TOGAF Contract Job Trends in England

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring TOGAF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 257 220
Rank change year-on-year +18 -37 +34
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 355 256 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 0.94% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.05% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 159 277
10th Percentile £447 £450 £513
25th Percentile £513 £554 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £630 £649
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.93% -2.04%
75th Percentile £738 £731 £725
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 29
10th Percentile £83.88 - £50.07
25th Percentile £85.00 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £51.26 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +75.58% -9.26% +29.86%
75th Percentile £95.63 £81.89 £73.75
90th Percentile £100.05 £84.22 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £51.26 £57.33
% change year-on-year +75.58% -10.59% +5.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

TOGAF falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,850 24,270 31,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.47% 88.85% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,794 14,913 21,576
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,749 797 1,433
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.20% +23.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.25
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.07% +20.71%

TOGAF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

TOGAF job vacancy trend in England

TOGAF
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TOGAF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TOGAF

TOGAF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TOGAF in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TOGAF in England

TOGAF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TOGAF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TOGAF

TOGAF
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TOGAF in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for TOGAF in England

TOGAF
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 TOGAF within the England region over the 6 months to 5 January 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 +19 128 £625 -3.85% 44
South West +24 68 £725 +20.83% 7
South East -14 61 £650 +3.17% 32
North of England -41 49 £537 -6.28% 11
North West -29 28 £570 +0.22% 10
Midlands -36 25 £605 +5.58% 13
Yorkshire -32 19 £537 -5.29% 1
West Midlands -45 18 £605 +5.58% 10
East of England - 16 £725 - 6
East Midlands - 7 £663 - 3
North East -13 2 £523 -34.17%
TOGAF
UK

