Enterprise Architecture Contracts

Enterprise Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 272 257
Rank change year-on-year +64 -15 -8
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 377 369 629
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 0.86% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.00% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 251 404
10th Percentile £476 £463 £500
25th Percentile £519 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £813 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £56.20 - £61.50
25th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £66.25
Median hourly rate £76.34 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.09% -3.57% -14.49%
75th Percentile £88.50 £83.81 £80.25
90th Percentile £95.40 £88.00 £81.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.67 £87.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -39.81% +25.00% -14.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Enterprise Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,492 36,783 51,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.20% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,003 23,675 35,887
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,434 1,710
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.22
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.43 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +8.57% +75.00%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +64 313 £630 -3.08% 583
UK excluding London +62 187 £625 -3.85% 403
London +29 145 £650 - 257
Work from Home +28 107 £600 -4.00% 371
South East +77 47 £626 -3.18% 148
South West +36 44 £650 - 54
North of England +16 38 £600 -17.24% 68
North West +15 31 £564 -16.44% 37
Scotland +23 29 £562 -9.21% 20
Midlands +21 24 £620 +7.83% 67
West Midlands +14 18 £600 +4.35% 40
Wales +8 8 £480 -15.60% 8
Yorkshire +14 7 £650 -18.70% 25
East Midlands +14 6 £800 +4.58% 24
East of England +7 2 £675 +1.89% 35

Enterprise Architecture
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 13 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.86%) Confluence
2 7 (1.86%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.59%) NetWeaver
3 6 (1.59%) SAP EP
4 5 (1.33%) CMS
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.53%) Camunda
6 2 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.65%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.80%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.53%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.59%) SAP CRM
2 6 (1.59%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.06%) Endur
4 3 (0.80%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.53%) Maximo
5 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.53%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.27%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 124 (32.89%) Azure
2 74 (19.63%) AWS
3 29 (7.69%) SaaS
4 28 (7.43%) GCP
4 28 (7.43%) PaaS
5 27 (7.16%) IaaS
6 24 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (3.98%) Entra ID
8 12 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (3.18%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.92%) Serverless
10 9 (2.39%) Azure App Service
10 9 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (2.39%) Azure Storage
11 7 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.33%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.90%) Firewall
2 12 (3.18%) Network Security
3 11 (2.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.06%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.80%) DNS
5 3 (0.80%) Internet
5 3 (0.80%) IPsec
5 3 (0.80%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.80%) SSL
6 2 (0.53%) Broadband
6 2 (0.53%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.53%) HTTP
6 2 (0.53%) LAN
6 2 (0.53%) Modbus
6 2 (0.53%) MQTT
6 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) GPON
7 1 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.86%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.86%) Power BI
5 6 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.59%) SAP HANA
6 5 (1.33%) Metadata
6 5 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.06%) Big Data
8 3 (0.80%) DB2
8 3 (0.80%) GIS
8 3 (0.80%) OLTP
8 3 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.80%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (0.80%) Tableau
9 2 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (3.71%) JIRA
2 6 (1.59%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) ERwin
3 4 (1.06%) GitLab
4 3 (0.80%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.80%) Maven
5 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Hudson
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 148 (39.26%) Social Skills
2 93 (24.67%) Finance
3 56 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.49%) Banking
6 23 (6.10%) Telecoms
7 20 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.65%) Retail
10 9 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.12%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.12%) Marketing
12 6 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.33%) Billing
13 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Military
14 4 (1.06%) Publishing
15 3 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 285 (75.60%) Architect
2 105 (27.85%) Solutions Architect
3 79 (20.95%) Enterprise Architect
