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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 209 280
Rank change year-on-year +54 +71 -35
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 851 401 350
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.34% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.47% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 258 229
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £525 £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 36 2 6
10th Percentile £20.31 £56.20 -
25th Percentile £66.06 £63.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £86.50 £76.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.32% +13.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £110.75 £88.50 £83.81
90th Percentile - £95.40 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £86.50 £52.67 £87.50
% change year-on-year +64.23% -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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £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 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +43 737 £650 +3.17% 215
UK excluding London +13 378 £625 - 160
London +60 363 £675 +3.85% 91
Work from Home +60 257 £575 -3.52% 114
South East +5 122 £645 +3.20% 53
North of England -11 107 £563 -7.79% 42
Midlands -10 71 £575 -7.26% 19
Yorkshire -1 60 £613 -2.00% 16
West Midlands -22 52 £575 -4.17% 13
North West -30 44 £550 -1.26% 25
South West -32 38 £650 - 17
Scotland -16 28 £625 +4.87% 8
East Midlands -13 17 £575 -17.86% 6
East of England -18 15 £650 +10.64% 12
North East - 8 £800 - 2
Wales -16 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 11
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 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.59%) SAS
3 19 (2.23%) 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 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) 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 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.71%) Primavera
5 5 (0.59%) ContrOCC
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 (0.24%) Endur
7 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.24%) SAP CS
7 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.24%) 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%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 251 (29.49%) Azure
2 173 (20.33%) AWS
3 62 (7.29%) GCP
4 59 (6.93%) SaaS
5 41 (4.82%) Power Platform
6 33 (3.88%) Serverless
7 31 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (3.64%) PaaS
8 29 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 22 (2.59%) OCI
10 21 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (2.23%) Azure AI
11 19 (2.23%) IaaS
12 18 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.88%) GitHub
13 16 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (1.53%) Azure Functions
16 12 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.23%) Network Security
2 15 (1.76%) Firewall
2 15 (1.76%) VPN
3 14 (1.65%) WAN
4 11 (1.29%) IPsec
5 10 (1.18%) LAN
5 10 (1.18%) MPLS
6 9 (1.06%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.94%) BGP
8 6 (0.71%) SSL
9 5 (0.59%) DNS
9 5 (0.59%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.59%) NGFW
10 4 (0.47%) DHCP
10 4 (0.47%) Intranet
10 4 (0.47%) MQTT
10 4 (0.47%) RFID
10 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.35%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.88%) Data Lake
2 27 (3.17%) Metadata
3 25 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (2.35%) Power BI
5 13 (1.53%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.53%) Oracle Database
5 13 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 11 (1.29%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.18%) Base SAS
7 10 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.35%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.35%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (1.53%) 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 (0.24%) Flyway
6 2 (0.24%) JUnit
6 2 (0.24%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 249 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 217 (25.50%) Finance
3 131 (15.39%) Public Sector
4 87 (10.22%) Banking
5 74 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (7.17%) Retail
7 45 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.82%) Legal
9 25 (2.94%) Aerospace
9 25 (2.94%) Military
10 20 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.41%) Local Government
14 10 (1.18%) Law
14 10 (1.18%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.06%) Aviation
16 6 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 583 (68.51%) Architect
2 201 (23.62%) Solutions Architect
3 135 (15.86%) Enterprise Architect
4 94 (11.05%) Lead
5 71 (8.34%) Technical Architect
6 66 (7.76%) Senior
7 49 (5.76%) Data Architect
8 41 (4.82%) Security Architect
9 40 (4.70%) Senior Architect
10 39 (4.58%) Lead Architect
11 28 (3.29%) ServiceNow Architect
12 26 (3.06%) Project Manager
13 25 (2.94%) SAP Architect
14 24 (2.82%) Analyst
15 23 (2.70%) Consultant
16 19 (2.23%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (2.23%) Technical Leader
17 18 (2.12%) Technical Manager
18 17 (2.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
19 16 (1.88%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.99%) REST
2 59 (6.93%) Middleware
3 38 (4.47%) SOAP
4 37 (4.35%) .NET
5 21 (2.47%) OAuth
6 20 (2.35%) Web Services
7 18 (2.12%) Kafka
8 15 (1.76%) SAML
9 14 (1.65%) React
10 13 (1.53%) AngularJS
10 13 (1.53%) OpenID
10 13 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (1.29%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.06%) A2A Protocol
13 9 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
13 9 (1.06%) XML
14 8 (0.94%) JSON
14 8 (0.94%) Node.js
15 7 (0.82%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.46%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.34%) Product Ownership
3 49 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.88%) CMDB
5 31 (3.64%) Operational Technology
6 25 (2.94%) AI Agents
7 24 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (2.70%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.35%) Security Posture
11 18 (2.12%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.88%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.65%) IoT
14 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.06%) FMCG
15 8 (0.94%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.23%) Windows
2 13 (1.53%) Linux
3 5 (0.59%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (34.43%) Roadmaps
2 210 (24.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 201 (23.62%) TOGAF
4 188 (22.09%) Agile
5 165 (19.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 154 (18.10%) Integration Patterns
7 144 (16.92%) Migration
8 138 (16.22%) Architectural Patterns
9 129 (15.16%) AI
10 125 (14.69%) Decision-Making
10 125 (14.69%) Technical Leadership
11 120 (14.10%) CI/CD
12 116 (13.63%) DevOps
13 103 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
14 98 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
15 97 (11.40%) Data Modelling
16 95 (11.16%) Architecture Governance
17 91 (10.69%) Architectural Design
18 90 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
19 89 (10.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 62 (7.29%) Python
2 41 (4.82%) Java
2 41 (4.82%) SQL
3 14 (1.65%) JavaScript
4 13 (1.53%) C#
5 11 (1.29%) TypeScript
6 8 (0.94%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.71%) ABAP
7 6 (0.71%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.59%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.47%) Bash
9 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.24%) Ruby
11 2 (0.24%) Scala
12 1 (0.12%) C++
12 1 (0.12%) Go
12 1 (0.12%) Groovy
12 1 (0.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 234 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 171 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.46%) DV Cleared
4 42 (4.94%) Degree
5 40 (4.70%) Azure Certification
6 30 (3.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 28 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.82%) AWS Certification
10 22 (2.59%) CISSP
11 15 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.76%) CISM
12 11 (1.29%) PMP
13 9 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.82%) CCIE
15 7 (0.82%) JNCIE
16 6 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.64%) GDPR
3 36 (4.23%) NIST
4 29 (3.41%) NCSC
5 21 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.88%) QA
7 15 (1.76%) COBIT
8 14 (1.65%) GRC
9 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (1.06%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.94%) PMO
12 8 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.71%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.71%) ISO 31000
14 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (0.71%) SLA
15 4 (0.47%) Def Stans
System Software
1 30 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.35%) Docker
3 6 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.71%) VMware NSX
4 5 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.47%) RACF
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) IAG
7 1 (0.12%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.70%) Terraform
3 15 (1.76%) Ansible
4 13 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.82%) SCCM
6 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.12%) CASB
9 1 (0.12%) Grafana
9 1 (0.12%) Istio
9 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 168 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.34%) SAP
3 67 (7.87%) Oracle
4 59 (6.93%) ServiceNow
5 37 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.29%) BiZZdesign
7 25 (2.94%) Sparx
8 24 (2.82%) Databricks
9 23 (2.70%) Google
10 16 (1.88%) VMware
10 16 (1.88%) Workday
11 14 (1.65%) Ariba
12 12 (1.41%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.41%) Zscaler
13 11 (1.29%) Cisco
14 7 (0.82%) Foundry
14 7 (0.82%) Informatica
15 6 (0.71%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.71%) Palo Alto