Enterprise Architecture Contract Job Trends

Enterprise Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 211 261
Rank change year-on-year +47 +50 -21
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 764 378 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 1.30% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.43% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 244 260
10th Percentile £461 £454 £456
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £645
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% -1.37%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £738
90th Percentile £812 £817 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £56.20 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £63.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £76.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +13.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £103.75 £88.50 £83.81
90th Percentile £110.75 £95.40 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.75 £52.67 £87.50
% change year-on-year +49.52% -39.81% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Enterprise Architecture 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,694 26,498 36,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.34% 91.04% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,533 17,004 23,615
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,106 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 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
England +42 653 £640 +2.40% 250
UK excluding London +9 358 £625 +0.81% 187
London +57 306 £650 - 104
Work from Home +49 232 £574 -4.33% 95
South East +4 115 £650 +4.00% 52
North of England -5 112 £563 -0.27% 44
Yorkshire -1 58 £563 -13.46% 12
Midlands -25 57 £569 -8.17% 28
North West -21 50 £550 -1.79% 22
South West -38 38 £700 +7.69% 23
West Midlands -37 37 £560 -6.67% 12
Scotland -5 26 £575 +2.27% 13
East Midlands -17 18 £575 -28.13% 16
East of England -13 13 £650 -3.70% 20
North East - 9 £713 - 10
Wales -14 2 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 2

Enterprise Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 34 (4.45%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.23%) Confluence
3 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.18%) SAS
4 6 (0.79%) NetWeaver
4 6 (0.79%) SAP EP
5 5 (0.65%) Camunda
5 5 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.52%) Apache
7 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.26%) Appian
8 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 29 (3.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.79%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.39%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Actimize
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Endur
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
7 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 221 (28.93%) Azure
2 159 (20.81%) AWS
3 64 (8.38%) GCP
4 59 (7.72%) SaaS
5 39 (5.10%) Power Platform
6 36 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.32%) Serverless
8 29 (3.80%) Entra ID
9 28 (3.66%) PaaS
10 18 (2.36%) IaaS
10 18 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (2.36%) OCI
11 17 (2.23%) Azure AI
11 17 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (1.96%) GitHub
13 14 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (1.70%) Azure Functions
15 11 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.31%) Firewall
1 10 (1.31%) IPsec
2 9 (1.18%) WAN
3 8 (1.05%) Network Security
3 8 (1.05%) VPN
4 7 (0.92%) MPLS
4 7 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.79%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.79%) SSL
6 5 (0.65%) LAN
7 4 (0.52%) BGP
7 4 (0.52%) Intranet
7 4 (0.52%) MQTT
7 4 (0.52%) RFID
8 3 (0.39%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.39%) DHCP
8 3 (0.39%) DNS
9 2 (0.26%) 5G
9 2 (0.26%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.66%) Data Lake
2 24 (3.14%) Metadata
3 22 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.49%) Power BI
5 12 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.44%) Oracle Database
7 10 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 8 (1.05%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.52%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.39%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.39%) Tableau
12 2 (0.26%) GIS
12 2 (0.26%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (2.09%) JIRA
2 8 (1.05%) GitLab
2 8 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.65%) Hudson
4 4 (0.52%) Git
4 4 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.39%) ERwin
5 3 (0.39%) Selenium
6 2 (0.26%) Flyway
6 2 (0.26%) JUnit
6 2 (0.26%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.13%) gulp
7 1 (0.13%) LSMW
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 226 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 192 (25.13%) Finance
3 109 (14.27%) Public Sector
4 78 (10.21%) Banking
5 67 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (5.50%) Legal
7 40 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (5.24%) Retail
8 17 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 15 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.96%) Military
10 13 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.18%) Billing
13 8 (1.05%) Law
14 7 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.79%) Aviation
