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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 255 268
Rank change year-on-year +82 +13 -26
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 660 307 391
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.55% 1.01% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 1.12% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 190 255
10th Percentile £456 £455 £486
25th Percentile £513 £525 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £801 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £610 £650
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £49.07 - £55.75
25th Percentile £60.05 - -
Median hourly rate £70.88 - £70.00
75th Percentile £91.32 - £88.00
90th Percentile £95.75 - -
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 36,846 27,490 38,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 90.18% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,348 17,263 25,101
10th Percentile £313 £306 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 895 2,262
10th Percentile £14.79 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £31.76 £33.28
% change year-on-year -20.09% -4.57% -4.91%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +79 569 £625 - 153
UK excluding London +41 338 £600 -1.64% 94
London +59 243 £625 -3.85% 82
Work from Home +59 177 £550 -12.00% 61
South East +2 90 £675 +8.00% 41
Midlands +19 85 £548 -9.28% 14
North of England -23 84 £588 +11.90% 19
West Midlands +6 64 £560 -7.21% 11
South West -6 41 £675 +13.45% 13
Yorkshire -26 41 £600 +9.38% 10
North West -15 40 £551 +10.13% 7
Scotland +7 20 £550 -13.66% 2
East Midlands -4 20 £490 - 3
East of England -9 19 £650 - 4
North East -9 8 £800 +6.67% 2
Wales 0 4 £588 -6.00% 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 33 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.79%) SAS
3 10 (1.52%) Confluence
4 8 (1.21%) Camunda
5 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.91%) Appian
7 4 (0.61%) Apache
7 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.30%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (4.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 23 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.45%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.45%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.15%) Summit
6 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 249 (37.73%) Azure
2 159 (24.09%) AWS
3 65 (9.85%) GCP
4 59 (8.94%) SaaS
5 40 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 39 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 28 (4.24%) Serverless
9 26 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (3.64%) PaaS
11 23 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (3.03%) IaaS
14 17 (2.58%) OCI
15 16 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (1.82%) GitHub
18 11 (1.67%) Azure Functions
18 11 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.27%) Firewall
2 14 (2.12%) SD-WAN
2 14 (2.12%) WAN
3 11 (1.67%) DNS
3 11 (1.67%) VPN
4 10 (1.52%) IPsec
5 9 (1.36%) LAN
5 9 (1.36%) Network Security
6 8 (1.21%) MPLS
6 8 (1.21%) SSL
7 7 (1.06%) DHCP
8 6 (0.91%) BGP
8 6 (0.91%) Internet
9 5 (0.76%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.61%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.61%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.61%) Intranet
10 4 (0.61%) MQTT
10 4 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (4.39%) Data Lake
3 24 (3.64%) Oracle Database
4 22 (3.33%) Power BI
4 22 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 18 (2.73%) Metadata
6 13 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.06%) Pentaho
10 5 (0.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.61%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.61%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.45%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.45%) GIS
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.45%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (3.18%) JIRA
2 17 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.27%) Git
4 10 (1.52%) GitLab
5 7 (1.06%) JUnit
5 7 (1.06%) Selenium
6 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.30%) ERwin
7 2 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.15%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.15%) Flyway
8 1 (0.15%) gulp
8 1 (0.15%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.15%) LSMW
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Yeoman
General
1 209 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 164 (24.85%) Finance
3 96 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (9.39%) Banking
6 47 (7.12%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (3.79%) Legal
8 24 (3.64%) Retail
9 22 (3.33%) Telecoms
10 20 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.97%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.82%) Military
14 9 (1.36%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.36%) Billing
14 9 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.21%) Marketing
16 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 475 (71.97%) Architect
2 163 (24.70%) Solutions Architect
3 128 (19.39%) Enterprise Architect
4 57 (8.64%) Lead
5 50 (7.58%) Senior
6 43 (6.52%) Technical Architect
7 35 (5.30%) Senior Architect
8 30 (4.55%) Lead Architect
9 29 (4.39%) Data Architect
