Enterprise Architecture Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Enterprise Architecture
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 4.69% - 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £452 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.70%
75th Percentile £533 - £588
90th Percentile £552 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £509 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -7.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 149 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.80% 93.13% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 116 113
10th Percentile £322 £307 £214
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £402 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -16.35% +9.09%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £534
90th Percentile £550 £616 £585
East Midlands median daily rate £422 £433 £468
% change year-on-year -2.54% -7.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £12.71
25th Percentile - £23.10 £17.07
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.46% +27.84%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in Northamptonshire

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Northampton - 12 £490 -
Enterprise Architecture
East Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
3 7 (58.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) Sqoop
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Director
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Mac OS
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Roadmaps
2 9 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
3 8 (66.67%) User Experience
4 7 (58.33%) Business Strategy
4 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (58.33%) Data Protection
4 7 (58.33%) IT Strategy
4 7 (58.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 7 (58.33%) Zero Trust
5 4 (33.33%) Application Packaging
5 4 (33.33%) Budgeting
5 4 (33.33%) Business Transformation
5 4 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (33.33%) ETL
5 4 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Bash
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) GDPR
1 8 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) SCCM
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Citrix
2 8 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Ab Initio
4 1 (8.33%) Informatica
4 1 (8.33%) Teradata