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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 239 251
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 376 636 1,013
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.11% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.24% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 410 679
10th Percentile £456 £500 £506
25th Percentile £525 £575 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £654 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £744
90th Percentile £825 £813 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £637 £600
% change year-on-year +2.08% +6.13% +1.44%
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -15 322 £650 -1.89% 184
UK excluding London -10 171 £650 +2.08% 113
London -8 157 £650 -7.14% 90
Work from Home -10 126 £625 -3.85% 75
South West +6 53 £638 +9.91% 12
North of England +30 46 £725 +19.79% 29
North West +32 32 £694 +32.73% 18
Midlands +15 25 £550 -12.00% 26
East of England +11 20 £663 +15.22% 8
West Midlands +19 18 £575 -8.00% 16
South East -30 18 £647 -4.64% 28
Scotland +34 15 £619 +3.21% 9
Yorkshire +3 9 £800 +30.48% 5
East Midlands +17 7 £445 -15.56% 10
North East +13 5 £897 +39.60% 6
Wales +15 2 £569 -5.21%

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 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.66%) Confluence
3 7 (1.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.06%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.53%) 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 (3.99%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (4.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.86%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.27%) Shopify
6 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 78 (20.74%) Azure
2 62 (16.49%) AWS
3 33 (8.78%) SaaS
4 28 (7.45%) PaaS
5 24 (6.38%) IaaS
6 17 (4.52%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.46%) GCP
8 12 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.93%) Boomi
10 9 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.86%) Apigee
11 7 (1.86%) Kong
12 6 (1.60%) Serverless
13 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.06%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.80%) iPaaS
14 3 (0.80%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 2 (0.53%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.32%) WAN
2 11 (2.93%) VoIP
3 9 (2.39%) PBX
3 9 (2.39%) SDH
4 8 (2.13%) Firewall
5 7 (1.86%) LAN
6 6 (1.60%) VSAN
7 5 (1.33%) SAN
8 4 (1.06%) Junos
9 3 (0.80%) Network Security
10 2 (0.53%) 4G
10 2 (0.53%) 5G
10 2 (0.53%) BGP
10 2 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.53%) OSPF
10 2 (0.53%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.53%) VPN
10 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.99%) Metadata
2 11 (2.93%) NoSQL
2 11 (2.93%) Power BI
3 10 (2.66%) OLAP
3 10 (2.66%) OLTP
4 9 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.13%) Data Vault
5 8 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.13%) Pentaho
5 8 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
5 8 (2.13%) QlikView
5 8 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.60%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.06%) GIS
8 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.80%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (5.85%) JIRA
2 20 (5.32%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.53%) kappa
3 2 (0.53%) 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 (29.52%) Finance
1 111 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.49%) Public Sector
3 54 (14.36%) Banking
4 42 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.37%) Telecoms
6 24 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (4.52%) Legal
8 17 (4.52%) Manufacturing
9 15 (3.99%) Marketing
10 14 (3.72%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.39%) Electronics
12 9 (2.39%) Publishing
13 8 (2.13%) Retail
14 7 (1.86%) Aeronautics
14 7 (1.86%) Digital Economy
15 6 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 282 (75.00%) Architect
2 106 (28.19%) Solutions Architect
3 91 (24.20%) Enterprise Architect
4 26 (6.91%) Security Architect
5 23 (6.12%) Lead
6 20 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
7 18 (4.79%) Data Architect
7 18 (4.79%) Technical Architect
8 14 (3.72%) Business Architect
8 14 (3.72%) Lead Architect
8 14 (3.72%) Project Manager
8 14 (3.72%) Senior
9 13 (3.46%) AWS Architect
10 12 (3.19%) Consultant
10 12 (3.19%) Senior Architect
11 10 (2.66%) Designer
12 9 (2.39%) Domain Architect
12 9 (2.39%) Lead Enterprise Architect
13 8 (2.13%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.13%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.46%) J2EE
1 13 (3.46%) SOAP
1 13 (3.46%) Web Services
2 11 (2.93%) Kafka
3 8 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (1.86%) IBM Integration Bus
4 7 (1.86%) REST
4 7 (1.86%) Spring
5 6 (1.60%) .NET
5 6 (1.60%) Apache Camel
5 6 (1.60%) Spring Boot
5 6 (1.60%) Spring Integration
6 5 (1.33%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.06%) Middleware
7 4 (1.06%) RAML
8 3 (0.80%) DAO
8 3 (0.80%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.80%) JSON
8 3 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.37%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.46%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.19%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 11 (2.93%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.93%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.66%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.39%) Blackberry
6 9 (2.39%) Reference Data
6 9 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.13%) CMDB
7 8 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.86%) DataPower
8 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.60%) PKI
10 5 (1.33%) IoT
10 5 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.86%) Windows
2 3 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (32.98%) Roadmaps
2 116 (30.85%) Agile
3 111 (29.52%) TOGAF
4 71 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (18.09%) IT Strategy
6 61 (16.22%) Business Strategy
7 51 (13.56%) ArchiMate
8 50 (13.30%) Project Delivery
9 48 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 47 (12.50%) Migration
11 46 (12.23%) ITIL
11 46 (12.23%) Technology Strategy
12 43 (11.44%) Strategic Roadmap
13 38 (10.11%) Computer Science
14 37 (9.84%) Data Architecture
15 36 (9.57%) Decision-Making
16 35 (9.31%) Architectural Design
17 34 (9.04%) DevOps
17 34 (9.04%) Digital Strategy
18 33 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 20 (5.32%) SQL
2 18 (4.79%) Java
3 8 (2.13%) T-SQL
4 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.06%) Python
6 3 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 92 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 71 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 62 (16.49%) Degree
4 26 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.32%) TOGAF Certification
6 19 (5.05%) CISSP
7 16 (4.26%) CISM
8 12 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.19%) Master's Degree
9 11 (2.93%) HND
9 11 (2.93%) SANS
10 10 (2.66%) CCNP
11 9 (2.39%) CISA
11 9 (2.39%) CRISC
12 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (1.06%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.66%) Accessibility
1 10 (2.66%) GDPR
1 10 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.13%) NCSC
2 8 (2.13%) NIST
3 5 (1.33%) GRC
4 4 (1.06%) QA
5 2 (0.53%) COBIT
5 2 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.53%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.13%) vSphere
3 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.06%) Docker
5 3 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (3.19%) VxRail
2 8 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.60%) vCenter Server
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.06%) PingFederate
5 4 (1.06%) PowerCLI
6 3 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.98%) Cisco
3 28 (7.45%) IBM
3 28 (7.45%) Oracle
4 25 (6.65%) VMware
5 23 (6.12%) SAP
6 22 (5.85%) Juniper
6 22 (5.85%) Nokia
7 20 (5.32%) Sparx
8 18 (4.79%) Google
9 15 (3.99%) ServiceNow
10 13 (3.46%) BiZZdesign
10 13 (3.46%) Dell
11 10 (2.66%) Salesforce
12 9 (2.39%) Avaya
12 9 (2.39%) Ericsson
12 9 (2.39%) Informatica
12 9 (2.39%) Ribbon
13 7 (1.86%) BMC
13 7 (1.86%) TSYS