Enterprise Architecture Contracts

Enterprise Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 247 250
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 369 623 996
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 1.09% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.21% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 399 676
10th Percentile £463 £500 £500
25th Percentile £525 £575 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £744
90th Percentile £825 £801 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 2
10th Percentile - £61.50 £72.50
25th Percentile £63.75 £66.25 £75.12
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -14.49% +68.78%
75th Percentile £83.81 £80.25 £86.23
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.40 £87.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.49% +68.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Enterprise Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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 -22 315 £650 -1.07% 143
UK excluding London -11 161 £650 +4.00% 88
London +2 160 £650 -7.14% 65
Work from Home +3 125 £625 -3.85% 68
South West +15 51 £650 +12.07% 13
North of England +17 41 £725 +19.79% 28
North West +31 27 £712 +36.27% 15
Midlands +26 21 £575 -4.17% 12
East of England +11 19 £663 +15.22% 8
West Midlands +16 18 £575 -8.00% 7
South East -24 18 £647 -4.64% 16
Scotland +40 15 £619 +3.21% 9
Yorkshire +4 9 £800 +30.48% 4
North East +12 5 £897 +39.60% 9
East Midlands +13 3 £765 +45.71% 5
Wales +17 2 £569 -5.21% 2

Enterprise Architecture
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 14 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.71%) Confluence
3 7 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.08%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) Drupal
6 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (4.07%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (4.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.90%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.54%) Shopify
4 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 76 (20.60%) Azure
2 60 (16.26%) AWS
3 33 (8.94%) SaaS
4 28 (7.59%) PaaS
5 24 (6.50%) IaaS
6 17 (4.61%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.52%) GCP
8 12 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.17%) Boomi
11 7 (1.90%) Apigee
11 7 (1.90%) Kong
12 6 (1.63%) Serverless
13 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.08%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.81%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.81%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 2 (0.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.42%) WAN
2 11 (2.98%) VoIP
3 9 (2.44%) PBX
3 9 (2.44%) SDH
4 8 (2.17%) Firewall
5 7 (1.90%) LAN
6 6 (1.63%) SAN
6 6 (1.63%) VSAN
7 4 (1.08%) Junos
8 3 (0.81%) Network Security
9 2 (0.54%) 4G
9 2 (0.54%) 5G
9 2 (0.54%) BGP
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.54%) OSPF
9 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.54%) VPN
9 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.07%) Metadata
2 11 (2.98%) NoSQL
2 11 (2.98%) Power BI
3 10 (2.71%) OLAP
3 10 (2.71%) OLTP
4 9 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.17%) Data Vault
5 8 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.17%) Pentaho
5 8 (2.17%) Qlik Sense
5 8 (2.17%) QlikView
5 8 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.63%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.08%) GIS
8 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.81%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (5.96%) JIRA
2 20 (5.42%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.54%) kappa
3 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.27%) Git
4 1 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) Maven
4 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 113 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 107 (29.00%) Finance
3 62 (16.80%) Public Sector
4 50 (13.55%) Banking
5 42 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (10.57%) Telecoms
7 25 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (4.61%) Legal
9 17 (4.61%) Manufacturing
10 16 (4.34%) Marketing
11 14 (3.79%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.44%) Electronics
13 9 (2.44%) Publishing
14 8 (2.17%) Retail
15 7 (1.90%) Aeronautics
15 7 (1.90%) Digital Economy
15 7 (1.90%) Local Government
16 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 278 (75.34%) Architect
2 98 (26.56%) Solutions Architect
3 94 (25.47%) Enterprise Architect
4 28 (7.59%) Security Architect
5 21 (5.69%) Lead
6 19 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
7 18 (4.88%) Data Architect
8 17 (4.61%) Technical Architect
9 15 (4.07%) Project Manager
10 14 (3.79%) Business Architect
10 14 (3.79%) Senior
11 13 (3.52%) AWS Architect
12 12 (3.25%) Lead Architect
12 12 (3.25%) Senior Architect
13 10 (2.71%) Consultant
13 10 (2.71%) Designer
14 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Security Architect
14 8 (2.17%) Network Architect
14 8 (2.17%) Security Manager
14 8 (2.17%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.79%) Web Services
2 13 (3.52%) J2EE
3 12 (3.25%) Kafka
4 10 (2.71%) SOAP
5 8 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (1.90%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (1.90%) Spring
7 6 (1.63%) .NET
7 6 (1.63%) Apache Camel
7 6 (1.63%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.63%) Spring Integration
8 5 (1.36%) REST
8 5 (1.36%) SailPoint
9 4 (1.08%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.08%) Middleware
10 3 (0.81%) DAO
10 3 (0.81%) JSON
10 3 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 12 (3.25%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.25%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 11 (2.98%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (2.71%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.44%) Blackberry
5 9 (2.44%) Reference Data
5 9 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.17%) CMDB
6 8 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.90%) DataPower
7 7 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.63%) PKI
9 5 (1.36%) IoT
9 5 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.17%) Windows
2 3 (0.81%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (31.71%) Roadmaps
2 111 (30.08%) Agile
3 109 (29.54%) TOGAF
4 70 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (17.34%) IT Strategy
6 54 (14.63%) Business Strategy
7 51 (13.82%) ArchiMate
7 51 (13.82%) Project Delivery
8 48 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (12.74%) ITIL
10 44 (11.92%) Migration
11 42 (11.38%) Technology Strategy
12 38 (10.30%) Computer Science
13 37 (10.03%) Data Architecture
14 36 (9.76%) Architectural Design
14 36 (9.76%) Decision-Making
14 36 (9.76%) Strategic Roadmap
15 34 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
15 34 (9.21%) DevOps
16 33 (8.94%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (5.42%) SQL
2 15 (4.07%) Java
3 8 (2.17%) T-SQL
4 5 (1.36%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.08%) Python
6 3 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 91 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 71 (19.24%) SC Cleared
3 62 (16.80%) Degree
4 26 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.69%) CISSP
5 21 (5.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 20 (5.42%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.88%) CISM
8 12 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.25%) SANS
9 11 (2.98%) CISA
9 11 (2.98%) HND
10 10 (2.71%) CCNP
11 9 (2.44%) CRISC
12 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.36%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (1.08%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.71%) GDPR
1 10 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.17%) NCSC
2 8 (2.17%) NIST
3 7 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.36%) GRC
5 3 (0.81%) QA
6 2 (0.54%) COBIT
6 2 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.27%) GxP
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.17%) vSphere
3 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.08%) Docker
5 3 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (3.25%) VxRail
2 8 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.63%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.08%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.08%) PingFederate
5 4 (1.08%) PowerCLI
6 3 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.13%) Cisco
3 28 (7.59%) IBM
4 26 (7.05%) Oracle
5 25 (6.78%) VMware
6 23 (6.23%) SAP
7 22 (5.96%) Juniper
7 22 (5.96%) Nokia
8 20 (5.42%) Sparx
9 18 (4.88%) Google
10 15 (4.07%) ServiceNow
11 13 (3.52%) BiZZdesign
11 13 (3.52%) Dell
12 10 (2.71%) Salesforce
13 9 (2.44%) Avaya
13 9 (2.44%) Ericsson
13 9 (2.44%) Informatica
13 9 (2.44%) Ribbon
14 7 (1.90%) BMC
14 7 (1.90%) TSYS