4 37 (9.81%) Lead
5 28 (7.43%) Technical Architect
6 24 (6.37%) Senior
7 22 (5.84%) SAP Architect
8 20 (5.31%) Azure Architect
8 20 (5.31%) Senior Architect
9 18 (4.77%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (4.77%) Security Architect
10 16 (4.24%) Analyst
10 16 (4.24%) Lead Architect
11 13 (3.45%) Data Architect
12 12 (3.18%) Consultant
13 11 (2.92%) Designer
13 11 (2.92%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.65%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.65%) ServiceNow Architect
15 9 (2.39%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.57%) Web Services
2 13 (3.45%) .NET
2 13 (3.45%) Middleware
2 13 (3.45%) REST
3 10 (2.65%) AngularJS
4 9 (2.39%) ARM Templates
4 9 (2.39%) SAP PI
4 9 (2.39%) Spring
5 8 (2.12%) SAP Fiori
6 7 (1.86%) HTML
6 7 (1.86%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.59%) SAPUI5
8 5 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (1.33%) Node.js
8 5 (1.33%) SOAP
9 4 (1.06%) Kafka
9 4 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.06%) SAML
10 3 (0.80%) LDAP
10 3 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.24%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.98%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.92%) CMDB
9 10 (2.65%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (2.12%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.12%) IoT
11 8 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.86%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.59%) Blockchain
14 5 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
15 4 (1.06%) NHS
15 4 (1.06%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.57%) Linux
2 17 (4.51%) Windows
3 11 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.86%) Unix
5 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.53%) Android
6 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.53%) HPUX
6 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.53%) Solaris
6 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (32.89%) Roadmaps
2 108 (28.65%) Agile
3 90 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (20.95%) TOGAF
5 62 (16.45%) DevOps
6 59 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 50 (13.26%) Cybersecurity
7 50 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
8 49 (13.00%) Business Strategy
9 48 (12.73%) IT Strategy
10 46 (12.20%) Microservices
11 45 (11.94%) Collaborative Working
12 43 (11.41%) Migration
12 43 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (10.34%) Decision-Making
14 37 (9.81%) Analytics
14 37 (9.81%) Strategic Roadmap
15 35 (9.28%) Architectural Design
15 35 (9.28%) Architectural Patterns
15 35 (9.28%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.16%) Java
2 24 (6.37%) SQL
3 22 (5.84%) Python
4 11 (2.92%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.92%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.65%) Bicep
6 8 (2.12%) C#
7 6 (1.59%) ABAP
8 5 (1.33%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.80%) Bash
9 3 (0.80%) Go
9 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.80%) Scala
10 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.53%) VB
10 2 (0.53%) VBScript
11 1 (0.27%) COBOL
11 1 (0.27%) Magik
11 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 69 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.81%) Degree
4 33 (8.75%) Azure Certification
5 22 (5.84%) AWS Certification
6 19 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (3.98%) TOGAF Certification
9 13 (3.45%) CISSP
10 11 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (2.65%) DV Cleared
12 9 (2.39%) Master's Degree
13 7 (1.86%) CISM
13 7 (1.86%) SAP Certification
14 4 (1.06%) CCNP
14 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.06%) CITP
14 4 (1.06%) MCSE
15 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.10%) NIST
2 13 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.92%) GDPR
4 10 (2.65%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.12%) QA
6 5 (1.33%) NCSC
7 4 (1.06%) GRC
7 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.80%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.80%) PMO
9 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.53%) PSD2
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) COBIT
10 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.27%) FISMA
10 1 (0.27%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.39%) Docker
3 9 (2.39%) vSphere
4 5 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.80%) RACF
6 2 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (4.51%) Terraform
2 16 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.12%) Ansible
5 6 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.80%) Data Guard
6 3 (0.80%) Packer
7 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.53%) SCCM
8 1 (0.27%) Grafana
8 1 (0.27%) Kibana
8 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 67 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.75%) SAP
3 24 (6.37%) Oracle
3 24 (6.37%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.31%) Google
4 20 (5.31%) VMware
5 17 (4.51%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.86%) Ariba
6 7 (1.86%) Cisco
6 7 (1.86%) IBM
7 5 (1.33%) Siemens
8 4 (1.06%) Adobe
8 4 (1.06%) OpenLink
8 4 (1.06%) Planview
9 3 (0.80%) Apple
9 3 (0.80%) Citrix
9 3 (0.80%) Okta
9 3 (0.80%) Pega
9 3 (0.80%) Ping Identity
9 3 (0.80%) Sparx