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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 469 454
Rank change year-on-year -29 -15 +176
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 71 25 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.096% 0.26%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.70% 1.29% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 20 63
10th Percentile £422 £448 £500
25th Percentile £556 £541 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £775 £645 £738
90th Percentile £788 £660 £925
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 14
10th Percentile - £67.13 -
25th Percentile - £68.44 -
Median hourly rate - £71.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - +26.13% -16.00%
75th Percentile - £73.44 £57.33
90th Percentile - £74.38 £68.87
UK median hourly rate - £71.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year - +26.13% -16.00%

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 2,634 1,939 2,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.59% 7.48% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,560 1,115 1,665
10th Percentile £360 £381 £380
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 53 112
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.42 £15.51
25th Percentile £30.00 £35.00 £25.10
Median hourly rate £56.50 £59.40 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +25.05% +27.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.75 £60.59
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £59.40 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.05% +27.35%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -1 36 £750 +26.05% 6
London -29 28 £595 -0.83% 3
Midlands -59 8 £625 -3.85%
West Midlands -55 5 £638 -1.92%
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
South West -19 2 - - 4
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 1 (1.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) AWS
2 6 (8.45%) Azure
3 5 (7.04%) Snowflake
4 4 (5.63%) GCP
5 2 (2.82%) Collibra
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.41%) dbt
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Firewall
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
1 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Metadata
2 8 (11.27%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (8.45%) Data Vault
4 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.82%) Power BI
6 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.41%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.41%) Parquet
7 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.41%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (18.31%) ERwin
2 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 9 (12.68%) PowerDesigner
3 7 (9.86%) ER Studio
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.23%) Banking
4 3 (4.23%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Retail
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Architect
2 19 (26.76%) Enterprise Architect
3 13 (18.31%) Data Modeller
4 8 (11.27%) Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Business Architect
8 2 (2.82%) Business Design Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Lead
8 2 (2.82%) Payments Architect
8 2 (2.82%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Architect
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Security Architect
9 1 (1.41%) Geospatial Architect
9 1 (1.41%) Senior
9 1 (1.41%) Senior Data Modeller
9 1 (1.41%) Service Analyst
9 1 (1.41%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) JSON
1 2 (2.82%) XML
2 1 (1.41%) JAAS
2 1 (1.41%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.45%) Reinsurance
2 6 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.63%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.23%) Contract for Difference
5 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.82%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.82%) Wiki
6 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.25%) TOGAF
2 26 (36.62%) Enterprise Architecture
3 25 (35.21%) ArchiMate
4 21 (29.58%) Roadmaps
5 20 (28.17%) Data Modelling
6 15 (21.13%) Agile
7 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (16.90%) Data Governance
9 11 (15.49%) GAP Analysis
9 11 (15.49%) Logical Data Model
9 11 (15.49%) UML
10 9 (12.68%) Conceptual Models
11 8 (11.27%) Decision-Making
11 8 (11.27%) Physical Data Model
12 7 (9.86%) Security Architecture
12 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (8.45%) Analytics
13 6 (8.45%) BPMN
13 6 (8.45%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.04%) SQL
2 1 (1.41%) Java
2 1 (1.41%) LookML
Qualifications
1 37 (52.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (35.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.90%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.13%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.04%) NCSC
3 4 (5.63%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (97.18%) Sparx
2 15 (21.13%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.82%) Informatica
3 2 (2.82%) OneTrust
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) Palantir
3 2 (2.82%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) IBM
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.41%) WSO2