Business Architect Contracts

Business Architect
UK

The median Business Architect daily rate in the UK is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 635 748
Rank change year-on-year +144 +113 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Business Architect 80 52 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.097% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 33 67
10th Percentile £463 £505 £508
25th Percentile £513 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £788 £738
90th Percentile £726 £905 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -14.72% +6.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £67.75 -
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.68% +220.48%
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - £74.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Business Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Architect.

Daily rate trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Business Architect in the UK

Business Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +126 67 £594 -5.00% 12
London +128 50 £588 -6.00% 5
Work from Home +124 33 £588 -18.97% 4
UK excluding London +48 17 £565 -14.72% 7
North of England +28 9 £897 +35.39% 1
North West +13 5 £675 +3.85% 1
South West +2 4 £530 -15.20% 4
Wales - 3 £525 -
North East - 3 £897 -
Scotland +41 1 £675 -6.90%
East of England - 1 - - 1

Business Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Business 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 featuring Business Architect in the job title.

1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.25%) Roadmaps
3 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
5 21 (26.25%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (23.75%) Business Strategy
6 19 (23.75%) Decision-Making
7 18 (22.50%) Finance
7 18 (22.50%) Agile
7 18 (22.50%) Business Analysis
8 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
9 15 (18.75%) Management Information System
10 14 (17.50%) Enterprise Architecture
10 14 (17.50%) Target Operating Model
11 11 (13.75%) Azure
11 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
12 10 (12.50%) TOGAF
12 10 (12.50%) Data Management
12 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
13 9 (11.25%) Risk Management
13 9 (11.25%) Analytics
14 8 (10.00%) AWS
14 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (10.00%) IT Strategy
14 8 (10.00%) Business Case
15 7 (8.75%) Project Management
16 6 (7.50%) Degree

Business Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.75%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (5.00%) GCP
4 4 (5.00%) IaaS
4 4 (5.00%) PaaS
4 4 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (7.50%) Power BI
2 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.00%) QlikView
2 4 (5.00%) Tableau
3 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.25%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (22.50%) Finance
4 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Advertising
9 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.25%) Billing
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.25%) Police
9 1 (1.25%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.25%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Roadmaps
2 19 (23.75%) Business Strategy
2 19 (23.75%) Decision-Making
3 18 (22.50%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) Business Analysis
4 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (17.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 14 (17.50%) Target Operating Model
6 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
7 10 (12.50%) Data Management
7 10 (12.50%) TOGAF
8 9 (11.25%) Analytics
8 9 (11.25%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.00%) Business Case
9 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.00%) IT Strategy
9 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.75%) Project Management
11 6 (7.50%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.50%) SQL
2 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.00%) Google
2 4 (5.00%) Pega
3 2 (2.50%) SAP
3 2 (2.50%) Symantec
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) Sparx