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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 198 297
Rank change year-on-year +42 +99 -56
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 885 432 330
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.36% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.50% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 287 207
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £525 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -3.85% -1.52%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £744
90th Percentile £825 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +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 44,261 28,859 36,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.68% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,507 18,191 23,560
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,650 1,433 2,509
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.50 £16.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.83 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.04% -34.86% +8.82%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +37 764 £650 +4.00% 259
London +53 391 £650 - 123
UK excluding London -10 375 £625 +0.81% 154
Work from Home +42 264 £600 - 149
South East -6 125 £640 +2.40% 60
North of England -13 101 £575 -7.26% 29
Midlands -17 74 £575 -4.17% 16
Yorkshire -3 54 £675 +8.00% 9
West Midlands -23 54 £575 -4.17% 10
North West -31 44 £550 -5.98% 19
South West -35 38 £650 - 24
Scotland -15 29 £625 +4.87% 2
East Midlands -14 18 £575 -17.86% 6
East of England -22 11 £650 +10.64% 14
North East -30 8 £800 - 1
Wales -19 2 - - 6
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 4

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 28 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.71%) SAS
3 18 (2.03%) Confluence
4 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.56%) Apache
6 5 (0.56%) NetWeaver
6 5 (0.56%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.34%) Camunda
7 3 (0.34%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.23%) Mule
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (2.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.24%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.90%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.68%) Primavera
6 5 (0.56%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.34%) Endur
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.23%) SAP CS
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 279 (31.53%) Azure
2 186 (21.02%) AWS
3 78 (8.81%) GCP
4 61 (6.89%) SaaS
5 41 (4.63%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (3.73%) Entra ID
8 32 (3.62%) PaaS
8 32 (3.62%) Serverless
9 20 (2.26%) IaaS
10 18 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.03%) OCI
11 17 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (1.81%) Azure AI
12 16 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
13 14 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (1.36%) GitHub
15 11 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.13%) iPaaS
16 10 (1.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.71%) Network Security
2 21 (2.37%) Firewall
3 19 (2.15%) VPN
4 18 (2.03%) WAN
5 14 (1.58%) IPsec
6 13 (1.47%) LAN
7 12 (1.36%) MPLS
7 12 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.13%) BGP
9 7 (0.79%) DNS
10 6 (0.68%) NGFW
10 6 (0.68%) SSL
10 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.56%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.56%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.45%) DHCP
12 4 (0.45%) MQTT
12 4 (0.45%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.95%) Data Lake
2 30 (3.39%) Metadata
3 27 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (2.37%) Power BI
5 17 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.36%) Oracle Database
7 12 (1.36%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.13%) Base SAS
8 10 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.34%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.34%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.34%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.34%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (1.58%) JIRA
2 10 (1.13%) Git
3 8 (0.90%) GitLab
3 8 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.56%) Hudson
5 4 (0.45%) ERwin
5 4 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.23%) Flyway
7 2 (0.23%) JUnit
7 2 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 261 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 227 (25.65%) Finance
3 142 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 92 (10.40%) Banking
5 74 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (8.02%) Retail
7 53 (5.99%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (4.97%) Legal
9 26 (2.94%) Military
10 24 (2.71%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.92%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.81%) Local Government
14 14 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.24%) Law
15 11 (1.24%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.13%) Billing
16 10 (1.13%) Marketing
17 9 (1.02%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 620 (70.06%) Architect
2 213 (24.07%) Solutions Architect
3 144 (16.27%) Enterprise Architect
4 103 (11.64%) Lead
5 74 (8.36%) Technical Architect
6 70 (7.91%) Senior
