Lead Enterprise Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Enterprise Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 391 438
Rank change year-on-year +55 +47 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Enterprise Architect 3 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.039% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.042% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile £616 £550 £629
25th Percentile £641 £633 £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £660 £913
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -27.67% -
75th Percentile £741 £669 £969
90th Percentile £769 £762 £1,048
UK median daily rate £775 £664 £900
% change year-on-year +16.63% -26.17% +12.50%

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 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
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 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Lead Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Lead Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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

Lead 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 Lead Enterprise Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 2 £688 -
Midlands +19 1 - -
West Midlands +15 1 - -
Lead Enterprise Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux

Lead 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) SOA
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft