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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 263 255
Rank change year-on-year +82 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 643 297 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 0.96% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.07% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 181 271
10th Percentile £450 £450 £485
25th Percentile £513 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £800 £868
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £643
% change year-on-year - -6.70% +2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £49.06 - £55.75
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.04 - £70.00
75th Percentile £93.77 - £88.00
90th Percentile £96.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.82 - £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 35,472 27,688 38,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.86% 89.76% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,461 17,051 25,269
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,140 862 2,156
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.64 £32.50 £34.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% -6.52% -0.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% -13.00% -

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +77 553 £625 - 325
UK excluding London +56 335 £600 - 218
London +53 234 £625 -3.85% 145
Work from Home +47 173 £550 -12.00% 145
South East +17 89 £650 +4.00% 74
Midlands +20 85 £560 -7.21% 28
North of England -23 80 £575 +13.41% 58
West Midlands +8 64 £571 -5.45% 19
South West +6 42 £650 +9.24% 21
North West -13 40 £551 +10.13% 41
Yorkshire -31 39 £600 +9.38% 13
Scotland -3 20 £550 -18.40% 14
East Midlands -7 20 £483 - 8
East of England -7 20 £650 - 22
North East -13 6 £800 +6.67% 4
Wales -1 4 £588 -6.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 1

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 31 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.89%) SAS
3 11 (1.71%) Confluence
4 7 (1.09%) Camunda
5 6 (0.93%) Appian
5 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.62%) Apache
7 3 (0.47%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.47%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.31%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.31%) SAP EP
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.16%) Documentum
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.16%) IIS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (4.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 23 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.47%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.47%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.16%) Summit
6 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 242 (37.64%) Azure
2 153 (23.79%) AWS
3 56 (8.71%) GCP
4 55 (8.55%) SaaS
5 39 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 32 (4.98%) Entra ID
7 29 (4.51%) Serverless
8 25 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.73%) PaaS
10 23 (3.58%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (2.95%) IaaS
12 16 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (2.49%) OCI
13 14 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (1.87%) GitHub
15 11 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (1.71%) Azure Functions
15 11 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.49%) Firewall
1 16 (2.49%) WAN
2 14 (2.18%) SD-WAN
3 11 (1.71%) LAN
4 10 (1.56%) DNS
4 10 (1.56%) IPsec
4 10 (1.56%) MPLS
4 10 (1.56%) Network Security
4 10 (1.56%) VPN
5 8 (1.24%) BGP
5 8 (1.24%) SSL
6 6 (0.93%) DHCP
6 6 (0.93%) Internet
7 5 (0.78%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.78%) MQTT
8 4 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.62%) Intranet
8 4 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.62%) VLAN
8 4 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (4.20%) Data Lake
3 23 (3.58%) Oracle Database
4 22 (3.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 20 (3.11%) Power BI
6 18 (2.80%) Metadata
7 10 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.24%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.09%) Pentaho
9 7 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.62%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.62%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.47%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.47%) GIS
12 3 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (3.42%) JIRA
2 17 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.33%) Git
4 10 (1.56%) GitLab
5 7 (1.09%) JUnit
5 7 (1.09%) Selenium
6 3 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.31%) ERwin
7 2 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.16%) gulp
8 1 (0.16%) LSMW
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.16%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) Yeoman
General
1 210 (32.66%) Social Skills
2 151 (23.48%) Finance
3 89 (13.84%) Public Sector
4 70 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (9.33%) Banking
6 50 (7.78%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (3.89%) Legal
8 24 (3.73%) Retail
9 22 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 19 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.87%) Military
13 11 (1.71%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.56%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.40%) Billing
