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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 253 307
Rank change year-on-year -4 +54 -82
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 490 292 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 1.04% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.14% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 188 147
10th Percentile £500 £436 £452
25th Percentile £539 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £607
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -5.27% -6.62%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £739
90th Percentile £838 £801 £778
UK median daily rate £625 £575 £630
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.73% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 3
10th Percentile £17.57 £67.90 £72.87
25th Percentile £20.31 £81.25 £76.88
Median hourly rate £80.00 £90.00 £83.55
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.72% +47.90%
75th Percentile £83.00 £95.00 £84.67
90th Percentile £97.50 £98.00 £85.33
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £88.75 £83.55
% change year-on-year -9.86% +6.22% +47.90%

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 39,797 25,656 27,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 90.96% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 16,263 16,907
10th Percentile £325 £296 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,100 1,620 1,099
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.64 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.00 £66.80
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.55 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.07% -37.13% -10.11%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +7 237 £650 - 50
South East -25 92 £624 +19.09% 40
North of England -64 49 £557 +6.66% 16
South West -8 48 £675 +17.39% 20
Midlands -33 38 £650 +6.56% 12
Yorkshire -25 25 £557 +3.63% 9
West Midlands -33 25 £800 +28.51% 11
North West -54 20 £550 +10.55% 5
East Midlands -4 12 £650 +30.00% 1
East of England -33 8 £550 -31.25% 1
North East -37 3 £660 -7.37% 2
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 18 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.65%) Confluence
4 6 (1.22%) IIS
4 6 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.82%) Apache
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.20%) CIMPLICITY
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Mendix
7 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) Predix
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.02%) Navisworks
3 5 (1.02%) Revit
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.20%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (4.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 13 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.63%) ContrOCC
3 8 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.61%) Endur
4 3 (0.61%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.41%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.41%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.41%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.41%) Workfront
6 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.20%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.20%) Maximo
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 238 (48.57%) Azure
2 172 (35.10%) AWS
3 92 (18.78%) GCP
4 47 (9.59%) Entra ID
5 39 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 25 (5.10%) GitHub
7 25 (5.10%) SaaS
8 22 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.06%) PaaS
10 14 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (2.65%) OCI
12 12 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (2.45%) Serverless
13 11 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (2.04%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.84%) OpenShift
16 8 (1.63%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.71%) WAN
2 27 (5.51%) Firewall
3 26 (5.31%) Network Security
4 20 (4.08%) LAN
5 19 (3.88%) MPLS
6 16 (3.27%) BGP
6 16 (3.27%) SD-WAN
7 13 (2.65%) DNS
8 10 (2.04%) IPsec
9 9 (1.84%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.84%) VPN
10 7 (1.43%) X.509
11 6 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.22%) DHCP
11 6 (1.22%) Modbus
11 6 (1.22%) OSPF
12 5 (1.02%) 4G
12 5 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (1.02%) Internet
12 5 (1.02%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.98%) Metadata
2 22 (4.49%) Data Lake
3 17 (3.47%) Power BI
4 13 (2.65%) Oracle Database
5 12 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.63%) SAP HANA
7 7 (1.43%) SAP BW
8 6 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.02%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.82%) Big Data
10 4 (0.82%) Data Vault
10 4 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.61%) GIS
11 3 (0.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (2.86%) JIRA
2 9 (1.84%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.82%) Claude Code
3 4 (0.82%) Git
4 3 (0.61%) GitLab
5 2 (0.41%) ERwin
5 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
General
1 184 (37.55%) Social Skills
2 92 (18.78%) Finance
3 80 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 41 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (7.35%) Banking
6 32 (6.53%) Influencing Skills
7 27 (5.51%) Retail
8 24 (4.90%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.49%) Telecoms
10 21 (4.29%) Military
11 19 (3.88%) Aerospace
12 16 (3.27%) Local Government
13 15 (3.06%) Billing
13 15 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (2.45%) Legal
15 11 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.84%) Marketing
18 8 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 423 (86.33%) Architect
2 122 (24.90%) Solutions Architect
3 98 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 74 (15.10%) Security Architect
5 44 (8.98%) Lead
6 43 (8.78%) Senior
7 41 (8.37%) Technical Architect
8 39 (7.96%) Senior Architect
9 37 (7.55%) Data Architect
10 31 (6.33%) Lead Architect
11 22 (4.49%) Integration Architect
12 20 (4.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 18 (3.67%) Network Architect
15 17 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (2.65%) Azure Architect
17 12 (2.45%) Lead Security Architect
18 11 (2.24%) Payments Architect
19 10 (2.04%) SAP Architect
20 9 (1.84%) Enterprise Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.37%) REST
1 41 (8.37%) Terraform
2 23 (4.69%) Kafka
3 22 (4.49%) .NET
3 22 (4.49%) OAuth
4 21 (4.29%) Middleware
5 20 (4.08%) SAML
5 20 (4.08%) SOAP
6 10 (2.04%) OpenID
7 8 (1.63%) JSON
7 8 (1.63%) SAP Basis
7 8 (1.63%) SAP Fiori
7 8 (1.63%) SAPUI5
8 7 (1.43%) LDAP
8 7 (1.43%) SAP PI
8 7 (1.43%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.43%) XML
9 6 (1.22%) NETCONF
9 6 (1.22%) Node.js
9 6 (1.22%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 71 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 34 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (6.33%) Onboarding
5 30 (6.12%) Data Centre
6 25 (5.10%) Operational Technology
7 23 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (4.49%) Enterprise Cloud
9 21 (4.29%) Product Ownership
10 15 (3.06%) IoT
10 15 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.86%) PKI
11 14 (2.86%) Security Posture
12 13 (2.65%) Public Cloud
13 12 (2.45%) CMDB
13 12 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (2.45%) FMCG
14 11 (2.24%) SCADA
14 11 (2.24%) Smartcard
14 11 (2.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.71%) Windows
2 26 (5.31%) Linux
3 23 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
5 3 (0.61%) Android
5 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) macOS
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (46.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 212 (43.27%) Roadmaps
3 159 (32.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 124 (25.31%) Cybersecurity
5 116 (23.67%) Security Architecture
6 107 (21.84%) Architectural Patterns
7 102 (20.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 99 (20.20%) Agile
9 98 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
10 94 (19.18%) Technical Leadership
11 84 (17.14%) Migration
11 84 (17.14%) SABSA
12 81 (16.53%) DevOps
13 79 (16.12%) CI/CD
14 78 (15.92%) Data Architecture
15 77 (15.71%) AI
15 77 (15.71%) Integration Patterns
16 72 (14.69%) Microservices
17 71 (14.49%) Risk Management
18 68 (13.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.33%) Python
1 31 (6.33%) SQL
2 19 (3.88%) Java
3 13 (2.65%) Bicep
4 9 (1.84%) JavaScript
4 9 (1.84%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.22%) C#
5 6 (1.22%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.82%) ABAP
7 3 (0.61%) Bash
7 3 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 208 (42.45%) Security Cleared
2 128 (26.12%) SC Cleared
3 112 (22.86%) TOGAF Certification
4 104 (21.22%) CISSP
5 83 (16.94%) DV Cleared
6 66 (13.47%) Degree
7 61 (12.45%) Azure Certification
8 53 (10.82%) CISM
9 52 (10.61%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (9.59%) AWS Certification
11 28 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 28 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.47%) CCIE
13 17 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (3.27%) CCSP
15 15 (3.06%) CCNP
16 12 (2.45%) JNCIE
16 12 (2.45%) Master's Degree
17 10 (2.04%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (12.65%) NIST
3 41 (8.37%) NCSC
4 34 (6.94%) Data Quality
5 33 (6.73%) GDPR
6 17 (3.47%) PCI DSS
7 10 (2.04%) GRC
7 10 (2.04%) SLA
8 9 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.84%) ISO 20022
8 9 (1.84%) QA
9 7 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.43%) JSP 440
9 7 (1.43%) SEPA
10 6 (1.22%) ISO 31000
10 6 (1.22%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 6 (1.22%) PMO
11 5 (1.02%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 34 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.67%) Docker
3 12 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.22%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.02%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.08%) Ansible
3 15 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.63%) Grafana
6 7 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.22%) CASB
8 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.41%) Argo
9 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.41%) SCCM
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.20%) Rancher
10 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 144 (29.39%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.76%) Google
3 36 (7.35%) Oracle
4 34 (6.94%) Databricks
5 25 (5.10%) Cisco
5 25 (5.10%) SAP
6 22 (4.49%) ServiceNow
6 22 (4.49%) Sparx
7 20 (4.08%) VMware
8 14 (2.86%) CyberArk
9 13 (2.65%) BiZZdesign
10 11 (2.24%) F5
11 10 (2.04%) BeyondTrust
11 10 (2.04%) Splunk
12 9 (1.84%) Apple
12 9 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (1.84%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.84%) Qualys
12 9 (1.84%) Zscaler
13 8 (1.63%) Salesforce