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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 251 240
Rank change year-on-year +24 -11 +22
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 422 249 374
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.21% 0.96% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.07% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 155 281
10th Percentile £438 £450 £513
25th Percentile £513 £560 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £738 £697 £734
90th Percentile £788 £795 £788
UK median daily rate £645 £618 £650
% change year-on-year +4.45% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 19
10th Percentile £78.97 - £49.81
25th Percentile £85.00 £25.26 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £27.13 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +231.80% -51.98% +42.11%
75th Percentile £96.88 £67.69 £61.25
90th Percentile £98.35 £83.18 £81.60
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £27.13 £57.33
% change year-on-year +231.80% -52.69% +31.79%

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 30,443 23,357 32,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.38% 90.01% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,446 14,532 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £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 1,911 750 2,006
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% - -
75th Percentile £62.29 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.28 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.64 £32.50 £34.77
% change year-on-year -21.12% -6.52% -0.67%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +14 168 £625 -1.96% 90
South East -6 73 £625 -0.79% 56
South West +32 71 £725 +20.83% 16
North of England -64 46 £545 -4.89% 39
Midlands -39 37 £555 -2.72% 17
West Midlands -45 23 £560 -2.27% 11
North West -39 22 £663 +20.45% 29
Yorkshire -48 22 £537 -5.29% 6
East of England - 17 £650 - 11
East Midlands -15 13 £442 -4.89% 6
North East -17 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 58 (13.74%) Confluence
2 17 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.42%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.24%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Documentum
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (7.11%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.13%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 30 (7.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (1.90%) Maximo
3 5 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.47%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 180 (42.65%) Azure
2 143 (33.89%) AWS
3 53 (12.56%) GCP
4 32 (7.58%) SaaS
5 30 (7.11%) PaaS
6 25 (5.92%) IaaS
7 21 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (4.50%) Entra ID
9 18 (4.27%) Power Platform
10 15 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.32%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 13 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (3.08%) Serverless
13 12 (2.84%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.13%) GitHub
15 9 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.06%) Network Security
2 24 (5.69%) Firewall
3 20 (4.74%) VPN
4 18 (4.27%) WAN
5 15 (3.55%) LAN
6 14 (3.32%) BGP
7 13 (3.08%) SD-WAN
8 11 (2.61%) MPLS
9 9 (2.13%) OSPF
10 8 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 6 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (1.42%) VXLAN
12 5 (1.18%) BIG-IP
12 5 (1.18%) DNS
12 5 (1.18%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.18%) Wireless
13 4 (0.95%) DHCP
13 4 (0.95%) IPv4
13 4 (0.95%) IPv6
13 4 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (4.50%) Metadata
3 14 (3.32%) Data Lake
4 13 (3.08%) Power BI
5 10 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.66%) Big Data
8 6 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.42%) Tableau
9 4 (0.95%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.95%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.71%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.47%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 57 (13.51%) JIRA
2 7 (1.66%) Git
3 5 (1.18%) ERwin
3 5 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.71%) GitLab
4 3 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.47%) MLflow
5 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
General
1 158 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 88 (20.85%) Finance
3 74 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.48%) Military
6 34 (8.06%) Banking
7 26 (6.16%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (4.27%) Legal
10 12 (2.84%) Retail
10 12 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.61%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.18%) Marketing
14 4 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.71%) Law
