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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 210 302
Rank change year-on-year +58 +92 -62
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 961 426 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 1.30% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.44% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 288 182
10th Percentile £465 £450 £446
25th Percentile £537 £513 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £648
Median % change year-on-year - -3.55% -0.31%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £825 £825 £877
UK excluding London median daily rate £611 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +1.88% -7.69% +1.96%
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 44,902 29,618 34,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.94% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,592 22,057
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,679 1,619 2,026
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.33 £17.55
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 £82.39 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% -41.25% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +56 837 £630 +0.80% 381
London +70 458 £650 - 225
UK excluding London -3 377 £611 +1.88% 190
Work from Home +43 274 £600 - 164
South East -5 122 £623 -0.40% 78
North of England -9 106 £600 -1.64% 36
Midlands -19 69 £588 -2.08% 25
Yorkshire +8 59 £650 +6.12% 10
West Midlands -22 51 £600 +0.17% 15
North West -33 43 £550 -5.98% 22
South West -38 42 £650 - 22
Scotland -12 27 £610 +8.49% 12
East Midlands -12 16 £575 -17.86% 10
East of England -14 12 £550 -18.52% 10
North East -33 9 £725 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £713 - 2
Wales -17 1 - - 5
Channel Islands - 1 £625 - 2

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 48 (4.99%) SAS
2 28 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.77%) Confluence
4 13 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.52%) Apache
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.52%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.52%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.42%) Mule
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.21%) Camunda
9 2 (0.21%) CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.10%) CIMPLICITY
10 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) Predix
Applications
1 8 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.83%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.62%) Primavera
6 5 (0.52%) SAP CRM
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.31%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.31%) Endur
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.31%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.21%) SAP CS
9 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 293 (30.49%) Azure
2 202 (21.02%) AWS
3 94 (9.78%) GCP
4 54 (5.62%) SaaS
5 46 (4.79%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 35 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (3.43%) Serverless
9 28 (2.91%) PaaS
10 23 (2.39%) OCI
11 19 (1.98%) Azure AI
12 17 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.66%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.56%) IaaS
15 14 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (1.35%) GitHub
16 13 (1.35%) Snowflake
17 12 (1.25%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.25%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.02%) Network Security
2 23 (2.39%) Firewall
3 20 (2.08%) VPN
4 17 (1.77%) WAN
5 14 (1.46%) LAN
6 12 (1.25%) IPsec
7 10 (1.04%) MPLS
8 8 (0.83%) BGP
8 8 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.62%) DNS
9 6 (0.62%) NGFW
9 6 (0.62%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (0.52%) SSL
11 4 (0.42%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.42%) HTTP
11 4 (0.42%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (0.42%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.16%) Data Lake
2 37 (3.85%) Metadata
3 30 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.60%) Power BI
5 19 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.14%) Base SAS
7 11 (1.14%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.14%) SQL Server
8 9 (0.94%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 7 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 13 (1.35%) JIRA
2 10 (1.04%) Git
3 6 (0.62%) GitLab
3 6 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.52%) Hudson
5 4 (0.42%) ERwin
5 4 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.31%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) Flyway
7 2 (0.21%) JUnit
7 2 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.21%) Subversion
8 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.10%) Postman
General
1 288 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 246 (25.60%) Finance
3 154 (16.02%) Public Sector
4 101 (10.51%) Banking
5 81 (8.43%) Retail
6 80 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
7 62 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.27%) Legal
9 28 (2.91%) Military
10 26 (2.71%) Aerospace
11 22 (2.29%) Local Government
12 19 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.77%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.66%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.35%) Marketing
17 12 (1.25%) Law
18 11 (1.14%) Billing
19 9 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 684 (71.18%) Architect
2 229 (23.83%) Solutions Architect
