Enterprise Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Enterprise Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 225 236
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 170 242 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 1.05% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.18% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 166 231
10th Percentile £480 £503 £463
25th Percentile £531 £556 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% +1.44%
75th Percentile £738 £697 £691
90th Percentile £847 £744 £788
UK median daily rate £646 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -0.62% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 2
10th Percentile £86.20 £61.98 £72.50
25th Percentile £86.50 £69.06 £75.12
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.49% +68.78%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.44 £86.23
90th Percentile - £81.45 £87.42
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -3.57% -14.49% +68.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
South West +1 53 £638 +9.91% 14
North of England +26 45 £725 +19.79% 30
North West +32 31 £712 +36.27% 17
Midlands +27 25 £550 -12.00% 17
East of England +10 20 £663 +15.22% 8
West Midlands +23 18 £575 -8.00% 10
South East -30 18 £647 -4.64% 15
Scotland +38 15 £619 +3.21% 10
Yorkshire -3 9 £800 +30.48% 4
East Midlands +13 7 £445 -15.56% 7
North East +15 5 £897 +39.60% 9
Wales +16 2 £569 -5.21% 2
Enterprise Architecture
UK

Enterprise Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.29%) Confluence
2 7 (4.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.59%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (4.12%) Temenos T24
2 5 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.76%) Azure
2 30 (17.65%) AWS
3 18 (10.59%) PaaS
4 16 (9.41%) SaaS
5 8 (4.71%) GCP
5 8 (4.71%) IaaS
6 7 (4.12%) Apigee
6 7 (4.12%) Kong
7 6 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.94%) Serverless
9 4 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.76%) iPaaS
10 3 (1.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) Boomi
11 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.18%) GitHub
12 1 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.76%) WAN
2 11 (6.47%) VoIP
3 9 (5.29%) PBX
3 9 (5.29%) SDH
4 7 (4.12%) LAN
5 4 (2.35%) Junos
5 4 (2.35%) VSAN
6 3 (1.76%) Network Security
7 2 (1.18%) 4G
7 2 (1.18%) 5G
7 2 (1.18%) BGP
7 2 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.18%) Firewall
7 2 (1.18%) OSPF
7 2 (1.18%) SAN
7 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.18%) VPN
7 2 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.59%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.29%) OLAP
1 9 (5.29%) OLTP
2 7 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.53%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (2.35%) Metadata
5 3 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Power BI
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.59%) DTS
7 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (11.76%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (8.82%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) kappa
3 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) JUnit
4 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.88%) Finance
3 34 (20.00%) Banking
4 33 (19.41%) Telecoms
5 26 (15.29%) Public Sector
6 23 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (8.24%) Aerospace
7 14 (8.24%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (7.65%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.12%) Aeronautics
9 7 (4.12%) Digital Economy
9 7 (4.12%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.12%) Retail
10 5 (2.94%) Marketing
11 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.76%) Electronics
11 3 (1.76%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.18%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 137 (80.59%) Architect
2 78 (45.88%) Solutions Architect
3 31 (18.24%) Enterprise Architect
4 11 (6.47%) Technical Architect
5 10 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 10 (5.88%) Lead
6 9 (5.29%) Senior
7 8 (4.71%) Network Architect
8 7 (4.12%) AWS Architect
8 7 (4.12%) Business Architect
8 7 (4.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.12%) Senior Architect
9 6 (3.53%) Lead Architect
10 5 (2.94%) Lead Enterprise Architect
11 4 (2.35%) ITSM Specialist
11 4 (2.35%) Payments Architect
11 4 (2.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.35%) Salesforce Architect
11 4 (2.35%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 4 (2.35%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.47%) J2EE
1 11 (6.47%) SOAP
1 11 (6.47%) Web Services
2 8 (4.71%) Kafka
2 8 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (4.12%) IBM Integration Bus
4 6 (3.53%) Apache Camel
4 6 (3.53%) Spring
4 6 (3.53%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.53%) Spring Integration
5 4 (2.35%) .NET
6 3 (1.76%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.76%) Middleware
6 3 (1.76%) RAML
6 3 (1.76%) REST
7 2 (1.18%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.18%) JSON
8 1 (0.59%) JMS
8 1 (0.59%) JSON Schema
8 1 (0.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.29%) Blackberry
2 9 (5.29%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.12%) DataPower
4 7 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.94%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.76%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.76%) IoT
7 3 (1.76%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.76%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Linux
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (38.82%) Roadmaps
1 66 (38.82%) TOGAF
2 43 (25.29%) Agile
3 41 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (23.53%) ArchiMate
5 38 (22.35%) Business Strategy
6 33 (19.41%) IT Strategy
7 28 (16.47%) ITIL
7 28 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (16.47%) Strategic Roadmap
8 27 (15.88%) Architecture Governance
9 25 (14.71%) DevOps
10 24 (14.12%) Technology Strategy
11 23 (13.53%) Decision-Making
11 23 (13.53%) Migration
12 22 (12.94%) BPMN
12 22 (12.94%) Project Delivery
13 21 (12.35%) Computer Science
14 17 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.24%) Java
2 6 (3.53%) SQL
3 3 (1.76%) Python
4 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 43 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 33 (19.41%) Degree
4 20 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 17 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (6.47%) HND
7 10 (5.88%) CCNP
7 10 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.35%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.35%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.76%) MCSE
10 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.59%) CISM
12 1 (0.59%) CISSP
12 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.71%) NCSC
2 7 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.35%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.18%) GDPR
4 2 (1.18%) GRC
4 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) PMO
4 2 (1.18%) QA
5 1 (0.59%) COBIT
5 1 (0.59%) GxP
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.59%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.53%) vSphere
3 4 (2.35%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.76%) Docker
4 3 (1.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (2.94%) VxRail
3 4 (2.35%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.76%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.18%) Terraform
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.88%) IBM
3 26 (15.29%) Cisco
4 22 (12.94%) Juniper
4 22 (12.94%) Nokia
5 17 (10.00%) VMware
6 15 (8.82%) Google
7 10 (5.88%) Oracle
7 10 (5.88%) SAP
8 9 (5.29%) Avaya
8 9 (5.29%) Ericsson
8 9 (5.29%) Ribbon
9 7 (4.12%) BMC
9 7 (4.12%) Remedy
9 7 (4.12%) TSYS
10 6 (3.53%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.94%) Dell
11 5 (2.94%) Sparx
12 4 (2.35%) Ciena
12 4 (2.35%) Salesforce