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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 195 294
Rank change year-on-year +40 +99 -62
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 913 442 328
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.36% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.51% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 298 204
10th Percentile £475 £450 £450
25th Percentile £537 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -3.85% -1.14%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £748
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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +49 792 £650 +4.00% 251
London +63 421 £650 - 136
UK excluding London -8 372 £625 +2.46% 128
Work from Home +32 267 £600 - 128
South East -7 120 £638 +2.00% 45
North of England -26 96 £575 -7.26% 34
Midlands -25 72 £575 -4.17% 18
Yorkshire -6 53 £650 +4.00% 8
West Midlands -25 51 £600 +0.08% 12
South West -28 46 £650 - 18
North West -44 39 £550 - 22
Scotland -9 29 £625 +11.16% 4
East Midlands -9 19 £575 -17.86% 6
East of England -15 12 £575 -14.81% 9
North East -30 9 £725 - 4
Wales -11 1 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 1

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 34 (3.72%) SAS
2 27 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.97%) Confluence
4 12 (1.31%) 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%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
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 34 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.20%) 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 (31.65%) Azure
2 197 (21.58%) AWS
3 84 (9.20%) GCP
4 56 (6.13%) SaaS
5 44 (4.82%) Power Platform
6 39 (4.27%) Entra ID
7 34 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (3.61%) Serverless
9 28 (3.07%) PaaS
10 18 (1.97%) IaaS
10 18 (1.97%) OCI
11 17 (1.86%) Azure AI
11 17 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
12 16 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (1.31%) GitHub
14 12 (1.31%) iPaaS
15 11 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.96%) Network Security
2 22 (2.41%) Firewall
3 20 (2.19%) VPN
4 18 (1.97%) WAN
5 15 (1.64%) IPsec
6 13 (1.42%) LAN
7 12 (1.31%) MPLS
7 12 (1.31%) 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 (4.16%) Data Lake
2 33 (3.61%) Metadata
3 29 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.52%) Power BI
5 18 (1.97%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.31%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.20%) Base SAS
8 11 (1.20%) Oracle Database
9 9 (0.99%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.33%) GIS
12 3 (0.33%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (1.53%) JIRA
2 10 (1.10%) Git
3 7 (0.77%) GitLab
3 7 (0.77%) 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
1 277 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 240 (26.29%) Finance
3 145 (15.88%) Public Sector
4 99 (10.84%) Banking
5 78 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 73 (8.00%) Retail
7 55 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (4.93%) Legal
9 25 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 25 (2.74%) Military
10 22 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.86%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.86%) Local Government
13 16 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.31%) Billing
15 12 (1.31%) Marketing
16 11 (1.20%) Law
17 9 (0.99%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 644 (70.54%) Architect
2 218 (23.88%) Solutions Architect
3 146 (15.99%) Enterprise Architect
4 109 (11.94%) Lead
5 73 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 69 (7.56%) Senior
7 60 (6.57%) Data Architect
8 54 (5.91%) Lead Architect
9 48 (5.26%) Security Architect
10 45 (4.93%) Senior Architect
11 33 (3.61%) Project Manager
12 32 (3.50%) SAP Architect
13 29 (3.18%) ServiceNow Architect
14 24 (2.63%) Analyst
15 23 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
16 22 (2.41%) Technical Leader
17 20 (2.19%) Senior Solutions Architect
17 20 (2.19%) Technical Manager
18 19 (2.08%) Azure Architect
19 18 (1.97%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (7.56%) REST
2 61 (6.68%) Middleware
3 42 (4.60%) SOAP
4 36 (3.94%) .NET
5 23 (2.52%) OAuth
6 21 (2.30%) Web Services
7 20 (2.19%) Kafka
8 15 (1.64%) SAML
9 14 (1.53%) React
10 13 (1.42%) OpenID
11 11 (1.20%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.20%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (1.10%) XML
13 9 (0.99%) JSON
13 9 (0.99%) Node.js
13 9 (0.99%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (0.88%) SAPUI5
15 7 (0.77%) .NET Core
15 7 (0.77%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.62%) Cloud Native
2 64 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.46%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.72%) Operational Technology
5 33 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 32 (3.50%) CMDB
7 29 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.96%) AI Agents
9 26 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (2.74%) Management Information System
11 22 (2.41%) Security Posture
12 21 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (2.19%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.97%) IoT
15 17 (1.86%) Public Cloud
16 11 (1.20%) FMCG
17 9 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 9 (0.99%) Private Cloud
18 8 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.08%) Windows
2 13 (1.42%) 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
1 309 (33.84%) Roadmaps
2 240 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 221 (24.21%) TOGAF
4 208 (22.78%) Agile
5 178 (19.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 170 (18.62%) Integration Patterns
7 160 (17.52%) Migration
8 148 (16.21%) AI
9 147 (16.10%) Architectural Patterns
10 146 (15.99%) Technical Leadership
11 128 (14.02%) Decision-Making
11 128 (14.02%) DevOps
12 123 (13.47%) CI/CD
13 115 (12.60%) Cybersecurity
14 111 (12.16%) Architecture Governance
15 102 (11.17%) Analytics
16 101 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
17 100 (10.95%) Data Modelling
18 99 (10.84%) Event-Driven
19 98 (10.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 69 (7.56%) Python
2 46 (5.04%) Java
2 46 (5.04%) SQL
3 19 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 13 (1.42%) C#
5 12 (1.31%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.20%) 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
1 252 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 188 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 54 (5.91%) DV Cleared
4 49 (5.37%) Degree
5 48 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.40%) TOGAF Certification
7 30 (3.29%) AWS Certification
8 29 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.96%) CISSP
10 19 (2.08%) CISM
11 18 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.53%) PMP
13 11 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.99%) CCIE
14 9 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.88%) CCNP
15 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.77%) JNCIE
16 7 (0.77%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.26%) GDPR
3 37 (4.05%) NIST
4 34 (3.72%) NCSC
5 29 (3.18%) GRC
6 25 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.97%) QA
8 15 (1.64%) COBIT
9 14 (1.53%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.20%) NIST 800
11 10 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.99%) PMO
12 9 (0.99%) SLA
13 8 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.66%) ISO 31000
14 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.30%) Docker
3 9 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.99%) VMware NSX
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 39 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.18%) Terraform
3 20 (2.19%) Ansible
4 13 (1.42%) 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%) CASB
9 1 (0.11%) Check_MK
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
1 183 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 80 (8.76%) SAP
3 74 (8.11%) Oracle
4 58 (6.35%) ServiceNow
5 37 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.72%) Databricks
7 30 (3.29%) BiZZdesign
7 30 (3.29%) Google
8 23 (2.52%) Sparx
9 18 (1.97%) VMware
9 18 (1.97%) Workday
10 17 (1.86%) Zscaler
11 15 (1.64%) Ariba
11 15 (1.64%) Cisco
12 13 (1.42%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.20%) Informatica
14 9 (0.99%) Foundry
14 9 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.88%) Liquidlogic
15 8 (0.88%) OpenAI