Enterprise Architecture Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Enterprise Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Architecture over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Enterprise Architecture UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	264	216	232
Rank change year-on-year	-48	+16
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture	419	618	542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.89%	1.14%	0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.05%	1.37%	1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted	277	405	315
Median daily rate	£550	£550	£511
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+7.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£390	£400	£400
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£675	£725	£670
UK excluding London median daily rate	£544	£525	£485
% change year-on-year	+3.61%	+8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	4	4
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£44.00	£39.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.27%	+12.82%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£45.00	£44.00	£39.00
% change year-on-year	+2.27%	+12.82%

Enterprise Architecture is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	39792	44999	44543
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	84.45%	83.35%	80.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	25913	29844	28605
Median daily rate	£450	£438	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1055	1094	1232
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.00	£27.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+16.07%	+1.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£54.00	£48.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the UK over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-47	390	£550	-	69
London	-58	164	£575	+2.67%	27
South East	-2	55	£506	-3.57%	16
East of England	+10	37	£544	-1.09%	3
North West	-5	29	£538	+2.38%	6
South West	-12	29	£550	-	4
City of London	-2	26	£575	+10.04%	7
Yorkshire	+1	25	£550	-15.38%	2
West Midlands	+10	24	£550	+10.00%	4
West Yorkshire	0	22	£550	-15.38%	2
Leeds	+3	20	£550	-15.38%
Bedfordshire	+3	20	£561	+2.04%	1
Wiltshire	+11	19	£550	-	1
Scotland	+14	17	£525	+10.52%	3
East Midlands	-6	16	£538	+13.15%	3
Swindon	+12	13	£550	-
Luton	+1	13	£650	+13.04%
Berkshire	+16	12	£525	-	6
Surrey	+13	12	£495	-4.57%	3
Manchester	+1	12	£588	+20.51%	4
Birmingham	+10	10	£550	+15.78%	2
Glasgow	+8	10	£525	+10.52%	1
Buckinghamshire	-21	10	£390	-37.60%
North East	+55	9	£475	-32.14%	4
West Sussex	+18	8	£533	+6.55%	1
Cambridgeshire	-	8	£375	-
Hampshire	+5	7	£538	+34.37%	4
Lancashire	+1	7	£500	-25.14%
Milton Keynes	-17	7	£390	-44.28%
Edinburgh	+4	6	-	-	1

Enterprise Architecture
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Enterprise Architecture also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Enterprise Architecture.

1	232 (28.64%)	Agile Software Development
2	208 (25.68%)	TOGAF
3	181 (22.35%)	Finance
4	146 (18.02%)	SOA
5	136 (16.79%)	Microsoft
6	131 (16.17%)	Java
7	125 (15.43%)	Stakeholder Management
8	106 (13.09%)	Analytical Skills
9	105 (12.96%)	Microsoft Azure
9	105 (12.96%)	Amazon AWS
10	102 (12.59%)	SQL
10	102 (12.59%)	Project Management
11	99 (12.22%)	IT Strategy
12	94 (11.60%)	Oracle
13	93 (11.48%)	Banking

14	91 (11.23%)	Web Services
15	90 (11.11%)	Data Modelling
16	89 (10.99%)	Scrum
17	87 (10.74%)	ITIL
18	86 (10.62%)	Degree
19	75 (9.26%)	SOAP
19	75 (9.26%)	Security Cleared
20	74 (9.14%)	Spring
21	72 (8.89%)	DevOps
22	71 (8.77%)	SDLC
22	71 (8.77%)	OO
23	70 (8.64%)	.NET
23	70 (8.64%)	Business Intelligence
24	69 (8.52%)	Windows
25	68 (8.40%)	Data Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	54 (6.67%)	SharePoint
2	28 (3.46%)	Oracle SOA Suite
3	26 (3.21%)	Confluence
3	26 (3.21%)	JBoss
4	23 (2.84%)	Skype for Business
5	22 (2.72%)	WebSphere
6	20 (2.47%)	WebLogic
7	17 (2.10%)	Apache
7	17 (2.10%)	Tomcat
8	14 (1.73%)	Cloud Foundry
9	13 (1.60%)	Mule
10	12 (1.48%)	Apache Solr
11	11 (1.36%)	Adobe Experience Manager
12	10 (1.23%)	Apache Spark
13	9 (1.11%)	CMS
14	8 (0.99%)	BizTalk Server
14	8 (0.99%)	Oracle Workflow
15	7 (0.86%)	WildFly
16	6 (0.74%)	Documentum
16	6 (0.74%)	Elasticsearch

Applications
1	26 (3.21%)	MS Visio
2	16 (1.98%)	Microsoft Office
3	15 (1.85%)	Microsoft Excel
4	8 (0.99%)	Microsoft Project
5	1 (0.12%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.12%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	30 (3.70%)	Dynamics CRM
2	6 (0.74%)	Fredhopper
3	5 (0.62%)	Dynamics AX
4	4 (0.49%)	CA PPM
4	4 (0.49%)	Primavera
5	3 (0.37%)	Adobe Campaign
5	3 (0.37%)	Dynamics NAV
5	3 (0.37%)	Oracle EBS
5	3 (0.37%)	SAP Hybris
6	2 (0.25%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
6	2 (0.25%)	Magento
6	2 (0.25%)	Oracle BPM
6	2 (0.25%)	Oracle ERP
6	2 (0.25%)	Pega PRPC
6	2 (0.25%)	SAP ERP
6	2 (0.25%)	SAP HR
6	2 (0.25%)	SAP Oil and Gas
6	2 (0.25%)	SAP PSCD
7	1 (0.12%)	SAP CRM
7	1 (0.12%)	Teamcenter

Cloud Services
1	105 (12.96%)	Amazon AWS
1	105 (12.96%)	Microsoft Azure
2	57 (7.04%)	PaaS
3	55 (6.79%)	SaaS
4	46 (5.68%)	Office 365
5	43 (5.31%)	IaaS
6	20 (2.47%)	Cloud Computing
7	17 (2.10%)	OpenShift
8	15 (1.85%)	SuccessFactors
9	14 (1.73%)	Heroku
10	10 (1.23%)	GitHub
11	8 (0.99%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	8 (0.99%)	Dynamics 365
11	8 (0.99%)	Yammer
12	7 (0.86%)	OneDrive
13	5 (0.62%)	iPaaS
14	4 (0.49%)	BPaaS
15	2 (0.25%)	Akamai
15	2 (0.25%)	Boomi
16	1 (0.12%)	Amazon EC2

Communications & Networking
1	34 (4.20%)	Internet
2	27 (3.33%)	Firewall
3	25 (3.09%)	WAN
4	19 (2.35%)	LAN
5	16 (1.98%)	Skype
6	15 (1.85%)	LDAP
6	15 (1.85%)	Network Security
7	14 (1.73%)	DNS
8	13 (1.60%)	Wi-Fi
9	12 (1.48%)	Cisco ASA
10	10 (1.23%)	VPN
11	9 (1.11%)	Intranet
12	6 (0.74%)	TCP/IP
13	5 (0.62%)	Cisco Nexus
13	5 (0.62%)	F5 BIG-IP GTM
13	5 (0.62%)	F5 BIG-IP LTM
13	5 (0.62%)	Wireless
14	4 (0.49%)	HTTP
14	4 (0.49%)	SMS
14	4 (0.49%)	SMTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	60 (7.41%)	SQL Server
2	40 (4.94%)	Data Warehouse
3	39 (4.81%)	Relational Database
4	27 (3.33%)	DB2
5	26 (3.21%)	Big Data
6	23 (2.84%)	Oracle Database
7	15 (1.85%)	MongoDB
8	12 (1.48%)	NoSQL
9	11 (1.36%)	Hadoop
9	11 (1.36%)	MariaDB
10	10 (1.23%)	Oracle Reports
10	10 (1.23%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	8 (0.99%)	Apache Cassandra
12	7 (0.86%)	Apache Hive
12	7 (0.86%)	MySQL
12	7 (0.86%)	PostgreSQL
13	6 (0.74%)	Endeca
13	6 (0.74%)	GIS
13	6 (0.74%)	Riak
13	6 (0.74%)	Sqoop

Development Applications
1	31 (3.83%)	Jenkins
1	31 (3.83%)	JIRA
2	26 (3.21%)	Git (software)
3	25 (3.09%)	Hudson
4	22 (2.72%)	Ant
5	21 (2.59%)	Maven
6	20 (2.47%)	Gradle
7	19 (2.35%)	Bitbucket
8	10 (1.23%)	GitLab
9	8 (0.99%)	MSTest
9	8 (0.99%)	NUnit
10	7 (0.86%)	TeamCity
11	6 (0.74%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	6 (0.74%)	ERwin
11	6 (0.74%)	PVCS
11	6 (0.74%)	Subversion
11	6 (0.74%)	Team Foundation Server
12	5 (0.62%)	Selenium
13	3 (0.37%)	Oracle APEX
13	3 (0.37%)	WebDriver

General
1	181 (22.35%)	Finance
2	93 (11.48%)	Banking
3	54 (6.67%)	Retail
4	26 (3.21%)	Telecoms
5	25 (3.09%)	Legal
6	22 (2.72%)	Billing
7	14 (1.73%)	Investment Banking
8	12 (1.48%)	Marketing
9	10 (1.23%)	Manufacturing
10	9 (1.11%)	Law
11	7 (0.86%)	Pharmaceutical
11	7 (0.86%)	Retail Banking
12	6 (0.74%)	Back Office
13	5 (0.62%)	Automotive
14	4 (0.49%)	Financial Institution
15	3 (0.37%)	Aerospace
15	3 (0.37%)	Corporate Banking
15	3 (0.37%)	General Ledger
15	3 (0.37%)	Publishing
15	3 (0.37%)	Wholesale Banking

