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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 500 501
Rank change year-on-year -74 +1 +27
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 49 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.068% 0.076%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.53% 0.79% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 19
10th Percentile £418 £513 £446
25th Percentile £569 £514 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £620
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -1.21% -14.48%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £714
90th Percentile £810 £724 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £620
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -14.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.12%

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 3,196 2,408 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 6.92% 8.66% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 1,454 1,298
10th Percentile £365 £360 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £755 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 41 72
10th Percentile £15.03 £12.82 £24.55
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.15 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £44.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +1.71% -22.55%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.50 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.48 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.65% -18.93% -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 18 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 18 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 -56 31 £650 - 24
South East -60 6 £800 +33.33% 8
Midlands - 4 £403 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £403 - 1
South West -34 3 £731 +36.05% 1
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 5 (10.20%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.04%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 4 (8.16%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.04%) Alation
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Databricks
5 1 (2.04%) Collibra
5 1 (2.04%) dbt
5 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
2 3 (6.12%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Metadata
2 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.08%) Power BI
5 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.04%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (2.04%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.04%) OLAP
6 1 (2.04%) OLTP
6 1 (2.04%) QGIS
6 1 (2.04%) Spatial Data
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) ERwin
2 5 (10.20%) JIRA
3 4 (8.16%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.04%) Git
4 1 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
General
1 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.08%) Local Government
5 2 (4.08%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (65.31%) Architect
2 16 (32.65%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Data Modeller
4 5 (10.20%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (4.08%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Business Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Data Integration Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Design Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Design Authority
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Kafka
1 4 (8.16%) REST
2 3 (6.12%) JSON
3 2 (4.08%) .NET
3 2 (4.08%) LDAP
3 2 (4.08%) OAuth
3 2 (4.08%) OpenID
3 2 (4.08%) SAML
3 2 (4.08%) SOAP
3 2 (4.08%) XML
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.04%) RESTful
4 1 (2.04%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) Web Services
4 1 (2.04%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.08%) CMDB
4 2 (4.08%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) UML
2 23 (46.94%) TOGAF
3 22 (44.90%) ArchiMate
4 20 (40.82%) Enterprise Architecture
5 18 (36.73%) BPMN
6 17 (34.69%) Data Modelling
7 14 (28.57%) Data Governance
7 14 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (26.53%) Agile
9 12 (24.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (22.45%) Data Architecture
10 11 (22.45%) Logical Data Model
10 11 (22.45%) MODAF
10 11 (22.45%) Waterfall
11 10 (20.41%) AI
11 10 (20.41%) Physical Data Model
12 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (16.33%) Metadata Management
13 8 (16.33%) Technical Architecture
14 7 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) Java
2 2 (4.08%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (61.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) DV Cleared
3 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.24%) Degree
5 3 (6.12%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) CISM
6 2 (4.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) CEH
7 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (6.12%) NCSC
3 2 (4.08%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) Sparx
2 8 (16.33%) Databricks
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) Informatica
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (4.08%) IBM
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) Teradata
6 1 (2.04%) VMware