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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 217 254
Rank change year-on-year +54 +37 -7
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 754 378 380
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.29% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.41% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 243 262
10th Percentile £461 £454 £456
25th Percentile £521 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £646
Median % change year-on-year - -3.25% -0.62%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £738
90th Percentile £808 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £56.20 -
25th Percentile £65.88 £63.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £76.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +13.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87.50 £88.50 £83.81
90th Percentile £101.25 £95.40 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.25 £52.67 £87.50
% change year-on-year +44.77% -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 40,423 26,734 36,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 90.97% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,371 17,185 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,096 2,442
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.72 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.39% -32.73% +7.14%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +45 643 £630 +0.80% 238
UK excluding London +8 355 £625 +0.81% 153
London +54 298 £650 - 119
Work from Home +54 225 £571 -4.85% 113
South East -4 112 £650 +4.00% 44
North of England -7 110 £563 -3.35% 37
Midlands -26 60 £569 -8.17% 25
Yorkshire -9 57 £563 -13.46% 13
North West -21 49 £563 +0.09% 17
West Midlands -34 40 £560 -6.67% 15
South West -28 38 £700 +7.69% 15
Scotland -2 26 £575 +2.27% 9
East Midlands -15 18 £575 -28.13% 10
East of England -19 12 £650 -3.70% 15
North East - 9 £713 - 7
Wales -17 2 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 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 34 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.25%) Confluence
3 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.06%) SAS
5 6 (0.80%) NetWeaver
5 6 (0.80%) SAP EP
6 5 (0.66%) Camunda
6 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.53%) Apache
8 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.27%) Appian
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 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 29 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 19 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.80%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.40%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Actimize
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
7 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 219 (29.05%) Azure
2 161 (21.35%) AWS
3 64 (8.49%) GCP
4 56 (7.43%) SaaS
5 39 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 36 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.38%) Serverless
8 28 (3.71%) PaaS
9 26 (3.45%) Entra ID
10 18 (2.39%) IaaS
10 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 18 (2.39%) OCI
11 16 (2.12%) Azure AI
12 15 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (1.99%) GitHub
13 14 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (1.72%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.33%) Firewall
1 10 (1.33%) IPsec
1 10 (1.33%) WAN
2 9 (1.19%) VPN
3 8 (1.06%) SD-WAN
4 7 (0.93%) MPLS
5 6 (0.80%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.80%) LAN
5 6 (0.80%) Network Security
5 6 (0.80%) SSL
6 4 (0.53%) BGP
6 4 (0.53%) Intranet
6 4 (0.53%) MQTT
6 4 (0.53%) RFID
7 3 (0.40%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.40%) DHCP
7 3 (0.40%) DNS
7 3 (0.40%) Internet
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 22 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (2.92%) Metadata
3 19 (2.52%) Power BI
4 12 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.46%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 8 (1.06%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.40%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.40%) GIS
10 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.40%) Tableau
11 2 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (2.12%) JIRA
2 8 (1.06%) GitLab
2 8 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.66%) Hudson
4 4 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) ERwin
5 3 (0.40%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.27%) Flyway
6 2 (0.27%) JUnit
6 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
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
1 221 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 186 (24.67%) Finance
3 109 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 77 (10.21%) Banking
5 66 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (5.44%) Legal
8 37 (4.91%) Retail
9 16 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.99%) Military
10 15 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.86%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.19%) Billing
14 9 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.06%) Law
16 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.80%) Aviation
17 6 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 534 (70.82%) Architect
2 165 (21.88%) Solutions Architect
3 149 (19.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 69 (9.15%) Lead
5 66 (8.75%) Technical Architect
6 51 (6.76%) Senior
7 37 (4.91%) Data Architect
8 36 (4.77%) Security Architect
9 32 (4.24%) Lead Architect
10 27 (3.58%) Senior Architect
11 25 (3.32%) Consultant
11 25 (3.32%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.32%) ServiceNow Architect
12 20 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
12 20 (2.65%) SAP Architect
13 19 (2.52%) Salesforce Architect
14 18 (2.39%) Analyst
14 18 (2.39%) Applications Architect
15 16 (2.12%) Technical Manager
16 15 (1.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.29%) REST
2 43 (5.70%) Middleware
3 30 (3.98%) SOAP
4 24 (3.18%) .NET
5 21 (2.79%) Web Services
6 18 (2.39%) OAuth
7 14 (1.86%) AngularJS
8 13 (1.72%) Kafka
8 13 (1.72%) SAML
9 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (1.46%) OpenID
10 11 (1.46%) React
11 9 (1.19%) A2A Protocol
11 9 (1.19%) LangChain
11 9 (1.19%) LangGraph
11 9 (1.19%) Model Context Protocol
11 9 (1.19%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.93%) RESTful
12 7 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.98%) CMDB
4 26 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (3.45%) Operational Technology
5 22 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.39%) AI Agents
6 18 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.99%) IoT
9 15 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.93%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.79%) Windows
2 10 (1.33%) Linux
3 6 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.66%) Unix
4 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (37.00%) Roadmaps
2 177 (23.47%) TOGAF
3 173 (22.94%) Agile
4 156 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 144 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 127 (16.84%) Architectural Patterns
7 124 (16.45%) Decision-Making
8 123 (16.31%) Integration Patterns
9 121 (16.05%) AI
10 102 (13.53%) Migration
11 96 (12.73%) Architectural Design
12 94 (12.47%) CI/CD
13 92 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (12.07%) Business Strategy
14 91 (12.07%) Data Modelling
15 88 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
15 88 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
16 84 (11.14%) DevOps
17 82 (10.88%) Architecture Governance
17 82 (10.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.43%) Python
2 34 (4.51%) SQL
3 32 (4.24%) Java
4 17 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.59%) C#
6 12 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.19%) Bash
8 6 (0.80%) ABAP
8 6 (0.80%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.40%) Bicep
11 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.27%) Ruby
11 2 (0.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.13%) Go
12 1 (0.13%) Korn
12 1 (0.13%) ProC
12 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 208 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 148 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.37%) DV Cleared
4 42 (5.57%) Degree
5 32 (4.24%) TOGAF Certification
6 27 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (3.32%) Azure Certification
8 20 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.25%) CISSP
10 16 (2.12%) ISEB
11 15 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.46%) CISM
13 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (1.19%) PMP
14 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.80%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.66%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.23%) GDPR
2 41 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.51%) NIST
4 25 (3.32%) COBIT
5 21 (2.79%) NCSC
6 19 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.99%) GRC
8 13 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.06%) QA
9 8 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.93%) Def Stans
10 7 (0.93%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.93%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.80%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 6 (0.80%) PMO
12 4 (0.53%) IFRS
12 4 (0.53%) PSD2
System Software
1 26 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.52%) Docker
3 9 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.66%) RACF
5 5 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.66%) 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 31 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.39%) Terraform
3 13 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.46%) SCCM
5 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.06%) Ansible
7 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Grafana
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 140 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.22%) SAP
3 57 (7.56%) ServiceNow
4 49 (6.50%) Oracle
5 41 (5.44%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.85%) Sparx
7 27 (3.58%) Google
8 24 (3.18%) BiZZdesign
9 23 (3.05%) Databricks
10 20 (2.65%) VMware
11 15 (1.99%) Ariba
12 13 (1.72%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.46%) Workday
14 9 (1.19%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.19%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.93%) Citrix
16 6 (0.80%) Cisco
16 6 (0.80%) Dynatrace
17 5 (0.66%) Pega
18 4 (0.53%) Atlassian