Enterprise Architecture Contract Job Trends in Essex

Enterprise Architecture
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.88% 1.08% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.35% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £545
25th Percentile £518 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.17%
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £650 - £625
% change year-on-year - - -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £86.20
25th Percentile - - £86.50
Median hourly rate - - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £88.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £87.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 74 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 70.18% 79.57% 82.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 38 110
10th Percentile £185 £181 £183
25th Percentile £300 £272 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £321 £458
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -29.90% -0.81%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £551
90th Percentile £596 £600 £601
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 39
10th Percentile £12.75 £31.00 £10.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £32.50 £13.51
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +7.69% -36.29%
75th Percentile £53.75 £117.50 £56.53
90th Percentile £62.00 £167.00 £75.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.52 £50.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -58.96% +34.23% +21.32%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in Essex

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Basildon - 1 £535 - 1
Enterprise Architecture
East of England

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Post-Merger Integration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PgMP
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence