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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 251 294
Rank change year-on-year -11 +43 -71
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 477 288 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 1.03% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.13% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 185 148
10th Percentile £500 £435 £452
25th Percentile £538 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -6.12% -5.77%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £738
90th Percentile £838 £815 £777
UK median daily rate £625 £575 £635
% change year-on-year +8.70% -9.45% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 4
10th Percentile £17.57 £66.80 £65.69
25th Percentile £20.31 £78.50 £68.59
Median hourly rate £50.31 £90.00 £79.47
Median % change year-on-year -44.10% +13.25% +40.68%
75th Percentile £82.63 £96.25 £84.11
90th Percentile £88.75 £98.50 £85.11
UK median hourly rate £50.31 £90.00 £79.47
% change year-on-year -44.10% +13.25% +40.68%

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 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +2 235 £650 - 249
South East -30 90 £625 +19.33% 92
South West -1 45 £675 +17.39% 45
North of England -76 45 £550 +6.08% 61
Midlands -25 38 £650 +8.33% 23
West Midlands -32 26 £806 +29.52% 18
Yorkshire -22 23 £575 +7.08% 30
North West -59 20 £550 +10.55% 26
East Midlands -10 11 £650 +30.00% 5
East of England -40 8 £550 -31.25% 11
North East -43 1 £660 -7.37% 5
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 19 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.89%) Confluence
4 6 (1.26%) IIS
4 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.84%) Apache
6 2 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) Camunda
7 1 (0.21%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Mendix
7 1 (0.21%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) Predix
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (2.10%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.26%) Navisworks
2 6 (1.26%) Revit
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.68%) ContrOCC
3 8 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.63%) Endur
4 3 (0.63%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.42%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.42%) Workfront
6 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.21%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.21%) Maximo
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 232 (48.64%) Azure
2 169 (35.43%) AWS
3 92 (19.29%) GCP
4 44 (9.22%) Entra ID
5 39 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (6.92%) Power Platform
7 25 (5.24%) GitHub
8 24 (5.03%) SaaS
9 19 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (2.94%) PaaS
11 12 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (2.52%) Serverless
12 11 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (2.10%) OCI
13 10 (2.10%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.89%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.87%) WAN
2 27 (5.66%) Firewall
3 25 (5.24%) Network Security
4 20 (4.19%) LAN
5 19 (3.98%) MPLS
6 16 (3.35%) BGP
6 16 (3.35%) SD-WAN
7 13 (2.73%) DNS
8 10 (2.10%) IPsec
9 9 (1.89%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.89%) VPN
10 7 (1.47%) X.509
11 6 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.26%) DHCP
11 6 (1.26%) Modbus
11 6 (1.26%) OSPF
12 5 (1.05%) 4G
12 5 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (1.05%) NGFW
12 5 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.81%) Metadata
2 19 (3.98%) Data Lake
3 15 (3.14%) Power BI
4 13 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 12 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.89%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.68%) SAP HANA
8 7 (1.47%) SAP BW
9 6 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.05%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.84%) Big Data
11 4 (0.84%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.63%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (2.10%) JIRA
2 9 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.84%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.84%) Git
4 3 (0.63%) GitLab
5 2 (0.42%) ERwin
5 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 180 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 91 (19.08%) Finance
3 76 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.55%) Banking
6 30 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
7 27 (5.66%) Retail
8 22 (4.61%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.61%) Telecoms
9 21 (4.40%) Military
10 19 (3.98%) Aerospace
11 16 (3.35%) Local Government
12 15 (3.14%) Billing
13 14 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (2.52%) Legal
15 10 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.89%) Marketing
17 8 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 412 (86.37%) Architect
2 119 (24.95%) Solutions Architect
3 96 (20.13%) Enterprise Architect
4 73 (15.30%) Security Architect
5 42 (8.81%) Lead
6 40 (8.39%) Senior
