Enterprise Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Enterprise Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £600, 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 85 84 129
Rank change year-on-year -1 +45 +23
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Architect 12 27 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 1.39% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.52% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 10
10th Percentile £573 £550 £563
25th Percentile £585 £625 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £625 £925 £740
90th Percentile £730 £940 £783
England median daily rate £690 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +3.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architect in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architect in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architect in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architect in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +10 5 £600 -25.00% 4
Solihull - 3 £599 - 2
Coventry +4 2 £700 +22.27% 1
Warwickshire -5 1 - - 2
Enterprise Architect
England

Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (33.33%) .NET
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (25.00%) Degree
5 2 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (16.67%) UML
5 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (16.67%) Sequence Diagram
5 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Databricks

Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Modbus
1 1 (8.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Domain Models
5 2 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (16.67%) Sequence Diagram
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) UML
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
6 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft