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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 268 306
Rank change year-on-year +14 +38 -78
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 476 273 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 0.99% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.09% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 178 157
10th Percentile £499 £443 £469
25th Percentile £540 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £636
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.59% -2.16%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £749
90th Percentile £839 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 7
10th Percentile £17.57 £67.20 -
25th Percentile £20.31 £79.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £50.31 £100.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.69% +48.15% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86.88 - £82.07
90th Percentile £104.38 - £84.44
UK median hourly rate £50.31 £100.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -49.69% +48.15% +1.89%

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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +0.58%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +6 238 £663 -5.36% 340
South East -14 95 £639 +25.86% 116
South West -10 43 £675 +17.39% 58
Midlands -31 38 £675 +12.50% 29
North of England -70 38 £530 +6.00% 71
West Midlands -35 27 £813 +35.42% 16
Yorkshire -26 20 £510 +16.64% 21
North West -64 17 £550 +11.11% 46
East Midlands -11 10 £650 +30.00% 13
East of England -30 8 £550 -31.25% 16
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 21 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.68%) Confluence
4 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.84%) Apache
5 4 (0.84%) IIS
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%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) Predix
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.68%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.47%) Navisworks
2 7 (1.47%) Revit
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.21%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (4.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.68%) ContrOCC
4 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.63%) Endur
6 2 (0.42%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.42%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.42%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
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%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 233 (48.95%) Azure
2 166 (34.87%) AWS
3 89 (18.70%) GCP
4 38 (7.98%) Entra ID
4 38 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (6.93%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.25%) SaaS
7 17 (3.57%) PaaS
8 14 (2.94%) GitHub
8 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (2.52%) IaaS
9 12 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (2.31%) Serverless
11 10 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.10%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.89%) OCI
12 9 (1.89%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.09%) Firewall
1 29 (6.09%) WAN
2 25 (5.25%) Network Security
3 22 (4.62%) LAN
4 18 (3.78%) MPLS
5 16 (3.36%) BGP
6 15 (3.15%) SD-WAN
7 12 (2.52%) DNS
8 9 (1.89%) IPsec
8 9 (1.89%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.68%) VPN
10 6 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.26%) OSPF
11 5 (1.05%) 4G
11 5 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (1.05%) DHCP
11 5 (1.05%) Modbus
11 5 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (1.05%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.19%) Metadata
2 18 (3.78%) Data Lake
3 16 (3.36%) Power BI
4 12 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.31%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
7 7 (1.47%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.05%) Big Data
9 4 (0.84%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.63%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.63%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (1.89%) JIRA
2 5 (1.05%) Claude Code
2 5 (1.05%) Jenkins
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
1 173 (36.34%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.70%) Finance
3 71 (14.92%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.77%) Banking
5 32 (6.72%) Influencing Skills
6 27 (5.67%) Retail
7 22 (4.62%) Military
7 22 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 19 (3.99%) Aerospace
9 17 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.36%) Local Government
11 15 (3.15%) Billing
12 14 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.94%) Legal
13 8 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.47%) Marketing
14 7 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 412 (86.55%) Architect
2 122 (25.63%) Solutions Architect
3 94 (19.75%) Enterprise Architect
4 75 (15.76%) Security Architect
5 45 (9.45%) Lead
6 40 (8.40%) Technical Architect
7 36 (7.56%) Data Architect
8 35 (7.35%) Senior
