Sparx Enterprise Architect Contract Job Trends in the South East

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Sparx Enterprise Architect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 145 199
Rank change year-on-year -26 +54 +1
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 36 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.66% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Business Applications category 7.78% 3.95% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 8 11
10th Percentile £630 £570 £513
25th Percentile £675 £587 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% +8.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £788 £600 £561
90th Percentile - - £650
England median daily rate £700 £600 £725
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% +15.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate - £71.25 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +24.28% -18.10%

All Business Application Skills
South East

Sparx Enterprise Architect falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 463 228 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.43% 7.72% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 136 240
10th Percentile £418 £425 £304
25th Percentile £500 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £599 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +8.91% -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £666
90th Percentile £750 £668 £746
England median daily rate £536 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.74% +4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 35
10th Percentile £18.50 £34.25 £14.63
25th Percentile £34.01 £35.00 £26.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £61.76 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.23% +17.64% -21.93%
75th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £62.03
90th Percentile £90.09 £79.16 £63.29
England median hourly rate £56.44 £60.88 £45.00
% change year-on-year -7.29% +35.29% -4.76%

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sparx Enterprise Architect relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Sparx Enterprise Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sparx Enterprise Architect

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx Enterprise Architect in the South East

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sparx Enterprise Architect

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
Hampshire +3 30 £750 - 2
Thames Valley -40 5 £638 +7.14%
Berkshire - 5 £638 -
Sparx Enterprise Architect
England

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Collibra
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (2.78%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.78%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) ERwin
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Military
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (75.00%) Architect
2 17 (47.22%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Security Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Data Modeller
5 2 (5.56%) Business Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Lead
6 1 (2.78%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 17 (47.22%) ArchiMate
3 13 (36.11%) TOGAF
4 10 (27.78%) Decision-Making
5 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 8 (22.22%) Agile
6 8 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
6 8 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (16.67%) Security Architecture
8 6 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
9 5 (13.89%) OWASP
9 5 (13.89%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 4 (11.11%) Data Security
10 4 (11.11%) Security Operations
10 4 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
11 2 (5.56%) BPMN
11 2 (5.56%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 10 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) NCSC
2 4 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 34 (94.44%) Sparx
2 11 (30.56%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
4 2 (5.56%) Informatica
4 2 (5.56%) OneTrust
4 2 (5.56%) Palantir