Enterprise Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 97 107
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 20 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.25% 0.73% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.91% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 16
10th Percentile £460 £433 £481
25th Percentile £500 £513 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -13.73% -1.92%
75th Percentile £620 £788 £697
90th Percentile £725 £825 £725
England median daily rate £625 £650 £660
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.55% -1.46%

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 1,422 1,652 1,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.71% 80.66% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,103 1,355
10th Percentile £209 £264 £263
25th Percentile £364 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 107 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.76 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.28 £19.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -24.75% +44.29%
75th Percentile £32.29 £36.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £51.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the West Midlands

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the West Midlands

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the West Midlands

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 July 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
Warwickshire +2 10 £500 -37.50% 6
Solihull - 4 £600 -
Coventry 0 3 £650 +36.84% 1
Shropshire - 2 £630 - 4
Birmingham 0 1 £750 +36.36% 11
Enterprise Architecture
England

Enterprise Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) NetWeaver
3 1 (5.00%) SAP EP
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) Lucidchart
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Modbus
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) GIS
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Applications Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) GIS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
1 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (5.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (5.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (20.00%) IoT
2 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) DevOps
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
1 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Microservices
2 6 (30.00%) Project Planning
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 4 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Interface Catalogue
4 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) SOA
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) ABAP
1 1 (5.00%) COBOL
1 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (10.00%) ESRI
3 1 (5.00%) Ariba
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) SAP