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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 228 273
Rank change year-on-year +55 +45 -24
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 741 346 376
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.18% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.30% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 226 255
10th Percentile £457 £480 £463
25th Percentile £513 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £812 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 8
10th Percentile £58.36 - £58.50
25th Percentile £63.75 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £100.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +48.15% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87.50 - £75.44
90th Percentile £101.25 - £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.14%

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 39,921 26,554 37,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.86% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,152 17,143 24,256
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.04% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,393 1,068 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.24 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.71 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.52% -23.29% +1.39%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +51 629 £625 -3.85% 154
UK excluding London +8 356 £600 -4.00% 99
London +66 290 £630 -3.08% 84
Work from Home +57 218 £560 -6.67% 61
South East +9 112 £650 +3.17% 39
North of England -19 101 £569 -6.76% 20
Midlands -31 58 £564 -5.94% 18
Yorkshire -14 50 £563 -13.46% 6
North West -21 47 £588 +4.54% 13
South West -23 44 £650 - 7
West Midlands -36 39 £560 -6.67% 9
Scotland 0 27 £521 -1.37% 3
East Midlands -15 17 £570 -28.75% 9
East of England -26 14 £650 -3.70% 9
North East -10 9 £713 -5.00% 1
Wales -16 3 £550 +14.58% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £638 - 3

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 37 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.16%) Confluence
3 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.21%) SAS
5 7 (0.94%) Camunda
6 6 (0.81%) NetWeaver
6 6 (0.81%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.54%) Apache
7 4 (0.54%) Appian
7 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 33 (4.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 22 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.94%) SAP CRM
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.40%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.13%) Summit
8 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 228 (30.77%) Azure
2 165 (22.27%) AWS
3 64 (8.64%) GCP
4 57 (7.69%) SaaS
5 41 (5.53%) Power Platform
6 40 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (5.13%) Serverless
8 27 (3.64%) PaaS
9 26 (3.51%) Entra ID
10 19 (2.56%) IaaS
10 19 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (2.43%) OCI
12 17 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (2.16%) Azure AI
13 16 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.16%) GitHub
14 14 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (1.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.48%) Firewall
2 10 (1.35%) IPsec
2 10 (1.35%) VPN
2 10 (1.35%) WAN
3 9 (1.21%) Network Security
3 9 (1.21%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.81%) DNS
4 6 (0.81%) Kerberos
4 6 (0.81%) MPLS
4 6 (0.81%) SSL
5 5 (0.67%) Internet
5 5 (0.67%) LAN
6 4 (0.54%) Intranet
6 4 (0.54%) MQTT
6 4 (0.54%) RFID
7 3 (0.40%) BGP
7 3 (0.40%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.40%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.78%) Data Lake
2 24 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (3.24%) Metadata
3 21 (2.83%) Power BI
4 12 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.48%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.21%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.08%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 5 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.40%) DocumentDB
9 3 (0.40%) GIS
9 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.40%) Tableau
10 2 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (2.16%) JIRA
2 8 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.94%) GitLab
4 4 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) Hudson
5 3 (0.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.27%) ERwin
6 2 (0.27%) Flyway
6 2 (0.27%) JUnit
6 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.13%) gulp
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 215 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 184 (24.83%) Finance
3 111 (14.98%) Public Sector
4 74 (9.99%) Banking
5 67 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (5.40%) Legal
8 36 (4.86%) Retail
9 22 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.16%) Military
12 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.48%) Billing
13 11 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.08%) Law
15 6 (0.81%) Aviation
15 6 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 524 (70.72%) Architect
