Enterprise Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Enterprise Architect
England > Midlands

The median Enterprise Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £594, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 112 140
Rank change year-on-year -13 +28 +65
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 15 25 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.62% 0.87% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.95% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 11
10th Percentile £453 £564 £625
25th Percentile £504 £642 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £619 £925 £694
90th Percentile £699 £943 £775
England median daily rate £700 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -0.07% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,158 2,637 3,021
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.28% 92.20% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,780 2,137
10th Percentile £209 £231 £234
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £548 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 190 103
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.92 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £15.57
Median hourly rate £23.41 £19.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -9.52% +9.09%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £32.54
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £41.27 £44.00
% change year-on-year -33.66% -6.22% +76.00%

Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architect in the Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architect in the Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
East Midlands +7 7 £492 -17.31% 1
West Midlands -12 7 £600 -20.00% 5
Enterprise Architect
England

Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 July 2025, 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 Midlands region featuring Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Finance
1 9 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (46.67%) Business Strategy
2 7 (46.67%) IT Strategy
3 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Banking
4 5 (33.33%) AWS
4 5 (33.33%) High Availability
4 5 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (33.33%) Technical Debt
4 5 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 5 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) ArchiMate
6 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (20.00%) Degree
6 3 (20.00%) .NET

Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Modbus
1 1 (6.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 9 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (46.67%) Business Strategy
2 7 (46.67%) IT Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 5 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 5 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 5 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
5 3 (20.00%) ArchiMate
5 3 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) VMware