Enterprise Architecture Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 97 92
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +47
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 52 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.32% 0.72% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 0.84% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 7 13
10th Percentile £477 £600 £557
25th Percentile £510 £602 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £607 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -13.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £605 £750 £725
90th Percentile £672 £780 £888
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,959 1,424 1,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.38% 85.68% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 899 1,067
10th Percentile £263 £225 £275
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £587 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 47 50
10th Percentile £13.47 £14.70 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.88 £17.56
Median hourly rate £20.25 £23.60 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +2.61% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £38.01 £52.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
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 Architecture within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Shropshire - 20 £540 -
Birmingham -3 13 £600 -7.69% 10
Warwickshire +1 9 £385 -36.57% 6
Coventry - 7 £525 - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Enterprise Architecture
England

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 19 (36.54%) SAS
2 5 (9.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.85%) Confluence
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.92%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.92%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.92%) SAP EP
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.92%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.92%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.92%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Power Platform
3 8 (15.38%) AWS
4 7 (13.46%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (11.54%) GCP
6 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
6 5 (9.62%) SaaS
7 3 (5.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (3.85%) Lucidchart
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.92%) PaaS
9 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Firewall
1 4 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 4 (7.69%) WAN
2 3 (5.77%) BGP
2 3 (5.77%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (5.77%) DHCP
2 3 (5.77%) DNS
2 3 (5.77%) EIGRP
2 3 (5.77%) IPv4
2 3 (5.77%) IPv6
2 3 (5.77%) LAN
2 3 (5.77%) MPLS
2 3 (5.77%) OSPF
2 3 (5.77%) VLAN
2 3 (5.77%) VPN
2 3 (5.77%) VXLAN
2 3 (5.77%) Wireless
2 3 (5.77%) WLAN
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (3.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) Oracle Database
1 17 (32.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 13 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (19.23%) Power BI
4 7 (13.46%) Pentaho
5 5 (9.62%) Data Mining
6 4 (7.69%) Metadata
7 3 (5.77%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.92%) GIS
8 1 (1.92%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.92%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 11 (21.15%) Jenkins
3 10 (19.23%) JIRA
4 5 (9.62%) GitLab
4 5 (9.62%) JUnit
4 5 (9.62%) Selenium
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.54%) Finance
5 4 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Marketing
6 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Architect
2 10 (19.23%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (17.31%) Enterprise Architect
4 6 (11.54%) Business Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Data Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Senior
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Test Specialist
5 5 (9.62%) TOGAF Architect
5 5 (9.62%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Lead
6 4 (7.69%) Lead Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Network Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Administrator
7 3 (5.77%) Release Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) REST
2 5 (9.62%) pytest
3 3 (5.77%) SOAP
4 2 (3.85%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) Node.js
5 1 (1.92%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.92%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.77%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.92%) SCADA
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Architectural Patterns
2 20 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (36.54%) Data Modelling
3 19 (36.54%) DevOps
4 18 (34.62%) Analytics
4 18 (34.62%) Integration Patterns
5 17 (32.69%) Agile
5 17 (32.69%) Risk Assessment
6 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (26.92%) Data Integration
7 14 (26.92%) Scrum
7 14 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (21.15%) AI
8 11 (21.15%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (21.15%) Mentoring
8 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
8 11 (21.15%) Validation
9 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (19.23%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) Python
2 6 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (1.92%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 25 (48.08%) Security Cleared
2 21 (40.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.77%) CCIE
4 3 (5.77%) CCIE Security
4 3 (5.77%) CCNP
4 3 (5.77%) CCSP
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.77%) CISSP
5 2 (3.85%) JNCIE
5 2 (3.85%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) GDPR
2 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.77%) NIST
2 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
2 3 (5.77%) QA
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Ansible
2 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (36.54%) Oracle
2 7 (13.46%) Denodo
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.54%) Talend
4 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco
4 3 (5.77%) F5
4 3 (5.77%) Fortinet
4 3 (5.77%) Meraki
4 3 (5.77%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.77%) Pega
4 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.77%) SAP
4 3 (5.77%) SolarWinds
4 3 (5.77%) VMware
5 2 (3.85%) Ariba
5 2 (3.85%) Forcepoint
5 2 (3.85%) Juniper
6 1 (1.92%) Remedy
6 1 (1.92%) Sage