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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 263 303
Rank change year-on-year +11 +40 -50
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 467 261 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.95% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.04% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 179 188
10th Percentile £500 £433 £469
25th Percentile £551 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £670
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.45% +4.20%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £750
90th Percentile £815 £800 £791
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £672
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.71% +3.78%
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% -3.81%
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% -3.81%

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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +28 250 £675 +3.85% 117
South East -27 83 £624 +19.09% 51
South West -16 39 £651 +4.16% 21
North of England -56 37 £600 +11.42% 24
Midlands -35 35 £675 +12.59% 7
West Midlands -40 28 £750 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -33 19 £650 +18.18% 12
North West -57 17 £575 +9.52% 11
East of England -17 8 £550 -25.42% 5
East Midlands -8 7 £650 +49.08% 1
North East -41 1 £500 -29.82% 1
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 27 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.50%) Confluence
4 5 (1.07%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.86%) Camunda
6 3 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.21%) Apache
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.21%) JBoss
8 1 (0.21%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Predix
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.50%) MS Visio
1 7 (1.50%) Navisworks
1 7 (1.50%) Revit
2 5 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (4.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (1.71%) ContrOCC
2 8 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.07%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.64%) Endur
6 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.21%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.21%) Maximo
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 219 (46.90%) Azure
2 160 (34.26%) AWS
3 92 (19.70%) GCP
4 37 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (7.07%) Entra ID
6 29 (6.21%) SaaS
7 26 (5.57%) Power Platform
8 25 (5.35%) PaaS
9 20 (4.28%) IaaS
10 16 (3.43%) Serverless
11 12 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.14%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.71%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.50%) GitHub
14 7 (1.50%) OCI
15 6 (1.28%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.21%) Firewall
2 24 (5.14%) Network Security
3 21 (4.50%) LAN
3 21 (4.50%) WAN
4 15 (3.21%) BGP
5 12 (2.57%) MPLS
6 10 (2.14%) VPN
7 9 (1.93%) 3GPP
7 9 (1.93%) DNS
7 9 (1.93%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.71%) OSPF
8 8 (1.71%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.28%) IPsec
9 6 (1.28%) RFID
10 5 (1.07%) 4G
10 5 (1.07%) 5G
10 5 (1.07%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.07%) NGFW
10 5 (1.07%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.35%) Metadata
2 16 (3.43%) Power BI
3 15 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.57%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.28%) Big Data
8 6 (1.28%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.43%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.43%) GIS
11 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.43%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.43%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.21%) EDRMS
12 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (1.93%) JIRA
2 4 (0.86%) Git
3 3 (0.64%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.43%) MLflow
4 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) ERwin
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 147 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.84%) Finance
3 71 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.35%) Banking
5 33 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
6 27 (5.78%) Retail
7 21 (4.50%) Military
8 17 (3.64%) Legal
9 16 (3.43%) Local Government
9 16 (3.43%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.36%) Billing
12 10 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Marketing
15 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 397 (85.01%) Architect
2 120 (25.70%) Solutions Architect
3 90 (19.27%) Enterprise Architect
4 74 (15.85%) Security Architect
5 47 (10.06%) Technical Architect
6 39 (8.35%) Lead
7 38 (8.14%) Senior
8 29 (6.21%) Lead Architect
8 29 (6.21%) Senior Architect
9 26 (5.57%) Data Architect
10 25 (5.35%) Integration Architect
11 19 (4.07%) Network Architect
12 18 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 17 (3.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.43%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (2.78%) Applications Architect
15 13 (2.78%) Azure Architect
16 12 (2.57%) Lead Security Architect
16 12 (2.57%) Payments Architect
17 11 (2.36%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.64%) REST
2 24 (5.14%) .NET
3 23 (4.93%) Middleware
4 17 (3.64%) OAuth
5 16 (3.43%) Kafka
6 14 (3.00%) SAML
7 13 (2.78%) SOAP
8 8 (1.71%) OpenID
9 6 (1.28%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.28%) JSON
9 6 (1.28%) SLSA
9 6 (1.28%) XML
10 5 (1.07%) NETCONF
10 5 (1.07%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.07%) YANG
11 4 (0.86%) FHIR
11 4 (0.86%) Node.js
11 4 (0.86%) React
11 4 (0.86%) Swagger
11 4 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (16.49%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (5.14%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.28%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.85%) Operational Technology
7 14 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.36%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.93%) IoT
10 9 (1.93%) PKI
10 9 (1.93%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.71%) TM Forum
12 7 (1.50%) CMDB
12 7 (1.50%) NHS
12 7 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.21%) Windows
2 13 (2.78%) Linux
3 11 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.86%) Android
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.43%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (42.40%) Enterprise Architecture
2 196 (41.97%) Roadmaps
3 107 (22.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 101 (21.63%) Agile
5 99 (21.20%) Security Architecture
6 97 (20.77%) Cybersecurity
7 94 (20.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 89 (19.06%) DevOps
9 85 (18.20%) Architectural Patterns
10 80 (17.13%) AI
11 79 (16.92%) Integration Patterns
12 75 (16.06%) CI/CD
13 74 (15.85%) SABSA
14 70 (14.99%) Architecture Governance
15 69 (14.78%) Microservices
16 68 (14.56%) Technical Leadership
17 65 (13.92%) ArchiMate
18 63 (13.49%) Cloud Security
19 61 (13.06%) Migration
20 58 (12.42%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.64%) Python
2 24 (5.14%) SQL
3 19 (4.07%) Java
4 9 (1.93%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.50%) C#
6 5 (1.07%) Bicep
7 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.43%) Bash
8 2 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) ABAP
9 1 (0.21%) C
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 189 (40.47%) Security Cleared
2 121 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 102 (21.84%) TOGAF Certification
4 87 (18.63%) CISSP
5 68 (14.56%) DV Cleared
6 62 (13.28%) Degree
7 50 (10.71%) Azure Certification
8 44 (9.42%) AWS Certification
9 42 (8.99%) CISM
10 40 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (4.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 17 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.78%) GIAC
14 13 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (2.36%) CCNP
15 11 (2.36%) CCSP
15 11 (2.36%) CEH
16 10 (2.14%) CCIE
17 9 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.78%) NIST
2 51 (10.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (8.78%) NCSC
4 31 (6.64%) GDPR
5 13 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.57%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.36%) COBIT
7 11 (2.36%) PCI DSS
8 10 (2.14%) SLA
9 9 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.93%) Government Security Classifications
9 9 (1.93%) ISO 20022
10 7 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (1.50%) QA
11 6 (1.28%) SEPA
12 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.86%) ISO 19650
13 4 (0.86%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.28%) Docker
3 11 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.71%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.57%) Terraform
3 16 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (3.21%) Ansible
5 8 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.43%) Argo
8 2 (0.43%) Grafana
8 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.43%) SCCM
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.21%) Rancher
9 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 104 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.42%) Databricks
3 25 (5.35%) Google
4 23 (4.93%) Oracle
5 21 (4.50%) Sparx
6 18 (3.85%) SAP
7 17 (3.64%) VMware
8 15 (3.21%) BiZZdesign
8 15 (3.21%) Salesforce
9 14 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.36%) Apple
10 11 (2.36%) Cisco
11 9 (1.93%) Citrix
11 9 (1.93%) Zscaler
12 8 (1.71%) CyberArk
12 8 (1.71%) Liquidlogic
13 7 (1.50%) Autodesk
13 7 (1.50%) BeyondTrust
13 7 (1.50%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.50%) Red Hat