Business Architect Contracts

Business Architect
UK

The median Business Architect daily rate in the UK is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 July 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
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 508 630
Rank change year-on-year -1 +122 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Business Architect 33 80 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 59 37
10th Percentile £450 £468 £515
25th Percentile £483 £513 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £788
90th Percentile £628 £813 £890
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £530 £700
% change year-on-year -15.09% -24.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
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 29,828 39,787 53,178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 93.04% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,980 25,580 36,870
10th Percentile £287 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,387 2,721 1,576
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £17.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +65.50%
75th Percentile £55.37 £63.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £77.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +79.36%

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 July 2025.

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 7 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 July 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
England -11 29 £525 -12.50% 22
London +13 26 £534 -11.04% 16
Work from Home +15 11 £550 -6.38% 9
UK excluding London +5 4 £450 -15.09% 6
South West +36 2 £450 -15.09%
East of England +9 1 £600 +20.00% 1
Scotland -6 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 14 July 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 featuring Business Architect in the job title.

1 14 (42.42%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Decision-Making
4 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
4 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
5 6 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (18.18%) Aerospace
5 6 (18.18%) SAP
5 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 6 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (15.15%) Business Case
6 5 (15.15%) Business Analysis
6 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (12.12%) Process Improvement
7 4 (12.12%) Data Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) BPMN
7 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.12%) ERP
7 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
7 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (12.12%) Project Management
7 4 (12.12%) Process Management
7 4 (12.12%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (9.09%) Data Strategy
8 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
8 3 (9.09%) Business Strategy
8 3 (9.09%) Requirements Workshops

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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (9.09%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) GCP
2 2 (6.06%) IBM Blueworks
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.03%) Collibra
3 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) ER Studio
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 14 (42.42%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Aerospace
4 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) Back Office
6 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Kafka
1 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Decision-Making
2 6 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (15.15%) Business Analysis
3 5 (15.15%) Business Case
3 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (12.12%) BPMN
4 4 (12.12%) Data Architecture
4 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
4 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (12.12%) ERP
4 4 (12.12%) Process Improvement
4 4 (12.12%) Process Management
4 4 (12.12%) Project Management
4 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.09%) Agile
5 3 (9.09%) Asset Management
5 3 (9.09%) Investment Management
5 3 (9.09%) PRINCE2
5 3 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 3 (9.09%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.03%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 6 (18.18%) SAP
2 2 (6.06%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Informatica
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.03%) Talend