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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 199 284
Rank change year-on-year +44 +85 -45
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 853 402 350
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.33% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.47% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 262 229
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £526 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 2 6
10th Percentile £20.31 £56.20 -
25th Percentile £65.50 £63.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £85.00 £76.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% +13.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £110.75 £88.50 £83.81
90th Percentile - £95.40 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £52.67 £87.50
% change year-on-year +61.38% -39.81% +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 43,238 27,425 37,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 91.06% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,959 17,371 23,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,600 1,291 2,584
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +17.29%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +39 737 £650 +3.42% 207
UK excluding London +3 379 £625 - 140
London +59 363 £673 +3.56% 98
Work from Home +53 256 £600 +0.67% 103
South East -1 126 £650 +3.83% 54
North of England -15 104 £575 -1.20% 33
Midlands -17 73 £575 -7.26% 15
Yorkshire -6 57 £663 +6.00% 15
West Midlands -21 53 £575 -4.17% 11
North West -30 44 £550 +0.92% 17
South West -43 38 £650 - 17
Scotland -11 29 £625 +4.87% 5
East Midlands -12 18 £575 -17.86% 4
East of England -20 12 £650 +10.64% 12
North East - 8 £800 - 2
Wales -13 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 7
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 33 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.58%) SAS
3 20 (2.34%) Confluence
4 11 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.59%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.59%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.47%) 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 (0.94%) 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 27 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (3.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.70%) ContrOCC
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.70%) Primavera
5 5 (0.59%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.23%) Endur
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.23%) SAP CS
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.12%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 257 (30.13%) Azure
2 173 (20.28%) AWS
3 67 (7.85%) GCP
4 60 (7.03%) SaaS
5 40 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 32 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (3.75%) PaaS
7 31 (3.63%) Entra ID
7 31 (3.63%) Serverless
8 22 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 20 (2.34%) IaaS
10 19 (2.23%) OCI
11 18 (2.11%) Azure AI
11 18 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
13 14 (1.64%) GitHub
13 14 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.29%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.34%) Network Security
2 19 (2.23%) Firewall
3 17 (1.99%) VPN
4 16 (1.88%) WAN
5 13 (1.52%) IPsec
6 12 (1.41%) LAN
6 12 (1.41%) MPLS
7 11 (1.29%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.17%) BGP
9 7 (0.82%) DNS
10 6 (0.70%) SSL
10 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.59%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.59%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.59%) NGFW
12 4 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.47%) Intranet
12 4 (0.47%) MQTT
12 4 (0.47%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.87%) Data Lake
2 28 (3.28%) Metadata
3 25 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (2.34%) Power BI
5 14 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.52%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 11 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.17%) Base SAS
8 10 (1.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.35%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.35%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (1.64%) JIRA
2 8 (0.94%) Git
2 8 (0.94%) GitLab
2 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.59%) Hudson
4 4 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.35%) ERwin
5 3 (0.35%) Selenium
6 2 (0.23%) Flyway
6 2 (0.23%) JUnit
6 2 (0.23%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 252 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 217 (25.44%) Finance
3 131 (15.36%) Public Sector
4 88 (10.32%) Banking
5 75 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (7.39%) Retail
7 46 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.81%) Legal
9 25 (2.93%) Military
10 24 (2.81%) Aerospace
11 21 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.88%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.52%) Local Government
13 13 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.29%) Law
15 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.06%) Aviation
17 6 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.70%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 587 (68.82%) Architect
2 200 (23.45%) Solutions Architect
3 136 (15.94%) Enterprise Architect
4 97 (11.37%) Lead
5 73 (8.56%) Technical Architect
6 69 (8.09%) Senior