9 29 (4.39%) Security Architect
10 28 (4.24%) Consultant
11 27 (4.09%) Azure Architect
12 22 (3.33%) SAP Architect
13 21 (3.18%) Analyst
13 21 (3.18%) Business Architect
14 15 (2.27%) Applications Architect
14 15 (2.27%) Business Analyst
14 15 (2.27%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (2.27%) Salesforce Architect
15 14 (2.12%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.03%) REST
2 32 (4.85%) Middleware
3 24 (3.64%) .NET
4 23 (3.48%) SOAP
5 19 (2.88%) OAuth
6 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Graph
6 13 (1.97%) Web Services
7 12 (1.82%) JSON
7 12 (1.82%) Kafka
7 12 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
8 11 (1.67%) OAuth2
8 11 (1.67%) SAML
9 10 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.52%) OpenID
9 10 (1.52%) React
10 9 (1.36%) Node.js
10 9 (1.36%) RESTful
11 8 (1.21%) XML
12 7 (1.06%) LangChain
12 7 (1.06%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 22 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.18%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.73%) CMDB
5 18 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.58%) IoT
7 16 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.82%) Operational Technology
11 10 (1.52%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.36%) Taxonomies
13 8 (1.21%) FMCG
13 8 (1.21%) NHS
13 8 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.06%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.79%) Windows
2 11 (1.67%) Mac OS
3 8 (1.21%) Linux
4 6 (0.91%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.45%) Unix
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (39.09%) Roadmaps
2 192 (29.09%) TOGAF
3 164 (24.85%) Agile
4 149 (22.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 144 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 106 (16.06%) DevOps
7 105 (15.91%) Integration Patterns
8 101 (15.30%) AI
8 101 (15.30%) Decision-Making
8 101 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (15.15%) Architectural Patterns
10 93 (14.09%) Business Strategy
11 88 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 86 (13.03%) Analytics
12 86 (13.03%) CI/CD
12 86 (13.03%) Migration
13 76 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 73 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
15 71 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
15 71 (10.76%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 61 (9.24%) Python
2 47 (7.12%) SQL
3 23 (3.48%) Java
4 19 (2.88%) JavaScript
4 19 (2.88%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.12%) C#
6 13 (1.97%) Bash
7 11 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.76%) Bicep
8 5 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.61%) ABAP
10 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.15%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.15%) ProC
12 1 (0.15%) R
12 1 (0.15%) SOQL
12 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 169 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 119 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.64%) Degree
4 36 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 30 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 29 (4.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (3.64%) CISSP
9 22 (3.33%) AWS Certification
10 19 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.97%) ISEB
11 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.82%) CISM
12 12 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.36%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.06%) CCIE
15 7 (1.06%) CCNP
15 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.45%) GDPR
2 30 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (4.24%) NIST
4 27 (4.09%) Data Quality
5 21 (3.18%) PCI DSS
6 17 (2.58%) NCSC
7 15 (2.27%) COBIT
8 13 (1.97%) GRC
9 9 (1.36%) QA
10 8 (1.21%) PMO
11 7 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.06%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.91%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.91%) Def Stans
12 6 (0.91%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.76%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.61%) PSD2
14 4 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (5.30%) Docker
2 31 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.76%) RACF
5 5 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.30%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) IAG
9 1 (0.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.09%) Terraform
3 16 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (2.27%) SCCM
5 14 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.67%) Ansible
7 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.15%) Grafana
8 1 (0.15%) Istio
8 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.15%) Podman
8 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 134 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 67 (10.15%) Oracle
3 59 (8.94%) SAP
4 47 (7.12%) Salesforce
5 45 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 30 (4.55%) VMware
7 28 (4.24%) Sparx
8 25 (3.79%) BiZZdesign
9 24 (3.64%) Databricks
10 22 (3.33%) Google
11 15 (2.27%) OpenAI
11 15 (2.27%) Pega
12 13 (1.97%) Cisco
13 11 (1.67%) Citrix
13 11 (1.67%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.52%) Ariba
14 10 (1.52%) F5
15 9 (1.36%) Atlassian
15 9 (1.36%) Workday
16 8 (1.21%) Temenos