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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 455 462
Rank change year-on-year -69 +7 +115
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 58 14 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.058% 0.20%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.02% 0.71% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 12 47
10th Percentile £404 - £509
25th Percentile £625 £513 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £595 £725
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.93% +13.46%
75th Percentile £775 £600 £825
90th Percentile £788 £641 £925
UK median daily rate £700 £575 £725
% change year-on-year +21.74% -20.69% +15.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £56.49
25th Percentile - - £56.70
Median hourly rate - - £57.33
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £57.41
UK median hourly rate - - £57.33
% change year-on-year - - -18.10%

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 2,877 1,973 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.00% 8.12% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 1,182 1,579
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £539 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 49 103
10th Percentile £23.21 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £40.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +68.30% -27.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £57.33
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +50.00% -18.37%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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
South East -45 26 £750 +25.00% 4
London -40 22 £650 +23.81% 3
Midlands - 9 £404 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £625 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
South West - 2 £563 - 2
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 2 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.17%) AWS
1 3 (5.17%) Azure
2 2 (3.45%) dbt
3 1 (1.72%) GCP
3 1 (1.72%) iPaaS
3 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.72%) SaaS
3 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Metadata
2 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.45%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.72%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.72%) Parquet
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) ERwin
2 4 (6.90%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.72%) PowerDesigner
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.62%) Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Military
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (68.97%) Architect
2 27 (46.55%) Enterprise Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Data Modeller
4 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Business Design Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Payments Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow Architect
7 1 (1.72%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Architect
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Security Architect
7 1 (1.72%) Data Integration Architect
7 1 (1.72%) Lead
7 1 (1.72%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow Specialist
7 1 (1.72%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) JSON
1 2 (3.45%) Kafka
1 2 (3.45%) REST
1 2 (3.45%) SOAP
1 2 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (1.72%) JAAS
2 1 (1.72%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
1 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
1 3 (5.17%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.45%) CMDB
2 2 (3.45%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) ArchiMate
2 29 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 25 (43.10%) TOGAF
4 18 (31.03%) UML
5 17 (29.31%) BPMN
6 13 (22.41%) Agile
6 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
7 12 (20.69%) Data Modelling
7 12 (20.69%) GAP Analysis
7 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (18.97%) Decision-Making
9 10 (17.24%) MODAF
9 10 (17.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 9 (15.52%) Knowledge Transfer
10 9 (15.52%) Waterfall
11 7 (12.07%) Metadata Management
11 7 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
12 6 (10.34%) Conceptual Models
12 6 (10.34%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) SQL
2 1 (1.72%) Java
2 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.72%) LookML
2 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.21%) DV Cleared
3 16 (27.59%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.90%) GDPR
1 4 (6.90%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
Vendors
1 58 (100.00%) Sparx
2 15 (25.86%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (5.17%) Virgin Media
4 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) WSO2