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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 254 267
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 +13
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 427 245 302
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.00% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.10% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 174 226
10th Percentile £450 £452 £500
25th Percentile £527 £550 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £620 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £790 £823 £800
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £666
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.94% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 16
10th Percentile £85.00 - £56.91
25th Percentile £85.31 £25.26 £57.33
Median hourly rate £95.25 £27.13 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +251.15% -59.81% +18.76%
75th Percentile £103.75 £83.18 £81.33
90th Percentile £105.85 £91.47 £86.89
UK median hourly rate £95.25 £27.13 £67.50
% change year-on-year +251.15% -59.81% +18.76%

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 34,330 22,247 32,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.17% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,953 14,553 21,080
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,133 913 2,254
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.67 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.97 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -2.53%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -25 182 £675 +3.85% 59
South East -11 80 £638 -1.92% 29
South West +23 76 £725 +20.83% 12
North of England -56 33 £600 +9.09% 17
Midlands -59 32 £605 +1.00% 13
West Midlands -56 23 £650 +8.33% 9
North West -42 18 £605 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire -40 13 £650 +18.18% 3
East of England -23 11 £650 -3.70% 11
East Midlands -31 8 £438 +8.83% 4
North East -18 3 £500 -40.30%
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 46 (10.77%) Confluence
2 24 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.17%) Camunda
4 5 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
1 30 (7.03%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (2.34%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.64%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.64%) Revit
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (6.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.41%) Maximo
4 5 (1.17%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.47%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 166 (38.88%) Azure
2 135 (31.62%) AWS
3 59 (13.82%) GCP
4 37 (8.67%) PaaS
4 37 (8.67%) SaaS
5 35 (8.20%) IaaS
6 29 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.45%) Power Platform
8 17 (3.98%) Serverless
9 16 (3.75%) Entra ID
10 13 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (2.58%) Azure AKS
11 11 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.34%) SuccessFactors
13 9 (2.11%) GitHub
14 8 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.09%) Network Security
2 21 (4.92%) Firewall
3 15 (3.51%) WAN
4 14 (3.28%) LAN
5 12 (2.81%) BGP
5 12 (2.81%) VPN
6 9 (2.11%) 3GPP
7 8 (1.87%) MPLS
7 8 (1.87%) OSPF
7 8 (1.87%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.17%) BIG-IP
9 5 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (1.17%) RFID
9 5 (1.17%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.94%) TETRA
11 3 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.70%) IPsec
12 2 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
12 2 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.09%) Metadata
2 14 (3.28%) Power BI
3 12 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.58%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.94%) Big Data
6 4 (0.94%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (0.70%) Tableau
8 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.47%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 43 (10.07%) JIRA
2 5 (1.17%) Git
2 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.94%) GitLab
4 3 (0.70%) ERwin
5 2 (0.47%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
General
1 151 (35.36%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.20%) Finance
3 61 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 59 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (9.84%) Military
6 28 (6.56%) Banking
7 25 (5.85%) Legal
8 23 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (3.28%) Aerospace
10 14 (3.28%) Retail
11 13 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.41%) Law
14 5 (1.17%) Local Government
15 4 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.70%) Marketing
17 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 362 (84.78%) Architect
2 92 (21.55%) Solutions Architect
3 89 (20.84%) Enterprise Architect
4 51 (11.94%) Technical Architect
5 46 (10.77%) Security Architect
6 30 (7.03%) Service Architect
7 28 (6.56%) Data Architect
8 21 (4.92%) Lead
9 20 (4.68%) Integration Architect
9 20 (4.68%) Senior
10 16 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 14 (3.28%) Applications Architect
11 14 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (3.28%) Lead Architect
11 14 (3.28%) Senior Architect
12 13 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.58%) Designer
13 11 (2.58%) Network Architect
14 10 (2.34%) Azure Architect
15 8 (1.87%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.15%) REST
2 16 (3.75%) .NET
2 16 (3.75%) Middleware
3 15 (3.51%) OAuth
4 11 (2.58%) SAML
5 9 (2.11%) Kafka
6 7 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.64%) OpenID
7 6 (1.41%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.41%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.41%) SOAP
8 4 (0.94%) NETCONF
8 4 (0.94%) XML
8 4 (0.94%) YANG
9 3 (0.70%) FHIR
9 3 (0.70%) HTML
9 3 (0.70%) HTML5
9 3 (0.70%) JSON
9 3 (0.70%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.24%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (4.22%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.81%) Operational Technology
8 11 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.87%) NHS
11 7 (1.64%) IoT
11 7 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.41%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.17%) PKI
13 5 (1.17%) SCADA
13 5 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.17%) TM Forum
14 4 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.11%) Windows
2 5 (1.17%) Linux
3 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (39.81%) Roadmaps
2 163 (38.17%) Enterprise Architecture
3 112 (26.23%) Agile
4 98 (22.95%) ITIL
5 79 (18.50%) Cybersecurity
6 77 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 75 (17.56%) DevOps
8 65 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 62 (14.52%) Security Architecture
10 61 (14.29%) AI
10 61 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
11 58 (13.58%) Architectural Patterns
12 54 (12.65%) ArchiMate
13 51 (11.94%) CI/CD
14 50 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (11.48%) Business Continuity
16 48 (11.24%) Architectural Design
16 48 (11.24%) Microservices
16 48 (11.24%) Service Design
17 47 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.56%) Python
2 18 (4.22%) Java
2 18 (4.22%) SQL
3 12 (2.81%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.58%) Bicep
5 7 (1.64%) C#
6 3 (0.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.47%) PHP
8 1 (0.23%) C
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 195 (45.67%) Security Cleared
2 151 (35.36%) SC Cleared
3 133 (31.15%) TOGAF Certification
4 90 (21.08%) Degree
5 62 (14.52%) CISSP
6 59 (13.82%) Azure Certification
7 45 (10.54%) DV Cleared
8 37 (8.67%) AWS Certification
9 33 (7.73%) CISM
10 31 (7.26%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (4.68%) ISEB
13 18 (4.22%) ITIL Certification
13 18 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (3.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (2.81%) CCNP
16 11 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.58%) CCIE
17 9 (2.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (13.58%) NIST
2 41 (9.60%) GDPR
3 35 (8.20%) NCSC
4 33 (7.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (6.09%) COBIT
6 14 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (3.28%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.34%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.87%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.64%) Def Stans
9 7 (1.64%) Government Security Classifications
9 7 (1.64%) ISO 20022
9 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (1.41%) NIST 800
11 5 (1.17%) GRC
12 4 (0.94%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.94%) PSD2
12 4 (0.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (5.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 40 (9.37%) Terraform
3 30 (7.03%) OPNET
4 10 (2.34%) Ansible
5 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 82 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.37%) ServiceNow
3 36 (8.43%) Atlassian
4 33 (7.73%) Remedy
5 28 (6.56%) Sparx
6 26 (6.09%) Databricks
7 25 (5.85%) SAP
8 21 (4.92%) VMware
9 19 (4.45%) BiZZdesign
10 18 (4.22%) Oracle
10 18 (4.22%) Salesforce
11 16 (3.75%) Google
12 12 (2.81%) Cisco
13 9 (2.11%) OpenAI
13 9 (2.11%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.64%) Autodesk
14 7 (1.64%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.64%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.64%) iManage
14 7 (1.64%) Intapp