Sparx Enterprise Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Sparx Enterprise Architect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 495 503
Rank change year-on-year -86 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 47 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.068% 0.073%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.47% 0.79% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 18 17
10th Percentile £416 £513 £443
25th Percentile £566 £514 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £620
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -1.21% -4.62%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £711
90th Percentile £811 £724 £759
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £620
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.83%

All Business Application Skills
England

Sparx Enterprise Architect falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 3,189 2,412 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 6.85% 8.63% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,831 1,455 1,280
10th Percentile £369 £359 £363
25th Percentile £469 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 38 69
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.82 £24.15
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.46 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.75 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +1.04% -28.62%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.75 £66.30
UK median hourly rate £38.93 £33.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year +16.25% -25.58% -18.18%

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sparx Enterprise Architect relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Sparx Enterprise Architect job vacancy trend in England

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sparx Enterprise Architect

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx Enterprise Architect in England

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sparx Enterprise Architect

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. 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
London -65 31 £650 - 18
South East -69 5 £800 +33.33% 6
Midlands - 4 £403 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £403 - 1
South West -38 3 £731 +36.05% 3
Sparx Enterprise Architect
UK

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.77%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Gliffy
1 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) AWS
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) GCP
3 2 (4.26%) GitHub
3 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.13%) Alation
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) Collibra
4 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.13%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) HTTP
2 3 (6.38%) ATM
3 1 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Metadata
2 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.64%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.26%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.26%) Power BI
6 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.13%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (2.13%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.13%) OLAP
7 1 (2.13%) OLTP
7 1 (2.13%) QGIS
7 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.13%) Spatial Data
7 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) ERwin
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 4 (8.51%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.13%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.26%) Local Government
6 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (63.83%) Architect
2 15 (31.91%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (14.89%) Data Modeller
4 6 (12.77%) Data Architect
4 6 (12.77%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Senior
5 3 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Data Integration Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Information Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Technical Design Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Technical Design Authority
7 1 (2.13%) Technical Developer
7 1 (2.13%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Kafka
1 4 (8.51%) REST
2 3 (6.38%) JSON
2 3 (6.38%) OpenID
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) LDAP
3 2 (4.26%) OAuth
3 2 (4.26%) SAML
3 2 (4.26%) XML
4 1 (2.13%) JWT
4 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.13%) RESTful
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
4 1 (2.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.64%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.26%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.13%) CMDB
5 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) IoT
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) UML
2 21 (44.68%) ArchiMate
2 21 (44.68%) TOGAF
3 18 (38.30%) BPMN
3 18 (38.30%) Enterprise Architecture
4 17 (36.17%) Data Modelling
5 14 (29.79%) Data Governance
5 14 (29.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (25.53%) Agile
6 12 (25.53%) Data Architecture
6 12 (25.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 11 (23.40%) Logical Data Model
7 11 (23.40%) MODAF
7 11 (23.40%) Waterfall
8 10 (21.28%) Physical Data Model
9 9 (19.15%) AI
9 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (17.02%) DevOps
10 8 (17.02%) Metadata Management
10 8 (17.02%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) SQL
2 2 (4.26%) Java
3 1 (2.13%) Python
3 1 (2.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (61.70%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) DV Cleared
3 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.77%) Degree
5 3 (6.38%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.26%) CISM
6 2 (4.26%) CISSP
7 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.13%) CEH
7 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (6.38%) NCSC
3 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (100.00%) Sparx
2 7 (14.89%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) Informatica
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) IBM
6 1 (2.13%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.13%) Talend
6 1 (2.13%) Teradata
6 1 (2.13%) VMware