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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 266 305
Rank change year-on-year +26 +39 -57
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 471 259 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.94% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.03% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 175 190
10th Percentile £500 £429 £469
25th Percentile £553 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £655
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.40% +1.39%
75th Percentile £756 £731 £750
90th Percentile £820 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £597 £670
% change year-on-year +8.88% -10.90% +3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 10
10th Percentile £17.57 £67.20 £57.30
25th Percentile £20.31 £79.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £72.57 £100.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.43% +48.15% -7.01%
75th Percentile £103.06 - £78.25
90th Percentile £104.28 - £83.77
UK median hourly rate £72.57 £100.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -27.43% +48.15% -7.01%

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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +11 240 £671 -0.56% 209
South East -22 90 £631 +20.53% 67
South West -11 41 £652 +8.67% 50
North of England -70 40 £600 +11.11% 57
Midlands -32 37 £663 +10.60% 18
West Midlands -28 29 £700 +16.67% 15
North West -52 21 £600 +11.73% 34
Yorkshire -34 18 £600 +9.09% 20
East of England -18 8 £550 -25.42% 14
East Midlands -7 7 £650 +49.08% 3
North East -43 1 £500 -29.82% 4
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 26 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.49%) Confluence
4 6 (1.27%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.85%) Camunda
6 2 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Mendix
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.21%) Predix
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.49%) Navisworks
2 7 (1.49%) Revit
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.21%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (1.70%) ContrOCC
2 8 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle Retail
4 3 (0.64%) Endur
5 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.42%) SAP MM
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%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 213 (45.22%) Azure
2 154 (32.70%) AWS
3 85 (18.05%) GCP
4 40 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (7.43%) Entra ID
6 29 (6.16%) Power Platform
7 28 (5.94%) SaaS
8 22 (4.67%) PaaS
9 19 (4.03%) IaaS
10 14 (2.97%) Serverless
11 10 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (2.12%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.70%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.49%) OCI
15 6 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.79%) Firewall
2 23 (4.88%) LAN
2 23 (4.88%) WAN
3 21 (4.46%) Network Security
4 16 (3.40%) BGP
5 13 (2.76%) MPLS
6 10 (2.12%) VPN
7 9 (1.91%) 3GPP
7 9 (1.91%) DNS
7 9 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.70%) OSPF
8 8 (1.70%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.27%) IPsec
10 5 (1.06%) 4G
10 5 (1.06%) 5G
10 5 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.06%) NGFW
10 5 (1.06%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (1.06%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.31%) Metadata
2 17 (3.61%) Power BI
3 13 (2.76%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.91%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.85%) Big Data
9 4 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.42%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.42%) GIS
11 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.21%) EDRMS
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
12 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (1.91%) JIRA
2 4 (0.85%) Git
3 3 (0.64%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) ERwin
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 149 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.62%) Finance
3 72 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 35 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.43%) Banking
4 35 (7.43%) Influencing Skills
5 28 (5.94%) Retail
6 21 (4.46%) Military
7 20 (4.25%) Legal
8 18 (3.82%) Local Government
9 17 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.55%) Billing
11 12 (2.55%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.34%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.49%) Marketing
16 5 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 399 (84.71%) Architect
2 120 (25.48%) Solutions Architect
3 92 (19.53%) Enterprise Architect
4 72 (15.29%) Security Architect
5 47 (9.98%) Technical Architect
6 43 (9.13%) Lead
7 38 (8.07%) Senior
8 29 (6.16%) Lead Architect
8 29 (6.16%) Senior Architect
9 27 (5.73%) Data Architect