16 8 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.24%) Marketing
17 6 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 467 (72.63%) Architect
2 159 (24.73%) Solutions Architect
3 128 (19.91%) Enterprise Architect
4 55 (8.55%) Lead
5 48 (7.47%) Senior
6 41 (6.38%) Technical Architect
7 34 (5.29%) Senior Architect
8 29 (4.51%) Lead Architect
9 28 (4.35%) Azure Architect
9 28 (4.35%) Data Architect
10 27 (4.20%) Security Architect
11 26 (4.04%) Consultant
12 24 (3.73%) SAP Architect
13 21 (3.27%) Business Architect
14 20 (3.11%) Analyst
15 16 (2.49%) Cloud Architect
15 16 (2.49%) Salesforce Architect
16 14 (2.18%) Business Analyst
16 14 (2.18%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.18%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.93%) REST
2 28 (4.35%) Middleware
3 22 (3.42%) .NET
4 19 (2.95%) SOAP
5 18 (2.80%) OAuth
6 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.87%) SAML
8 11 (1.71%) JSON
8 11 (1.71%) Kafka
8 11 (1.71%) OpenID
8 11 (1.71%) Web Services
9 10 (1.56%) OAuth2
9 10 (1.56%) React
10 9 (1.40%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.40%) Node.js
11 8 (1.24%) LangChain
11 8 (1.24%) RESTful
12 7 (1.09%) LangGraph
12 7 (1.09%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.31%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.64%) IoT
6 16 (2.49%) CMDB
6 16 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.02%) Operational Technology
9 10 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.56%) NHS
10 9 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.40%) Taxonomies
11 8 (1.24%) FMCG
11 8 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.09%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.73%) Windows
2 11 (1.71%) Mac OS
3 7 (1.09%) Linux
4 6 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.47%) Unix
5 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (39.35%) Roadmaps
2 190 (29.55%) TOGAF
3 158 (24.57%) Agile
4 149 (23.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 143 (22.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 100 (15.55%) AI
7 99 (15.40%) DevOps
8 98 (15.24%) Integration Patterns
8 98 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (14.93%) Architectural Patterns
9 96 (14.93%) Decision-Making
10 89 (13.84%) Business Strategy
11 87 (13.53%) Data Modelling
12 86 (13.37%) Migration
13 84 (13.06%) CI/CD
14 82 (12.75%) Analytics
15 74 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (10.73%) Cybersecurity
16 69 (10.73%) IT Strategy
17 68 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (8.71%) Python
2 45 (7.00%) SQL
3 20 (3.11%) Java
4 18 (2.80%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.49%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.18%) C#
7 12 (1.87%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.56%) Bash
9 6 (0.93%) Bicep
10 4 (0.62%) ABAP
10 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.16%) C
13 1 (0.16%) C++
13 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.16%) ProC
13 1 (0.16%) R
13 1 (0.16%) SOQL
13 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 161 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 114 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.18%) Degree
4 32 (4.98%) DV Cleared
5 29 (4.51%) TOGAF Certification
6 28 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (4.20%) Azure Certification
8 24 (3.73%) CISSP
9 21 (3.27%) AWS Certification
10 19 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (2.02%) ISEB
12 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.87%) CISM
14 11 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 11 (1.71%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (1.40%) CCIE
17 7 (1.09%) JNCIE
17 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.73%) GDPR
2 32 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.20%) NIST
4 22 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 20 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.95%) NCSC
7 15 (2.33%) COBIT
8 12 (1.87%) GRC
9 10 (1.56%) QA
10 8 (1.24%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.09%) Accessibility
11 7 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.93%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.93%) PMO
13 5 (0.78%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.78%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.62%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.62%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (5.29%) Docker
2 33 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.78%) RACF
6 4 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.16%) IAG
9 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.20%) Terraform
3 15 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (2.18%) SCCM
5 12 (1.87%) Ansible
6 3 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.16%) Argo
7 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.16%) Podman
7 1 (0.16%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 133 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 64 (9.95%) Oracle
3 62 (9.64%) SAP
4 49 (7.62%) Salesforce
5 42 (6.53%) ServiceNow
6 29 (4.51%) VMware
7 27 (4.20%) Sparx
8 22 (3.42%) BiZZdesign
8 22 (3.42%) Databricks
9 21 (3.27%) Google
10 17 (2.64%) OpenAI
11 14 (2.18%) Pega
12 13 (2.02%) Cisco
13 11 (1.71%) Ariba
13 11 (1.71%) Citrix
13 11 (1.71%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.40%) Atlassian
14 9 (1.40%) F5
15 8 (1.24%) Workday
16 7 (1.09%) Denodo