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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 241 250
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 367 611 999
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 1.09% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.22% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 386 668
10th Percentile £456 £500 £507
25th Percentile £525 £563 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £750
90th Percentile £825 £797 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £630 £600
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% +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% +36.43%
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% +36.43%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 17 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 1 June 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 -28 314 £650 - 157
UK excluding London -12 169 £650 +3.17% 83
London -11 149 £650 -7.14% 77
Work from Home -9 123 £646 -0.62% 52
South West +5 51 £650 +12.26% 11
North of England +32 48 £712 +18.67% 26
North West +41 32 £694 +39.40% 20
Midlands +20 24 £550 -12.00% 22
East of England +4 20 £650 +13.04% 8
South East -39 18 £647 -4.64% 8
West Midlands +12 17 £573 -8.40% 13
Scotland +29 13 £646 +7.67% 5
Yorkshire +5 10 £719 +18.71% 3
East Midlands +12 7 £445 -15.56% 9
North East +14 6 £897 +41.25% 3
Wales +14 2 £569 -5.21% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.00%) Confluence
3 7 (1.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.09%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.54%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (4.09%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (4.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.91%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
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%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle AGIS
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
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 77 (20.98%) Azure
2 62 (16.89%) AWS
3 32 (8.72%) SaaS
4 29 (7.90%) PaaS
5 25 (6.81%) IaaS
6 16 (4.36%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.54%) GCP
8 12 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (3.00%) Boomi
9 11 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.91%) Apigee
11 7 (1.91%) Kong
12 6 (1.63%) Serverless
13 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.09%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.82%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.45%) WAN
2 11 (3.00%) VoIP
3 9 (2.45%) PBX
3 9 (2.45%) SDH
4 8 (2.18%) Firewall
5 7 (1.91%) LAN
6 6 (1.63%) VSAN
7 5 (1.36%) SAN
8 4 (1.09%) Junos
9 3 (0.82%) Network Security
10 2 (0.54%) 4G
10 2 (0.54%) 5G
10 2 (0.54%) BGP
10 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.54%) OSPF
10 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.54%) VPN
10 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.27%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.81%) Metadata
2 11 (3.00%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.00%) Power BI
3 10 (2.72%) OLAP
3 10 (2.72%) OLTP
4 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.18%) Data Vault
5 8 (2.18%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.18%) Pentaho
5 8 (2.18%) Qlik Sense
5 8 (2.18%) QlikView
5 8 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.63%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.09%) GIS
8 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.82%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 23 (6.27%) JIRA
2 20 (5.45%) 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%) JUnit
4 1 (0.27%) Maven
4 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 111 (30.25%) Finance
2 107 (29.16%) Social Skills
3 60 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 56 (15.26%) Banking
5 41 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (10.63%) Telecoms
7 23 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.18%) Manufacturing
9 18 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (4.09%) Legal
10 15 (4.09%) Marketing
11 14 (3.81%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.45%) Electronics
13 9 (2.45%) Publishing
14 8 (2.18%) Retail
15 7 (1.91%) Aeronautics
15 7 (1.91%) Digital Economy
16 6 (1.63%) Automotive
16 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (74.66%) Architect
2 108 (29.43%) Solutions Architect
3 84 (22.89%) Enterprise Architect
4 24 (6.54%) Lead
5 23 (6.27%) Security Architect
6 20 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
7 18 (4.90%) Data Architect
8 17 (4.63%) Technical Architect
9 15 (4.09%) Lead Architect
9 15 (4.09%) Project Manager
10 14 (3.81%) Business Architect
11 13 (3.54%) AWS Architect
11 13 (3.54%) Consultant
11 13 (3.54%) Senior
12 11 (3.00%) Senior Architect
13 10 (2.72%) Designer
14 9 (2.45%) Lead Enterprise Architect
15 8 (2.18%) Cloud Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.18%) Domain Architect
15 8 (2.18%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.54%) J2EE
1 13 (3.54%) SOAP
2 12 (3.27%) Web Services
3 10 (2.72%) Kafka
4 8 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (1.91%) IBM Integration Bus
5 7 (1.91%) Spring
6 6 (1.63%) .NET
6 6 (1.63%) Apache Camel
6 6 (1.63%) REST
6 6 (1.63%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.63%) Spring Integration
7 5 (1.36%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.09%) Middleware
8 4 (1.09%) RAML
9 3 (0.82%) DAO
9 3 (0.82%) JSON
9 3 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.81%) Management Information System
2 14 (3.81%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.27%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 11 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.72%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.45%) Blackberry
6 9 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.45%) Reference Data
6 9 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.91%) CMDB
8 7 (1.91%) DataPower
8 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.36%) PKI
9 5 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.91%) Windows
2 3 (0.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (32.97%) Roadmaps
2 112 (30.52%) Agile
3 107 (29.16%) TOGAF
4 69 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (17.17%) IT Strategy
6 61 (16.62%) Business Strategy
7 49 (13.35%) Project Delivery
8 48 (13.08%) ArchiMate
8 48 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (12.81%) Migration
10 45 (12.26%) Technology Strategy
11 43 (11.72%) ITIL
11 43 (11.72%) Strategic Roadmap
12 38 (10.35%) Computer Science
13 36 (9.81%) Data Architecture
13 36 (9.81%) DevOps
14 34 (9.26%) Decision-Making
15 33 (8.99%) Digital Strategy
16 31 (8.45%) Architectural Design
17 30 (8.17%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 20 (5.45%) SQL
2 18 (4.90%) Java
3 8 (2.18%) T-SQL
4 6 (1.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.09%) Python
6 3 (0.82%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 88 (23.98%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 59 (16.08%) Degree
4 26 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.72%) TOGAF Certification
6 19 (5.18%) DV Cleared
7 17 (4.63%) CISSP
8 14 (3.81%) CISM
9 12 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (3.27%) Master's Degree
10 11 (3.00%) HND
11 10 (2.72%) CCNP
11 10 (2.72%) SANS
12 9 (2.45%) CISA
13 8 (2.18%) CRISC
14 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
16 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
16 4 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
16 4 (1.09%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.72%) Accessibility
1 10 (2.72%) GDPR
2 8 (2.18%) NCSC
3 7 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.91%) NIST
4 5 (1.36%) GRC
5 4 (1.09%) 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%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.18%) vSphere
3 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.09%) Docker
5 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (3.27%) VxRail
2 8 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.63%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.09%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.09%) PingFederate
5 4 (1.09%) PowerCLI
6 3 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.17%) Cisco
3 29 (7.90%) Oracle
4 28 (7.63%) IBM
5 25 (6.81%) VMware
6 23 (6.27%) SAP
7 22 (5.99%) Juniper
7 22 (5.99%) Nokia
8 18 (4.90%) Google
8 18 (4.90%) Sparx
9 16 (4.36%) ServiceNow
10 13 (3.54%) Dell
11 12 (3.27%) BiZZdesign
12 11 (3.00%) Salesforce
13 9 (2.45%) Avaya
13 9 (2.45%) Ericsson
13 9 (2.45%) Informatica
13 9 (2.45%) Ribbon
14 7 (1.91%) BMC
14 7 (1.91%) TSYS