Business Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 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
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 337 410
Rank change year-on-year -27 +73 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Business Architect 11 32 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 18
10th Percentile £589 £500 £450
25th Percentile £600 £509 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -5.77%
75th Percentile £686 £763 £775
90th Percentile £743 £775 £844
UK median daily rate £606 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -6.73% +8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.63
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £69.69
90th Percentile - - £69.88
UK median hourly rate - - £68.75
% change year-on-year - - -11.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,914 16,298 20,343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.69% 92.25% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,564 9,294 13,581
10th Percentile £210 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,306 1,339 1,223
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.63 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.59 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.08 £43.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% -2.27% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.56 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.83 £74.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Business Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Business Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Architect in the UK excluding London

Business Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Business Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Architect in the UK excluding London

Business Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Business Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
West Midlands -19 7 £613 -12.50% 1
Midlands -25 7 £613 -12.50% 2
North West -9 3 £740 +46.07% 3
North of England -30 3 £740 +32.94% 3
Scotland -1 1 - -
Business Architect
UK

Business Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 September 2025, Business 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 UK excluding London region featuring Business Architect in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Dynamics 365
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Business Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Zachman Framework
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
3 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
3 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Power BI
3 4 (36.36%) Records Management
3 4 (36.36%) SaaS
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
4 3 (27.27%) OCI
4 3 (27.27%) AI Agents
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Data Lake

Business Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 6 (54.55%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) SaaS
3 3 (27.27%) OCI
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Business Analysis
1 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Records Management
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
2 4 (36.36%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
4 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Data Design
4 2 (18.18%) ERP
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle