Enterprise Architecture Contracts

Enterprise Architecture
UK

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 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 244 251
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 383 677 1,036
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.11% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.24% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 434 707
10th Percentile £463 £513 £490
25th Percentile £525 £579 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £738
90th Percentile £825 £814 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £60.25 £55.38 -
25th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £73.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% - -
75th Percentile £71.25 £81.13 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.65 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £73.35 -
% change year-on-year -4.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,760 54,632 81,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 89.84% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,440 37,790 57,209
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,780 1,950
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.90 £16.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.83 £75.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year - +75.39% -8.21%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 18 April 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 -17 325 £650 -2.62% 130
UK excluding London -26 167 £650 +4.00% 82
London -2 164 £650 -7.14% 56
Work from Home +8 133 £625 -3.85% 84
South West +13 57 £650 +12.26% 17
North of England +13 35 £700 +14.47% 19
North West +17 22 £650 +7.22% 12
Midlands +30 21 £575 -7.70% 10
East of England +4 21 £650 -11.56% 9
South East -22 21 £643 -5.15% 17
West Midlands +34 18 £575 -8.00% 5
Scotland +37 14 £646 -6.00% 9
Yorkshire -2 8 £800 +32.09% 7
North East +25 5 £897 +39.60%
East Midlands +8 3 £765 +45.16% 5
Wales +10 2 £569 +19.74% 2

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 15 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.57%) Confluence
3 5 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.04%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
5 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.26%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (3.39%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (5.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.31%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.52%) Shopify
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 70 (18.28%) Azure
2 51 (13.32%) AWS
3 30 (7.83%) SaaS
4 27 (7.05%) PaaS
5 21 (5.48%) IaaS
6 15 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.39%) GCP
8 10 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.09%) Boomi
9 8 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.57%) Kong
12 5 (1.31%) Apigee
12 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.31%) Serverless
12 5 (1.31%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.04%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.74%) WAN
2 11 (2.87%) VoIP
3 10 (2.61%) SDH
4 9 (2.35%) LAN
4 9 (2.35%) PBX
5 8 (2.09%) SAN
6 6 (1.57%) VSAN
7 5 (1.31%) Firewall
8 4 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (1.04%) Junos
8 4 (1.04%) Network Security
9 3 (0.78%) ADSL
9 3 (0.78%) VDSL
10 2 (0.52%) 4G
10 2 (0.52%) 5G
10 2 (0.52%) Internet
11 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.26%) Skype
11 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.18%) Metadata
2 11 (2.87%) NoSQL
2 11 (2.87%) Power BI
3 9 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (2.09%) Data Vault
4 8 (2.09%) OLAP
4 8 (2.09%) OLTP
4 8 (2.09%) Pentaho
4 8 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.09%) Qlik Sense
4 8 (2.09%) QlikView
5 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.31%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.04%) GIS
8 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.78%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.48%) Rational DOORS
2 19 (4.96%) JIRA
3 2 (0.52%) kappa
4 1 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) GitLab
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.26%) Maven
4 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 111 (28.98%) Finance
3 62 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 44 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (10.70%) Banking
6 40 (10.44%) Telecoms
7 22 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.44%) Manufacturing
9 16 (4.18%) Legal
9 16 (4.18%) Marketing
10 14 (3.66%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.87%) Publishing
12 10 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.35%) Electronics
14 8 (2.09%) Local Government
14 8 (2.09%) Retail
15 7 (1.83%) Digital Economy
15 7 (1.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 286 (74.67%) Architect
2 98 (25.59%) Enterprise Architect
3 93 (24.28%) Solutions Architect
4 29 (7.57%) Security Architect
5 25 (6.53%) Data Architect
6 21 (5.48%) Project Manager
7 19 (4.96%) Lead
7 19 (4.96%) Technical Architect
8 18 (4.70%) Business Architect
9 16 (4.18%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (4.18%) Senior
10 13 (3.39%) Lead Architect
11 12 (3.13%) Senior Architect
12 11 (2.87%) Security Manager
13 10 (2.61%) Network Architect
13 10 (2.61%) Security Project Manager
14 9 (2.35%) AWS Architect
14 9 (2.35%) Consultant
14 9 (2.35%) Enterprise Security Architect
15 8 (2.09%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.66%) Web Services
2 12 (3.13%) J2EE
3 10 (2.61%) Kafka
4 8 (2.09%) SOAP
5 7 (1.83%) REST
6 6 (1.57%) .NET
6 6 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.31%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (1.31%) JSON
7 5 (1.31%) Middleware
7 5 (1.31%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.31%) Spring
8 4 (1.04%) Apache Camel
8 4 (1.04%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.04%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.04%) Spring Integration
9 3 (0.78%) DAO
10 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.52%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.05%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.39%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.13%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 11 (2.87%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.61%) Blackberry
5 10 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.35%) Reference Data
6 9 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (1.83%) PKI
9 6 (1.57%) IoT
10 5 (1.31%) CMDB
10 5 (1.31%) DataPower
10 5 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.04%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.09%) Windows
2 3 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.52%) Android
3 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (31.59%) Roadmaps
2 113 (29.50%) Agile
3 110 (28.72%) TOGAF
4 68 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (16.45%) Project Delivery
6 61 (15.93%) IT Strategy
7 56 (14.62%) ArchiMate
8 52 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (12.53%) Business Strategy
9 48 (12.53%) ITIL
10 45 (11.75%) Migration
11 44 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (11.49%) Data Architecture
12 40 (10.44%) Technology Strategy
13 39 (10.18%) Decision-Making
14 38 (9.92%) Computer Science
14 38 (9.92%) Strategic Roadmap
15 35 (9.14%) Data Modelling
16 33 (8.62%) DevOps
16 33 (8.62%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (4.44%) SQL
2 15 (3.92%) Java
3 8 (2.09%) T-SQL
4 5 (1.31%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.04%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.78%) C#
7 2 (0.52%) Python
8 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 97 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 72 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 66 (17.23%) Degree
4 27 (7.05%) CISSP
5 25 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.74%) CISM
7 21 (5.48%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.48%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (4.18%) CISA
8 16 (4.18%) SANS
9 13 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (2.87%) CRISC
10 11 (2.87%) HND
11 10 (2.61%) CCNP
12 9 (2.35%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.04%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.04%) JNCIA
14 4 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.35%) NIST
3 8 (2.09%) GDPR
3 8 (2.09%) NCSC
4 7 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.31%) GRC
5 5 (1.31%) QA
6 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.78%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.78%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.52%) COBIT
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.52%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.26%) GxP
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.09%) vSphere
3 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.13%) VxRail
2 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (1.57%) vCenter Server
3 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.04%) PingFederate
4 4 (1.04%) PowerCLI
5 3 (0.78%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.36%) Cisco
3 27 (7.05%) IBM
4 25 (6.53%) VMware
5 24 (6.27%) Sparx
6 23 (6.01%) Juniper
6 23 (6.01%) Nokia
7 22 (5.74%) Oracle
7 22 (5.74%) SAP
8 18 (4.70%) Google
9 17 (4.44%) ServiceNow
10 14 (3.66%) BiZZdesign
11 13 (3.39%) Dell
12 11 (2.87%) Salesforce
13 10 (2.61%) Avaya
14 9 (2.35%) Ericsson
14 9 (2.35%) Informatica
14 9 (2.35%) Ribbon
15 7 (1.83%) BMC
15 7 (1.83%) Remedy