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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 206 300
Rank change year-on-year +59 +94 -63
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1,007 429 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.89% 1.30% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.44% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 290 180
10th Percentile £466 £450 £450
25th Percentile £538 £511 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £825 £825 £839
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £599 £650
% change year-on-year +1.00% -7.85% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 3 4
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £82.41 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.46% -21.97% -3.57%
75th Percentile £108.13 £77.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.21 £42.34 -
% change year-on-year +94.18% - -

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 45,250 29,801 33,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.48% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,843 18,616 21,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,819 1,703 1,838
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +13.33%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +59 884 £638 +2.00% 592
London +68 490 £650 - 357
UK excluding London -2 388 £605 +1.00% 294
Work from Home +60 291 £600 +3.45% 244
South East +3 130 £605 -2.02% 107
North of England +4 109 £563 -5.86% 59
Midlands -25 69 £621 +3.42% 35
Yorkshire +3 54 £550 -6.38% 19
North West -22 51 £600 +0.42% 34
West Midlands -19 48 £615 +2.67% 20
South West -38 44 £650 - 39
Scotland -2 26 £600 +13.91% 30
East Midlands -14 18 £650 -7.14% 15
East of England -15 11 £600 -11.11% 18
North East -39 4 £625 - 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £713 - 4
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 49 (4.87%) SAS
2 28 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.09%) Confluence
4 12 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.70%) Apache
7 5 (0.50%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.50%) Mule
7 5 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.40%) NetWeaver
8 4 (0.40%) SAP EP
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.30%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Camunda
10 2 (0.20%) Mendix
11 1 (0.099%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.099%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.099%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 34 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.79%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.60%) Primavera
6 5 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.40%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.30%) Endur
8 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.20%) SAP CS
9 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 317 (31.48%) Azure
2 208 (20.66%) AWS
3 105 (10.43%) GCP
4 59 (5.86%) Power Platform
4 59 (5.86%) SaaS
5 49 (4.87%) Entra ID
6 43 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (2.78%) Serverless
8 24 (2.38%) PaaS
9 22 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
9 22 (2.18%) OCI
10 21 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.89%) Azure AI
12 16 (1.59%) iPaaS
12 16 (1.59%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.49%) GitHub
13 15 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (1.39%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.08%) Network Security
2 27 (2.68%) Firewall
3 23 (2.28%) VPN
4 17 (1.69%) WAN
5 14 (1.39%) LAN
6 10 (0.99%) MPLS
7 9 (0.89%) IPsec
8 8 (0.79%) BGP
8 8 (0.79%) DNS
8 8 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.60%) HTTP
9 6 (0.60%) NGFW
9 6 (0.60%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) 5G
11 4 (0.40%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.40%) DHCP
11 4 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.77%) Data Lake
2 41 (4.07%) Metadata
3 32 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (2.88%) Power BI
5 18 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.19%) Base SAS
7 12 (1.19%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.89%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.70%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 6 (0.60%) Big Data
12 5 (0.50%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.50%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (1.49%) JIRA
2 12 (1.19%) Git
3 9 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.70%) GitLab
5 6 (0.60%) ERwin
6 5 (0.50%) Hudson
7 4 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.20%) Flyway
8 2 (0.20%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.20%) Postman
8 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.20%) Subversion
8 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.099%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.099%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.099%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.099%) JUnit
9 1 (0.099%) TeamCity
General
1 324 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 257 (25.52%) Finance
3 162 (16.09%) Public Sector
4 97 (9.63%) Banking
5 91 (9.04%) Retail
6 84 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
7 66 (6.55%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (3.97%) Legal
9 28 (2.78%) Military
10 27 (2.68%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.28%) Local Government
12 22 (2.18%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.69%) Marketing
13 17 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.29%) Billing
