Lead Enterprise Architect Contract Job Trends

Lead Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Lead Enterprise Architect daily rate in the UK is £1,000, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 557 627
Rank change year-on-year +6 +70 +187
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Enterprise Architect 9 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.013% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.014% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
10th Percentile £620 £470 £638
25th Percentile £688 £500 £670
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £538 £720
Median % change year-on-year +86.05% -25.35% +4.73%
75th Percentile £1,087 £544 £795
90th Percentile £1,120 £833 £1,036
UK excluding London median daily rate - £538 £740
% change year-on-year - -27.36% +9.63%

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 30,128 34,701 45,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.90% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,009 20,914 30,950
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,674 1,398 1,545
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.02 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.16 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.38% -10.75% +68.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.42 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.44% -9.38% +97.78%

Lead Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Enterprise Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Lead Enterprise Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Enterprise Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Enterprise Architect job vacancies in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Enterprise Architect over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Top 5 Contract Job 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 19 October 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
London +27 7 £1,000 +110.53% 6
England +15 7 £1,000 +92.77% 10
Work from Home +18 5 £1,074 +13.05% 9
UK excluding London -18 1 - - 8
Scotland - 1 - -

Lead Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Lead Enterprise Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Lead Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) AI
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) API Management
3 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Databricks
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
4 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) Big Data
4 2 (22.22%) Bloomberg
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
4 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 2 (22.22%) R
4 2 (22.22%) Refinitiv

Lead Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
3 1 (11.11%) Boomi
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) AI
2 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) API Management
3 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Bloomberg
2 2 (22.22%) Refinitiv
3 1 (11.11%) Foundry
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce