Enterprise Architect Contracts

Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK is £669 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 335 432
Rank change year-on-year -4 +97 -47
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 251 429 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.76% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.80% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 310 341
10th Percentile £500 £550 £525
25th Percentile £563 £613 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £700 £688
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +1.82% +1.85%
75th Percentile £794 £800 £775
90th Percentile £880 £875 £856
UK excluding London median daily rate £667 £660 £650
% change year-on-year +1.06% +1.54% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £68.50 £72.50
25th Percentile - - £75.12
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -14.49% -
75th Percentile - £80.88 £86.23
90th Percentile - £81.70 £87.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year - -14.49% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,595 53,688 83,596
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,759 37,488 58,802
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,752 1,485 1,990
10th Percentile £12.79 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.26%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.94 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architect over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the UK

Enterprise Architect
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 May 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 -7 211 £675 -3.57% 56
London +41 120 £700 -3.45% 42
Work from Home +24 94 £663 -5.36% 24
UK excluding London -19 93 £667 +1.06% 29
Midlands +49 32 £750 +15.38% 4
West Midlands +37 31 £750 +15.38% 3
North of England +19 24 £623 -4.23% 3
South West -23 15 £660 +3.53% 2
Yorkshire +11 12 £620 -0.80% 1
South East -8 11 £750 +4.17% 18
North West +18 9 £556 -20.54% 2
Scotland +21 7 £775 - 1
East of England 0 6 £588 -28.79%
North East +11 3 £897 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -
East Midlands +14 1 £595 -14.70% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 2024, 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 featuring Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 90 (35.86%) Enterprise Architecture
2 80 (31.87%) Roadmaps
3 55 (21.91%) TOGAF
4 50 (19.92%) IT Strategy
5 49 (19.52%) Finance
6 45 (17.93%) Social Skills
7 39 (15.54%) Public Sector
8 37 (14.74%) Azure
9 35 (13.94%) Security Cleared
9 35 (13.94%) Business Strategy
10 32 (12.75%) SC Cleared
10 32 (12.75%) Agile
11 31 (12.35%) Data Architecture
11 31 (12.35%) Data Modelling
12 29 (11.55%) Microsoft
12 29 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
13 28 (11.16%) Technology Strategy
14 27 (10.76%) Analytics
15 24 (9.56%) Banking
16 23 (9.16%) Data Management
16 23 (9.16%) Architectural Design
17 22 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (8.37%) Telecoms
18 21 (8.37%) Degree
19 20 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
20 18 (7.17%) Data Strategy
21 17 (6.77%) ArchiMate
21 17 (6.77%) Sparx
21 17 (6.77%) Management Information System
21 17 (6.77%) Business Intelligence

Enterprise 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 5 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.80%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (4.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.20%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.80%) PeopleSoft CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.74%) Azure
2 14 (5.58%) SaaS
3 13 (5.18%) IaaS
4 12 (4.78%) AWS
5 11 (4.38%) PaaS
6 8 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (3.19%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.79%) Akamai
7 7 (2.79%) Cloudflare
7 7 (2.79%) GCP
8 6 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.59%) Serverless
11 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.20%) OCI
12 2 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.40%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.40%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.40%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.98%) Firewall
2 8 (3.19%) DNS
3 6 (2.39%) Internet
3 6 (2.39%) VoIP
4 5 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.99%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.99%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.99%) DHCP
4 5 (1.99%) LAN
4 5 (1.99%) MPLS
4 5 (1.99%) PBX
4 5 (1.99%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.99%) VPN
4 5 (1.99%) WAN
4 5 (1.99%) WLAN
5 4 (1.59%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.20%) Network Security
6 3 (1.20%) SAN
7 2 (0.80%) SCCP
8 1 (0.40%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.18%) Metadata
2 9 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.39%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.39%) Power BI
4 5 (1.99%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.99%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.20%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (1.20%) OLAP
5 3 (1.20%) OLTP
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.80%) Pentaho
6 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.80%) QlikView
6 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.80%) Tableau
7 1 (0.40%) DTS
7 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (1.99%) ERwin
2 2 (0.80%) kappa
General
1 49 (19.52%) Finance
2 45 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.54%) Public Sector
4 29 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.56%) Banking
6 21 (8.37%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.98%) Retail
8 14 (5.58%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.78%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.59%) Marketing
12 8 (3.19%) Law
12 8 (3.19%) Legal
13 7 (2.79%) Electronics
13 7 (2.79%) Local Government
14 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.59%) Publishing
16 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.20%) General Ledger
17 2 (0.80%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.19%) Web Services
2 5 (1.99%) REST
3 2 (0.80%) JSON
3 2 (0.80%) Middleware
3 2 (0.80%) SOAP
3 2 (0.80%) XML
4 1 (0.40%) D3.js
4 1 (0.40%) JWT
4 1 (0.40%) Kafka
4 1 (0.40%) MACH
4 1 (0.40%) OAuth
4 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.77%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.98%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.79%) IoT
6 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.99%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.99%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.99%) Wiki
7 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.59%) SCADA
7 4 (1.59%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.79%) Windows
2 3 (1.20%) Linux
3 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.86%) Enterprise Architecture
2 80 (31.87%) Roadmaps
3 55 (21.91%) TOGAF
4 50 (19.92%) IT Strategy
5 35 (13.94%) Business Strategy
6 32 (12.75%) Agile
7 31 (12.35%) Data Architecture
7 31 (12.35%) Data Modelling
8 28 (11.16%) Technology Strategy
9 27 (10.76%) Analytics
10 23 (9.16%) Architectural Design
10 23 (9.16%) Data Management
11 22 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (7.17%) Data Strategy
14 17 (6.77%) ArchiMate
14 17 (6.77%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (6.37%) Data Governance
15 16 (6.37%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.19%) Java
2 4 (1.59%) SQL
3 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.37%) Degree
4 11 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.79%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.99%) CCIE
8 5 (1.99%) CCIE Data Center
9 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.59%) CISSP
10 3 (1.20%) CISA
10 3 (1.20%) CISM
10 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.20%) SANS
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.80%) CCNP
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.59%) GDPR
2 8 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.99%) NIST
4 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.59%) GRC
4 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.80%) ISA99
5 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (0.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.80%) Terraform
2 1 (0.40%) Backup Exec
2 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.40%) HP SIM
2 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.40%) SCCM
2 1 (0.40%) SCDPM
2 1 (0.40%) SCVMM
2 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.40%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.77%) Sparx
3 16 (6.37%) SAP
4 7 (2.79%) BiZZdesign
4 7 (2.79%) F5
4 7 (2.79%) Google
4 7 (2.79%) Oracle
5 6 (2.39%) Cisco
5 6 (2.39%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.39%) Symantec
6 5 (1.99%) CheckPoint
6 5 (1.99%) Infoblox
6 5 (1.99%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.99%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.80%) Citrix
8 2 (0.80%) Informatica
8 2 (0.80%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.80%) Splunk