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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 231 271
Rank change year-on-year +58 +40 -29
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 712 319 382
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.10% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.21% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 205 257
10th Percentile £463 £480 £478
25th Percentile £513 £550 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £808 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £612 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -2.08% -3.85% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 7
10th Percentile £56.92 - £56.75
25th Percentile £65.00 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £91.32 - £79.63
90th Percentile £97.25 - £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.25 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.57%

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 38,122 26,294 38,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.61% 90.44% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,155 17,082 24,859
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 966 2,351
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.72 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +57 609 £625 -2.34% 207
UK excluding London +17 349 £612 -2.08% 137
London +61 274 £625 -3.85% 96
Work from Home +59 197 £550 -10.93% 91
South East -1 105 £650 +3.67% 61
North of England -19 91 £600 +6.38% 33
Midlands -5 74 £548 -8.75% 19
West Midlands -9 57 £559 -2.78% 15
South West -14 45 £650 - 10
Yorkshire -16 45 £600 +6.67% 17
North West -23 42 £563 +0.45% 12
Scotland +4 22 £575 -9.73% 6
East of England -20 16 £650 - 8
East Midlands -25 16 £537 -32.88% 4
North East -5 9 £713 -5.00% 4
Wales -11 3 £550 -12.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 -

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 37 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.23%) SAS
3 17 (2.39%) Confluence
4 9 (1.26%) Camunda
4 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.84%) Appian
5 6 (0.84%) NetWeaver
5 6 (0.84%) SAP EP
6 5 (0.70%) Apache
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (4.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 22 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.98%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.42%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.14%) Actimize
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
7 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 240 (33.71%) Azure
2 162 (22.75%) AWS
3 67 (9.41%) GCP
4 56 (7.87%) SaaS
5 40 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (4.35%) Serverless
8 26 (3.65%) PaaS
9 25 (3.51%) Entra ID
10 24 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (2.95%) IaaS
12 20 (2.81%) Microsoft Copilot
13 18 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (2.53%) OCI
14 15 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (1.97%) GitHub
15 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (1.83%) Azure AI
17 12 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.25%) Firewall
2 14 (1.97%) VPN
3 13 (1.83%) SD-WAN
4 12 (1.69%) WAN
5 11 (1.54%) DNS
6 10 (1.40%) IPsec
7 9 (1.26%) Network Security
8 7 (0.98%) DHCP
8 7 (0.98%) LAN
8 7 (0.98%) MPLS
9 6 (0.84%) SSL
10 5 (0.70%) BGP
10 5 (0.70%) Internet
10 5 (0.70%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.56%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.56%) Intranet
11 4 (0.56%) MQTT
11 4 (0.56%) RFID
11 4 (0.56%) VLAN
11 4 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (3.93%) Data Lake
3 24 (3.37%) Metadata
4 23 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 22 (3.09%) Power BI
6 20 (2.81%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 13 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.69%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.98%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.70%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.56%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.42%) GIS
13 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
13 3 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.42%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (3.09%) JIRA
2 16 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.83%) Git
4 12 (1.69%) GitLab
5 8 (1.12%) Selenium
6 7 (0.98%) JUnit
7 4 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.42%) ERwin
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.28%) Flyway
9 2 (0.28%) Hudson
9 2 (0.28%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.14%) gulp
10 1 (0.14%) LSMW
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 216 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 170 (23.88%) Finance
3 107 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (9.69%) Banking
6 47 (6.60%) Influencing Skills
7 30 (4.21%) Legal
8 29 (4.07%) Retail
9 24 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.25%) Military
11 16 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.40%) Billing
15 9 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.26%) Marketing
16 8 (1.12%) Law
17 7 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 508 (71.35%) Architect
2 162 (22.75%) Solutions Architect
3 137 (19.24%) Enterprise Architect
4 64 (8.99%) Lead
5 60 (8.43%) Technical Architect
6 52 (7.30%) Senior
7 32 (4.49%) Data Architect
8 31 (4.35%) Lead Architect
8 31 (4.35%) Security Architect
8 31 (4.35%) Senior Architect
9 25 (3.51%) Consultant
10 24 (3.37%) Azure Architect
11 23 (3.23%) SAP Architect
11 23 (3.23%) ServiceNow Architect
12 20 (2.81%) Analyst
13 18 (2.53%) Designer
14 17 (2.39%) Applications Architect
14 17 (2.39%) Business Architect
14 17 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
15 15 (2.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.99%) REST
2 34 (4.78%) Middleware
3 33 (4.63%) SOAP
4 26 (3.65%) .NET
5 22 (3.09%) Web Services
6 15 (2.11%) OAuth
7 14 (1.97%) AngularJS
8 12 (1.69%) Kafka
8 12 (1.69%) React
9 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (1.26%) Node.js
10 9 (1.26%) OAuth2
10 9 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.26%) SAML
10 9 (1.26%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (1.12%) OpenID
11 8 (1.12%) XML
12 7 (0.98%) JSON
12 7 (0.98%) pytest
12 7 (0.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 59 (8.29%) Product Ownership
2 53 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.35%) CMDB
4 26 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.39%) IoT
9 15 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.11%) Operational Technology
10 14 (1.97%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.26%) NHS
14 8 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.81%) Windows
2 10 (1.40%) Linux
3 6 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.42%) Unix
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (39.47%) Roadmaps
2 190 (26.69%) TOGAF
3 175 (24.58%) Agile
4 157 (22.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 151 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 125 (17.56%) Architectural Patterns
7 120 (16.85%) Integration Patterns
8 116 (16.29%) AI
9 110 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (14.75%) Decision-Making
10 105 (14.75%) DevOps
11 102 (14.33%) CI/CD
12 95 (13.34%) Data Modelling
13 94 (13.20%) Business Strategy
14 92 (12.92%) Migration
15 88 (12.36%) Analytics
16 84 (11.80%) ITIL
17 83 (11.66%) Architectural Design
17 83 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
18 77 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (10.11%) Python
2 46 (6.46%) SQL
3 33 (4.63%) Java
4 21 (2.95%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.39%) C#
5 17 (2.39%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.40%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.26%) Bash
8 8 (1.12%) ABAP
9 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.56%) Bicep
12 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.28%) Ruby
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) Korn
14 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.14%) Scala
14 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 203 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 147 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.44%) Degree
4 43 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 30 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 30 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
6 24 (3.37%) CISSP
7 23 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (2.81%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.25%) ISEB
11 15 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.83%) CISM
13 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (1.12%) CCNP
16 7 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.84%) CCIE
18 5 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.13%) GDPR
2 38 (5.34%) Data Quality
3 37 (5.20%) NIST
4 25 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (3.09%) PCI DSS
6 21 (2.95%) NCSC
7 18 (2.53%) COBIT
8 15 (2.11%) GRC
9 10 (1.40%) PMO
10 8 (1.12%) QA
11 7 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.98%) Def Stans
11 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.84%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.84%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.84%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (4.21%) Docker
2 25 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.70%) RACF
6 5 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.28%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.21%) Terraform
3 12 (1.69%) Ansible
3 12 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.40%) SCCM
6 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.28%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.14%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) Podman
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.71%) Oracle
2 62 (8.71%) ServiceNow
3 58 (8.15%) SAP
4 44 (6.18%) Salesforce
5 31 (4.35%) Sparx
6 27 (3.79%) BiZZdesign
7 26 (3.65%) Databricks
8 25 (3.51%) VMware
9 24 (3.37%) Google
10 14 (1.97%) Ariba
10 14 (1.97%) OpenAI
11 13 (1.83%) Cisco
11 13 (1.83%) Pega
12 10 (1.40%) F5
12 10 (1.40%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.26%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.12%) Temenos
14 8 (1.12%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.98%) Citrix