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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 211 288
Rank change year-on-year +71 +77 -56
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1,086 438 291
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 1.33% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.47% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 293 175
10th Percentile £465 £450 £447
25th Percentile £525 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -6.02%
75th Percentile £714 £725 £748
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £646
% change year-on-year +4.35% -10.99% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 3 4
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £66.63 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £83.50 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.53% -21.97% -3.57%
75th Percentile £109.44 £77.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 -
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 45,621 29,800 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,920 18,562 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,892 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.48% -47.37% +14.67%

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 29 August 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 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 17 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 29 August 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 +65 953 £625 - 823
London +80 523 £650 +0.78% 493
UK excluding London +22 425 £600 +4.35% 417
Work from Home +56 311 £600 +4.35% 371
South East +5 142 £575 -8.00% 129
North of England +2 120 £575 +6.73% 97
Midlands -16 76 £626 +4.38% 46
Yorkshire +9 61 £550 -6.38% 31
North West -36 54 £600 +11.73% 58
West Midlands -12 53 £638 +6.55% 26
South West -33 48 £650 - 51
Scotland -10 28 £600 +11.27% 49
East Midlands -11 20 £600 -14.29% 20
East of England -18 12 £650 -3.70% 35
North East -34 5 £625 +13.64% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 £713 - 11
Channel Islands - 1 £625 - 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 50 (4.60%) SAS
2 31 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.12%) Confluence
4 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.74%) Apache
6 8 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.46%) CMS
7 5 (0.46%) Mule
7 5 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.37%) Apache Superset
8 4 (0.37%) NetWeaver
8 4 (0.37%) SAP EP
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
11 1 (0.092%) Camunda
11 1 (0.092%) CIMPLICITY
11 1 (0.092%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 41 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.74%) ContrOCC
5 7 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.55%) Primavera
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.37%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.28%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.28%) Endur
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.18%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
Cloud Services
1 357 (32.87%) Azure
2 231 (21.27%) AWS
3 115 (10.59%) GCP
4 70 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 66 (6.08%) SaaS
6 62 (5.71%) Entra ID
7 51 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (3.22%) Serverless
9 27 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
10 24 (2.21%) PaaS
11 23 (2.12%) Azure AI
11 23 (2.12%) OCI
12 20 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (1.84%) GitHub
12 20 (1.84%) iPaaS
13 18 (1.66%) Snowflake
14 17 (1.57%) Boomi
15 16 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.04%) Network Security
2 28 (2.58%) Firewall
3 23 (2.12%) VPN
4 21 (1.93%) WAN
5 14 (1.29%) LAN
6 10 (0.92%) BGP
7 9 (0.83%) MPLS
8 8 (0.74%) HTTP
8 8 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.64%) DNS
9 7 (0.64%) IPsec
10 6 (0.55%) NGFW
10 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.46%) 5G
11 5 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.46%) SMS
12 4 (0.37%) 4G
12 4 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.37%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.25%) Metadata
2 50 (4.60%) Data Lake
3 31 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (2.85%) Power BI
4 18 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.10%) Base SAS
7 10 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.64%) Big Data
9 7 (0.64%) Neo4j
9 7 (0.64%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.55%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 5 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 17 (1.57%) JIRA
2 12 (1.10%) Git
3 8 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.64%) GitLab
5 6 (0.55%) ERwin
6 5 (0.46%) Hudson
7 4 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.18%) Postman
8 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) Subversion
8 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.092%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.092%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.092%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.092%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.092%) Flyway
9 1 (0.092%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.092%) Mockito
9 1 (0.092%) Selenium
General
1 367 (33.79%) Social Skills
2 279 (25.69%) Finance
3 178 (16.39%) Public Sector
4 102 (9.39%) Banking
5 96 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (8.66%) Retail
7 75 (6.91%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (4.05%) Legal
9 31 (2.85%) Military
10 28 (2.58%) Aerospace
11 25 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.30%) Local Government
12 23 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.93%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.66%) Marketing
16 16 (1.47%) Billing