2 158 (21.32%) Solutions Architect
3 149 (20.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 70 (9.45%) Lead
5 67 (9.04%) Technical Architect
6 53 (7.15%) Senior
7 34 (4.59%) Security Architect
8 33 (4.45%) Data Architect
9 32 (4.32%) Lead Architect
10 28 (3.78%) ServiceNow Architect
11 27 (3.64%) Senior Architect
12 22 (2.97%) Consultant
12 22 (2.97%) Project Manager
12 22 (2.97%) SAP Architect
13 21 (2.83%) Analyst
13 21 (2.83%) Azure Architect
14 19 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
14 19 (2.56%) Salesforce Architect
15 18 (2.43%) Applications Architect
16 15 (2.02%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.69%) REST
2 37 (4.99%) Middleware
3 32 (4.32%) SOAP
4 25 (3.37%) .NET
5 21 (2.83%) Web Services
6 19 (2.56%) OAuth
7 14 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 13 (1.75%) Kafka
8 13 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (1.62%) OpenID
9 12 (1.62%) React
9 12 (1.62%) SAML
10 10 (1.35%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.21%) A2A Protocol
11 9 (1.21%) LangChain
11 9 (1.21%) LangGraph
11 9 (1.21%) Model Context Protocol
11 9 (1.21%) Node.js
11 9 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.58%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.45%) CMDB
4 26 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (2.97%) Operational Technology
6 20 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.16%) IoT
9 15 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.35%) NHS
13 10 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.21%) FMCG
15 8 (1.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.83%) Windows
2 11 (1.48%) Linux
3 6 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.54%) Unix
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (39.41%) Roadmaps
2 184 (24.83%) TOGAF
3 173 (23.35%) Agile
4 162 (21.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 153 (20.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 124 (16.73%) AI
7 123 (16.60%) Integration Patterns
8 119 (16.06%) Architectural Patterns
9 116 (15.65%) Decision-Making
10 99 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
11 98 (13.23%) Migration
12 97 (13.09%) Data Modelling
13 96 (12.96%) CI/CD
14 91 (12.28%) Business Strategy
15 89 (12.01%) Cybersecurity
16 88 (11.88%) Architectural Design
17 87 (11.74%) DevOps
17 87 (11.74%) ITIL
18 85 (11.47%) Technical Leadership
19 81 (10.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (8.64%) Python
2 36 (4.86%) SQL
3 35 (4.72%) Java
4 21 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.89%) C#
7 12 (1.62%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.21%) Bash
9 8 (1.08%) ABAP
10 6 (0.81%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.54%) Bicep
11 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.27%) Ruby
14 1 (0.13%) Go
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
14 1 (0.13%) ProC
14 1 (0.13%) R
14 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 206 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 143 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.88%) DV Cleared
4 48 (6.48%) Degree
5 34 (4.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 26 (3.51%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 20 (2.70%) CISSP
10 16 (2.16%) ISEB
11 15 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.62%) CISM
13 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.08%) PMP
16 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.81%) CCNP
17 6 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.83%) GDPR
2 40 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 35 (4.72%) NIST
4 25 (3.37%) COBIT
5 21 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.83%) NCSC
6 18 (2.43%) GRC
6 18 (2.43%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.35%) PMO
8 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (0.94%) Def Stans
8 7 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.81%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.81%) ISO 31000
9 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 6 (0.81%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.81%) QA
10 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.56%) Docker
3 9 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.67%) RACF
5 5 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) IAG
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.24%) Terraform
3 13 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.48%) SCCM
6 7 (0.94%) Ansible
7 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.13%) Grafana
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 138 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.91%) ServiceNow
3 63 (8.50%) SAP
4 48 (6.48%) Salesforce
5 46 (6.21%) Oracle
6 34 (4.59%) Sparx
7 29 (3.91%) BiZZdesign
8 26 (3.51%) Databricks
9 25 (3.37%) Google
10 20 (2.70%) VMware
11 16 (2.16%) Ariba
12 15 (2.02%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.48%) Pega
14 9 (1.21%) Cisco
14 9 (1.21%) Workday
15 8 (1.08%) MuleSoft
15 8 (1.08%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.94%) Citrix
17 6 (0.81%) Dynatrace
17 6 (0.81%) Genesys