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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 206 260
Rank change year-on-year +42 +54 -16
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 755 377 374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.56% 1.31% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.44% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 243 259
10th Percentile £461 £454 £456
25th Percentile £525 £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 £812 £818 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £56.20 -
25th Percentile £68.13 £63.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £77.50 £76.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +13.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £108.13 £88.50 £83.81
90th Percentile £110.75 £95.40 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 £52.67 £87.50
% change year-on-year +66.13% -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 40,767 26,234 36,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 91.05% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,562 16,839 23,562
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,395 1,067 2,440
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.95 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +35 644 £630 +0.64% 238
UK excluding London +2 349 £625 +0.81% 150
London +58 306 £650 - 118
Work from Home +60 230 £571 -4.85% 106
South East 0 112 £650 +4.00% 49
North of England -2 112 £563 -0.27% 40
Yorkshire -1 58 £563 -13.46% 9
Midlands -34 58 £570 -8.06% 18
North West -26 50 £550 -1.79% 24
West Midlands -34 38 £560 -6.67% 8
South West -39 31 £675 +3.85% 19
Scotland -7 25 £588 +4.49% 7
East Midlands -14 18 £575 -28.13% 10
East of England -17 13 £650 -3.70% 12
North East - 9 £713 - 7
Wales -19 2 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 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 33 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.25%) Confluence
3 10 (1.32%) SAS
4 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.79%) NetWeaver
5 6 (0.79%) SAP EP
6 5 (0.66%) Camunda
6 5 (0.66%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.53%) Apache
8 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.26%) Appian
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) 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
1 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (3.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 20 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.79%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.66%) Dynamics 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 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
7 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 224 (29.67%) Azure
2 160 (21.19%) AWS
3 63 (8.34%) GCP
4 57 (7.55%) SaaS
5 38 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 36 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.37%) Serverless
8 30 (3.97%) Entra ID
9 27 (3.58%) PaaS
10 18 (2.38%) IaaS
10 18 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (2.38%) OCI
11 17 (2.25%) Azure AI
12 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.85%) GitHub
14 14 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (1.72%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.32%) Firewall
1 10 (1.32%) IPsec
2 9 (1.19%) WAN
3 8 (1.06%) Network Security
3 8 (1.06%) VPN
4 7 (0.93%) MPLS
4 7 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.79%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.79%) SSL
6 5 (0.66%) LAN
7 4 (0.53%) BGP
7 4 (0.53%) Intranet
7 4 (0.53%) MQTT
7 4 (0.53%) RFID
8 3 (0.40%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.40%) DHCP
8 3 (0.40%) DNS
9 2 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.26%) Internet
9 2 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.84%) Data Lake
2 24 (3.18%) Metadata
3 23 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.52%) Power BI
5 12 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.46%) Oracle Database
7 10 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 8 (1.06%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.40%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.40%) Tableau
12 2 (0.26%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.26%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.26%) 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%) Git
4 4 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) ERwin
5 3 (0.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.26%) Flyway
6 2 (0.26%) JUnit
6 2 (0.26%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
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
1 224 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 190 (25.17%) Finance
3 103 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.46%) Banking
5 67 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
6 40 (5.30%) Retail
7 36 (4.77%) Legal
8 19 (2.52%) Aerospace
9 15 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.85%) Military
11 13 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.19%) Billing
14 8 (1.06%) Law
15 7 (0.93%) Aviation
15 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 526 (69.67%) Architect
2 167 (22.12%) Solutions Architect
3 133 (17.62%) Enterprise Architect
4 72 (9.54%) Lead
5 65 (8.61%) Technical Architect
6 51 (6.75%) Senior
7 42 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 37 (4.90%) Security Architect
9 30 (3.97%) Lead Architect
10 27 (3.58%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.58%) Senior Architect
11 26 (3.44%) ServiceNow Architect
12 25 (3.31%) Consultant
13 20 (2.65%) SAP Architect
14 19 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (2.38%) Analyst
15 18 (2.38%) Applications Architect
15 18 (2.38%) Salesforce Architect
15 18 (2.38%) Technical Manager
16 15 (1.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.55%) REST
2 47 (6.23%) Middleware
3 32 (4.24%) SOAP
4 28 (3.71%) .NET
5 21 (2.78%) Web Services
6 19 (2.52%) OAuth
7 15 (1.99%) AngularJS
8 14 (1.85%) Kafka
8 14 (1.85%) SAML
9 13 (1.72%) React
10 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
10 12 (1.59%) OpenID
11 11 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (1.32%) OAuth2
13 9 (1.19%) A2A Protocol
13 9 (1.19%) LangChain
13 9 (1.19%) LangGraph
13 9 (1.19%) Model Context Protocol
14 7 (0.93%) RESTful
14 7 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.68%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.24%) CMDB
4 29 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (3.71%) Operational Technology
6 22 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.38%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.99%) Data Centre
10 15 (1.99%) IoT
10 15 (1.99%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.59%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.06%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.78%) Windows
2 10 (1.32%) Linux
3 6 (0.79%) 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
1 267 (35.36%) Roadmaps
2 174 (23.05%) Agile
3 166 (21.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 164 (21.72%) TOGAF
5 143 (18.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 130 (17.22%) Architectural Patterns
7 125 (16.56%) Integration Patterns
8 122 (16.16%) Decision-Making
9 117 (15.50%) AI
10 110 (14.57%) Migration
11 98 (12.98%) CI/CD
11 98 (12.98%) Technical Leadership
12 96 (12.72%) Data Modelling
12 96 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
13 94 (12.45%) Cybersecurity
14 89 (11.79%) DevOps
15 87 (11.52%) Architectural Design
16 84 (11.13%) Business Strategy
17 81 (10.73%) Architecture Governance
18 78 (10.33%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 57 (7.55%) Python
2 36 (4.77%) Java
3 34 (4.50%) SQL
4 18 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.85%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.72%) C#
7 12 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.19%) Bash
9 6 (0.79%) ABAP
9 6 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.66%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.40%) Bicep
13 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.26%) Ruby
13 2 (0.26%) Scala
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
14 1 (0.13%) ProC
14 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 204 (27.02%) Security Cleared
2 146 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 43 (5.70%) Degree
5 31 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 27 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (3.58%) TOGAF Certification
7 22 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.52%) CISSP
10 14 (1.85%) CISM
11 11 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.32%) PMP
13 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.79%) ISEB
15 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.66%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.36%) GDPR
2 45 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.50%) NIST
4 21 (2.78%) NCSC
5 19 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.99%) COBIT
6 15 (1.99%) GRC
7 13 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.32%) QA
9 8 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.93%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.93%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.79%) Def Stans
11 6 (0.79%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 6 (0.79%) PMO
12 4 (0.53%) PSD2
12 4 (0.53%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.52%) Docker
3 9 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.66%) RACF
5 5 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.26%) 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 19 (2.52%) Terraform
3 14 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.46%) SCCM
5 9 (1.19%) Ansible
5 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.26%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.13%) Grafana
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 144 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.21%) SAP
3 59 (7.81%) ServiceNow
4 50 (6.62%) Oracle
5 40 (5.30%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.97%) Sparx
7 27 (3.58%) Google
8 24 (3.18%) BiZZdesign
9 22 (2.91%) Databricks
10 20 (2.65%) VMware
11 15 (1.99%) Ariba
12 12 (1.59%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.59%) Workday
13 11 (1.46%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.32%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.93%) Citrix
16 6 (0.79%) Cisco
16 6 (0.79%) Dynatrace
17 5 (0.66%) Pega
18 4 (0.53%) Atlassian