Enterprise Architect Contracts

Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 344 430
Rank change year-on-year +4 +86 -31
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 265 425 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.72% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.76% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 311 340
10th Percentile £500 £550 £515
25th Percentile £580 £619 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £786 £800 £775
90th Percentile £875 £875 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £650 £653
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.38% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £72.50
25th Percentile - £70.00 £75.12
Median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -6.30% -
75th Percentile - £81.50 £86.23
90th Percentile - £81.79 £87.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
% change year-on-year - -6.30% -

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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

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 3 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 3 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 +24 228 £700 - 48
London +61 138 £700 -5.41% 31
Work from Home +36 100 £665 -5.00% 24
UK excluding London -21 91 £675 +3.85% 15
Midlands +46 29 £750 +15.38% 1
West Midlands +43 28 £750 +15.38% 1
North of England +8 25 £650 - 3
South East 0 13 £750 +6.19% 5
Yorkshire +12 12 £635 -2.31% 1
North West +6 10 £638 -8.93% 1
South West -19 10 £660 +1.54% 4
Scotland +23 7 £775 +5.08% 1
East of England +7 7 £650 -17.46%
North East +17 3 £897 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £600 -
East Midlands +20 1 £595 -14.70%

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 97 (36.60%) Enterprise Architecture
2 86 (32.45%) Roadmaps
3 61 (23.02%) Finance
4 58 (21.89%) TOGAF
5 52 (19.62%) IT Strategy
6 48 (18.11%) Public Sector
7 46 (17.36%) Social Skills
8 39 (14.72%) Data Modelling
9 37 (13.96%) Security Cleared
9 37 (13.96%) Data Architecture
10 35 (13.21%) Azure
11 34 (12.83%) Business Strategy
12 33 (12.45%) SC Cleared
13 31 (11.70%) Agile
14 30 (11.32%) Technology Strategy
15 29 (10.94%) Data Management
16 28 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
17 27 (10.19%) Architectural Design
18 26 (9.81%) Telecoms
18 26 (9.81%) Analytics
19 25 (9.43%) Microsoft
20 24 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
20 24 (9.06%) Banking
20 24 (9.06%) Sparx
20 24 (9.06%) Data Strategy
21 23 (8.68%) SAP
21 23 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
22 22 (8.30%) Data Governance
22 22 (8.30%) Degree
22 22 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management

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 4 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) Drupal
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
3 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 13 (4.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.13%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.75%) Avolution ABACUS
4 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.38%) PeopleSoft CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.21%) Azure
2 14 (5.28%) AWS
2 14 (5.28%) SaaS
3 12 (4.53%) IaaS
4 11 (4.15%) PaaS
5 7 (2.64%) Akamai
5 7 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.64%) Cloudflare
5 7 (2.64%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.26%) GCP
7 4 (1.51%) Serverless
8 3 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.13%) OCI
9 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.75%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.75%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.77%) Firewall
2 8 (3.02%) DNS
3 6 (2.26%) SAN
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.89%) DHCP
4 5 (1.89%) Internet
4 5 (1.89%) LAN
4 5 (1.89%) MPLS
4 5 (1.89%) PBX
4 5 (1.89%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.89%) VoIP
4 5 (1.89%) VPN
4 5 (1.89%) WAN
4 5 (1.89%) WLAN
5 4 (1.51%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.13%) Network Security
7 2 (0.75%) SCCP
8 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.17%) Metadata
2 11 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.26%) Power BI
4 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.89%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.13%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (1.13%) OLAP
5 3 (1.13%) OLTP
5 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.13%) Tableau
6 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.75%) Pentaho
6 2 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.75%) QlikView
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 11 (4.15%) ERwin
2 2 (0.75%) kappa
General
1 61 (23.02%) Finance
2 48 (18.11%) Public Sector
3 46 (17.36%) Social Skills
4 28 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.81%) Telecoms
6 24 (9.06%) Banking
7 21 (7.92%) Retail
8 19 (7.17%) Manufacturing
9 16 (6.04%) Marketing
10 14 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (4.91%) Electronics
12 11 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (3.02%) Legal
13 8 (3.02%) Local Government
14 7 (2.64%) Law
15 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.51%) Publishing
16 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.13%) General Ledger
17 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.64%) Web Services
2 4 (1.51%) REST
3 2 (0.75%) JSON
3 2 (0.75%) SOAP
3 2 (0.75%) XML
4 1 (0.38%) D3.js
4 1 (0.38%) Kafka
4 1 (0.38%) MACH
4 1 (0.38%) Middleware
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.55%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.79%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.15%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.15%) Wiki
4 7 (2.64%) IoT
5 6 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.89%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.51%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.51%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.13%) SCADA
9 2 (0.75%) CMDB
9 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.40%) Windows
2 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (36.60%) Enterprise Architecture
2 86 (32.45%) Roadmaps
3 58 (21.89%) TOGAF
4 52 (19.62%) IT Strategy
5 39 (14.72%) Data Modelling
6 37 (13.96%) Data Architecture
7 34 (12.83%) Business Strategy
8 31 (11.70%) Agile
9 30 (11.32%) Technology Strategy
10 29 (10.94%) Data Management
11 27 (10.19%) Architectural Design
12 26 (9.81%) Analytics
13 24 (9.06%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (9.06%) Data Strategy
14 23 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (8.30%) Data Governance
15 22 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (7.92%) Data Protection
17 19 (7.17%) Programme Management
18 18 (6.79%) ArchiMate
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.02%) Java
2 4 (1.51%) SQL
3 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.30%) Degree
4 11 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.15%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.26%) CISA
6 6 (2.26%) CISM
6 6 (2.26%) CISSP
6 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.26%) SANS
7 5 (1.89%) CCIE
7 5 (1.89%) CCIE Data Center
8 4 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.75%) CCNP
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.28%) GDPR
2 13 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.51%) GRC
3 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.51%) NIST
4 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.75%) ISA99
4 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) FATCA
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.38%) MiFID
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.06%) Sparx
3 23 (8.68%) SAP
4 7 (2.64%) F5
4 7 (2.64%) Oracle
5 6 (2.26%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (2.26%) Google
5 6 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.89%) CheckPoint
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco
6 5 (1.89%) Infoblox
6 5 (1.89%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.89%) Symantec
6 5 (1.89%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.13%) Informatica
7 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) Databricks
8 2 (0.75%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (0.75%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.75%) Splunk