7 49 (5.74%) Data Architect
8 42 (4.92%) Lead Architect
8 42 (4.92%) Security Architect
9 40 (4.69%) Senior Architect
10 29 (3.40%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.28%) ServiceNow Architect
12 26 (3.05%) SAP Architect
13 23 (2.70%) Analyst
14 21 (2.46%) Technical Leader
15 20 (2.34%) Consultant
16 19 (2.23%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (2.23%) Technical Manager
17 17 (1.99%) Senior Solutions Architect
17 17 (1.99%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.50%) REST
2 59 (6.92%) Middleware
3 38 (4.45%) SOAP
4 37 (4.34%) .NET
5 21 (2.46%) OAuth
6 20 (2.34%) Web Services
7 18 (2.11%) Kafka
8 15 (1.76%) SAML
9 14 (1.64%) React
10 13 (1.52%) AngularJS
10 13 (1.52%) OpenID
11 11 (1.29%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (1.06%) XML
14 8 (0.94%) JSON
14 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
14 8 (0.94%) Node.js
14 8 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
15 7 (0.82%) .NET Core
15 7 (0.82%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 90 (10.55%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.21%) Product Ownership
3 51 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.87%) CMDB
5 30 (3.52%) Operational Technology
6 27 (3.17%) AI Agents
7 26 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (2.93%) Onboarding
9 23 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.46%) Data Centre
10 21 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (2.46%) Security Posture
11 20 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.99%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.64%) IoT
15 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.06%) FMCG
15 9 (1.06%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.34%) Windows
2 14 (1.64%) Linux
3 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.59%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) 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
1 288 (33.76%) Roadmaps
2 213 (24.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 203 (23.80%) TOGAF
4 190 (22.27%) Agile
5 166 (19.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 153 (17.94%) Integration Patterns
7 143 (16.76%) Migration
8 137 (16.06%) Architectural Patterns
9 134 (15.71%) AI
10 126 (14.77%) Technical Leadership
11 125 (14.65%) Decision-Making
12 121 (14.19%) CI/CD
13 118 (13.83%) DevOps
14 105 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
15 100 (11.72%) Architecture Governance
16 98 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
17 92 (10.79%) Data Modelling
18 91 (10.67%) Architectural Design
19 89 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
19 89 (10.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 63 (7.39%) Python
2 42 (4.92%) SQL
3 41 (4.81%) Java
4 14 (1.64%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.52%) C#
6 11 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.82%) ABAP
9 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.59%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.47%) Bash
11 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.35%) Bicep
13 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.23%) Ruby
13 2 (0.23%) Scala
14 1 (0.12%) Go
14 1 (0.12%) Groovy
14 1 (0.12%) Korn
14 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 238 (27.90%) Security Cleared
2 172 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.92%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.28%) Degree
5 40 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
8 25 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.81%) AWS Certification
10 22 (2.58%) CISSP
11 17 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.76%) CISM
13 11 (1.29%) PMP
14 9 (1.06%) CCIE
14 9 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.94%) CCNP
15 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.82%) JNCIE
16 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.63%) GDPR
3 35 (4.10%) NIST
4 32 (3.75%) NCSC
5 22 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.99%) QA
7 15 (1.76%) COBIT
8 14 (1.64%) GRC
9 13 (1.52%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (1.06%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 8 (0.94%) PMO
11 8 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.82%) SLA
13 6 (0.70%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.70%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.47%) IFRS
System Software
1 31 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.46%) Docker
3 8 (0.94%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.47%) 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%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.93%) Terraform
3 17 (1.99%) Ansible
4 13 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.82%) 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
8 1 (0.12%) CASB
8 1 (0.12%) Grafana
8 1 (0.12%) Istio
8 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 169 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.32%) SAP
3 63 (7.39%) Oracle
4 59 (6.92%) ServiceNow
5 37 (4.34%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.28%) BiZZdesign
7 27 (3.17%) Databricks
8 26 (3.05%) Google
8 26 (3.05%) Sparx
9 17 (1.99%) VMware
10 16 (1.88%) Workday
11 13 (1.52%) Cisco
12 12 (1.41%) Ariba
12 12 (1.41%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.41%) Zscaler
13 10 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.94%) Foundry
14 8 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.82%) Informatica
16 6 (0.70%) Liquidlogic