TOGAF Contracts in the Thames Valley

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring TOGAF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TOGAF over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 128 118
Rank change year-on-year +59 -10 +13
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 33 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.18% 0.63% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 0.73% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 22
10th Percentile £563 £643 £508
25th Percentile £611 £645 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £750 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.21% +6.00%
75th Percentile £740 - £738
90th Percentile £743 £780 £775
South East median daily rate £630 £716 £650
% change year-on-year -12.04% +10.19% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing TOGAF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for TOGAF in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TOGAF in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for TOGAF in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TOGAF in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TOGAF in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TOGAF in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for TOGAF in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOGAF within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire +28 23 £630 -16.00% 18
Berkshire +33 9 £650 -16.13% 19
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 9
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South East

TOGAF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Camunda
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Avolution ABACUS
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 13 (39.39%) SaaS
4 11 (33.33%) PaaS
5 9 (27.27%) IaaS
6 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
8 3 (9.09%) GCP
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (6.06%) GitHub
10 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) VSAN
2 8 (24.24%) NGFW
3 6 (18.18%) WAN
4 5 (15.15%) BGP
4 5 (15.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (15.15%) MPLS
4 5 (15.15%) OSPF
4 5 (15.15%) SD-WAN
4 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
4 5 (15.15%) VPN
5 4 (12.12%) DNS
5 4 (12.12%) VLAN
6 3 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (9.09%) Firewall
6 3 (9.09%) Network Security
6 3 (9.09%) SSL
7 1 (3.03%) GPON
7 1 (3.03%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.06%) Big Data
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
1 2 (6.06%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.06%) General Ledger
3 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Back Office
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (96.97%) Architect
2 16 (48.48%) Technical Architect
3 11 (33.33%) Senior
3 11 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 11 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Principal Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Senior VMware Architect
7 2 (6.06%) VMware Architect
8 1 (3.03%) GIS Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) SAML
2 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) Keycloak
2 2 (6.06%) Middleware
2 2 (6.06%) OpenJDK
2 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (36.36%) PKI
3 10 (30.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) EPoS
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Microservices
2 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 18 (54.55%) ITIL
3 16 (48.48%) DevSecOps
3 16 (48.48%) IT Strategy
4 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (42.42%) Containerisation
5 14 (42.42%) Continuous Delivery
5 14 (42.42%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (42.42%) Technology Strategy
5 14 (42.42%) Zachman Framework
6 11 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (30.30%) Matrix Organization
8 9 (27.27%) Agile
9 8 (24.24%) Requirements Management
9 8 (24.24%) Use Case
10 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
11 6 (18.18%) Migration
12 5 (15.15%) DevOps
12 5 (15.15%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.03%) Magik
2 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) Security Cleared
2 18 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 16 (48.48%) MCSE
3 16 (48.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (18.18%) CCNP
5 6 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
6 4 (12.12%) CISM
6 4 (12.12%) CISSP
6 4 (12.12%) Degree
7 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
7 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
9 1 (3.03%) CCDA
9 1 (3.03%) CCDP
9 1 (3.03%) CCNA
9 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (54.55%) NCSC
2 17 (51.52%) NIST
3 12 (36.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (42.42%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) VMware
2 15 (45.45%) Cisco
3 14 (42.42%) Palo Alto
4 11 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.06%) SAP
6 1 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (3.03%) Sparx