10 24 (5.10%) Integration Architect
11 19 (4.03%) Network Architect
12 17 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 17 (3.61%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (2.76%) Azure Architect
15 12 (2.55%) Applications Architect
15 12 (2.55%) Lead Security Architect
15 12 (2.55%) Payments Architect
16 11 (2.34%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.58%) REST
2 24 (5.10%) .NET
2 24 (5.10%) Middleware
3 16 (3.40%) Kafka
4 15 (3.18%) OAuth
5 13 (2.76%) SOAP
6 12 (2.55%) SAML
7 9 (1.91%) OpenID
8 6 (1.27%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.27%) JSON
8 6 (1.27%) NETCONF
8 6 (1.27%) SLSA
8 6 (1.27%) XML
8 6 (1.27%) YANG
9 5 (1.06%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.85%) FHIR
10 4 (0.85%) Node.js
10 4 (0.85%) React
10 4 (0.85%) Swagger
10 4 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (5.31%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.10%) Management Information System
4 24 (5.10%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.46%) Operational Technology
6 19 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (3.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 13 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.76%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.34%) PKI
9 11 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.91%) IoT
10 9 (1.91%) TM Forum
11 8 (1.70%) SCADA
12 7 (1.49%) CMDB
12 7 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.82%) Windows
2 15 (3.18%) Linux
3 13 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.85%) Android
6 3 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (42.68%) Enterprise Architecture
2 195 (41.40%) Roadmaps
3 117 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 106 (22.51%) Agile
5 101 (21.44%) Cybersecurity
6 100 (21.23%) Security Architecture
7 95 (20.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 81 (17.20%) Architecture Governance
8 81 (17.20%) DevOps
9 80 (16.99%) Architectural Patterns
10 79 (16.77%) AI
10 79 (16.77%) SABSA
11 75 (15.92%) Integration Patterns
12 71 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
13 70 (14.86%) ArchiMate
13 70 (14.86%) CI/CD
14 65 (13.80%) Cloud Security
15 64 (13.59%) Microservices
16 61 (12.95%) Data Architecture
16 61 (12.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.16%) Python
2 20 (4.25%) SQL
3 19 (4.03%) Java
4 7 (1.49%) C#
4 7 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.06%) Bicep
5 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.42%) Bash
6 2 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.21%) ABAP
7 1 (0.21%) C
7 1 (0.21%) C++
7 1 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 191 (40.55%) Security Cleared
2 119 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 101 (21.44%) TOGAF Certification
4 90 (19.11%) CISSP
5 73 (15.50%) DV Cleared
6 60 (12.74%) Degree
7 48 (10.19%) Azure Certification
8 43 (9.13%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (9.13%) CISM
9 42 (8.92%) AWS Certification
10 26 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.97%) GIAC
13 13 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (2.55%) CEH
15 11 (2.34%) CCIE
15 11 (2.34%) CCNP
15 11 (2.34%) CCSP
16 8 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.89%) NIST
2 53 (11.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (9.34%) NCSC
4 31 (6.58%) GDPR
5 14 (2.97%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.55%) COBIT
7 10 (2.12%) SLA
8 9 (1.91%) Government Security Classifications
8 9 (1.91%) ISO 20022
8 9 (1.91%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.70%) QA
10 7 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.49%) ISO 19650
10 7 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (1.49%) JSP 440
11 6 (1.27%) SEPA
12 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (1.06%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.18%) Docker
3 13 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.70%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.10%) Terraform
3 18 (3.82%) Ansible
4 16 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.42%) Argo
7 2 (0.42%) Grafana
7 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.42%) SCCM
8 1 (0.21%) CASB
8 1 (0.21%) Istio
8 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.21%) Rancher
8 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 115 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.58%) Databricks
3 25 (5.31%) Oracle
4 23 (4.88%) Google
4 23 (4.88%) VMware
5 22 (4.67%) Sparx
6 18 (3.82%) SAP
7 15 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.18%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.97%) BiZZdesign
8 14 (2.97%) Cisco
9 10 (2.12%) Apple
10 9 (1.91%) Citrix
10 9 (1.91%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.91%) Zscaler
11 8 (1.70%) CyberArk
11 8 (1.70%) Liquidlogic
12 7 (1.49%) Autodesk
12 7 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.27%) Workday