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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 200 293
Rank change year-on-year +46 +93 -53
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 864 424 337
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.36% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.49% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 279 213
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £835
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 6
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 £83.81
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.75 £42.34 £87.50
% change year-on-year +95.46% -51.62% +25.00%

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 43,799 28,390 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.78% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,227 17,909 23,638
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,638 1,396 2,532
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +8.91%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +43 747 £650 +4.00% 301
UK excluding London -9 376 £625 +0.81% 181
London +59 374 £650 - 140
Work from Home +42 255 £600 +0.08% 174
South East +1 127 £640 +2.40% 61
North of England -18 99 £575 -7.26% 45
Midlands -21 75 £575 -4.17% 22
West Midlands -25 55 £576 -3.96% 15
Yorkshire -8 53 £688 +10.00% 11
North West -32 43 £550 -5.98% 32
South West -27 38 £650 - 29
Scotland -7 29 £625 +4.87% 4
East Midlands -13 18 £575 -17.86% 7
East of England -16 11 £650 +10.64% 10
North East -30 8 £800 - 3
Wales -20 2 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 9
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -

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 28 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.66%) SAS
3 18 (2.08%) Confluence
4 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.58%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.58%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.46%) Apache
9 3 (0.35%) Camunda
9 3 (0.35%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.93%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.69%) Primavera
6 5 (0.58%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.35%) Endur
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.35%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.23%) SAP CS
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 265 (30.67%) Azure
2 176 (20.37%) AWS
3 69 (7.99%) GCP
4 60 (6.94%) SaaS
5 40 (4.63%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 32 (3.70%) PaaS
8 30 (3.47%) Serverless
9 20 (2.31%) IaaS
10 18 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.08%) OCI
11 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (1.85%) Azure AI
12 16 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
13 14 (1.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (1.39%) GitHub
15 11 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.16%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.78%) Network Security
2 21 (2.43%) Firewall
3 19 (2.20%) VPN
4 18 (2.08%) WAN
5 14 (1.62%) IPsec
6 13 (1.50%) LAN
7 12 (1.39%) MPLS
7 12 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.16%) BGP
9 7 (0.81%) DNS
10 6 (0.69%) NGFW
10 6 (0.69%) SSL
10 6 (0.69%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.58%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.58%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.46%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.46%) DHCP
12 4 (0.46%) MQTT
12 4 (0.46%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.94%) Data Lake
2 28 (3.24%) Metadata
3 26 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (2.31%) Power BI
5 15 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.39%) Oracle Database
8 11 (1.27%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.16%) Base SAS
9 10 (1.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.35%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.35%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (1.62%) JIRA
2 10 (1.16%) Git
3 8 (0.93%) GitLab
3 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.58%) Hudson
5 4 (0.46%) ERwin
5 4 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.23%) Flyway
7 2 (0.23%) JUnit
7 2 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 253 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 221 (25.58%) Finance
3 138 (15.97%) Public Sector
4 89 (10.30%) Banking
5 73 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (7.99%) Retail
7 49 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (4.98%) Legal
9 25 (2.89%) Military
10 24 (2.78%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.85%) Local Government
12 16 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.27%) Law
15 9 (1.04%) Aviation
16 8 (0.93%) Marketing
16 8 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 601 (69.56%) Architect
2 207 (23.96%) Solutions Architect
3 137 (15.86%) Enterprise Architect
4 104 (12.04%) Lead
5 72 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 66 (7.64%) Senior
7 53 (6.13%) Data Architect
8 49 (5.67%) Lead Architect
9 45 (5.21%) Security Architect
10 41 (4.75%) Senior Architect
11 30 (3.47%) Project Manager
12 28 (3.24%) ServiceNow Architect
13 27 (3.13%) SAP Architect
14 22 (2.55%) Analyst
15 21 (2.43%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (2.43%) Technical Leader
16 20 (2.31%) Technical Manager
17 18 (2.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
17 18 (2.08%) Technical Project Manager
18 16 (1.85%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (7.18%) REST
2 60 (6.94%) Middleware
3 39 (4.51%) SOAP
4 37 (4.28%) .NET
5 21 (2.43%) OAuth
6 20 (2.31%) Web Services
7 18 (2.08%) Kafka
8 15 (1.74%) SAML
9 13 (1.50%) OpenID
9 13 (1.50%) React
10 12 (1.39%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.27%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.04%) XML
13 8 (0.93%) JSON
13 8 (0.93%) Node.js
13 8 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.81%) RESTful
14 7 (0.81%) SAP PI
14 7 (0.81%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 56 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.82%) CMDB
5 30 (3.47%) Operational Technology
6 27 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 27 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (2.78%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.55%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.55%) Security Posture
10 20 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.97%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.62%) IoT
14 9 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.04%) FMCG
14 9 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.55%) Windows
2 16 (1.85%) Linux
3 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.58%) Unix
3 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (33.68%) Roadmaps
2 217 (25.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 208 (24.07%) TOGAF
4 196 (22.69%) Agile
5 167 (19.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 156 (18.06%) Integration Patterns
7 145 (16.78%) Migration
8 139 (16.09%) Architectural Patterns
9 136 (15.74%) Technical Leadership
10 135 (15.63%) AI
11 124 (14.35%) Decision-Making
12 123 (14.24%) CI/CD
12 123 (14.24%) DevOps
13 112 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
14 103 (11.92%) Architecture Governance
15 94 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
16 93 (10.76%) Architectural Design
16 93 (10.76%) Data Modelling
17 90 (10.42%) Event-Driven
18 89 (10.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 64 (7.41%) Python
2 44 (5.09%) Java
2 44 (5.09%) SQL
3 14 (1.62%) JavaScript
4 13 (1.50%) C#
5 11 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 11 (1.27%) TypeScript
6 7 (0.81%) ABAP
7 6 (0.69%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.69%) Bash
7 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.35%) Bicep
10 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.23%) Korn
10 2 (0.23%) Ruby
10 2 (0.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.12%) Go
11 1 (0.12%) Rust
11 1 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 243 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 176 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.06%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.21%) Degree
5 41 (4.75%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (3.24%) TOGAF Certification
8 26 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.78%) AWS Certification
10 23 (2.66%) CISSP
11 17 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.85%) CISM
13 11 (1.27%) PMP
14 9 (1.04%) CCIE
14 9 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.93%) CCNP
15 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIE
17 6 (0.69%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.44%) GDPR
3 35 (4.05%) NIST
4 33 (3.82%) NCSC
5 24 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.08%) QA
7 15 (1.74%) COBIT
7 15 (1.74%) GRC
8 14 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.16%) NIST 800
10 9 (1.04%) PMO
10 9 (1.04%) SLA
11 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.69%) ISO 31000
12 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (0.46%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.55%) Docker
3 9 (1.04%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.46%) RACF
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) NFS
8 1 (0.12%) Samba
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.13%) Terraform
3 19 (2.20%) Ansible
4 13 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.81%) SCCM
6 3 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.23%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.12%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.12%) Grafana
8 1 (0.12%) Nagios
8 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.12%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.12%) SCOM
8 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 172 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.45%) SAP
3 64 (7.41%) Oracle
4 58 (6.71%) ServiceNow
5 37 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.36%) BiZZdesign
6 29 (3.36%) Databricks
7 26 (3.01%) Google
8 25 (2.89%) Sparx
9 19 (2.20%) VMware
10 17 (1.97%) Workday
11 15 (1.74%) Cisco
12 12 (1.39%) Ariba
12 12 (1.39%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.39%) Zscaler
13 9 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.93%) Foundry
14 8 (0.93%) Liquidlogic
14 8 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.81%) Informatica