7 54 (6.10%) Data Architect
8 48 (5.42%) Lead Architect
9 47 (5.31%) Security Architect
10 45 (5.08%) Senior Architect
11 31 (3.50%) Project Manager
12 28 (3.16%) SAP Architect
12 28 (3.16%) ServiceNow Architect
13 22 (2.49%) Analyst
13 22 (2.49%) Cloud Architect
14 21 (2.37%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.37%) Technical Leader
15 20 (2.26%) Technical Manager
16 18 (2.03%) Azure Architect
16 18 (2.03%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.12%) REST
2 60 (6.78%) Middleware
3 39 (4.41%) SOAP
4 38 (4.29%) .NET
5 21 (2.37%) OAuth
5 21 (2.37%) Web Services
6 18 (2.03%) Kafka
7 15 (1.69%) SAML
8 14 (1.58%) React
9 13 (1.47%) OpenID
10 12 (1.36%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.24%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.02%) XML
13 8 (0.90%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.90%) JSON
13 8 (0.90%) Node.js
13 8 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (0.79%) NETCONF
14 7 (0.79%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.51%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.68%) Product Ownership
3 58 (6.55%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.73%) CMDB
5 30 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.39%) Operational Technology
6 27 (3.05%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 22 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.49%) Security Posture
10 21 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
11 20 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.92%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.58%) IoT
14 9 (1.02%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.02%) FMCG
14 9 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.49%) Windows
2 16 (1.81%) Linux
3 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.56%) Unix
3 5 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.23%) Android
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (33.79%) Roadmaps
2 227 (25.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 217 (24.52%) TOGAF
4 202 (22.82%) Agile
5 172 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 160 (18.08%) Integration Patterns
7 150 (16.95%) Migration
8 143 (16.16%) Architectural Patterns
9 141 (15.93%) AI
10 140 (15.82%) Technical Leadership
11 128 (14.46%) Decision-Making
12 125 (14.12%) CI/CD
12 125 (14.12%) DevOps
13 115 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
14 108 (12.20%) Architecture Governance
15 98 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
16 96 (10.85%) Data Modelling
17 95 (10.73%) Microservices
18 93 (10.51%) Architectural Design
18 93 (10.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.34%) Python
2 47 (5.31%) SQL
3 44 (4.97%) Java
4 16 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.58%) C#
6 12 (1.36%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.24%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.79%) ABAP
9 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.68%) Bash
9 6 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.34%) Bicep
12 2 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.23%) Korn
12 2 (0.23%) Ruby
12 2 (0.23%) Scala
13 1 (0.11%) C++
13 1 (0.11%) Go
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 249 (28.14%) Security Cleared
2 180 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 61 (6.89%) DV Cleared
4 46 (5.20%) Degree
5 45 (5.08%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 23 (2.60%) CISSP
10 17 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.81%) CISM
12 12 (1.36%) PMP
13 9 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.02%) CCIE
13 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.90%) CCNP
14 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.79%) JNCIE
15 7 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.31%) GDPR
3 35 (3.95%) NIST
4 32 (3.62%) NCSC
5 24 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.03%) QA
7 17 (1.92%) GRC
8 15 (1.69%) COBIT
9 14 (1.58%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (1.13%) NIST 800
11 9 (1.02%) PMO
11 9 (1.02%) SLA
12 8 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.68%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.68%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.60%) Docker
3 9 (1.02%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.45%) RACF
7 2 (0.23%) 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 43 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.16%) Terraform
3 20 (2.26%) Ansible
4 13 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.79%) SCCM
6 3 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.23%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.11%) CASB
8 1 (0.11%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.11%) Grafana
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 177 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.36%) SAP
3 65 (7.34%) Oracle
4 58 (6.55%) ServiceNow
5 36 (4.07%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.62%) Databricks
7 31 (3.50%) BiZZdesign
8 27 (3.05%) Google
9 24 (2.71%) Sparx
10 19 (2.15%) VMware
11 17 (1.92%) Workday
12 15 (1.69%) Cisco
13 12 (1.36%) Ariba
13 12 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.36%) Zscaler
14 9 (1.02%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.90%) Foundry
15 8 (0.90%) Informatica
15 8 (0.90%) Liquidlogic
15 8 (0.90%) OpenAI