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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 214 298
Rank change year-on-year +76 +84 -61
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1,126 438 283
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.06% 1.33% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.47% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 289 155
10th Percentile £475 £449 £445
25th Percentile £540 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £723 £716 £744
90th Percentile £825 £825 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 2 1
10th Percentile £20.31 £32.13 -
25th Percentile £66.63 £35.33 £63.75
Median hourly rate £83.50 £42.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +97.24% -37.28% -
75th Percentile £109.31 £49.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £110.75 £52.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.96 £42.34 -
% change year-on-year +95.95% - -

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 46,176 29,707 32,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.53% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,450 19,527
10th Percentile £325 £297 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,315 1,863 1,324
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%
75th Percentile £65.41 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £65.00 £74.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +73.52% -47.49% -

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 October 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 October 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 6 October 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 +68 991 £625 +4.17% 993
London +65 545 £650 +4.00% 575
UK excluding London +31 433 £600 +4.35% 472
Work from Home +58 317 £600 +6.67% 445
South East +15 137 £538 -6.52% 157
North of England +18 135 £600 +11.63% 120
Midlands -11 84 £626 +4.38% 66
Yorkshire +23 72 £550 -6.38% 54
West Midlands -15 63 £626 +4.38% 44
North West -14 57 £600 +12.68% 59
South West -26 43 £650 +13.04% 34
Scotland -10 26 £625 +8.93% 42
East Midlands -8 19 £600 +9.89% 22
East of England -23 14 £550 -31.25% 35
North East -29 10 £650 +18.18% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £650 - 17
Wales -18 1 £650 +35.42% 3
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 50 (4.44%) SAS
2 26 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.60%) Confluence
4 14 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.89%) Apache
7 6 (0.53%) NetWeaver
8 5 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.44%) CMS
8 5 (0.44%) Mule
8 5 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.36%) SAP EP
10 3 (0.27%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 14 (1.24%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 54 (4.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.71%) ContrOCC
5 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.53%) Primavera
6 6 (0.53%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.53%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.44%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.36%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.27%) Cloudability
9 3 (0.27%) Endur
9 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.27%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 396 (35.17%) Azure
2 249 (22.11%) AWS
3 128 (11.37%) GCP
4 78 (6.93%) Power Platform
5 71 (6.31%) SaaS
6 70 (6.22%) Entra ID
7 58 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (3.73%) Serverless
9 38 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (2.93%) GitHub
11 26 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (2.13%) Azure AI
12 24 (2.13%) iPaaS
12 24 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 24 (2.13%) OCI
12 24 (2.13%) PaaS
13 20 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (1.78%) Boomi
14 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.84%) Network Security
2 30 (2.66%) Firewall
3 23 (2.04%) WAN
4 19 (1.69%) VPN
5 15 (1.33%) LAN
6 12 (1.07%) HTTP
7 10 (0.89%) BGP
8 9 (0.80%) DNS
8 9 (0.80%) MPLS
8 9 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.62%) IPsec
10 6 (0.53%) NGFW
10 6 (0.53%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.44%) 5G
11 5 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.44%) Modbus
11 5 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.36%) DHCP
12 4 (0.36%) Internet
12 4 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.95%) Metadata
2 55 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 35 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (2.84%) Power BI
5 19 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.07%) Base SAS
8 11 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 10 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.89%) SAP HANA
10 9 (0.80%) Big Data
11 8 (0.71%) Delta Lake
11 8 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.62%) Neo4j
12 7 (0.62%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (1.51%) JIRA
2 13 (1.15%) Git
2 13 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.98%) GitLab
4 5 (0.44%) ERwin
5 3 (0.27%) Hudson
5 3 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.27%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.18%) Postman
6 2 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.18%) Subversion
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.089%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.089%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.089%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.089%) Mockito
General
1 398 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 301 (26.73%) Finance
3 186 (16.52%) Public Sector
4 107 (9.50%) Banking
5 99 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (8.35%) Retail
7 83 (7.37%) Influencing Skills
8 38 (3.37%) Legal
9 35 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 30 (2.66%) Aerospace
11 29 (2.58%) Military
12 24 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (1.95%) Local Government
13 22 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.60%) Marketing
