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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 211 315
Rank change year-on-year +73 +104 -80
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1,081 436 289
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.01% 1.33% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.47% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 291 173
10th Percentile £465 £450 £446
25th Percentile £525 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -5.66%
75th Percentile £713 £722 £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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
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 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -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 1 September 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 September 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 1 September 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 +69 949 £625 - 837
London +78 521 £650 +1.56% 509
UK excluding London +29 423 £600 +4.35% 412
Work from Home +64 310 £600 +4.35% 430
South East +11 142 £575 -4.17% 120
North of England +7 119 £574 +6.45% 104
Midlands -25 75 £627 +4.42% 42
Yorkshire +17 61 £550 -6.38% 34
North West -32 55 £600 +11.73% 62
West Midlands -24 52 £650 +8.51% 24
South West -32 48 £650 - 44
Scotland -9 28 £600 +11.27% 51
East Midlands -11 20 £600 -14.29% 18
East of England -17 12 £650 -3.70% 33
Northern Ireland - 4 £713 - 16
North East -44 3 £575 +4.55% 9
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 (4.63%) SAS
2 31 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.13%) Confluence
4 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.74%) Apache
6 8 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.56%) CMS
8 5 (0.46%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.46%) Mule
8 5 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.37%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.37%) NetWeaver
9 4 (0.37%) SAP EP
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.19%) Mendix
12 1 (0.093%) Camunda
12 1 (0.093%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.093%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 41 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.74%) ContrOCC
4 8 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.56%) Primavera
6 4 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.37%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.28%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.28%) Endur
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.28%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.19%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
Cloud Services
1 360 (33.30%) Azure
2 229 (21.18%) AWS
3 115 (10.64%) GCP
4 69 (6.38%) Power Platform
5 66 (6.11%) SaaS
6 64 (5.92%) Entra ID
7 51 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (3.33%) Serverless
9 29 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 23 (2.13%) Azure AI
11 23 (2.13%) OCI
11 23 (2.13%) PaaS
12 22 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.85%) GitHub
13 20 (1.85%) iPaaS
14 18 (1.67%) Snowflake
15 17 (1.57%) Boomi
16 16 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.05%) Network Security
2 28 (2.59%) Firewall
3 21 (1.94%) VPN
3 21 (1.94%) WAN
4 14 (1.30%) LAN
5 10 (0.93%) BGP
6 9 (0.83%) MPLS
7 8 (0.74%) HTTP
7 8 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.65%) DNS
8 7 (0.65%) IPsec
9 6 (0.56%) NGFW
9 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.46%) 5G
10 5 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (0.46%) Modbus
10 5 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (0.46%) SMS
11 4 (0.37%) 4G
11 4 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.64%) Metadata
2 49 (4.53%) Data Lake
3 30 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.59%) Power BI
5 16 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.11%) Base SAS
8 11 (1.02%) SQL Server
9 8 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.65%) Big Data
10 7 (0.65%) Neo4j
10 7 (0.65%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (0.56%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 5 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 3 (0.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 17 (1.57%) JIRA
2 12 (1.11%) Git
3 8 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.65%) GitLab
5 6 (0.56%) ERwin
6 5 (0.46%) Hudson
7 4 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.19%) Postman
8 2 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.19%) Subversion
8 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.093%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.093%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.093%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.093%) Flyway
9 1 (0.093%) Mockito
9 1 (0.093%) Selenium
9 1 (0.093%) TeamCity
General
1 369 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 279 (25.81%) Finance
3 175 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 102 (9.44%) Banking
5 97 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (8.70%) Retail
7 78 (7.22%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (3.98%) Legal
9 31 (2.87%) Military
10 28 (2.59%) Aerospace
11 26 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.31%) Local Government
13 21 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.67%) Marketing
14 18 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.48%) Billing
16 10 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 765 (70.77%) Architect
2 255 (23.59%) Solutions Architect
3 173 (16.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 133 (12.30%) Lead