16 12 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 712 (70.71%) Architect
2 235 (23.34%) Solutions Architect
3 165 (16.39%) Enterprise Architect
4 124 (12.31%) Lead
5 73 (7.25%) Technical Architect
6 68 (6.75%) Data Architect
7 60 (5.96%) Security Architect
8 57 (5.66%) Lead Architect
9 56 (5.56%) Senior
10 35 (3.48%) Senior Architect
11 31 (3.08%) Project Manager
12 30 (2.98%) SAP Architect
13 29 (2.88%) Technical Leader
14 27 (2.68%) ServiceNow Architect
15 25 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
16 24 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
17 22 (2.18%) Azure Architect
18 20 (1.99%) Analyst
18 20 (1.99%) Integration Architect
19 19 (1.89%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.85%) REST
2 66 (6.55%) Middleware
3 49 (4.87%) SOAP
4 34 (3.38%) .NET
5 27 (2.68%) OAuth
6 22 (2.18%) Kafka
7 16 (1.59%) JSON
7 16 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 16 (1.59%) SAML
7 16 (1.59%) XML
8 14 (1.39%) React
8 14 (1.39%) Web Services
9 13 (1.29%) OAuth2
10 12 (1.19%) OpenID
11 11 (1.09%) JWT
12 10 (0.99%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.89%) Node.js
14 8 (0.79%) EDI
14 8 (0.79%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 112 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 75 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.07%) AI Agents
5 39 (3.87%) CMDB
6 37 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 36 (3.57%) Operational Technology
8 29 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.58%) Management Information System
9 26 (2.58%) Security Posture
10 25 (2.48%) Data Centre
11 23 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.89%) IoT
13 14 (1.39%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.29%) FMCG
15 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.89%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.79%) Windows
2 14 (1.39%) Linux
3 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.20%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.099%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (33.17%) Roadmaps
2 303 (30.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 232 (23.04%) TOGAF
4 195 (19.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 193 (19.17%) Integration Patterns
6 191 (18.97%) Agile
7 176 (17.48%) AI
8 173 (17.18%) Technical Leadership
9 168 (16.68%) Migration
10 149 (14.80%) Architectural Patterns
11 143 (14.20%) Analytics
12 139 (13.80%) Cybersecurity
13 137 (13.60%) Architecture Governance
14 133 (13.21%) DevOps
15 130 (12.91%) CI/CD
16 126 (12.51%) Decision-Making
17 122 (12.12%) Data Architecture
18 116 (11.52%) Event-Driven
19 113 (11.22%) Data Integration
20 112 (11.12%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (7.45%) Python
2 50 (4.97%) Java
3 47 (4.67%) SQL
4 21 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.19%) C#
8 8 (0.79%) Bash
8 8 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 7 (0.70%) ABAP
10 6 (0.60%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.30%) Bicep
12 3 (0.30%) Korn
13 2 (0.20%) Go
13 2 (0.20%) Ruby
13 2 (0.20%) Rust
13 2 (0.20%) Scala
14 1 (0.099%) SOQL
14 1 (0.099%) Swift
Qualifications
1 285 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 215 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 55 (5.46%) Azure Certification
5 53 (5.26%) Degree
6 41 (4.07%) TOGAF Certification
7 32 (3.18%) CISSP
8 31 (3.08%) AWS Certification
9 29 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.09%) CISM
12 16 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (1.19%) PMP
15 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.70%) CCIE
17 6 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.50%) JNCIE
18 5 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.87%) GDPR
2 49 (4.87%) GRC
3 44 (4.37%) NIST
4 41 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (3.08%) NCSC
6 20 (1.99%) QA
7 13 (1.29%) PMO
8 12 (1.19%) COBIT
8 12 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 11 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.09%) NIST 800
10 10 (0.99%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.79%) SLA
12 6 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.60%) ISO 31000
12 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 5 (0.50%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 32 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.79%) Docker
3 12 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.099%) KVM
7 1 (0.099%) NFS
7 1 (0.099%) Samba
7 1 (0.099%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.18%) Terraform
3 21 (2.09%) Ansible
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) SCCM
7 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.20%) Grafana
7 2 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.20%) Puppet
7 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.099%) CASB
8 1 (0.099%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.099%) Istio
8 1 (0.099%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.099%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.099%) SCOM
8 1 (0.099%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 198 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 98 (9.73%) Oracle
3 78 (7.75%) SAP
4 67 (6.65%) ServiceNow
5 48 (4.77%) Databricks
6 46 (4.57%) Google
7 42 (4.17%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.38%) BiZZdesign
9 23 (2.28%) Workday
10 22 (2.18%) Zscaler
11 21 (2.09%) Sparx
12 20 (1.99%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.79%) VMware
14 17 (1.69%) Informatica
15 15 (1.49%) Cisco
16 13 (1.29%) Foundry
17 12 (1.19%) IBM
18 11 (1.09%) Ariba
19 10 (0.99%) OpenAI
20 9 (0.89%) Palo Alto