15 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 537 (70.29%) Architect
2 166 (21.73%) Solutions Architect
3 147 (19.24%) Enterprise Architect
4 70 (9.16%) Lead
5 66 (8.64%) Technical Architect
6 51 (6.68%) Senior
7 39 (5.10%) Data Architect
8 36 (4.71%) Security Architect
9 30 (3.93%) Lead Architect
10 27 (3.53%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.53%) Senior Architect
11 26 (3.40%) ServiceNow Architect
12 25 (3.27%) Consultant
13 20 (2.62%) SAP Architect
14 19 (2.49%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (2.36%) Analyst
15 18 (2.36%) Applications Architect
15 18 (2.36%) Salesforce Architect
15 18 (2.36%) Technical Manager
16 15 (1.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.46%) REST
2 47 (6.15%) Middleware
3 32 (4.19%) SOAP
4 27 (3.53%) .NET
5 21 (2.75%) Web Services
6 18 (2.36%) OAuth
7 15 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 14 (1.83%) Kafka
9 13 (1.70%) React
9 13 (1.70%) SAML
10 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (1.44%) OpenID
11 11 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.18%) A2A Protocol
12 9 (1.18%) LangChain
12 9 (1.18%) LangGraph
12 9 (1.18%) Model Context Protocol
12 9 (1.18%) OAuth2
13 7 (0.92%) RESTful
13 7 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.59%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.19%) CMDB
4 28 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.66%) Operational Technology
5 22 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.36%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.96%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.96%) IoT
9 15 (1.96%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.05%) Mainframe
13 7 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.75%) Windows
2 10 (1.31%) Linux
3 6 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.65%) Unix
4 5 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (36.52%) Roadmaps
2 176 (23.04%) TOGAF
3 173 (22.64%) Agile
4 165 (21.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 143 (18.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 129 (16.88%) Architectural Patterns
7 125 (16.36%) Integration Patterns
8 124 (16.23%) Decision-Making
9 118 (15.45%) AI
10 108 (14.14%) Migration
11 97 (12.70%) CI/CD
11 97 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
12 96 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
13 95 (12.43%) Architectural Design
13 95 (12.43%) Data Modelling
14 90 (11.78%) Cybersecurity
15 89 (11.65%) Business Strategy
15 89 (11.65%) DevOps
16 84 (10.99%) ITIL
17 80 (10.47%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 57 (7.46%) Python
2 35 (4.58%) Java
3 34 (4.45%) SQL
4 18 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.83%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.70%) C#
7 12 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.18%) Bash
9 6 (0.79%) ABAP
9 6 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.39%) Bicep
13 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.26%) Ruby
13 2 (0.26%) Scala
14 1 (0.13%) Go
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
14 1 (0.13%) SOQL
14 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 212 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 152 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.28%) DV Cleared
4 44 (5.76%) Degree
5 29 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 28 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.49%) AWS Certification
10 18 (2.36%) CISSP
11 16 (2.09%) ISEB
12 15 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.70%) CISM
14 11 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (1.31%) PMP
16 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.65%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.15%) GDPR
2 42 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.45%) NIST
4 25 (3.27%) COBIT
5 21 (2.75%) NCSC
6 19 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.96%) GRC
8 13 (1.70%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.31%) QA
10 8 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.92%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.92%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.79%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.79%) ISO 31000
12 6 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 6 (0.79%) PMO
13 4 (0.52%) IFRS
13 4 (0.52%) PSD2
System Software
1 27 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.49%) Docker
3 9 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.65%) RACF
5 5 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) IAG
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.49%) Terraform
3 13 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.44%) SCCM
5 9 (1.18%) Ansible
5 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.26%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 143 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.38%) SAP
3 59 (7.72%) ServiceNow
4 51 (6.68%) Oracle
5 40 (5.24%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.80%) Sparx
7 27 (3.53%) Google
8 24 (3.14%) BiZZdesign
9 21 (2.75%) Databricks
10 20 (2.62%) VMware
11 15 (1.96%) Ariba
12 12 (1.57%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.57%) Workday
13 11 (1.44%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.31%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.92%) Citrix
16 6 (0.79%) Cisco
16 6 (0.79%) Dynatrace
17 5 (0.65%) Pega
18 4 (0.52%) Atlassian