Job Titles
1	546 (67.41%)	Architect
2	179 (22.10%)	Solutions Architect
3	123 (15.19%)	Enterprise Architect
4	85 (10.49%)	Technical Architect
5	64 (7.90%)	Analyst
6	58 (7.16%)	Developer
7	54 (6.67%)	Cloud Architect
8	48 (5.93%)	Data Architect
9	44 (5.43%)	Business Analyst
10	42 (5.19%)	Security Architect
11	39 (4.81%)	Infrastructure Architect
12	32 (3.95%)	Consultant
13	30 (3.70%)	Java Developer
13	30 (3.70%)	Lead Architect
14	29 (3.58%)	Java Architect
15	28 (3.46%)	AWS Architect
15	28 (3.46%)	Digital Architect
16	25 (3.09%)	Senior Architect
17	23 (2.84%)	Azure Architect
18	19 (2.35%)	Technical Solutions Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	91 (11.23%)	Web Services
2	75 (9.26%)	SOAP
3	74 (9.14%)	Spring
4	70 (8.64%)	.NET
5	68 (8.40%)	REST
6	60 (7.41%)	XML
7	47 (5.80%)	Middleware
8	43 (5.31%)	JSON
9	33 (4.07%)	J2EE
10	32 (3.95%)	RESTful
11	28 (3.46%)	HTML
12	24 (2.96%)	AngularJS
13	23 (2.84%)	Hibernate
14	21 (2.59%)	Protocol Buffers
15	20 (2.47%)	WebSphere MQ
16	17 (2.10%)	CSS
17	16 (1.98%)	Spring Boot
18	14 (1.73%)	Spring MVC
19	13 (1.60%)	HTML5
19	13 (1.60%)	JMS

Miscellaneous
1	106 (13.09%)	Analytical Skills
2	44 (5.43%)	Data Centre
2	44 (5.43%)	Management Information System
3	27 (3.33%)	Computer Science
3	27 (3.33%)	Enterprise Software
3	27 (3.33%)	Private Cloud
4	24 (2.96%)	User Experience
5	13 (1.60%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
6	12 (1.48%)	Greenfield Project
6	12 (1.48%)	Mobile App
6	12 (1.48%)	NHS
6	12 (1.48%)	Virtual Team
7	11 (1.36%)	Public Cloud
8	9 (1.11%)	Life Science
9	8 (0.99%)	FMCG
9	8 (0.99%)	Mainframe
9	8 (0.99%)	SWIFT
10	7 (0.86%)	Derivative
11	6 (0.74%)	CESG
11	6 (0.74%)	Web 2.0

Operating Systems
1	69 (8.52%)	Windows
2	66 (8.15%)	Linux
3	46 (5.68%)	Unix
4	17 (2.10%)	Apple iOS
5	15 (1.85%)	Windows Server
6	10 (1.23%)	Windows 10
7	8 (0.99%)	Android
7	8 (0.99%)	Solaris
8	7 (0.86%)	Windows Server 2008
9	6 (0.74%)	VME
9	6 (0.74%)	Windows Server 2012
10	5 (0.62%)	Windows 7
11	4 (0.49%)	AIX
11	4 (0.49%)	HPUX
12	3 (0.37%)	Mac OS X
12	3 (0.37%)	VMS
13	2 (0.25%)	pSOS
13	2 (0.25%)	Windows Server 2003
14	1 (0.12%)	CentOS
14	1 (0.12%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	232 (28.64%)	Agile Software Development
2	208 (25.68%)	TOGAF
3	146 (18.02%)	SOA
4	125 (15.43%)	Stakeholder Management
5	102 (12.59%)	Project Management
6	99 (12.22%)	IT Strategy
7	90 (11.11%)	Data Modelling
8	89 (10.99%)	Scrum
9	87 (10.74%)	ITIL
10	72 (8.89%)	DevOps
11	71 (8.77%)	OO
11	71 (8.77%)	SDLC
12	70 (8.64%)	Business Intelligence
13	68 (8.40%)	Data Architecture
14	65 (8.02%)	Business Analysis
14	65 (8.02%)	UML
15	56 (6.91%)	Technical Architecture
16	55 (6.79%)	Data Management
16	55 (6.79%)	Service Management
17	53 (6.54%)	Microservices

Programming Languages
1	131 (16.17%)	Java
2	102 (12.59%)	SQL
3	55 (6.79%)	JavaScript
4	37 (4.57%)	Python
5	35 (4.32%)	C#
6	26 (3.21%)	Shell Script
7	24 (2.96%)	Ruby
8	14 (1.73%)	C
9	13 (1.60%)	PL/SQL
10	10 (1.23%)	PHP
10	10 (1.23%)	Scala
11	9 (1.11%)	VB
12	7 (0.86%)	C++
13	5 (0.62%)	Perl
14	4 (0.49%)	ABAP
14	4 (0.49%)	PowerShell
15	3 (0.37%)	ActionScript
15	3 (0.37%)	Apple Swift
15	3 (0.37%)	Bash Shell
15	3 (0.37%)	R

Qualifications
1	86 (10.62%)	Degree
2	75 (9.26%)	Security Cleared
3	53 (6.54%)	SC Cleared
4	22 (2.72%)	Master's Degree
5	14 (1.73%)	CISSP
6	12 (1.48%)	CISM
7	11 (1.36%)	ISEB
8	9 (1.11%)	Microsoft Certification
9	8 (0.99%)	BPSS Clearance
9	8 (0.99%)	CISA
9	8 (0.99%)	Cisco Certification
9	8 (0.99%)	DV Cleared
9	8 (0.99%)	ISTQB
9	8 (0.99%)	MCSE
10	7 (0.86%)	Computer Science Degree
10	7 (0.86%)	ITIL Certification
11	5 (0.62%)	MCSA
11	5 (0.62%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
11	5 (0.62%)	Sun Certification
11	5 (0.62%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	48 (5.93%)	QA
2	22 (2.72%)	PCI DSS
3	21 (2.59%)	MiFID
4	20 (2.47%)	Dodd-Frank
4	20 (2.47%)	EMIR
5	14 (1.73%)	Data Quality
6	9 (1.11%)	COBIT
7	7 (0.86%)	FedRAMP
7	7 (0.86%)	GDPR
7	7 (0.86%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	6 (0.74%)	SLA
9	5 (0.62%)	Disclosure Scotland
9	5 (0.62%)	PMO
9	5 (0.62%)	SEPA
10	4 (0.49%)	JSP 440
10	4 (0.49%)	PMBOK
11	3 (0.37%)	GPG13
11	3 (0.37%)	ISO 20022
11	3 (0.37%)	ISO/IEC 20000
11	3 (0.37%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	49 (6.05%)	Active Directory
2	23 (2.84%)	Docker
3	13 (1.60%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	8 (0.99%)	vCloud
4	8 (0.99%)	Virtual Desktop
5	7 (0.86%)	Apache Flume
5	7 (0.86%)	Virtual Machines
6	6 (0.74%)	HDFS
6	6 (0.74%)	Microsoft App-V
6	6 (0.74%)	XenApp
7	4 (0.49%)	NFS
7	4 (0.49%)	Oracle RAC
7	4 (0.49%)	vSphere
8	2 (0.25%)	DFS Replication
8	2 (0.25%)	LXC
9	1 (0.12%)	Hyper-V
9	1 (0.12%)	Terminal Server
9	1 (0.12%)	VMware ESXi
9	1 (0.12%)	XenDesktop
9	1 (0.12%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	19 (2.35%)	Ansible
2	18 (2.22%)	Opscode Chef
3	13 (1.60%)	SCCM
4	11 (1.36%)	Kubernetes
4	11 (1.36%)	Puppet
5	6 (0.74%)	Kibana
5	6 (0.74%)	logstash
5	6 (0.74%)	Terraform
6	5 (0.62%)	vRealize
6	5 (0.62%)	WSUS
7	4 (0.49%)	FortiGate
7	4 (0.49%)	Forum Sentry
8	3 (0.37%)	Data Guard
8	3 (0.37%)	Hadoop YARN
9	2 (0.25%)	Computer Emergency Response Teams
9	2 (0.25%)	HP Quality Center
9	2 (0.25%)	McAfee ePO
9	2 (0.25%)	MOM
9	2 (0.25%)	Red Hat Satellite
10	1 (0.12%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	136 (16.79%)	Microsoft
2	94 (11.60%)	Oracle
3	54 (6.67%)	SAP
4	38 (4.69%)	Salesforce.com
5	37 (4.57%)	IBM
6	33 (4.07%)	ServiceNow
7	28 (3.46%)	Red Hat
8	26 (3.21%)	VMware
9	20 (2.47%)	Cisco
9	20 (2.47%)	Citrix
9	20 (2.47%)	Perforce
10	17 (2.10%)	Adobe
11	14 (1.73%)	HP
11	14 (1.73%)	webMethods
12	13 (1.60%)	Atlassian
12	13 (1.60%)	MuleSoft
13	11 (1.36%)	Splunk
14	10 (1.23%)	Apigee
14	10 (1.23%)	Pega
15	9 (1.11%)	hybris