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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 200 297
Rank change year-on-year +49 +97 -62
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 907 442 326
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.36% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.51% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 297 203
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £531 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% -3.85% -1.14%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £739
90th Percentile £825 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £610 £650
% change year-on-year +2.46% -6.15% +1.92%
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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £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 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +39 785 £650 +4.00% 252
London +67 417 £650 - 134
UK excluding London -11 370 £625 +2.46% 136
Work from Home +27 266 £600 - 137
South East -11 120 £638 +2.00% 46
North of England -20 97 £563 -9.27% 33
Midlands -21 71 £575 -4.17% 20
Yorkshire -10 54 £650 +4.00% 9
West Midlands -33 50 £600 +0.08% 13
South West -33 44 £650 - 18
North West -37 40 £550 -5.98% 21
Scotland -5 29 £625 +18.26% 4
East Midlands -10 19 £575 -17.86% 7
East of England -14 12 £575 -2.13% 10
North East -32 8 £800 - 3
Wales -14 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 5
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 32 (3.53%) SAS
2 27 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.09%) Confluence
4 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.55%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.55%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.44%) Apache
8 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) Mule
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Predix
Applications
1 8 (0.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 33 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.88%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.66%) Primavera
6 5 (0.55%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.33%) Endur
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.22%) SAP CS
8 2 (0.22%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 289 (31.86%) Azure
2 199 (21.94%) AWS
3 85 (9.37%) GCP
4 56 (6.17%) SaaS
5 44 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 38 (4.19%) Entra ID
7 34 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (3.75%) Serverless
8 29 (3.20%) PaaS
9 19 (2.09%) IaaS
10 18 (1.98%) OCI
11 17 (1.87%) Azure AI
11 17 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
12 16 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (1.32%) GitHub
14 12 (1.32%) iPaaS
15 11 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.98%) Network Security
2 22 (2.43%) Firewall
3 20 (2.21%) VPN
4 18 (1.98%) WAN
5 15 (1.65%) IPsec
6 13 (1.43%) LAN
7 12 (1.32%) MPLS
7 12 (1.32%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.10%) BGP
9 7 (0.77%) DNS
10 6 (0.66%) NGFW
10 6 (0.66%) SSL
10 6 (0.66%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.55%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.55%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.44%) DHCP
12 4 (0.44%) MQTT
12 4 (0.44%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.19%) Data Lake
2 31 (3.42%) Metadata
3 29 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.54%) Power BI
5 19 (2.09%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.32%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.21%) Base SAS
8 11 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 9 (0.99%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.33%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.33%) GIS
12 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (1.65%) JIRA
2 10 (1.10%) Git
3 8 (0.88%) GitLab
3 8 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.55%) Hudson
5 4 (0.44%) ERwin
5 4 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.22%) Flyway
7 2 (0.22%) JUnit
7 2 (0.22%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 271 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 238 (26.24%) Finance
3 146 (16.10%) Public Sector
4 98 (10.80%) Banking
5 79 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (7.94%) Retail
7 55 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (4.96%) Legal
9 25 (2.76%) Aerospace
9 25 (2.76%) Military
10 22 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.87%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.87%) Local Government
13 16 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.32%) Billing
14 12 (1.32%) Marketing
14 12 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.21%) Law
16 9 (0.99%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 638 (70.34%) Architect
2 216 (23.81%) Solutions Architect
3 146 (16.10%) Enterprise Architect
4 109 (12.02%) Lead
5 73 (8.05%) Technical Architect
6 69 (7.61%) Senior
7 58 (6.39%) Data Architect
8 53 (5.84%) Lead Architect
9 47 (5.18%) Security Architect
10 45 (4.96%) Senior Architect
11 32 (3.53%) Project Manager
12 31 (3.42%) SAP Architect
13 29 (3.20%) ServiceNow Architect
14 24 (2.65%) Analyst
14 24 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
15 22 (2.43%) Technical Leader
16 20 (2.21%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.21%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.09%) Azure Architect
18 18 (1.98%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (7.61%) REST
2 61 (6.73%) Middleware
3 42 (4.63%) SOAP
4 36 (3.97%) .NET
5 23 (2.54%) OAuth
6 21 (2.32%) Kafka
6 21 (2.32%) Web Services
7 15 (1.65%) SAML
8 14 (1.54%) React
9 13 (1.43%) OpenID
10 11 (1.21%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.21%) OAuth2
11 10 (1.10%) XML
12 9 (0.99%) JSON
12 9 (0.99%) Node.js
12 9 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
13 8 (0.88%) SAPUI5
14 7 (0.77%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.77%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.69%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.62%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.64%) Operational Technology
5 32 (3.53%) CMDB
6 31 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 28 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.98%) AI Agents
8 27 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (2.76%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.43%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.21%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.87%) IoT
13 17 (1.87%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.10%) FMCG
15 9 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (0.99%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.09%) Windows
2 13 (1.43%) Linux
3 5 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.22%) Android
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (33.96%) Roadmaps
2 237 (26.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 222 (24.48%) TOGAF
4 209 (23.04%) Agile
5 176 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 168 (18.52%) Integration Patterns
7 158 (17.42%) Migration
8 147 (16.21%) AI
8 147 (16.21%) Architectural Patterns
9 146 (16.10%) Technical Leadership
10 129 (14.22%) DevOps
11 128 (14.11%) Decision-Making
12 124 (13.67%) CI/CD
13 115 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
14 112 (12.35%) Architecture Governance
15 101 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (11.03%) Analytics
16 100 (11.03%) Data Modelling
16 100 (11.03%) Event-Driven
17 99 (10.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 69 (7.61%) Python
2 46 (5.07%) Java
2 46 (5.07%) SQL
3 19 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 13 (1.43%) C#
5 12 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.21%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.88%) ABAP
8 6 (0.66%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.66%) Bash
8 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.33%) Bicep
11 2 (0.22%) Go
11 2 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.22%) Korn
11 2 (0.22%) Ruby
11 2 (0.22%) Rust
11 2 (0.22%) Scala
12 1 (0.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 247 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 183 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 53 (5.84%) DV Cleared
4 49 (5.40%) Degree
5 48 (5.29%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.42%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.98%) CISSP
9 19 (2.09%) CISM
10 18 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.43%) PMP
12 12 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.99%) CCIE
13 9 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.88%) CCNP
14 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.77%) JNCIE
15 7 (0.77%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.29%) GDPR
3 36 (3.97%) NIST
4 33 (3.64%) NCSC
5 27 (2.98%) GRC
6 24 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.98%) QA
8 15 (1.65%) COBIT
9 14 (1.54%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.21%) NIST 800
11 9 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.99%) PMO
11 9 (0.99%) SLA
12 8 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.66%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.44%) IFRS
System Software
1 33 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.43%) Docker
3 9 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.44%) RACF
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.31%) Terraform
3 20 (2.21%) Ansible
4 13 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.55%) SCCM
7 3 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.22%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.22%) Puppet
8 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.11%) Grafana
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) SCOM
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 181 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 78 (8.60%) SAP
3 71 (7.83%) Oracle
4 58 (6.39%) ServiceNow
5 38 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.75%) Databricks
7 30 (3.31%) BiZZdesign
7 30 (3.31%) Google
8 23 (2.54%) Sparx
9 18 (1.98%) VMware
9 18 (1.98%) Workday
10 16 (1.76%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.65%) Cisco
12 14 (1.54%) Ariba
13 13 (1.43%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.99%) Foundry
14 9 (0.99%) Informatica
14 9 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.88%) Liquidlogic
15 8 (0.88%) OpenAI