3 153 (15.92%) Enterprise Architect
4 109 (11.34%) Lead
5 76 (7.91%) Technical Architect
6 70 (7.28%) Senior
7 62 (6.45%) Data Architect
8 57 (5.93%) Security Architect
9 52 (5.41%) Lead Architect
10 47 (4.89%) Senior Architect
11 33 (3.43%) Project Manager
11 33 (3.43%) SAP Architect
12 30 (3.12%) ServiceNow Architect
13 25 (2.60%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (2.29%) Technical Leader
15 21 (2.19%) Technical Manager
16 20 (2.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 20 (2.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
17 19 (1.98%) Analyst
17 19 (1.98%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.70%) REST
2 64 (6.66%) Middleware
3 47 (4.89%) SOAP
4 35 (3.64%) .NET
5 28 (2.91%) OAuth
6 22 (2.29%) Kafka
7 20 (2.08%) Web Services
8 18 (1.87%) SAML
9 15 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.46%) OAuth2
10 14 (1.46%) OpenID
10 14 (1.46%) React
10 14 (1.46%) XML
11 13 (1.35%) JSON
12 10 (1.04%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.94%) Node.js
13 9 (0.94%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (0.83%) JWT
14 8 (0.83%) SAPUI5
15 7 (0.73%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 104 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 65 (6.76%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 35 (3.64%) CMDB
6 33 (3.43%) Operational Technology
7 31 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.71%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.50%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.98%) IoT
13 18 (1.87%) Data Centre
14 16 (1.66%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.25%) FMCG
16 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (0.94%) Private Cloud
17 8 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.77%) Windows
2 13 (1.35%) Linux
3 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (33.40%) Roadmaps
2 265 (27.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 222 (23.10%) TOGAF
4 209 (21.75%) Agile
5 186 (19.35%) Integration Patterns
6 175 (18.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 165 (17.17%) Migration
8 156 (16.23%) Technical Leadership
9 154 (16.02%) Architectural Patterns
10 150 (15.61%) AI
11 132 (13.74%) Decision-Making
12 129 (13.42%) CI/CD
13 128 (13.32%) DevOps
14 125 (13.01%) Analytics
15 123 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
16 115 (11.97%) Architecture Governance
17 107 (11.13%) Data Architecture
17 107 (11.13%) Data Modelling
17 107 (11.13%) Event-Driven
18 106 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 70 (7.28%) Python
2 49 (5.10%) SQL
3 48 (4.99%) Java
4 21 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.35%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.25%) C#
6 12 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.83%) ABAP
8 6 (0.62%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.62%) Bash
8 6 (0.62%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.31%) Bicep
11 2 (0.21%) Go
11 2 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.21%) Korn
11 2 (0.21%) Ruby
11 2 (0.21%) Rust
11 2 (0.21%) Scala
12 1 (0.10%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 281 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 215 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.83%) DV Cleared
4 51 (5.31%) Azure Certification
4 51 (5.31%) Degree
5 33 (3.43%) TOGAF Certification
6 31 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 30 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (3.02%) CISSP
9 28 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (2.08%) CISM
11 17 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.35%) PMP
13 12 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.83%) CCNP
16 7 (0.73%) CCIE
17 6 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.62%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.52%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.10%) GDPR
3 45 (4.68%) GRC
4 37 (3.85%) NIST
5 34 (3.54%) NCSC
6 29 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.87%) QA
8 14 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.25%) COBIT
10 11 (1.14%) PMO
11 10 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.94%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.94%) SLA
13 8 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.62%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.62%) ISO 31000
14 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.98%) Docker
3 8 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 7 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.31%) RACF
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) KVM
8 1 (0.10%) NFS
8 1 (0.10%) Samba
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.71%) Terraform
3 17 (1.77%) Ansible
4 11 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.42%) SCCM
7 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 2 (0.21%) 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
1 180 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.68%) Oracle
3 82 (8.53%) SAP
4 62 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 40 (4.16%) Databricks
6 39 (4.06%) Google
7 36 (3.75%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.60%) BiZZdesign
9 20 (2.08%) Workday
10 19 (1.98%) Sparx
10 19 (1.98%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.66%) VMware
12 14 (1.46%) Ariba
12 14 (1.46%) Informatica
12 14 (1.46%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.35%) Cisco
14 10 (1.04%) Foundry
14 10 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.83%) Liquidlogic