Enterprise Architecture Job Trends in the South East

Enterprise Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 258 257
Rank change year-on-year +61 -1 -59
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 70 40 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.68% 0.44% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.50% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 20
10th Percentile £65,750 - £62,410
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,467 £65,519
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £86,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.98% +1.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,800 £95,000
90th Percentile - £89,960 £100,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.25% +0.46% -6.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,281 7,962 7,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.27% 88.01% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,926 3,813 5,426
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Enterprise Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in the South East

Enterprise Architecture
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Enterprise Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the South East over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the South East

Enterprise Architecture
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +35 55 £75,000 -9.53% 12
Berkshire +35 41 £67,500 -15.63% 7
Buckinghamshire 0 12 £75,000 -12.59% 2
Hampshire +42 5 £85,000 - 14
East Sussex +11 3 £75,535 - 3
Surrey +11 3 £85,000 - 4
Oxfordshire +25 2 £85,000 - 3
Kent -11 2 - - 4
West Sussex - 2 £71,250 - 3
Enterprise Architecture
England

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (7.14%) Azure
2 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.29%) AWS
3 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (4.29%) GCP
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.86%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.86%) IaaS
4 2 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 33 (47.14%) Finance
2 28 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 14 (20.00%) Law
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.86%) Marketing
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (65.71%) Lead
2 18 (25.71%) Architect
3 11 (15.71%) Team Leader
4 9 (12.86%) Enterprise Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Information Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Information Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Information Security Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Security Architect
6 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Lead Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Head of E-Commerce
8 2 (2.86%) Head of Technology
8 2 (2.86%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Transformation Director
9 1 (1.43%) CloudOps Engineer
9 1 (1.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) .NET
1 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.43%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.43%) RESTful
2 1 (1.43%) Spring
2 1 (1.43%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (55.71%) Life Science
2 14 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 11 (15.71%) Operational Technology
4 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.29%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.86%) Roadmaps
2 35 (50.00%) Agile
3 32 (45.71%) Analytics
4 31 (44.29%) Computer Science
5 29 (41.43%) AI
5 29 (41.43%) Data Science
5 29 (41.43%) Generative AI
5 29 (41.43%) Machine Learning
5 29 (41.43%) Use Case
6 28 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
6 28 (40.00%) Digital Twin
6 28 (40.00%) Disruptive Innovation
6 28 (40.00%) Hematology
6 28 (40.00%) Immunology
6 28 (40.00%) Intelligent Automation
6 28 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
7 11 (15.71%) Business Continuity
7 11 (15.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 11 (15.71%) Security Architecture
7 11 (15.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.86%) Bicep
1 2 (2.86%) C#
1 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.86%) Python
2 1 (1.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (61.43%) Degree
2 28 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 28 (40.00%) PhD
3 10 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 8 (11.43%) CISM
4 8 (11.43%) CISSP
4 8 (11.43%) DBS Check
5 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (55.71%) GxP
2 8 (11.43%) GRC
3 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) VMware
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) Foundry