9 33 (6.93%) Lead Architect
10 30 (6.30%) Senior Architect
11 24 (5.04%) Integration Architect
12 21 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 20 (4.20%) Network Architect
14 19 (3.99%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (3.78%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.94%) Azure Architect
17 12 (2.52%) Lead Security Architect
18 11 (2.31%) Payments Architect
18 11 (2.31%) Technical Leader
19 9 (1.89%) Enterprise Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.51%) REST
2 28 (5.88%) Terraform
3 22 (4.62%) .NET
4 20 (4.20%) Kafka
5 19 (3.99%) Middleware
6 17 (3.57%) SOAP
7 16 (3.36%) OAuth
8 15 (3.15%) SAML
9 8 (1.68%) OpenID
10 7 (1.47%) JSON
10 7 (1.47%) XML
11 6 (1.26%) LDAP
11 6 (1.26%) NETCONF
11 6 (1.26%) SLSA
11 6 (1.26%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.26%) YANG
12 5 (1.05%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.05%) Node.js
12 5 (1.05%) React
13 4 (0.84%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (6.51%) Data Centre
4 29 (6.09%) Management Information System
5 28 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 22 (4.62%) Operational Technology
8 19 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (3.78%) Product Ownership
10 16 (3.36%) Public Cloud
11 15 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (2.94%) IoT
12 14 (2.94%) PKI
13 13 (2.73%) CMDB
13 13 (2.73%) Private Cloud
14 11 (2.31%) Security Posture
14 11 (2.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 10 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
16 9 (1.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.04%) Windows
2 23 (4.83%) Linux
3 20 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Android
6 2 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (45.80%) Enterprise Architecture
2 199 (41.81%) Roadmaps
3 143 (30.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 114 (23.95%) Cybersecurity
5 111 (23.32%) Security Architecture
6 98 (20.59%) Agile
6 98 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 97 (20.38%) Architectural Patterns
8 94 (19.75%) Architecture Governance
9 91 (19.12%) Technical Leadership
10 86 (18.07%) SABSA
11 81 (17.02%) AI
12 80 (16.81%) Migration
13 76 (15.97%) Data Architecture
14 71 (14.92%) DevOps
15 70 (14.71%) Microservices
16 69 (14.50%) Integration Patterns
17 68 (14.29%) CI/CD
18 67 (14.08%) Risk Management
19 63 (13.24%) ArchiMate
Programming Languages
1 30 (6.30%) Python
2 24 (5.04%) SQL
3 17 (3.57%) Java
4 9 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.26%) Bicep
6 6 (1.26%) C#
7 5 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.63%) ABAP
8 3 (0.63%) Bash
9 1 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 200 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 116 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 103 (21.64%) TOGAF Certification
4 101 (21.22%) CISSP
5 84 (17.65%) DV Cleared
6 61 (12.82%) Degree
7 56 (11.76%) Azure Certification
7 56 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (9.66%) CISM
9 42 (8.82%) AWS Certification
10 29 (6.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 26 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (3.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.78%) CCNP
14 17 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (3.36%) CCIE
15 16 (3.36%) CCSP
16 12 (2.52%) GIAC
17 11 (2.31%) JNCIE
18 10 (2.10%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (14.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (13.66%) NIST
3 42 (8.82%) NCSC
4 31 (6.51%) GDPR
5 27 (5.67%) Data Quality
6 16 (3.36%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.10%) SLA
8 9 (1.89%) ISO 20022
9 8 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.68%) GRC
10 7 (1.47%) COBIT
10 7 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.47%) ISO 19650
10 7 (1.47%) JSP 440
10 7 (1.47%) SEPA
11 6 (1.26%) PMO
11 6 (1.26%) QA
12 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (1.05%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (6.51%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.36%) Docker
3 11 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.68%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.84%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.99%) Ansible
3 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.05%) CASB
7 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.63%) Grafana
8 2 (0.42%) Argo
8 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.42%) SCCM
9 1 (0.21%) Istio
9 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.21%) Rancher
9 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 132 (27.73%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.35%) Google
3 31 (6.51%) Databricks
3 31 (6.51%) Oracle
4 23 (4.83%) ServiceNow
4 23 (4.83%) Sparx
4 23 (4.83%) VMware
5 22 (4.62%) Cisco
6 21 (4.41%) SAP
7 13 (2.73%) BiZZdesign
7 13 (2.73%) CyberArk
8 10 (2.10%) BeyondTrust
8 10 (2.10%) F5
9 9 (1.89%) Apple
9 9 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.89%) Zscaler
10 8 (1.68%) Liquidlogic
10 8 (1.68%) Splunk
11 7 (1.47%) IBM
11 7 (1.47%) Qualys