The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for TOGAF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TOGAF over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 289 257
Rank change year-on-year -2 -32 -5
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 320 524 988
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.92% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.03% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 363 628
10th Percentile £500 £510 £497
25th Percentile £550 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £825 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £670 £630 £625
% change year-on-year +6.35% +0.80% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 10
10th Percentile £56.91 £70.22 £55.46
25th Percentile £57.33 £70.42 £68.69
Median hourly rate £67.50 £73.44 £82.86
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -11.37% +65.72%
75th Percentile £81.33 £79.06 £96.17
90th Percentile £86.89 £80.82 £96.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.47 £73.44 £88.22
% change year-on-year -14.94% -16.75% +78.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

TOGAF 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 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

TOGAF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TOGAF over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TOGAF over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOGAF within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 -5 275 £650 - 154
UK excluding London +18 177 £670 +6.35% 111
Work from Home +12 118 £650 +3.59% 59
London -9 118 £650 -7.14% 75
South West +1 52 £675 +12.03% 18
North of England +48 48 £670 +8.94% 17
North West +60 40 £655 +9.17% 12
South East -17 23 £663 -0.38% 46
Midlands +31 21 £600 -11.11% 20
Scotland +40 18 £713 +6.58% 3
West Midlands +25 18 £750 +7.14% 13
East of England +4 10 £655 +28.05% 3
Yorkshire 0 5 £800 +28.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £650 - 1
East Midlands +16 3 £360 -45.66% 7
North East +15 3 £897 +49.49% 1
Isle of Man - 3 - - 3
Wales +10 2 £519 -9.78% 1

TOGAF
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 10 (3.13%) Confluence
2 5 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.81%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (5.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.88%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.88%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.56%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (1.56%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 80 (25.00%) Azure
2 71 (22.19%) AWS
3 28 (8.75%) PaaS
4 23 (7.19%) SaaS
5 21 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.63%) GCP
7 16 (5.00%) IaaS
8 11 (3.44%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.44%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.19%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.88%) Apigee
10 6 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.88%) Kong
10 6 (1.88%) OCI
11 5 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.56%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.25%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.63%) GitHub
13 2 (0.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 2 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.88%) WAN
2 21 (6.56%) Network Security
3 16 (5.00%) VoIP
4 14 (4.38%) Firewall
4 14 (4.38%) PBX
4 14 (4.38%) VPN
5 12 (3.75%) LAN
6 10 (3.13%) DNS
6 10 (3.13%) SDH
7 9 (2.81%) DHCP
8 6 (1.88%) Internet
8 6 (1.88%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.88%) VSAN
9 5 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (1.56%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (1.56%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (1.56%) MPLS
9 5 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.56%) WLAN
10 4 (1.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.19%) Big Data
2 6 (1.88%) MongoDB
2 6 (1.88%) OLAP
2 6 (1.88%) OLTP
3 5 (1.56%) Metadata
3 5 (1.56%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 4 (1.25%) Power BI
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.94%) HBase
5 3 (0.94%) MySQL
6 2 (0.63%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.63%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.31%) Adabas
7 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (8.13%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (6.88%) JIRA
3 5 (1.56%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
General
1 83 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 77 (24.06%) Finance
3 53 (16.56%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 30 (9.38%) Banking
6 18 (5.63%) Aerospace
7 17 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.44%) Military
9 9 (2.81%) Retail
10 8 (2.50%) Local Government
11 7 (2.19%) Aeronautics
11 7 (2.19%) Digital Economy
12 6 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.88%) Legal
13 4 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.94%) Law
14 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (80.94%) Architect
2 105 (32.81%) Solutions Architect
3 54 (16.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 30 (9.38%) Security Architect
5 20 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (6.25%) Domain Architect
6 17 (5.31%) Technical Architect
7 15 (4.69%) AWS Architect
7 15 (4.69%) Senior
8 11 (3.44%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.13%) Business Architect
9 10 (3.13%) Integration Architect
10 9 (2.81%) Azure Architect
10 9 (2.81%) Lead
11 8 (2.50%) Analyst
11 8 (2.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.50%) Consultant
11 8 (2.50%) Senior Architect
11 8 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.19%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.75%) Web Services
2 11 (3.44%) Kafka
3 6 (1.88%) .NET
3 6 (1.88%) Apache Camel
3 6 (1.88%) IBM Integration Bus
3 6 (1.88%) J2EE
3 6 (1.88%) Middleware
3 6 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (1.88%) SOAP
3 6 (1.88%) Spring
3 6 (1.88%) Spring Boot
3 6 (1.88%) Spring Integration
4 5 (1.56%) ModSecurity
5 3 (0.94%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.94%) REST
6 2 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.63%) JMS
6 2 (0.63%) React
6 2 (0.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.56%) Public Cloud
2 19 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.75%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 10 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.81%) Blackberry
6 9 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.50%) PKI
7 8 (2.50%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.19%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.88%) DataPower
10 5 (1.56%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) IoT
11 4 (1.25%) SCADA
12 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.06%) Linux
1 13 (4.06%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (34.69%) Enterprise Architecture
2 95 (29.69%) Roadmaps
3 87 (27.19%) Agile
4 65 (20.31%) ArchiMate
5 60 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (17.50%) ITIL
7 55 (17.19%) IT Strategy
8 45 (14.06%) Business Strategy
9 44 (13.75%) Technology Strategy
10 42 (13.13%) Architectural Design
11 40 (12.50%) Risk Management
12 39 (12.19%) Decision-Making
13 38 (11.88%) Migration
13 38 (11.88%) Zachman Framework
14 36 (11.25%) DevOps
15 31 (9.69%) BPMN
15 31 (9.69%) Strategic Roadmap
16 30 (9.38%) Architectural Patterns
16 30 (9.38%) Computer Science
17 29 (9.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.88%) Java
2 11 (3.44%) Python
3 8 (2.50%) SQL
4 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.94%) Scala
6 2 (0.63%) C#
6 2 (0.63%) Perl
6 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.31%) COBOL
7 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.31%) Natural
Qualifications
1 97 (30.31%) Security Cleared
2 77 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 70 (21.88%) Degree
4 60 (18.75%) TOGAF Certification
5 35 (10.94%) CISSP
6 32 (10.00%) DV Cleared
7 30 (9.38%) CISM
8 28 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (4.69%) Azure Certification
10 15 (4.69%) HND
11 13 (4.06%) CCNP
12 9 (2.81%) CEH
12 9 (2.81%) Master's Degree
13 8 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (2.50%) CISA
13 8 (2.50%) CREST Certified
13 8 (2.50%) PMP
14 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (5.63%) NIST
3 13 (4.06%) COBIT
3 13 (4.06%) NCSC
4 8 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.56%) ISO 22301
5 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (1.25%) QA
7 3 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.94%) GDPR
7 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.81%) Docker
4 6 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.88%) vSphere
5 5 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (4.38%) VxRail
2 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.19%) PowerCLI
3 7 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.88%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.56%) Ansible
5 5 (1.56%) OPNET
6 3 (0.94%) Terraform
7 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 47 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.13%) Cisco
3 29 (9.06%) VMware
4 26 (8.13%) IBM
5 23 (7.19%) Google
5 23 (7.19%) Juniper
5 23 (7.19%) Nokia
5 23 (7.19%) Oracle
6 22 (6.88%) Sparx
7 16 (5.00%) Dell
8 12 (3.75%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.13%) Ericsson
10 9 (2.81%) Avaya
10 9 (2.81%) Ribbon
11 6 (1.88%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.88%) SAP
11 6 (1.88%) TSYS
12 5 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.56%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.56%) Symantec