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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 216 302
Rank change year-on-year +65 +86 -57
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 984 415 291
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.85% 1.26% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.40% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 281 179
10th Percentile £465 £450 £445
25th Percentile £533 £510 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £825 £825 £884
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +1.67% -7.69% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 4
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 £71.25
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.75 £42.34 -
% change year-on-year +95.46% - -

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 45,324 29,743 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,013 18,657 21,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 1,640 1,941
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.32 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.55% -42.44% +2.35%

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 1 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 1 August 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 1 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 +60 862 £625 - 511
London +80 473 £650 - 299
UK excluding London +11 384 £610 +1.67% 257
Work from Home +54 279 £600 +0.17% 226
South East +1 125 £615 -1.60% 97
North of England 0 111 £600 -3.23% 59
Midlands -23 67 £600 - 33
Yorkshire +11 61 £625 +2.04% 23
West Midlands -34 50 £608 +1.33% 16
North West -34 46 £550 -11.29% 32
South West -39 44 £650 - 26
Scotland -7 26 £600 +13.53% 18
East Midlands -16 15 £575 -17.86% 17
East of England -11 12 £550 -18.52% 9
North East -31 9 £725 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £713 - 6
Wales -13 1 - - 9
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 49 (4.98%) SAS
2 28 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.93%) Confluence
4 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.51%) Mule
7 5 (0.51%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.20%) Camunda
8 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.10%) CIMPLICITY
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Predix
Applications
1 8 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 35 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.81%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.61%) Primavera
6 5 (0.51%) SAP CRM
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.30%) Endur
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.20%) SAP CS
9 2 (0.20%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.10%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 305 (31.00%) Azure
2 204 (20.73%) AWS
3 97 (9.86%) GCP
4 60 (6.10%) SaaS
5 52 (5.28%) Power Platform
6 43 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 38 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (3.35%) Serverless
9 29 (2.95%) PaaS
10 24 (2.44%) OCI
11 21 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (1.93%) Azure AI
13 18 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.52%) Snowflake
14 15 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.42%) GitHub
15 14 (1.42%) IaaS
15 14 (1.42%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.95%) Network Security
2 23 (2.34%) Firewall
3 21 (2.13%) VPN
4 17 (1.73%) WAN
5 14 (1.42%) LAN
6 12 (1.22%) IPsec
7 10 (1.02%) MPLS
8 8 (0.81%) BGP
8 8 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.71%) DNS
10 6 (0.61%) NGFW
10 6 (0.61%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.51%) SSL
12 4 (0.41%) BIG-IP
12 4 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.41%) HTTP
12 4 (0.41%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.41%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.27%) Data Lake
2 36 (3.66%) Metadata
3 31 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (2.64%) Power BI
5 19 (1.93%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.12%) Base SAS
7 11 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.12%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.02%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.81%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.51%) Big Data
11 5 (0.51%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (0.41%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.41%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (1.52%) JIRA
2 11 (1.12%) Git
3 9 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.81%) GitLab
5 5 (0.51%) ERwin
5 5 (0.51%) Hudson
6 4 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.20%) Flyway
8 2 (0.20%) JUnit
8 2 (0.20%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.20%) Subversion
9 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.10%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.10%) Postman
9 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) Terragrunt
General
1 302 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 254 (25.81%) Finance
3 157 (15.96%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.37%) Banking
5 84 (8.54%) Retail
6 79 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (6.40%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.17%) Legal
9 29 (2.95%) Military
10 27 (2.74%) Aerospace
11 21 (2.13%) Local Government
12 20 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.63%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.52%) Marketing
15 14 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.12%) Billing
17 10 (1.02%) Law
18 9 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 697 (70.83%) Architect
