Enterprise Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 May 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 290 265
Rank change year-on-year +11 -25 +119
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 59 88 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.43% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.47% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 74 121
10th Percentile £575 £531 £550
25th Percentile £600 £577 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £669 £660
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +1.44% +1.54%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £763
90th Percentile £760 £925 £875
UK median daily rate £700 £670 £720
% change year-on-year +4.44% -6.94% +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £68.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £80.88
90th Percentile - - £81.70
UK median hourly rate £100.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -14.49%

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 11,768 18,835 21,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 92.47% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,510 11,498 15,031
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 2,316 1,097
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -5.11% +110.78%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.64 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.99 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.32% -18.89% +88.21%

Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise 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 Enterprise Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +49 15 £723 -3.67% 81
South West +44 14 £600 -9.09% 30
North of England 0 11 £620 -0.40% 48
Midlands -10 11 £600 -20.00% 26
North West +11 10 £620 +11.46% 19
West Midlands -8 9 £600 -20.00% 12
East of England +23 4 £675 +14.89% 14
Scotland -2 4 - - 18
Wales - 2 £688 - 3
East Midlands +7 1 £625 +5.04% 13
Yorkshire -1 1 - - 18
Enterprise Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 35 (59.32%) Enterprise Architecture
2 25 (42.37%) TOGAF
3 24 (40.68%) Roadmaps
4 16 (27.12%) Agile
4 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
5 11 (18.64%) Technology Roadmap
5 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
6 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
7 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
7 9 (15.25%) DV Cleared
7 9 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (15.25%) Business Strategy
7 9 (15.25%) Strategic Thinking
8 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
8 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.56%) ArchiMate
8 8 (13.56%) Azure
8 8 (13.56%) Information Architecture
8 8 (13.56%) SAP
8 8 (13.56%) Banking
9 7 (11.86%) Risk Management
9 7 (11.86%) Salesforce
9 7 (11.86%) Security Architecture
9 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.86%) Degree
9 7 (11.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (11.86%) IT Strategy
10 6 (10.17%) DevOps
10 6 (10.17%) Architecture Governance
10 6 (10.17%) CI/CD

Enterprise 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.69%) SAS
1 1 (1.69%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.56%) Azure
2 3 (5.08%) AWS
2 3 (5.08%) IaaS
2 3 (5.08%) iPaaS
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.08%) PaaS
2 3 (5.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) SaaS
3 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) GPON
1 1 (1.69%) Modbus
1 1 (1.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) GIS
General
1 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Banking
3 6 (10.17%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.69%) Automotive
7 1 (1.69%) Electronics
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Local Government
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Middleware
2 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 3 (5.08%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.08%) Kafka
3 1 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.39%) FMCG
2 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.39%) IoT
2 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) SCADA
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) Enterprise Architecture
2 25 (42.37%) TOGAF
3 24 (40.68%) Roadmaps
4 16 (27.12%) Agile
5 11 (18.64%) Technology Roadmap
6 9 (15.25%) Business Strategy
6 9 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (15.25%) Strategic Thinking
7 8 (13.56%) ArchiMate
7 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
7 8 (13.56%) Information Architecture
7 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.86%) IT Strategy
8 7 (11.86%) Risk Management
8 7 (11.86%) Security Architecture
9 6 (10.17%) Architecture Governance
9 6 (10.17%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.17%) DevOps
9 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.69%) Apex Code
1 1 (1.69%) COBOL
1 1 (1.69%) Java
1 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.69%) Magik
1 1 (1.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) DV Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) Degree
3 7 (11.86%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (6.78%) CISSP
5 2 (3.39%) CISM
5 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ISSAP
6 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) NIST
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) SAP
3 7 (11.86%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.08%) SnapLogic
4 3 (5.08%) Virgin Media
4 3 (5.08%) VMware
5 2 (3.39%) Citrix
5 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.39%) Pega
6 1 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.69%) BT
6 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.69%) Openreach
6 1 (1.69%) Sparx
6 1 (1.69%) webMethods