15 18 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 16 (1.42%) Billing
17 11 (0.98%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 805 (71.49%) Architect
2 268 (23.80%) Solutions Architect
3 177 (15.72%) Enterprise Architect
4 137 (12.17%) Lead
5 89 (7.90%) Data Architect
6 88 (7.82%) Technical Architect
7 75 (6.66%) Senior
8 67 (5.95%) Lead Architect
9 54 (4.80%) Security Architect
10 50 (4.44%) Senior Architect
11 48 (4.26%) SAP Architect
12 38 (3.37%) Technical Leader
13 35 (3.11%) Project Manager
14 33 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 33 (2.93%) Integration Architect
15 30 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
16 27 (2.40%) ServiceNow Architect
17 26 (2.31%) Azure Architect
17 26 (2.31%) Technical Manager
18 25 (2.22%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.28%) REST
2 73 (6.48%) Middleware
3 46 (4.09%) SOAP
4 41 (3.64%) Terraform
5 33 (2.93%) Kafka
5 33 (2.93%) OAuth
6 30 (2.66%) .NET
7 20 (1.78%) JSON
7 20 (1.78%) SAML
7 20 (1.78%) SAP Fiori
8 19 (1.69%) XML
9 17 (1.51%) JWT
10 16 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
11 15 (1.33%) SAPUI5
12 14 (1.24%) OAuth2
12 14 (1.24%) OpenID
12 14 (1.24%) Swagger
13 13 (1.15%) GraphQL
13 13 (1.15%) OpenAPI
14 12 (1.07%) React
Miscellaneous
1 154 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 90 (7.99%) Enterprise Software
3 63 (5.60%) Product Ownership
4 58 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 53 (4.71%) AI Agents
6 44 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 40 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (3.46%) CMDB
9 31 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 31 (2.75%) Operational Technology
10 28 (2.49%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
12 22 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.95%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.87%) IoT
14 19 (1.69%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.60%) FMCG
16 16 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
17 14 (1.24%) Data Structures
18 13 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.04%) Windows
2 12 (1.07%) Linux
3 10 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
5 2 (0.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.089%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.089%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (38.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 417 (37.03%) Roadmaps
3 248 (22.02%) TOGAF
4 224 (19.89%) AI
5 219 (19.45%) Integration Patterns
6 217 (19.27%) Migration
7 213 (18.92%) Agile
8 210 (18.65%) Technical Leadership
9 205 (18.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 188 (16.70%) Architecture Governance
11 174 (15.45%) Decision-Making
12 171 (15.19%) Analytics
13 167 (14.83%) DevOps
14 164 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
15 157 (13.94%) Architectural Patterns
16 151 (13.41%) CI/CD
17 148 (13.14%) Data Architecture
18 141 (12.52%) Event-Driven
19 132 (11.72%) Data Modelling
20 126 (11.19%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 66 (5.86%) Python
2 51 (4.53%) SQL
3 42 (3.73%) Java
4 22 (1.95%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.15%) C#
5 13 (1.15%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.07%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.98%) ABAP
8 6 (0.53%) Bash
8 6 (0.53%) Bicep
9 4 (0.36%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.36%) Korn
10 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.18%) Rust
11 1 (0.089%) DAML
11 1 (0.089%) Go
11 1 (0.089%) Groovy
11 1 (0.089%) Scala
11 1 (0.089%) Solidity
11 1 (0.089%) Swift
Qualifications
1 298 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 227 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 62 (5.51%) Azure Certification
4 61 (5.42%) Degree
5 51 (4.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 47 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 40 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.84%) AWS Certification
9 30 (2.66%) CISSP
10 26 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.87%) PMP
12 18 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.51%) CISM
14 13 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (1.15%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.62%) CCIE
16 7 (0.62%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.53%) CCSP
17 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 51 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (4.26%) GRC
4 45 (4.00%) GDPR
5 39 (3.46%) NIST
6 35 (3.11%) NCSC
7 23 (2.04%) QA
8 17 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.24%) PMO
10 12 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.98%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.71%) SLA
13 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.53%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.44%) COBIT
15 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.27%) GxP
16 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 39 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.13%) Docker
3 13 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.089%) NFS
8 1 (0.089%) Samba
8 1 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.69%) Ansible
3 14 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.80%) Grafana
5 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.27%) SCCM
6 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.18%) Puppet
6 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.089%) CASB
7 1 (0.089%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.089%) Nagios
7 1 (0.089%) OpenNMS
7 1 (0.089%) SCOM
7 1 (0.089%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 244 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 116 (10.30%) SAP
3 101 (8.97%) Oracle
4 70 (6.22%) ServiceNow
5 63 (5.60%) Google
6 61 (5.42%) Databricks
7 41 (3.64%) Salesforce
8 27 (2.40%) MuleSoft
9 24 (2.13%) Workday
10 22 (1.95%) Informatica
10 22 (1.95%) VMware
11 19 (1.69%) IBM
11 19 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.69%) Sparx
12 18 (1.60%) BiZZdesign
13 17 (1.51%) Cisco
14 16 (1.42%) Ariba
14 16 (1.42%) Zscaler
15 13 (1.15%) Adobe
15 13 (1.15%) Foundry