7 38 (7.97%) Technical Architect
8 37 (7.76%) Data Architect
9 36 (7.55%) Senior Architect
10 31 (6.50%) Lead Architect
11 23 (4.82%) Integration Architect
12 20 (4.19%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 18 (3.77%) Network Architect
15 17 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (2.73%) Azure Architect
17 12 (2.52%) Lead Security Architect
18 11 (2.31%) Payments Architect
19 10 (2.10%) SAP Architect
20 9 (1.89%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.60%) REST
2 37 (7.76%) Terraform
3 22 (4.61%) .NET
3 22 (4.61%) Kafka
4 21 (4.40%) Middleware
5 20 (4.19%) SOAP
6 18 (3.77%) OAuth
7 16 (3.35%) SAML
8 8 (1.68%) JSON
8 8 (1.68%) OpenID
8 8 (1.68%) SAP Basis
8 8 (1.68%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (1.68%) SAPUI5
9 7 (1.47%) LDAP
9 7 (1.47%) SAP PI
9 7 (1.47%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.47%) XML
10 6 (1.26%) NETCONF
10 6 (1.26%) Node.js
10 6 (1.26%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 69 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.34%) Management Information System
3 34 (7.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (6.50%) Onboarding
5 30 (6.29%) Data Centre
6 23 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (4.82%) Operational Technology
7 22 (4.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 21 (4.40%) Product Ownership
9 15 (3.14%) IoT
9 15 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.94%) PKI
11 13 (2.73%) Public Cloud
12 12 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (2.52%) FMCG
13 11 (2.31%) CMDB
13 11 (2.31%) Private Cloud
13 11 (2.31%) Security Posture
13 11 (2.31%) Smartcard
13 11 (2.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.66%) Windows
2 25 (5.24%) Linux
3 22 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Android
5 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (46.54%) Enterprise Architecture
2 204 (42.77%) Roadmaps
3 153 (32.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 120 (25.16%) Cybersecurity
5 112 (23.48%) Security Architecture
6 103 (21.59%) Architectural Patterns
7 98 (20.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 95 (19.92%) Agile
8 95 (19.92%) Architecture Governance
9 90 (18.87%) Technical Leadership
10 83 (17.40%) Migration
11 81 (16.98%) SABSA
12 78 (16.35%) AI
12 78 (16.35%) Data Architecture
13 77 (16.14%) DevOps
14 76 (15.93%) CI/CD
15 75 (15.72%) Integration Patterns
16 72 (15.09%) Microservices
17 67 (14.05%) Risk Management
18 66 (13.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.29%) Python
2 28 (5.87%) SQL
3 18 (3.77%) Java
4 12 (2.52%) Bicep
5 9 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.68%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.26%) C#
7 6 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.84%) ABAP
9 3 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 203 (42.56%) Security Cleared
2 123 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 110 (23.06%) TOGAF Certification
4 99 (20.75%) CISSP
5 82 (17.19%) DV Cleared
6 65 (13.63%) Degree
7 61 (12.79%) Azure Certification
8 50 (10.48%) Cisco Certification
8 50 (10.48%) CISM
9 46 (9.64%) AWS Certification
10 29 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (5.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.56%) CCIE
14 16 (3.35%) CCSP
14 16 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (3.14%) CCNP
16 12 (2.52%) JNCIE
16 12 (2.52%) Master's Degree
17 10 (2.10%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (15.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (12.79%) NIST
3 42 (8.81%) NCSC
4 32 (6.71%) GDPR
5 31 (6.50%) Data Quality
6 17 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.10%) GRC
7 10 (2.10%) SLA
8 9 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.89%) ISO 20022
9 7 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.47%) JSP 440
9 7 (1.47%) QA
9 7 (1.47%) SEPA
10 6 (1.26%) ISO 19650
10 6 (1.26%) ISO 31000
10 6 (1.26%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 6 (1.26%) PMO
11 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 32 (6.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.56%) Docker
3 12 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.05%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.98%) Ansible
3 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.68%) Grafana
6 7 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.26%) CASB
8 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.42%) Argo
9 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.42%) SCCM
10 1 (0.21%) Istio
10 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.21%) Rancher
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 138 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.76%) Google
3 33 (6.92%) Oracle
4 31 (6.50%) Databricks
5 25 (5.24%) Cisco
6 24 (5.03%) SAP
7 22 (4.61%) Sparx
8 21 (4.40%) ServiceNow
9 20 (4.19%) VMware
10 13 (2.73%) BiZZdesign
11 12 (2.52%) CyberArk
12 11 (2.31%) F5
13 10 (2.10%) BeyondTrust
14 9 (1.89%) Apple
14 9 (1.89%) Palo Alto
14 9 (1.89%) Splunk
14 9 (1.89%) Zscaler
15 8 (1.68%) Liquidlogic
15 8 (1.68%) Qualys
15 8 (1.68%) Salesforce