Business Architect Contracts

Business Architect
UK

The median Business Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 642 756
Rank change year-on-year +147 +114 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Business Architect 89 55 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 34 64
10th Percentile £487 £508 £513
25th Percentile £513 £553 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £788 £738
90th Percentile £813 £901 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -24.29% +7.69% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £67.75 -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +220.48%
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Business Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Architect.

Daily rate trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Architect over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 June 2024. 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
England +113 77 £600 -5.88% 7
London +118 57 £600 -2.04% 4
Work from Home +129 34 £588 -24.19% 1
UK excluding London +22 21 £530 -24.29% 3
North of England +11 8 £897 +35.39% 2
East of England - 5 £500 - 1
North West +6 4 - - 2
South West -4 3 £530 -31.61%
Wales - 3 £525 -
North East - 3 £897 -
Scotland +49 1 £625 -13.79%
West Midlands +18 1 £525 -27.59%
Midlands +17 1 £525 -27.59%

Business Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 June 2024, 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 featuring Business Architect in the job title.

1 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.21%) Roadmaps
3 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 21 (23.60%) Security Cleared
4 20 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (22.47%) Business Strategy
5 18 (20.22%) Decision-Making
5 18 (20.22%) Finance
6 17 (19.10%) Agile
6 17 (19.10%) Business Analysis
6 17 (19.10%) Enterprise Architecture
6 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
7 14 (15.73%) Target Operating Model
7 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (13.48%) Management Information System
8 12 (13.48%) TOGAF
9 11 (12.36%) Azure
9 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (11.24%) Project Delivery
10 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
11 9 (10.11%) Risk Management
12 8 (8.99%) Data Management
12 8 (8.99%) IT Strategy
13 7 (7.87%) Business Case
13 7 (7.87%) Technology Strategy
13 7 (7.87%) Project Management
13 7 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 6 (6.74%) Process Management
14 6 (6.74%) Analytics
14 6 (6.74%) Service Design

Business Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.36%) Azure
2 6 (6.74%) AWS
3 4 (4.49%) IaaS
3 4 (4.49%) PaaS
3 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.49%) SaaS
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.25%) GCP
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (4.49%) Power BI
2 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.25%) QlikView
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.25%) Tableau
General
1 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.22%) Finance
4 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.37%) Banking
7 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.12%) Advertising
9 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.12%) Billing
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Marketing
9 1 (1.12%) Police
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.49%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.12%) FMCG
3 1 (1.12%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.21%) Roadmaps
2 20 (22.47%) Business Strategy
3 18 (20.22%) Decision-Making
4 17 (19.10%) Agile
4 17 (19.10%) Business Analysis
4 17 (19.10%) Enterprise Architecture
5 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (15.73%) Target Operating Model
6 12 (13.48%) TOGAF
7 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.24%) Project Delivery
9 9 (10.11%) Risk Management
10 8 (8.99%) Data Management
10 8 (8.99%) IT Strategy
11 7 (7.87%) Business Case
11 7 (7.87%) Project Management
11 7 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (7.87%) Technology Strategy
12 6 (6.74%) Analytics
12 6 (6.74%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.49%) SQL
2 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
1 21 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.49%) Degree
3 3 (3.37%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) Pega
3 2 (2.25%) Google
3 2 (2.25%) SAP
3 2 (2.25%) Symantec