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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 213 306
Rank change year-on-year +59 +93 -70
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 952 421 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.81% 1.28% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.42% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 285 182
10th Percentile £464 £450 £446
25th Percentile £537 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £825 £825 £877
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +1.67% -7.69% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 4
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £82.75 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.11% -21.97% -3.57%
75th Percentile £106.81 £77.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.75 £42.34 -
% change year-on-year +95.46% - -

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 44,620 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,627 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,682 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.35 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +57 830 £634 +1.40% 399
London +76 455 £650 - 242
UK excluding London +6 371 £610 +1.67% 201
Work from Home +42 271 £600 - 169
South East -3 120 £620 -0.80% 80
North of England -10 105 £600 -3.23% 42
Midlands -30 67 £600 - 25
Yorkshire +4 58 £650 +6.12% 14
West Midlands -32 49 £608 +1.33% 15
North West -34 43 £550 -11.29% 24
South West -41 42 £650 - 22
Scotland -14 26 £605 +7.61% 13
East Midlands -12 16 £575 -17.86% 10
East of England -12 12 £550 -18.52% 9
North East -38 9 £725 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £713 - 4
Wales -17 1 - - 6
Channel Islands - 1 £625 - 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 47 (4.94%) SAS
2 27 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.79%) Confluence
4 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.53%) Apache
6 5 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.53%) Mule
6 5 (0.53%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.53%) SAP EP
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
7 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.11%) CIMPLICITY
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Predix
Applications
1 8 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.84%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.63%) Primavera
6 5 (0.53%) SAP CRM
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.32%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.32%) Endur
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.21%) SAP CS
9 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 291 (30.57%) Azure
2 200 (21.01%) AWS
3 93 (9.77%) GCP
4 54 (5.67%) SaaS
5 46 (4.83%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.41%) Entra ID
7 34 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (3.47%) Serverless
9 27 (2.84%) PaaS
10 23 (2.42%) OCI
11 19 (2.00%) Azure AI
12 17 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (1.47%) IaaS
15 14 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (1.37%) GitHub
16 13 (1.37%) Snowflake
17 12 (1.26%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.26%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.05%) Network Security
2 23 (2.42%) Firewall
3 20 (2.10%) VPN
4 17 (1.79%) WAN
5 14 (1.47%) LAN
6 12 (1.26%) IPsec
7 10 (1.05%) MPLS
8 8 (0.84%) BGP
8 8 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.74%) DNS
10 6 (0.63%) NGFW
10 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.53%) SSL
12 4 (0.42%) BIG-IP
12 4 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.42%) HTTP
12 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.42%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.20%) Data Lake
2 35 (3.68%) Metadata
3 29 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.63%) Power BI
5 19 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.16%) Base SAS
7 11 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.16%) SQL Server
8 9 (0.95%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.32%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (1.37%) JIRA
2 10 (1.05%) Git
3 6 (0.63%) GitLab
3 6 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.53%) Hudson
5 4 (0.42%) ERwin
5 4 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) Flyway
7 2 (0.21%) JUnit
7 2 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.21%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 286 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 244 (25.63%) Finance
3 155 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 99 (10.40%) Banking
5 82 (8.61%) Retail
6 78 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (4.20%) Legal
9 29 (3.05%) Military
10 25 (2.63%) Aerospace
11 22 (2.31%) Local Government
12 19 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.58%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.37%) Marketing
17 11 (1.16%) Billing
17 11 (1.16%) Law
18 9 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 674 (70.80%) Architect
2 226 (23.74%) Solutions Architect
3 151 (15.86%) Enterprise Architect
4 108 (11.34%) Lead
5 75 (7.88%) Technical Architect
6 68 (7.14%) Senior
7 60 (6.30%) Data Architect
8 57 (5.99%) Security Architect
9 52 (5.46%) Lead Architect
10 45 (4.73%) Senior Architect
11 33 (3.47%) Project Manager
11 33 (3.47%) SAP Architect
12 30 (3.15%) ServiceNow Architect
13 24 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (2.31%) Technical Leader
15 21 (2.21%) Technical Manager
16 20 (2.10%) Senior Solutions Architect
17 19 (2.00%) Analyst
17 19 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
17 19 (2.00%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.98%) REST
2 64 (6.72%) Middleware
3 48 (5.04%) SOAP
4 35 (3.68%) .NET
5 29 (3.05%) OAuth
6 22 (2.31%) Kafka
7 20 (2.10%) Web Services
8 18 (1.89%) SAML
9 15 (1.58%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (1.58%) XML
10 14 (1.47%) JSON
10 14 (1.47%) OpenID
10 14 (1.47%) React
11 10 (1.05%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.95%) JWT
12 9 (0.95%) Node.js
12 9 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
13 8 (0.84%) SAPUI5
14 7 (0.74%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 65 (6.83%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.89%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.68%) AI Agents
5 35 (3.68%) CMDB
6 33 (3.47%) Operational Technology
7 31 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.73%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.52%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (2.00%) IoT
14 18 (1.89%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.37%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.26%) FMCG
17 9 (0.95%) Mainframe
18 8 (0.84%) Data Structures
18 8 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.79%) Windows
2 13 (1.37%) Linux
3 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (33.30%) Roadmaps
2 262 (27.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 220 (23.11%) TOGAF
4 202 (21.22%) Agile
5 185 (19.43%) Integration Patterns
6 174 (18.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 163 (17.12%) Migration
8 154 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
9 151 (15.86%) Architectural Patterns
10 147 (15.44%) AI
11 130 (13.66%) Decision-Making
12 128 (13.45%) CI/CD
13 126 (13.24%) Analytics
13 126 (13.24%) DevOps
14 122 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
15 114 (11.97%) Architecture Governance
16 108 (11.34%) Event-Driven
17 106 (11.13%) Data Architecture
18 105 (11.03%) Data Integration
18 105 (11.03%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 70 (7.35%) Python
2 49 (5.15%) Java
2 49 (5.15%) SQL
3 21 (2.21%) JavaScript
4 13 (1.37%) TypeScript
5 12 (1.26%) C#
5 12 (1.26%) PowerShell
6 8 (0.84%) ABAP
7 6 (0.63%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.63%) Bash
7 6 (0.63%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.32%) Bicep
10 2 (0.21%) Go
10 2 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.21%) Korn
10 2 (0.21%) Ruby
10 2 (0.21%) Rust
10 2 (0.21%) Scala
11 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 280 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 214 (22.48%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.78%) DV Cleared
4 50 (5.25%) Azure Certification
4 50 (5.25%) Degree
5 34 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
6 31 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.05%) CISSP
7 29 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.10%) CISM
9 15 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.37%) PMP
11 12 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.74%) CCIE
14 6 (0.63%) CCNP
14 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.63%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.53%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.15%) GDPR
3 46 (4.83%) GRC
4 35 (3.68%) NIST
5 32 (3.36%) NCSC
6 29 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.89%) QA
8 14 (1.47%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.26%) COBIT
10 11 (1.16%) PMO
11 10 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.95%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.95%) SLA
13 8 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.63%) ISO 31000
14 6 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (0.53%) ISO 20022
16 4 (0.42%) IFRS
System Software
1 32 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.89%) Docker
3 8 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.84%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.32%) RACF
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.11%) IAG
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) NFS
7 1 (0.11%) Samba
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.84%) Terraform
3 18 (1.89%) Ansible
4 11 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.42%) SCCM
7 3 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 2 (0.21%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) CASB
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) SCOM
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 178 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 92 (9.66%) Oracle
3 79 (8.30%) SAP
4 62 (6.51%) ServiceNow
5 40 (4.20%) Databricks
6 37 (3.89%) Google
6 37 (3.89%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.63%) BiZZdesign
8 21 (2.21%) Workday
9 19 (2.00%) Sparx
9 19 (2.00%) Zscaler
10 15 (1.58%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.58%) VMware
11 14 (1.47%) Informatica
12 13 (1.37%) Ariba
12 13 (1.37%) Cisco
13 10 (1.05%) Foundry
13 10 (1.05%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.84%) Liquidlogic