296 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 926 2,441 1,340
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.38% -18.89% +88.21%

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Solutions Architect in England

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Solutions Architect 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 21 May 2025.

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 21 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 +45 11 £800 +53.85% 11
Midlands +17 3 £599 -4.85% 2
West Midlands +12 3 £599 -9.79%
North of England - 1 £620 -
North West - 1 £620 -
Enterprise Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Enterprise Solutions 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 Enterprise Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 8 (53.33%) Event-Driven
2 8 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Domain Models
5 2 (13.33%) Sequence Diagram
5 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (13.33%) ArchiMate
5 2 (13.33%) UML

Enterprise Solutions 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 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
General
1 8 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
2 1 (6.67%) Keras
2 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Event-Driven
2 8 (53.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) ArchiMate
5 2 (13.33%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Domain Models
5 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Sequence Diagram
5 2 (13.33%) UML
6 1 (6.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAI