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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 297 247
Rank change year-on-year +98 -50 +13
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 545 263 422
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 0.79% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.90% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 165 271
10th Percentile £456 £450 £500
25th Percentile £513 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £713 £738 £740
90th Percentile £800 £795 £868
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £598 £643
% change year-on-year -3.77% -7.09% +2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £44.58 - £51.00
25th Percentile £63.66 - £58.13
Median hourly rate £79.04 - £70.00
75th Percentile £91.32 - -
90th Percentile £93.53 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.04 - £70.00

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 32,670 29,303 37,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.06% 88.34% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,630 17,837 25,180
10th Percentile £304 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,024 946 1,523
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%
75th Percentile £52.72 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.60 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £45.21
% change year-on-year -22.58% -32.65% +44.86%

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 January 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 January 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 1 January 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 +107 482 £601 -3.92% 526
UK excluding London +54 271 £575 -3.77% 426
London +80 221 £625 -7.41% 141
Work from Home +54 146 £550 -12.00% 228
Midlands +20 69 £573 -5.68% 86
South East +24 68 £650 +3.17% 116
North of England -21 61 £544 +8.75% 99
West Midlands +11 54 £575 -5.27% 49
South West +8 42 £575 -8.00% 45
North West -15 31 £526 +12.57% 41
Yorkshire -27 28 £550 +0.26% 51
East of England -4 17 £650 -0.38% 58
Scotland +9 16 £550 - 13
East Midlands - 14 £490 - 33
Wales -3 2 £588 -6.00% 14
North East -10 2 £525 -30.00% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 4

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 25 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.85%) SAS
3 9 (1.65%) Confluence
3 9 (1.65%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.10%) Appian
5 6 (1.10%) Camunda
6 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.73%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.73%) Apache
7 4 (0.73%) CMS
8 3 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.37%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.37%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 27 (4.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (3.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.55%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.37%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.18%) Summit
6 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 222 (40.73%) Azure
2 134 (24.59%) AWS
3 45 (8.26%) GCP
4 44 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 36 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (6.61%) SaaS
6 31 (5.69%) Entra ID
7 25 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (3.49%) Serverless
11 16 (2.94%) PaaS
12 14 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.39%) GitHub
13 13 (2.39%) OCI
14 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (2.02%) Snowflake
16 10 (1.83%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.59%) Firewall
2 16 (2.94%) Network Security
3 15 (2.75%) WAN
4 13 (2.39%) VPN
5 12 (2.20%) LAN
6 11 (2.02%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.83%) MPLS
8 9 (1.65%) BGP
8 9 (1.65%) DNS
9 6 (1.10%) Internet
10 5 (0.92%) DHCP
11 4 (0.73%) ATM
11 4 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.73%) IPsec
11 4 (0.73%) VLAN
11 4 (0.73%) Wireless
12 3 (0.55%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.55%) OSPF
12 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
12 3 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (5.50%) Data Lake
3 25 (4.59%) Power BI
4 19 (3.49%) Oracle Database
5 18 (3.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 16 (2.94%) Metadata
7 9 (1.65%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.28%) Pentaho
9 6 (1.10%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.10%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.92%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.92%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.55%) Big Data
12 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (4.77%) JIRA
2 13 (2.39%) Git
2 13 (2.39%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.92%) GitLab
3 5 (0.92%) JUnit
3 5 (0.92%) Selenium
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.37%) ERwin
5 2 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.18%) gulp
6 1 (0.18%) LSMW
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.18%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 198 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 128 (23.49%) Finance
3 80 (14.68%) Public Sector
4 65 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (8.81%) Banking
6 38 (6.97%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.30%) Legal
9 16 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.57%) Retail
11 12 (2.20%) Military
12 11 (2.02%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.65%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.47%) Marketing
15 7 (1.28%) Billing
16 6 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 6 (1.10%) Back Office
16 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 381 (69.91%) Architect
2 130 (23.85%) Solutions Architect
3 113 (20.73%) Enterprise Architect
4 48 (8.81%) Lead
5 31 (5.69%) Azure Architect
5 31 (5.69%) Senior
6 29 (5.32%) Security Architect
7 28 (5.14%) Lead Architect
8 24 (4.40%) Data Architect
8 24 (4.40%) SAP Architect
9 23 (4.22%) Senior Architect
10 22 (4.04%) Consultant
11 20 (3.67%) Technical Architect
12 17 (3.12%) Analyst
13 15 (2.75%) Business Architect
13 15 (2.75%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.39%) Business Analyst
15 11 (2.02%) Applications Architect
15 11 (2.02%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.02%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.62%) REST
2 17 (3.12%) Middleware
3 14 (2.57%) .NET
3 14 (2.57%) SOAP
4 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 12 (2.20%) OAuth
4 12 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (2.02%) Node.js
6 10 (1.83%) JSON
7 8 (1.47%) LangChain
7 8 (1.47%) RESTful
8 7 (1.28%) Kafka
8 7 (1.28%) React
9 6 (1.10%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.10%) NETCONF
9 6 (1.10%) OpenID
9 6 (1.10%) Web Services
9 6 (1.10%) YANG
10 5 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.20%) Operational Technology
8 11 (2.02%) IoT
9 10 (1.83%) NHS
10 9 (1.65%) CMDB
11 8 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.47%) FMCG
12 7 (1.28%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.28%) IVR
12 7 (1.28%) SCADA
12 7 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.04%) Windows
2 12 (2.20%) Mac OS
3 10 (1.83%) Linux
4 8 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.37%) Unix
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) Solaris
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (37.25%) Roadmaps
2 159 (29.17%) TOGAF
3 137 (25.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 133 (24.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 130 (23.85%) Agile
6 94 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (16.15%) Data Modelling
8 83 (15.23%) AI
9 82 (15.05%) DevOps
10 80 (14.68%) Analytics
11 79 (14.50%) Integration Patterns
12 77 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (13.39%) Business Strategy
14 68 (12.48%) Decision-Making
15 65 (11.93%) IT Strategy
15 65 (11.93%) Migration
16 60 (11.01%) Architectural Patterns
16 60 (11.01%) CI/CD
17 56 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
18 55 (10.09%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 57 (10.46%) Python
2 37 (6.79%) SQL
3 24 (4.40%) Java
4 18 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.20%) Bash
6 12 (2.20%) C#
7 11 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.10%) Bicep
9 4 (0.73%) ABAP
9 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.55%) R
11 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.18%) ProC
11 1 (0.18%) Scala
11 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 123 (22.57%) Security Cleared
2 89 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 57 (10.46%) Degree
4 30 (5.50%) Azure Certification
5 23 (4.22%) CISSP
6 22 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (4.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 19 (3.49%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 15 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.83%) CCIE
12 10 (1.83%) ISEB
13 9 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.65%) CISM
14 8 (1.47%) JNCIE
15 7 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (1.10%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.38%) GDPR
2 38 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (4.77%) NIST
4 15 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.75%) QA
5 14 (2.57%) COBIT
5 14 (2.57%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.39%) NCSC
7 11 (2.02%) GRC
8 9 (1.65%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.92%) Def Stans
10 5 (0.92%) PMO
11 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.73%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.73%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.37%) SLA
12 2 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.04%) Docker
3 21 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.18%) KVM
7 1 (0.18%) RACF
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.85%) Terraform
3 15 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (2.57%) SCCM
5 13 (2.39%) Ansible
6 11 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) Podman
8 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.09%) SAP
3 50 (9.17%) Oracle
4 41 (7.52%) Salesforce
5 35 (6.42%) ServiceNow
6 27 (4.95%) VMware
7 25 (4.59%) Databricks
8 21 (3.85%) Sparx
9 19 (3.49%) Google
10 17 (3.12%) OpenAI
11 16 (2.94%) Pega
12 15 (2.75%) Citrix
13 14 (2.57%) BiZZdesign
13 14 (2.57%) Cisco
14 12 (2.20%) MuleSoft
15 9 (1.65%) Ariba
15 9 (1.65%) F5
16 8 (1.47%) Atlassian
17 7 (1.28%) Genesys
17 7 (1.28%) Talend