TOGAF
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 51 (14.37%) Confluence
2 12 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.28%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Documentum
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (9.01%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (8.45%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (2.82%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.28%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 28 (7.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (2.25%) Maximo
3 7 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.85%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.28%) Endur
5 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (44.51%) Azure
2 111 (31.27%) AWS
3 42 (11.83%) GCP
4 30 (8.45%) SaaS
5 22 (6.20%) Power Platform
6 19 (5.35%) PaaS
7 16 (4.51%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (3.66%) Serverless
10 12 (3.38%) IaaS
10 12 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.10%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.82%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.54%) Azure AKS
13 9 (2.54%) GitHub
14 8 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.04%) Network Security
2 22 (6.20%) Firewall
3 19 (5.35%) VPN
3 19 (5.35%) WAN
4 16 (4.51%) LAN
5 15 (4.23%) BGP
6 13 (3.66%) SD-WAN
7 11 (3.10%) MPLS
8 9 (2.54%) OSPF
9 8 (2.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (1.41%) BIG-IP
10 5 (1.41%) DNS
10 5 (1.41%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.41%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.13%) ATM
11 4 (1.13%) DHCP
11 4 (1.13%) IPv4
11 4 (1.13%) IPv6
11 4 (1.13%) VLAN
11 4 (1.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
1 18 (5.07%) Power BI
2 13 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.10%) Data Lake
3 11 (3.10%) Metadata
4 10 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.25%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.69%) MySQL
7 6 (1.69%) Redis
7 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.69%) Tableau
8 5 (1.41%) Big Data
8 5 (1.41%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.41%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.41%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.41%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 50 (14.08%) JIRA
2 12 (3.38%) Git
3 10 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.41%) Gradle
5 5 (1.41%) Maven
5 5 (1.41%) SonarLint
6 3 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.56%) ERwin
7 2 (0.56%) MSI
7 2 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
General
1 143 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 76 (21.41%) Finance
3 68 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (14.08%) Public Sector
5 39 (10.99%) Military
6 28 (7.89%) Banking
7 17 (4.79%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.66%) Legal
11 8 (2.25%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.25%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.69%) Retail
13 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.41%) Marketing
14 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.56%) Back Office
16 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
16 2 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 308 (86.76%) Architect
2 112 (31.55%) Solutions Architect
3 63 (17.75%) Enterprise Architect
4 43 (12.11%) Security Architect
5 30 (8.45%) Service Architect
6 29 (8.17%) Technical Architect
7 22 (6.20%) Data Architect
8 20 (5.63%) Azure Architect
9 19 (5.35%) Lead
10 18 (5.07%) Lead Architect
11 12 (3.38%) Security Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.10%) Senior
13 10 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 10 (2.82%) Senior Architect
14 9 (2.54%) Business Architect
15 8 (2.25%) Java Architect
15 8 (2.25%) Java Technical Architect
15 8 (2.25%) Network Architect
15 8 (2.25%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.79%) REST
2 13 (3.66%) OAuth
3 12 (3.38%) RESTful
4 9 (2.54%) .NET
4 9 (2.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (2.25%) SAML
6 7 (1.97%) Middleware
6 7 (1.97%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.69%) Celery
7 6 (1.69%) Dropwizard
7 6 (1.69%) J2EE
7 6 (1.69%) JWT
7 6 (1.69%) Kafka
7 6 (1.69%) Micronaut
7 6 (1.69%) NETCONF
7 6 (1.69%) Web Services
7 6 (1.69%) YANG
8 5 (1.41%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.90%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.27%) Product Ownership
3 28 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.94%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.54%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.25%) NHS
8 8 (2.25%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.69%) N-Tier
10 6 (1.69%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.41%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.41%) IoT
11 5 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.13%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.69%) Linux
1 6 (1.69%) Windows
2 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (37.75%) Enterprise Architecture
2 125 (35.21%) Roadmaps
3 111 (31.27%) Agile
4 92 (25.92%) ITIL
5 73 (20.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 63 (17.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (15.77%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (14.37%) Microservices
9 46 (12.96%) DevOps
10 45 (12.68%) Identity Access Management
11 44 (12.39%) Business Strategy
11 44 (12.39%) Zachman Framework
12 42 (11.83%) Security Architecture
13 41 (11.55%) Migration
13 41 (11.55%) Service Design
13 41 (11.55%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (11.27%) ArchiMate
14 40 (11.27%) Architectural Design
14 40 (11.27%) Computer Science
15 39 (10.99%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.14%) Python
2 20 (5.63%) Java
3 13 (3.66%) Bicep
4 9 (2.54%) SQL
5 7 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.41%) C#
7 2 (0.56%) PHP
7 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 135 (38.03%) Security Cleared
2 109 (30.70%) SC Cleared
3 102 (28.73%) TOGAF Certification
4 83 (23.38%) Degree
5 58 (16.34%) CISSP
6 55 (15.49%) Azure Certification
7 42 (11.83%) AWS Certification
8 30 (8.45%) CISM
9 26 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (6.20%) DV Cleared
12 20 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (5.07%) Master's Degree
14 16 (4.51%) CCIE
15 14 (3.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (3.66%) CCSP
17 12 (3.38%) ISEB
17 12 (3.38%) JNCIE
18 11 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (3.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.80%) GDPR
2 46 (12.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (12.39%) NIST
4 18 (5.07%) PCI DSS
5 16 (4.51%) NCSC
6 15 (4.23%) COBIT
7 14 (3.94%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (2.25%) HIPAA
9 8 (2.25%) NIST 800
10 7 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (1.97%) PSD2
11 6 (1.69%) GRC
11 6 (1.69%) QA
11 6 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (1.41%) Def Stans
13 4 (1.13%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.85%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (8.17%) Docker
2 7 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.58%) Terraform
3 30 (8.45%) OPNET
4 16 (4.51%) Ansible
5 10 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.56%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.83%) ServiceNow
3 35 (9.86%) Remedy
4 31 (8.73%) Atlassian
5 29 (8.17%) Sparx
6 27 (7.61%) SAP
7 22 (6.20%) Oracle
8 20 (5.63%) Cisco
9 19 (5.35%) BiZZdesign
9 19 (5.35%) Salesforce
10 14 (3.94%) VMware
11 11 (3.10%) Databricks
11 11 (3.10%) F5
11 11 (3.10%) IBM
12 10 (2.82%) CyberArk
13 9 (2.54%) Fortinet
13 9 (2.54%) Juniper
13 9 (2.54%) Palo Alto
13 9 (2.54%) Red Hat
14 8 (2.25%) Centrify