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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 257 287
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 -5
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 407 234 275
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.98% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.08% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 165 206
10th Percentile £449 £453 £500
25th Percentile £537 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £736 £725 £750
90th Percentile £800 £783 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 16
10th Percentile £80.69 - £56.91
25th Percentile £87.75 £25.26 £57.33
Median hourly rate £100.00 £27.13 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +268.66% -59.81% -8.09%
75th Percentile £103.75 £46.74 £81.33
90th Percentile £106.05 £78.70 £86.89
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £27.13 £67.50
% change year-on-year +268.66% -59.81% -8.09%

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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 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
London 0 203 £675 +3.85% 90
South East -23 67 £625 +7.30% 30
South West +11 46 £703 +17.17% 24
Midlands -50 35 £650 +9.38% 16
North of England -73 31 £661 +22.45% 22
West Midlands -54 22 £650 +8.33% 9
North West -44 19 £605 +12.66% 17
East of England -19 12 £650 -3.70% 5
East Midlands -22 12 £447 -3.87% 7
Yorkshire -51 12 £673 +22.27% 3
North East -28 1 £500 -41.18% 2
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 25 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.41%) Confluence
3 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.47%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.23%) Camunda
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.49%) Apache
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.72%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.72%) Revit
4 6 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 26 (6.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.23%) Maximo
3 5 (1.23%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.49%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Endur
6 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 179 (43.98%) Azure
2 135 (33.17%) AWS
3 68 (16.71%) GCP
4 36 (8.85%) PaaS
5 34 (8.35%) IaaS
6 33 (8.11%) SaaS
7 28 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (5.65%) Entra ID
9 20 (4.91%) Power Platform
9 20 (4.91%) Serverless
10 14 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.46%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (2.21%) GitHub
15 8 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.88%) Network Security
2 21 (5.16%) Firewall
3 16 (3.93%) LAN
3 16 (3.93%) WAN
4 14 (3.44%) BGP
5 10 (2.46%) MPLS
5 10 (2.46%) VPN
6 9 (2.21%) 3GPP
6 9 (2.21%) OSPF
7 8 (1.97%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.47%) VXLAN
9 5 (1.23%) BIG-IP
9 5 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (1.23%) RFID
10 4 (0.98%) TETRA
11 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.74%) IPsec
12 2 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
12 2 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.63%) Metadata
2 14 (3.44%) Power BI
3 13 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.95%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.21%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.23%) Big Data
7 4 (0.98%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.74%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (0.74%) Tableau
9 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.49%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (4.67%) JIRA
2 7 (1.72%) Git
3 5 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) GitLab
5 3 (0.74%) ERwin
6 2 (0.49%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
General
1 128 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.90%) Finance
3 60 (14.74%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.85%) Banking
6 22 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (5.16%) Military
8 19 (4.67%) Retail
9 17 (4.18%) Legal
10 14 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.95%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.70%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.47%) Law
14 5 (1.23%) Local Government
15 4 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
17 2 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 335 (82.31%) Architect
2 94 (23.10%) Solutions Architect
3 76 (18.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 49 (12.04%) Security Architect
5 46 (11.30%) Technical Architect
6 30 (7.37%) Data Architect
7 29 (7.13%) Senior
8 23 (5.65%) Lead
9 21 (5.16%) Integration Architect
10 20 (4.91%) Senior Architect
11 17 (4.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 15 (3.69%) Applications Architect
12 15 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.69%) Lead Architect
13 12 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.70%) Designer
14 11 (2.70%) Network Architect
15 10 (2.46%) Azure Architect
16 8 (1.97%) Payments Architect
16 8 (1.97%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.14%) REST
2 23 (5.65%) Middleware
3 22 (5.41%) .NET
4 18 (4.42%) OAuth
5 14 (3.44%) SAML
6 10 (2.46%) Kafka
6 10 (2.46%) OpenID
7 9 (2.21%) OAuth2
7 9 (2.21%) SOAP
8 8 (1.97%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.97%) XML
9 5 (1.23%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.23%) JSON
9 5 (1.23%) NETCONF
9 5 (1.23%) YANG
10 4 (0.98%) HTML
10 4 (0.98%) React
10 4 (0.98%) RESTful
10 4 (0.98%) Swagger
11 3 (0.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 71 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 18 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (3.69%) Data Centre
6 15 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.95%) Operational Technology
9 11 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.21%) PKI
11 8 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.97%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.72%) NHS
13 6 (1.47%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.23%) IoT
14 5 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 5 (1.23%) SCADA
14 5 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.19%) Windows
2 7 (1.72%) Linux
3 4 (0.98%) Android
3 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.49%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (37.59%) Roadmaps
2 151 (37.10%) Enterprise Architecture
3 88 (21.62%) DevOps
4 81 (19.90%) Agile
4 81 (19.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 75 (18.43%) Cybersecurity
6 74 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 68 (16.71%) Security Architecture
8 65 (15.97%) Architectural Patterns
9 64 (15.72%) Integration Patterns
10 62 (15.23%) ITIL
11 57 (14.00%) AI
11 57 (14.00%) CI/CD
12 54 (13.27%) ArchiMate
13 53 (13.02%) Microservices
13 53 (13.02%) Migration
13 53 (13.02%) SABSA
14 51 (12.53%) Technical Leadership
15 50 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 49 (12.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.86%) Python
2 22 (5.41%) SQL
3 21 (5.16%) Java
4 13 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.95%) Bicep
6 10 (2.46%) C#
7 4 (0.98%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.25%) Bash
10 1 (0.25%) C
10 1 (0.25%) C++
10 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 171 (42.01%) Security Cleared
2 126 (30.96%) SC Cleared
3 99 (24.32%) TOGAF Certification
4 71 (17.44%) Degree
5 65 (15.97%) CISSP
6 52 (12.78%) Azure Certification
7 46 (11.30%) DV Cleared
8 39 (9.58%) CISM
9 35 (8.60%) AWS Certification
10 33 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (3.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 13 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (2.95%) CCIE
15 12 (2.95%) CCNP
16 11 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.70%) GIAC
17 9 (2.21%) CCSP
17 9 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (15.48%) NIST
2 42 (10.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (9.09%) GDPR
3 37 (9.09%) NCSC
4 16 (3.93%) COBIT
5 14 (3.44%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (2.46%) Accessibility
7 10 (2.46%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.97%) Government Security Classifications
8 8 (1.97%) ISO 20022
9 7 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.47%) Def Stans
10 6 (1.47%) NIST 800
11 5 (1.23%) GRC
11 5 (1.23%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.98%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.98%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (5.65%) Docker
2 14 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (12.53%) Kubernetes
2 45 (11.06%) Terraform
3 15 (3.69%) Ansible
4 8 (1.97%) OPNET
5 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) CASB
7 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 84 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.88%) Databricks
3 26 (6.39%) Sparx
4 22 (5.41%) SAP
5 19 (4.67%) Google
5 19 (4.67%) Oracle
6 18 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 18 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 17 (4.18%) VMware
8 14 (3.44%) Atlassian
9 11 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
9 11 (2.70%) Remedy
10 8 (1.97%) Cisco
10 8 (1.97%) Zscaler
11 7 (1.72%) Autodesk
11 7 (1.72%) iManage
11 7 (1.72%) Intapp
11 7 (1.72%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.72%) Splunk
12 6 (1.47%) IBM