Lead Enterprise Architect Contracts in England

Lead Enterprise Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Enterprise Architect daily rate in England is £775, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 529 641
Rank change year-on-year +48 +112 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Enterprise Architect 4 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.035% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.038% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 11
10th Percentile £633 - £657
25th Percentile £681 £660 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £670 £900
Median % change year-on-year +15.67% -25.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £803 £900 £963
90th Percentile £813 £955 £1,100
UK median daily rate £775 £664 £900
% change year-on-year +16.63% -26.17% +12.50%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Enterprise Architect in England

Lead Enterprise Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Enterprise Architect in England

Lead Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Enterprise Architect in England

Lead Enterprise 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 Lead Enterprise Architect 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
South East - 2 £688 - 1
London +33 1 £813 +3.17% 2
Midlands +22 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 - -
Lead Enterprise Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead Enterprise 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 Lead Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DAMA
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy

Lead Enterprise 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DAMA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft