Enterprise Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Enterprise Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 394 443
Rank change year-on-year +63 +49 +47
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Solutions Architect 5 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.024% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.026% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £590 £597 £535
25th Percentile £599 £599 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £657 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +1.08% -1.37%
75th Percentile £630 £686 £673
90th Percentile £695 £694 £730
UK median daily rate £800 £595 £668
% change year-on-year +34.45% -10.93% -2.84%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +23 3 £599 -4.85% 2
West Midlands +16 3 £599 -9.79% 1
North West - 1 £620 -
South West - 1 £725 -
North of England - 1 £620 -
Enterprise Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Enterprise Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) .NET
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (40.00%) UML
4 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
4 2 (40.00%) Sequence Diagram
4 2 (40.00%) Domain Models
4 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills

Enterprise Solutions 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
4 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Domain Models
4 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Sequence Diagram
4 2 (40.00%) UML
5 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
5 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google