Lead Enterprise Architect Contracts

Lead Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Lead Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK is £775, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 566 704
Rank change year-on-year +50 +138 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Enterprise Architect 4 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.037% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.040% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 13
10th Percentile £633 £561 £661
25th Percentile £681 £660 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £664 £900
Median % change year-on-year +16.63% -26.17% +12.50%
75th Percentile £803 £731 £963
90th Percentile £813 £945 £1,078
UK excluding London median daily rate £688 £660 £913
% change year-on-year +4.17% -27.67% -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Lead Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Enterprise Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Enterprise Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Enterprise Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +48 4 £775 +15.67% 1
UK excluding London +58 3 £688 +4.17% 1
South East - 2 £688 -
Work from Home +37 1 £775 -0.64% 1
London +33 1 £813 +3.17% 1
Midlands +22 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DAMA
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy

Lead 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DAMA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft