Enterprise Architecture Contracts in the North of England

Enterprise Architecture
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 131 170
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 +16
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 40 47 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.21% 1.01% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.19% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 29
10th Percentile £439 £489 £461
25th Percentile £507 £545 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £719 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.50% +19.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £741 £638
90th Percentile £725 £900 £688
England median daily rate £629 £650 £657
% change year-on-year -3.31% -1.10% -1.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.34 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.09% -3.57% -14.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 3,946 5,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.88% 84.88% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 2,403 3,457
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 374 203
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.43 £18.65 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% -33.36% +47.26%
75th Percentile £52.25 £45.88 £44.50
90th Percentile £76.75 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.46% +49.68%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the North of England

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the North of England

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the North of England

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the North of England

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
North West +6 33 £560 -19.25% 152
Yorkshire +12 7 £650 -9.53% 145
Enterprise Architecture
England

Enterprise Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) SAS
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) IaaS
3 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
3 9 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.00%) Azure App Service
4 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (5.00%) PaaS
4 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
2 8 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 8 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.50%) HBase
2 1 (2.50%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) Pentaho
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) ERwin
1 1 (2.50%) Hudson
1 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Banking
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Aviation
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (75.00%) Architect
2 13 (32.50%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) IT Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Payments Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Applications Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (7.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Strategy Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Systems Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Middleware
2 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.50%) Blazor
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) CSS3
3 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) JMS
3 1 (2.50%) JSP
3 1 (2.50%) LDAP
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.00%) Blockchain
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) IoT
2 2 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 9 (22.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.00%) Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Unix
5 2 (5.00%) HPUX
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.00%) Solaris
6 1 (2.50%) Android
6 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 10 (25.00%) Agile
3 10 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 10 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 9 (22.50%) DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) BCP
5 8 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 8 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
5 8 (20.00%) Change Management
5 8 (20.00%) Information Security
5 8 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 8 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 7 (17.50%) Analytics
6 7 (17.50%) High Availability
6 7 (17.50%) Line Management
6 7 (17.50%) Web Operations
7 6 (15.00%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) Bicep
3 2 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) VB
4 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Azure Certification
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) Degree
5 2 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.50%) MCP
6 1 (2.50%) MCSA
6 1 (2.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) vSphere
3 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.50%) SCCM
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) IBM
4 2 (5.00%) Commvault
4 2 (5.00%) Sun
4 2 (5.00%) Veritas
4 2 (5.00%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica
5 1 (2.50%) McAfee
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Symantec
5 1 (2.50%) Unisys