2 234 (23.78%) Solutions Architect
3 157 (15.96%) Enterprise Architect
4 112 (11.38%) Lead
5 77 (7.83%) Technical Architect
6 69 (7.01%) Senior
7 63 (6.40%) Data Architect
8 58 (5.89%) Security Architect
9 53 (5.39%) Lead Architect
10 46 (4.67%) Senior Architect
11 33 (3.35%) Project Manager
11 33 (3.35%) SAP Architect
12 30 (3.05%) ServiceNow Architect
13 25 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (2.54%) Technical Leader
14 23 (2.34%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 21 (2.13%) Azure Architect
15 21 (2.13%) Integration Architect
15 21 (2.13%) Technical Manager
16 20 (2.03%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (7.93%) REST
2 65 (6.61%) Middleware
3 48 (4.88%) SOAP
4 35 (3.56%) .NET
5 30 (3.05%) OAuth
6 22 (2.24%) Kafka
7 20 (2.03%) Web Services
8 19 (1.93%) SAML
9 16 (1.63%) OAuth2
9 16 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.52%) OpenID
10 15 (1.52%) XML
11 14 (1.42%) JSON
11 14 (1.42%) React
12 10 (1.02%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.91%) JWT
13 9 (0.91%) Node.js
13 9 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (0.81%) SAPUI5
15 7 (0.71%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 69 (7.01%) Enterprise Software
3 68 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.86%) AI Agents
4 38 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.56%) CMDB
6 33 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (3.35%) Operational Technology
7 27 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.54%) Security Posture
9 21 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (1.93%) IoT
11 18 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.22%) FMCG
14 9 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.91%) Mainframe
15 8 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.73%) Windows
2 14 (1.42%) Linux
3 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.20%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (33.23%) Roadmaps
2 279 (28.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 224 (22.76%) TOGAF
4 205 (20.83%) Agile
5 189 (19.21%) Integration Patterns
6 178 (18.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 167 (16.97%) Migration
8 164 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
9 159 (16.16%) AI
10 154 (15.65%) Architectural Patterns
11 133 (13.52%) CI/CD
12 132 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
12 132 (13.41%) Decision-Making
13 131 (13.31%) DevOps
14 130 (13.21%) Analytics
15 119 (12.09%) Architecture Governance
16 115 (11.69%) Event-Driven
17 112 (11.38%) Data Architecture
18 110 (11.18%) Data Integration
19 108 (10.98%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (7.32%) Python
2 51 (5.18%) SQL
3 50 (5.08%) Java
4 22 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.32%) C#
6 13 (1.32%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.81%) ABAP
8 7 (0.71%) Bash
8 7 (0.71%) Kotlin
9 6 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.41%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.30%) Bicep
11 3 (0.30%) Korn
12 2 (0.20%) Go
12 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.20%) Ruby
12 2 (0.20%) Rust
12 2 (0.20%) Scala
13 1 (0.10%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 287 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 219 (22.26%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 51 (5.18%) Azure Certification
4 51 (5.18%) Degree
5 37 (3.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 33 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (2.95%) CISSP
7 29 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.03%) CISM
9 15 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.32%) PMP
11 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.71%) CCIE
13 6 (0.61%) CCNP
13 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.28%) GDPR
3 48 (4.88%) GRC
4 38 (3.86%) NIST
5 34 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (3.25%) NCSC
7 18 (1.83%) QA
8 14 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.32%) PMO
10 12 (1.22%) COBIT
10 12 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 9 (0.91%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.91%) SLA
13 8 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.61%) ISO 31000
14 6 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
16 4 (0.41%) IFRS
System Software
1 32 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.03%) Docker
3 9 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.91%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.30%) RACF
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.10%) IAG
7 1 (0.10%) KVM
7 1 (0.10%) NFS
7 1 (0.10%) Samba
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.05%) Terraform
3 19 (1.93%) Ansible
4 11 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.41%) SCCM
7 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.20%) Puppet
8 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.10%) CASB
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Nagios
9 1 (0.10%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.10%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.10%) SCOM
9 1 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 189 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 95 (9.65%) Oracle
3 79 (8.03%) SAP
4 64 (6.50%) ServiceNow
5 43 (4.37%) Databricks
6 41 (4.17%) Google
7 38 (3.86%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.54%) BiZZdesign
9 24 (2.44%) Workday
10 20 (2.03%) Sparx
10 20 (2.03%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 16 (1.63%) VMware
12 14 (1.42%) Informatica
13 13 (1.32%) Ariba
13 13 (1.32%) Cisco
14 10 (1.02%) Foundry
14 10 (1.02%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.81%) IBM