5 84 (7.77%) Technical Architect
6 79 (7.31%) Data Architect
7 65 (6.01%) Lead Architect
8 63 (5.83%) Senior
9 56 (5.18%) Security Architect
10 39 (3.61%) Senior Architect
11 36 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 35 (3.24%) Technical Leader
13 33 (3.05%) SAP Architect
14 32 (2.96%) ServiceNow Architect
15 29 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
16 25 (2.31%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 25 (2.31%) Azure Architect
17 24 (2.22%) Analyst
17 24 (2.22%) Integration Architect
18 22 (2.04%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (7.68%) REST
2 65 (6.01%) Middleware
3 47 (4.35%) SOAP
4 36 (3.33%) Terraform
5 35 (3.24%) .NET
6 30 (2.78%) OAuth
7 24 (2.22%) Kafka
8 18 (1.67%) SAML
9 16 (1.48%) JSON
9 16 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.48%) XML
10 15 (1.39%) React
11 14 (1.30%) JWT
11 14 (1.30%) OAuth2
12 13 (1.20%) OpenID
13 12 (1.11%) Web Services
14 11 (1.02%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.93%) EDI
15 10 (0.93%) Node.js
16 9 (0.83%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 133 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.96%) Enterprise Software
3 73 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.53%) Onboarding
5 48 (4.44%) AI Agents
6 46 (4.26%) CMDB
7 42 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 36 (3.33%) Operational Technology
9 33 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
10 32 (2.96%) Management Information System
11 26 (2.41%) Security Posture
12 25 (2.31%) Data Centre
13 24 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
14 20 (1.85%) IoT
15 19 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.57%) Public Cloud
17 13 (1.20%) FMCG
17 13 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
18 12 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
19 11 (1.02%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.67%) Windows
2 13 (1.20%) Linux
3 6 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Android
6 2 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (34.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 369 (34.14%) Roadmaps
3 240 (22.20%) TOGAF
4 214 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 210 (19.43%) AI
6 207 (19.15%) Agile
7 198 (18.32%) Integration Patterns
8 191 (17.67%) Technical Leadership
9 186 (17.21%) Migration
10 162 (14.99%) Architectural Patterns
11 159 (14.71%) Architecture Governance
12 153 (14.15%) Analytics
13 151 (13.97%) Cybersecurity
14 150 (13.88%) Decision-Making
15 141 (13.04%) DevOps
16 139 (12.86%) CI/CD
16 139 (12.86%) Data Architecture
17 128 (11.84%) Event-Driven
18 126 (11.66%) Data Modelling
19 125 (11.56%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 77 (7.12%) Python
2 49 (4.53%) Java
3 48 (4.44%) SQL
4 21 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.39%) C#
5 15 (1.39%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 7 (0.65%) ABAP
8 6 (0.56%) Bash
8 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.37%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.37%) Bicep
10 3 (0.28%) Korn
10 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.19%) Ruby
11 2 (0.19%) Rust
11 2 (0.19%) Scala
12 1 (0.093%) DAML
12 1 (0.093%) Solidity
12 1 (0.093%) Swift
Qualifications
1 308 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 234 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.27%) Degree
4 56 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 54 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 43 (3.98%) TOGAF Certification
7 31 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.78%) AWS Certification
9 29 (2.68%) CISSP
10 26 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.67%) CISM
13 17 (1.57%) PMP
14 13 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.93%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.65%) CCIE
17 7 (0.65%) CCNP
18 6 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.53%) GRC
3 47 (4.35%) NIST
4 44 (4.07%) GDPR
5 43 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (3.05%) NCSC
7 20 (1.85%) QA
8 14 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (1.20%) PMO
10 12 (1.11%) COBIT
10 12 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 12 (1.11%) NIST 800
11 9 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.74%) SLA
13 6 (0.56%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.56%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 39 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.94%) Docker
3 10 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.093%) IAG
6 1 (0.093%) NFS
6 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.093%) Samba
6 1 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.94%) Ansible
3 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.37%) Grafana
6 3 (0.28%) SCCM
7 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.093%) CASB
8 1 (0.093%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.093%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.093%) Nagios
8 1 (0.093%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.093%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.093%) SCOM
8 1 (0.093%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 222 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.16%) Oracle
3 95 (8.79%) SAP
4 75 (6.94%) ServiceNow
5 57 (5.27%) Google
6 56 (5.18%) Databricks
7 41 (3.79%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.22%) MuleSoft
9 23 (2.13%) Workday
10 21 (1.94%) Sparx
10 21 (1.94%) VMware
11 20 (1.85%) Zscaler
12 19 (1.76%) BiZZdesign
12 19 (1.76%) Informatica
13 17 (1.57%) Ariba
13 17 (1.57%) Cisco
14 16 (1.48%) IBM
15 15 (1.39%) Foundry
15 15 (1.39%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.93%) Adobe