16 2 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 354 (83.89%) Architect
2 114 (27.01%) Solutions Architect
3 72 (17.06%) Enterprise Architect
4 52 (12.32%) Security Architect
5 36 (8.53%) Technical Architect
6 30 (7.11%) Service Architect
7 29 (6.87%) Data Architect
8 22 (5.21%) Lead
9 21 (4.98%) Azure Architect
10 19 (4.50%) Lead Architect
11 16 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 15 (3.55%) Security Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.55%) Senior
13 14 (3.32%) Senior Architect
14 13 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.61%) Network Architect
16 10 (2.37%) Salesforce Architect
17 9 (2.13%) Business Architect
17 9 (2.13%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.27%) OAuth
1 18 (4.27%) REST
2 15 (3.55%) Middleware
3 14 (3.32%) .NET
4 13 (3.08%) SAML
5 9 (2.13%) ARM Templates
5 9 (2.13%) Kafka
6 7 (1.66%) OAuth2
6 7 (1.66%) OpenID
7 6 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.18%) NETCONF
8 5 (1.18%) YANG
9 4 (0.95%) JSON
9 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (0.95%) SOAP
9 4 (0.95%) XML
10 3 (0.71%) HTML
10 3 (0.71%) JMS
10 3 (0.71%) SAP Basis
10 3 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.24%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.84%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.37%) Operational Technology
8 10 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.90%) IoT
10 7 (1.66%) NHS
10 7 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.42%) PKI
12 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.18%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.18%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.18%) SCADA
12 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.37%) Linux
1 10 (2.37%) Windows
2 6 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (38.63%) Enterprise Architecture
2 152 (36.02%) Roadmaps
3 116 (27.49%) Agile
4 103 (24.41%) ITIL
5 85 (20.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 74 (17.54%) Cybersecurity
7 72 (17.06%) DevOps
8 68 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (14.69%) Architectural Patterns
10 60 (14.22%) Microservices
11 53 (12.56%) ArchiMate
12 51 (12.09%) Security Architecture
13 50 (11.85%) Computer Science
14 49 (11.61%) CI/CD
14 49 (11.61%) Data Modelling
15 48 (11.37%) Business Strategy
15 48 (11.37%) Identity Access Management
16 47 (11.14%) Migration
17 46 (10.90%) SABSA
18 44 (10.43%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.53%) Python
2 19 (4.50%) Java
2 19 (4.50%) SQL
3 16 (3.79%) Bicep
4 11 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.90%) C#
6 3 (0.71%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.47%) PHP
7 2 (0.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.24%) C
8 1 (0.24%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.24%) Korn
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 167 (39.57%) Security Cleared
2 142 (33.65%) SC Cleared
3 127 (30.09%) TOGAF Certification
4 96 (22.75%) Degree
5 69 (16.35%) CISSP
6 65 (15.40%) Azure Certification
7 45 (10.66%) AWS Certification
8 38 (9.00%) CISM
9 32 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (6.87%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (6.87%) DV Cleared
11 22 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (4.50%) Master's Degree
13 17 (4.03%) ISEB
14 15 (3.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (3.55%) CCIE
14 15 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (3.32%) CCSP
16 13 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (14.22%) GDPR
2 55 (13.03%) NIST
3 40 (9.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (5.92%) NCSC
5 22 (5.21%) PCI DSS
6 19 (4.50%) COBIT
7 16 (3.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (3.32%) Data Quality
9 10 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (2.37%) GRC
10 8 (1.90%) NIST 800
11 7 (1.66%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.42%) Def Stans
12 6 (1.42%) ISO 20022
13 5 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (1.18%) PSD2
13 5 (1.18%) QA
13 5 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.95%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 34 (8.06%) Docker
2 10 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (14.22%) Kubernetes
2 45 (10.66%) Terraform
3 30 (7.11%) OPNET
4 14 (3.32%) Ansible
5 13 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.47%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 87 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.95%) ServiceNow
3 34 (8.06%) Atlassian
3 34 (8.06%) Remedy
4 31 (7.35%) Sparx
5 30 (7.11%) SAP
6 27 (6.40%) Oracle
7 26 (6.16%) Salesforce
8 25 (5.92%) BiZZdesign
9 22 (5.21%) Databricks
10 20 (4.74%) Cisco
10 20 (4.74%) VMware
11 12 (2.84%) Google
12 11 (2.61%) F5
12 11 (2.61%) Fortinet
12 11 (2.61%) IBM
12 11 (2.61%) Red Hat
13 10 (2.37%) CyberArk
13 10 (2.37%) OpenAI
13 10 (2.37%) Palo Alto