Enterprise Architect Contracts

Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 342 353
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +81
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 178 265 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.61% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.66% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 198 312
10th Percentile £574 £500 £550
25th Percentile £613 £580 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% - +0.90%
75th Percentile £799 £786 £800
90th Percentile £813 £875 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £76.71
75th Percentile - - £81.50
90th Percentile - - £81.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.71
% change year-on-year - - -6.30%

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 27,127 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,721 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,053 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.14 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

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 6 May 2025.

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 15 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 6 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
England -2 154 £683 -2.50% 82
London -3 97 £713 +1.82% 34
UK excluding London +19 58 £650 -3.70% 55
Work from Home -7 47 £675 +1.69% 51
South East +39 16 £725 -3.33% 20
Midlands +4 13 £600 -20.00% 9
South West +37 11 £600 -9.09% 10
West Midlands -1 11 £600 -20.00% 6
North of England +2 10 £635 -2.31% 9
North West +10 9 £635 -0.39% 7
East of England +24 4 £675 +3.85% 2
Scotland +6 4 - - 2
Wales - 2 £688 - 2
East Midlands +12 1 £625 +5.04% 3
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, 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 72 (40.45%) Enterprise Architecture
2 54 (30.34%) Roadmaps
3 48 (26.97%) TOGAF
4 46 (25.84%) Social Skills
5 43 (24.16%) Azure
6 39 (21.91%) Agile
7 31 (17.42%) Finance
8 29 (16.29%) AWS
9 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
10 26 (14.61%) IT Strategy
11 25 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (13.48%) Microsoft
13 22 (12.36%) Degree
14 21 (11.80%) Public Sector
15 20 (11.24%) DevOps
16 19 (10.67%) Analytics
17 18 (10.11%) Banking
17 18 (10.11%) Google
17 18 (10.11%) SC Cleared
17 18 (10.11%) GCP
17 18 (10.11%) Technology Strategy
18 17 (9.55%) Business Strategy
19 16 (8.99%) Migration
20 15 (8.43%) SAP
20 15 (8.43%) Data Governance
20 15 (8.43%) Cloud Security
21 14 (7.87%) CI/CD
21 14 (7.87%) Technology Roadmap
21 14 (7.87%) TOGAF Certification
21 14 (7.87%) SaaS

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 3 (1.69%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.56%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.12%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.56%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (24.16%) Azure
2 29 (16.29%) AWS
3 18 (10.11%) GCP
4 14 (7.87%) SaaS
5 13 (7.30%) PaaS
6 12 (6.74%) IaaS
7 7 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.25%) GitHub
9 4 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.69%) Boomi
10 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.12%) iPaaS
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.12%) OCI
11 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.12%) Serverless
11 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) BGP
1 3 (1.69%) IPsec
1 3 (1.69%) LAN
1 3 (1.69%) MPLS
1 3 (1.69%) SSL
1 3 (1.69%) WAN
2 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) GPON
3 1 (0.56%) Modbus
3 1 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (3.37%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.81%) Data Lake
2 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.69%) DB2
3 3 (1.69%) Metadata
3 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Big Data
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (1.12%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.56%) GIS
5 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Git
1 2 (1.12%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) git-flow
2 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.42%) Finance
3 21 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.11%) Banking
5 12 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Automotive
10 2 (1.12%) Back Office
10 2 (1.12%) Billing
10 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.37%) Middleware
2 5 (2.81%) REST
3 4 (2.25%) XML
4 3 (1.69%) .NET
4 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.69%) JDBC
4 3 (1.69%) JSON
4 3 (1.69%) Kafka
4 3 (1.69%) LDAP
4 3 (1.69%) ODBC
4 3 (1.69%) SAML
4 3 (1.69%) SOAP
4 3 (1.69%) Web Services
5 2 (1.12%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.56%) Keras
6 1 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.93%) Data Structures
1 7 (3.93%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.81%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.25%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.25%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.69%) FMCG
5 3 (1.69%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.12%) SCADA
6 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.25%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.45%) Enterprise Architecture
2 54 (30.34%) Roadmaps
3 48 (26.97%) TOGAF
4 39 (21.91%) Agile
5 26 (14.61%) IT Strategy
6 25 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (11.24%) DevOps
8 19 (10.67%) Analytics
9 18 (10.11%) Technology Strategy
10 17 (9.55%) Business Strategy
11 16 (8.99%) Migration
12 15 (8.43%) Cloud Security
12 15 (8.43%) Data Governance
13 14 (7.87%) CI/CD
13 14 (7.87%) Data Architecture
13 14 (7.87%) Technology Roadmap
14 13 (7.30%) Computer Science
14 13 (7.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 13 (7.30%) ITIL
14 13 (7.30%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.25%) Python
2 3 (1.69%) Java
2 3 (1.69%) SQL
3 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.56%) Bash
3 1 (0.56%) Bicep
3 1 (0.56%) COBOL
3 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.56%) Magik
3 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.36%) Degree
3 18 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.87%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (5.62%) CISSP
5 10 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.12%) CCNP
10 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.12%) CISM
10 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.56%) ISSAP
11 1 (0.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.30%) NIST
2 6 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
4 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.69%) SLA
6 2 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.12%) NCSC
6 2 (1.12%) PMO
7 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) QA
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.69%) Docker
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Ansible
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.11%) Google
3 15 (8.43%) SAP
4 9 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.93%) Oracle
6 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.81%) Cisco
7 5 (2.81%) VMware
8 4 (2.25%) Databricks
8 4 (2.25%) IBM
8 4 (2.25%) OpenText
8 4 (2.25%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.69%) Dell
9 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.69%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.69%) Virgin Media
10 2 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.12%) Citrix
10 2 (1.12%) Pega
10 2 (1.12%) Sparx