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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 200 293
Rank change year-on-year +42 +93 -55
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 859 417 340
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.36% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.49% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 273 216
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £623 £650
% change year-on-year +0.40% -4.23% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 3 6
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £63.38 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £83.50 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.53% -21.97% -3.57%
75th Percentile £108.13 £77.00 £83.81
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 £42.34 £87.50
% change year-on-year +97.24% -51.62% +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 43,674 27,949 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 90.88% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,163 17,650 23,450
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,623 1,373 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.86 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 1 July 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 1 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 18 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 1 July 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 +43 743 £650 +4.00% 306
UK excluding London -1 377 £625 +0.40% 185
London +51 369 £670 +3.08% 148
Work from Home +46 255 £600 +0.17% 176
South East -4 126 £640 +2.40% 60
North of England -18 103 £575 -7.26% 47
Midlands -19 72 £575 -5.74% 22
Yorkshire -3 56 £675 +8.00% 11
West Midlands -17 52 £575 -4.17% 15
North West -29 44 £550 - 33
South West -32 38 £650 - 23
Scotland -6 29 £625 +4.87% 6
East Midlands -10 18 £575 -17.86% 7
East of England -14 12 £650 +10.64% 12
North East - 8 £800 - 4
Wales -15 2 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 14
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -

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 30 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.56%) SAS
3 19 (2.21%) Confluence
4 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.58%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.58%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.47%) Apache
9 3 (0.35%) Camunda
9 3 (0.35%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.81%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.70%) Primavera
6 5 (0.58%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.23%) Endur
8 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.23%) SAP CS
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 261 (30.38%) Azure
2 177 (20.61%) AWS
3 69 (8.03%) GCP
4 59 (6.87%) SaaS
5 41 (4.77%) Power Platform
6 33 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (3.73%) PaaS
7 32 (3.73%) Serverless
8 31 (3.61%) Entra ID
9 20 (2.33%) IaaS
9 20 (2.33%) OCI
10 19 (2.21%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (2.10%) Azure AI
11 18 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
13 14 (1.63%) GitHub
13 14 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.28%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.68%) Network Security
2 21 (2.44%) Firewall
3 19 (2.21%) VPN
4 18 (2.10%) WAN
5 14 (1.63%) IPsec
6 13 (1.51%) LAN
7 12 (1.40%) MPLS
7 12 (1.40%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.16%) BGP
9 7 (0.81%) DNS
10 6 (0.70%) NGFW
10 6 (0.70%) SSL
10 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.58%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.58%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.47%) DHCP
12 4 (0.47%) MQTT
12 4 (0.47%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.96%) Data Lake
2 28 (3.26%) Metadata
3 25 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (2.33%) Power BI
5 15 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.40%) Oracle Database
8 11 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.16%) Base SAS
9 10 (1.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.35%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.35%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (1.63%) JIRA
2 10 (1.16%) Git
3 8 (0.93%) GitLab
3 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Hudson
5 4 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.35%) ERwin
6 3 (0.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.23%) Flyway
7 2 (0.23%) JUnit
7 2 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 253 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 222 (25.84%) Finance
3 134 (15.60%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.36%) Banking
5 73 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (7.68%) Retail
7 47 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (5.01%) Legal
9 25 (2.91%) Military
10 23 (2.68%) Aerospace
11 22 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.86%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.63%) Local Government
13 14 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.28%) Law
15 9 (1.05%) Aviation
15 9 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.81%) Billing
16 7 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 592 (68.92%) Architect
2 203 (23.63%) Solutions Architect
3 136 (15.83%) Enterprise Architect
4 99 (11.53%) Lead
5 72 (8.38%) Technical Architect
6 68 (7.92%) Senior
7 50 (5.82%) Data Architect
8 45 (5.24%) Lead Architect
9 44 (5.12%) Security Architect
10 41 (4.77%) Senior Architect
11 29 (3.38%) Project Manager
12 28 (3.26%) ServiceNow Architect
13 26 (3.03%) SAP Architect
14 23 (2.68%) Analyst
15 21 (2.44%) Technical Leader
16 20 (2.33%) Cloud Architect
17 19 (2.21%) Technical Manager
18 18 (2.10%) Consultant
18 18 (2.10%) Senior Solutions Architect
19 17 (1.98%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.45%) REST
2 59 (6.87%) Middleware
3 38 (4.42%) SOAP
4 36 (4.19%) .NET
5 21 (2.44%) OAuth
6 20 (2.33%) Web Services
7 18 (2.10%) Kafka
8 15 (1.75%) SAML
9 13 (1.51%) OpenID
9 13 (1.51%) React
10 12 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.28%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.05%) XML
13 8 (0.93%) JSON
13 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.93%) Node.js
13 8 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.81%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.81%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 90 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.03%) Product Ownership
3 55 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.84%) CMDB
5 30 (3.49%) Operational Technology
6 27 (3.14%) AI Agents
7 26 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.56%) Data Centre
10 21 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (2.44%) Security Posture
11 20 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.98%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.63%) IoT
15 9 (1.05%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.05%) FMCG
15 9 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.56%) Windows
2 16 (1.86%) Linux
3 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.58%) Unix
3 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (33.64%) Roadmaps
2 215 (25.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 205 (23.86%) TOGAF
4 192 (22.35%) Agile
5 166 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 152 (17.69%) Integration Patterns
7 144 (16.76%) Migration
8 138 (16.07%) Architectural Patterns
9 136 (15.83%) AI
10 131 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
11 124 (14.44%) Decision-Making
12 123 (14.32%) CI/CD
13 121 (14.09%) DevOps
14 109 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
15 101 (11.76%) Architecture Governance
16 97 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
17 93 (10.83%) Architectural Design
18 92 (10.71%) Data Modelling
19 89 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
19 89 (10.36%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.57%) Python
2 44 (5.12%) SQL
3 43 (5.01%) Java
4 14 (1.63%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.51%) C#
6 11 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.81%) ABAP
8 6 (0.70%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.70%) Bash
8 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.23%) Korn
11 2 (0.23%) Ruby
11 2 (0.23%) Scala
12 1 (0.12%) C++
12 1 (0.12%) Go
12 1 (0.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 239 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 172 (20.02%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 46 (5.36%) Degree
5 40 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 26 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.79%) AWS Certification
10 22 (2.56%) CISSP
11 17 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.75%) CISM
13 11 (1.28%) PMP
14 9 (1.05%) CCIE
14 9 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.93%) CCNP
15 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIE
16 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.47%) GDPR
3 35 (4.07%) NIST
4 31 (3.61%) NCSC
5 22 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.98%) QA
7 15 (1.75%) COBIT
7 15 (1.75%) GRC
8 13 (1.51%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.16%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 8 (0.93%) PMO
10 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.93%) SLA
11 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.70%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.44%) Docker
3 9 (1.05%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.47%) RACF
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) NFS
8 1 (0.12%) Samba
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.14%) Terraform
3 19 (2.21%) Ansible
4 13 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.81%) SCCM
6 3 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.23%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.12%) CASB
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.12%) Nagios
8 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.12%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.12%) SCOM
8 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 172 (20.02%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.27%) SAP
3 65 (7.57%) Oracle
4 59 (6.87%) ServiceNow
5 37 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.38%) BiZZdesign
7 28 (3.26%) Databricks
8 26 (3.03%) Google
9 25 (2.91%) Sparx
10 19 (2.21%) VMware
11 16 (1.86%) Workday
12 14 (1.63%) Cisco
13 12 (1.40%) Ariba
13 12 (1.40%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.40%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.16%) OpenAI
15 9 (1.05%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.93%) Foundry
17 7 (0.81%) Informatica
17 7 (0.81%) Liquidlogic