17 11 (1.01%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.92%) Law
18 10 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 767 (70.63%) Architect
2 255 (23.48%) Solutions Architect
3 171 (15.75%) Enterprise Architect
4 135 (12.43%) Lead
5 83 (7.64%) Technical Architect
6 75 (6.91%) Data Architect
7 66 (6.08%) Lead Architect
7 66 (6.08%) Senior
8 56 (5.16%) Security Architect
9 41 (3.78%) Senior Architect
10 37 (3.41%) Project Manager
11 35 (3.22%) Technical Leader
12 33 (3.04%) SAP Architect
12 33 (3.04%) ServiceNow Architect
13 29 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
14 26 (2.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 24 (2.21%) Analyst
15 24 (2.21%) Azure Architect
15 24 (2.21%) Integration Architect
16 22 (2.03%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.73%) REST
2 66 (6.08%) Middleware
3 49 (4.51%) SOAP
4 36 (3.31%) .NET
4 36 (3.31%) Terraform
5 30 (2.76%) OAuth
6 24 (2.21%) Kafka
7 18 (1.66%) SAML
8 16 (1.47%) JSON
8 16 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (1.47%) XML
9 15 (1.38%) React
10 14 (1.29%) JWT
10 14 (1.29%) OAuth2
10 14 (1.29%) Web Services
11 13 (1.20%) OpenID
12 11 (1.01%) GraphQL
13 10 (0.92%) EDI
13 10 (0.92%) Node.js
14 9 (0.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 132 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.92%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.51%) AI Agents
5 48 (4.42%) CMDB
6 47 (4.33%) Onboarding
7 42 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (3.22%) Operational Technology
9 33 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
10 31 (2.85%) Management Information System
11 28 (2.58%) Security Posture
12 25 (2.30%) Data Centre
12 25 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.75%) IoT
14 17 (1.57%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.20%) FMCG
15 13 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
16 12 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (1.01%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.66%) Windows
2 13 (1.20%) Linux
3 6 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (34.07%) Roadmaps
2 367 (33.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 239 (22.01%) TOGAF
4 215 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 208 (19.15%) AI
6 205 (18.88%) Agile
7 200 (18.42%) Integration Patterns
8 192 (17.68%) Technical Leadership
9 187 (17.22%) Migration
10 163 (15.01%) Architectural Patterns
11 160 (14.73%) Architecture Governance
12 151 (13.90%) Analytics
12 151 (13.90%) Cybersecurity
13 148 (13.63%) Decision-Making
14 141 (12.98%) DevOps
15 140 (12.89%) CI/CD
16 137 (12.62%) Data Architecture
17 131 (12.06%) Event-Driven
18 126 (11.60%) Data Integration
19 124 (11.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 76 (7.00%) Python
2 51 (4.70%) Java
3 46 (4.24%) SQL
4 21 (1.93%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.38%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.29%) C#
6 14 (1.29%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 7 (0.64%) ABAP
9 6 (0.55%) Bash
10 4 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.37%) Bicep
11 3 (0.28%) Korn
11 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.18%) Ruby
12 2 (0.18%) Rust
12 2 (0.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.092%) DAML
13 1 (0.092%) Solidity
13 1 (0.092%) Swift
Qualifications
1 314 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 238 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 60 (5.52%) Degree
4 59 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 57 (5.25%) DV Cleared
6 43 (3.96%) TOGAF Certification
7 30 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 29 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.67%) CISSP
9 27 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.66%) CISM
12 17 (1.57%) PMP
13 13 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.64%) CCIE
17 7 (0.64%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.51%) GRC
3 46 (4.24%) GDPR
3 46 (4.24%) NIST
4 42 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.04%) NCSC
6 20 (1.84%) QA
7 14 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (1.29%) PMO
8 12 (1.10%) COBIT
8 12 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 12 (1.10%) NIST 800
9 9 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.74%) SLA
11 6 (0.55%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.55%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 38 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.93%) Docker
3 10 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.092%) IAG
6 1 (0.092%) NFS
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.092%) Samba
6 1 (0.092%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.93%) Ansible
3 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.37%) Grafana
6 3 (0.28%) SCCM
7 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.18%) Puppet
7 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.092%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.092%) CASB
8 1 (0.092%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.092%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.092%) Nagios
8 1 (0.092%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.092%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.092%) SCOM
8 1 (0.092%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 223 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.12%) Oracle
3 95 (8.75%) SAP
4 77 (7.09%) ServiceNow
5 57 (5.25%) Google
6 55 (5.06%) Databricks
7 41 (3.78%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.21%) MuleSoft
8 24 (2.21%) Workday
9 22 (2.03%) Sparx
9 22 (2.03%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.93%) BiZZdesign
10 21 (1.93%) VMware
11 19 (1.75%) Informatica
12 17 (1.57%) Ariba
12 17 (1.57%) Cisco
13 16 (1.47%) IBM
14 15 (1.38%) Foundry
14 15 (1.38%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.92%) Adobe