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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 243 281
Rank change year-on-year -9 +38 +1
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 404 237 276
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.00% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.09% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 170 207
10th Percentile £449 £450 £500
25th Percentile £529 £516 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £800 £791 £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 35,337 21,704 31,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 91.29% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,449 14,185 20,585
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 923 2,285
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -8 197 £675 +3.85% 85
South East -23 68 £625 +2.88% 30
South West +5 48 £703 +17.17% 24
Midlands -60 35 £650 +8.51% 13
North of England -71 31 £661 +22.45% 20
West Midlands -56 22 £650 +8.33% 5
North West -46 19 £605 +12.66% 15
East of England -19 12 £650 -3.70% 4
East Midlands -27 12 £447 -3.87% 8
Yorkshire -46 12 £673 +22.27% 3
North East -24 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 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 23 (5.69%) Confluence
3 11 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.24%) Camunda
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.50%) 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 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.73%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.73%) Revit
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (6.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.24%) Maximo
3 5 (1.24%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.50%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.50%) 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
1 175 (43.32%) Azure
2 134 (33.17%) AWS
3 67 (16.58%) GCP
4 36 (8.91%) PaaS
5 34 (8.42%) IaaS
6 33 (8.17%) SaaS
7 28 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (5.20%) Entra ID
9 20 (4.95%) Power Platform
9 20 (4.95%) Serverless
10 14 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (2.72%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.48%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (2.23%) GitHub
15 8 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.93%) Network Security
2 21 (5.20%) Firewall
3 16 (3.96%) LAN
3 16 (3.96%) WAN
4 14 (3.47%) BGP
5 10 (2.48%) MPLS
5 10 (2.48%) VPN
6 9 (2.23%) 3GPP
6 9 (2.23%) OSPF
7 8 (1.98%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.49%) VXLAN
9 5 (1.24%) BIG-IP
9 5 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (1.24%) RFID
10 4 (0.99%) TETRA
11 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.74%) IPsec
12 2 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
12 2 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.68%) Metadata
2 14 (3.47%) Power BI
3 13 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.97%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.23%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.24%) Big Data
7 4 (0.99%) 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 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.50%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (4.95%) JIRA
2 7 (1.73%) Git
3 5 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.99%) GitLab
5 3 (0.74%) ERwin
6 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
General
1 129 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.05%) Finance
3 59 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 38 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.91%) Banking
6 22 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (5.45%) Military
7 19 (4.70%) Retail
8 17 (4.21%) Legal
9 14 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.72%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.49%) Law
13 5 (1.24%) Local Government
14 4 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 332 (82.18%) Architect
2 92 (22.77%) Solutions Architect
3 74 (18.32%) Enterprise Architect
4 47 (11.63%) Security Architect
5 46 (11.39%) Technical Architect
6 30 (7.43%) Data Architect
7 27 (6.68%) Senior
8 23 (5.69%) Lead
9 21 (5.20%) Integration Architect
10 18 (4.46%) Senior Architect
11 16 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 15 (3.71%) Applications Architect
12 15 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.71%) Lead Architect
13 12 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Designer
14 11 (2.72%) Network Architect
15 9 (2.23%) Service Architect
16 8 (1.98%) Payments Architect
16 8 (1.98%) Principal Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.44%) REST
2 23 (5.69%) Middleware
3 22 (5.45%) .NET
4 18 (4.46%) OAuth
5 14 (3.47%) SAML
6 10 (2.48%) Kafka
6 10 (2.48%) OpenID
6 10 (2.48%) SOAP
7 9 (2.23%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.98%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.98%) XML
9 5 (1.24%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.24%) JSON
9 5 (1.24%) NETCONF
9 5 (1.24%) YANG
10 4 (0.99%) HTML
10 4 (0.99%) React
10 4 (0.99%) RESTful
10 4 (0.99%) Swagger
11 3 (0.74%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.21%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.47%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.97%) Operational Technology
8 11 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.72%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.23%) PKI
10 8 (1.98%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.73%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.73%) NHS
12 5 (1.24%) IoT
12 5 (1.24%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.24%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.24%) SCADA
12 5 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.72%) Windows
2 5 (1.24%) Linux
3 4 (0.99%) Android
4 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (37.13%) Enterprise Architecture
1 150 (37.13%) Roadmaps
2 86 (21.29%) DevOps
3 83 (20.54%) Agile
4 79 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 73 (18.07%) Cybersecurity
6 71 (17.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 66 (16.34%) Security Architecture
8 64 (15.84%) Architectural Patterns
8 64 (15.84%) ITIL
9 62 (15.35%) Integration Patterns
10 57 (14.11%) CI/CD
11 56 (13.86%) AI
12 55 (13.61%) ArchiMate
13 53 (13.12%) Microservices
13 53 (13.12%) SABSA
14 52 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
15 50 (12.38%) Data Modelling
15 50 (12.38%) Migration
16 48 (11.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.43%) Python
2 22 (5.45%) SQL
3 21 (5.20%) Java
4 13 (3.22%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.48%) Bicep
5 10 (2.48%) C#
6 4 (0.99%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) C
8 1 (0.25%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 171 (42.33%) Security Cleared
2 125 (30.94%) SC Cleared
3 100 (24.75%) TOGAF Certification
4 72 (17.82%) Degree
5 63 (15.59%) CISSP
6 52 (12.87%) Azure Certification
7 47 (11.63%) DV Cleared
8 37 (9.16%) CISM
9 33 (8.17%) AWS Certification
9 33 (8.17%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (3.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (2.97%) CCIE
14 12 (2.97%) CCNP
15 11 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.48%) GIAC
17 9 (2.23%) CCSP
17 9 (2.23%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (15.10%) NIST
2 40 (9.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (9.16%) GDPR
3 37 (9.16%) NCSC
4 16 (3.96%) COBIT
5 14 (3.47%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (2.48%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.98%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.98%) Government Security Classifications
8 8 (1.98%) ISO 20022
9 7 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.49%) Def Stans
10 6 (1.49%) NIST 800
11 5 (1.24%) GRC
12 4 (0.99%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.99%) PSD2
12 4 (0.99%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (5.69%) Docker
2 14 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 43 (10.64%) Terraform
3 13 (3.22%) Ansible
4 9 (2.23%) OPNET
5 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.50%) 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 82 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.93%) Databricks
3 27 (6.68%) Sparx
4 22 (5.45%) SAP
5 20 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 19 (4.70%) Oracle
7 18 (4.46%) Salesforce
8 17 (4.21%) Google
8 17 (4.21%) VMware
9 15 (3.71%) Atlassian
10 12 (2.97%) BiZZdesign
10 12 (2.97%) Remedy
11 8 (1.98%) Cisco
11 8 (1.98%) Zscaler
12 7 (1.73%) Autodesk
12 7 (1.73%) iManage
12 7 (1.73%) Intapp
12 7 (1.73%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.49%) Ariba
13 6 (1.49%) IBM