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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 260 231
Rank change year-on-year +31 -29 +28
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 378 250 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 0.94% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.05% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 154 281
10th Percentile £438 £456 £513
25th Percentile £513 £561 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £722 £731
90th Percentile £788 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 26
10th Percentile £83.88 - £49.39
25th Percentile £85.00 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £27.13 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +231.80% -51.98% +29.86%
75th Percentile £95.63 £80.59 £70.25
90th Percentile £100.05 £83.70 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £27.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year +231.80% -51.98% +4.13%

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 28,483 23,837 32,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.40% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,219 14,596 22,102
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 766 1,805
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -8.41% +9.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.55% +16.41%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +12 131 £625 -3.85% 40
South West +25 71 £725 +20.83% 15
South East -7 65 £650 +3.33% 43
North of England -45 51 £537 -11.28% 28
Midlands -34 35 £560 -2.27% 13
North West -27 30 £570 -10.59% 19
West Midlands -48 21 £600 +4.71% 9
Yorkshire -34 19 £537 -5.29% 5
East of England - 16 £650 - 14
East Midlands -14 13 £442 - 4
North East -14 2 £523 -34.17% 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 54 (14.29%) Confluence
2 12 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.12%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.53%) Apache
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.53%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.26%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) Camunda
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Documentum
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (7.94%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (2.12%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.26%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 31 (8.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (2.12%) Maximo
3 5 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.53%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 160 (42.33%) Azure
2 127 (33.60%) AWS
3 49 (12.96%) GCP
4 34 (8.99%) SaaS
5 25 (6.61%) PaaS
6 20 (5.29%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.03%) Entra ID
8 18 (4.76%) IaaS
9 16 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (4.23%) Serverless
10 14 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (3.44%) GitHub
12 12 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (2.65%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.67%) Network Security
2 23 (6.08%) Firewall
3 21 (5.56%) WAN
4 18 (4.76%) LAN
4 18 (4.76%) VPN
5 17 (4.50%) BGP
6 14 (3.70%) MPLS
7 13 (3.44%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.38%) OSPF
9 8 (2.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (1.59%) VXLAN
11 5 (1.32%) BIG-IP
11 5 (1.32%) DNS
11 5 (1.32%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.06%) ATM
12 4 (1.06%) DHCP
12 4 (1.06%) IPv4
12 4 (1.06%) IPv6
12 4 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (4.23%) Power BI
3 15 (3.97%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.91%) Metadata
6 10 (2.65%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.59%) MySQL
9 6 (1.59%) Redis
9 6 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.59%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.59%) Tableau
10 5 (1.32%) Big Data
10 5 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.32%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.32%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.06%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 53 (14.02%) JIRA
2 16 (4.23%) Git
3 12 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.59%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.32%) Gradle
5 5 (1.32%) Maven
5 5 (1.32%) SonarLint
6 3 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.53%) ERwin
7 2 (0.53%) GitLab
7 2 (0.53%) MSI
7 2 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 152 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 79 (20.90%) Finance
3 73 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (13.49%) Public Sector
5 41 (10.85%) Military
6 33 (8.73%) Banking
7 23 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (4.23%) Legal
10 12 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.12%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.12%) Retail
12 7 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.85%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.32%) Marketing
14 4 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.53%) Local Government
16 2 (0.53%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 317 (83.86%) Architect
2 108 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 64 (16.93%) Enterprise Architect
4 46 (12.17%) Security Architect
5 31 (8.20%) Technical Architect
6 30 (7.94%) Service Architect
7 21 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 21 (5.56%) Lead
8 19 (5.03%) Azure Architect
9 18 (4.76%) Lead Architect
10 12 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 12 (3.17%) Security Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.91%) Senior
12 10 (2.65%) Business Architect
12 10 (2.65%) Senior Architect
13 9 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.12%) Java Architect
14 8 (2.12%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.12%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.56%) REST
2 16 (4.23%) OAuth
3 13 (3.44%) RESTful
4 12 (3.17%) .NET
5 10 (2.65%) SAML
6 9 (2.38%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.12%) NETCONF
7 8 (2.12%) YANG
8 7 (1.85%) Kafka
8 7 (1.85%) Middleware
8 7 (1.85%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.59%) Celery
9 6 (1.59%) Dropwizard
9 6 (1.59%) J2EE
9 6 (1.59%) JWT
9 6 (1.59%) Micronaut
9 6 (1.59%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.59%) Web Services
10 5 (1.32%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 67 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.38%) Product Ownership
3 29 (7.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.65%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.85%) NHS
9 7 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
10 6 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.59%) N-Tier
10 6 (1.59%) PKI
10 6 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.32%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.38%) Linux
1 9 (2.38%) Windows
2 5 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (39.42%) Enterprise Architecture
2 139 (36.77%) Roadmaps
3 114 (30.16%) Agile
4 97 (25.66%) ITIL
5 80 (21.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 66 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 61 (16.14%) Cybersecurity
8 58 (15.34%) Microservices
9 51 (13.49%) DevOps
10 49 (12.96%) ArchiMate
11 47 (12.43%) Security Architecture
12 46 (12.17%) Identity Access Management
13 45 (11.90%) Architectural Patterns
13 45 (11.90%) CI/CD
14 44 (11.64%) Architectural Design
14 44 (11.64%) Business Strategy
15 43 (11.38%) Computer Science
16 42 (11.11%) AI
16 42 (11.11%) SABSA
17 41 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (10.58%) Python
2 25 (6.61%) Java
3 14 (3.70%) Bicep
4 12 (3.17%) SQL
5 7 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.32%) C#
7 2 (0.53%) PHP
7 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.26%) Korn
8 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 144 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 116 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 107 (28.31%) TOGAF Certification
4 87 (23.02%) Degree
5 61 (16.14%) CISSP
6 52 (13.76%) Azure Certification
7 42 (11.11%) AWS Certification
8 32 (8.47%) CISM
9 30 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (6.08%) DV Cleared
12 20 (5.29%) Master's Degree
12 20 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (4.76%) CCIE
14 16 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (4.23%) ISEB
15 15 (3.97%) CCSP
16 14 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (3.44%) JNCIE
18 11 (2.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (14.29%) GDPR
2 50 (13.23%) NIST
3 44 (11.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (6.35%) PCI DSS
5 19 (5.03%) COBIT
6 18 (4.76%) NCSC
7 14 (3.70%) Data Quality
8 11 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (2.38%) GRC
10 8 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (2.12%) HIPAA
10 8 (2.12%) NIST 800
11 7 (1.85%) PSD2
12 6 (1.59%) Def Stans
13 5 (1.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (1.06%) ISO 20022
14 4 (1.06%) ISO 8583
14 4 (1.06%) QA
14 4 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (9.26%) Docker
2 8 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 42 (11.11%) Terraform
3 30 (7.94%) OPNET
4 17 (4.50%) Ansible
5 12 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.53%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.53%) SCCM
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 73 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.85%) ServiceNow
3 34 (8.99%) Remedy
4 32 (8.47%) Atlassian
4 32 (8.47%) Sparx
5 27 (7.14%) SAP
6 25 (6.61%) Oracle
7 22 (5.82%) BiZZdesign
8 20 (5.29%) Cisco
9 18 (4.76%) Salesforce
10 15 (3.97%) VMware
11 11 (2.91%) Databricks
11 11 (2.91%) F5
11 11 (2.91%) IBM
12 10 (2.65%) CyberArk
12 10 (2.65%) Fortinet
12 10 (2.65%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.65%) Red Hat
13 9 (2.38%) Google
13 9 (2.38%) Juniper