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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 199 302
Rank change year-on-year +42 +103 -61
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 932 441 324
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.35% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.50% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 296 198
10th Percentile £475 £450 £449
25th Percentile £537 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% -3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £748
90th Percentile £825 £825 £859
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £610 £650
% change year-on-year +2.05% -6.15% +1.96%
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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 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 18 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 18 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 +47 811 £650 +4.00% 245
London +68 434 £650 - 134
UK excluding London -7 375 £623 +2.05% 125
Work from Home +32 267 £600 - 106
South East -3 120 £628 +0.48% 45
North of England -22 99 £575 -7.26% 33
Midlands -21 73 £575 -4.17% 18
Yorkshire +6 56 £650 +4.00% 9
West Midlands -28 52 £600 +0.17% 10
South West -36 47 £650 - 15
North West -43 39 £550 -11.29% 20
Scotland -10 27 £610 +8.49% 5
East Midlands -10 19 £575 -17.86% 8
East of England -13 12 £575 -14.81% 9
North East -25 9 £725 - 4
Wales -16 1 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -
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 36 (3.86%) SAS
2 26 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.82%) Confluence
4 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.54%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.54%) SAP EP
8 3 (0.32%) Camunda
9 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) CIMPLICITY
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.86%) ContrOCC
5 7 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.64%) Primavera
7 5 (0.54%) SAP CRM
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.32%) Aladdin
9 3 (0.32%) Endur
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
9 3 (0.32%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.32%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.21%) SAP CS
10 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 294 (31.55%) Azure
2 200 (21.46%) AWS
3 87 (9.33%) GCP
4 58 (6.22%) SaaS
5 45 (4.83%) Power Platform
6 39 (4.18%) Entra ID
7 33 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (3.43%) Serverless
9 28 (3.00%) PaaS
10 19 (2.04%) OCI
11 17 (1.82%) Azure AI
11 17 (1.82%) IaaS
11 17 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
12 16 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (1.50%) iPaaS
13 14 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (1.29%) GitHub
14 12 (1.29%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.90%) Network Security
2 20 (2.15%) Firewall
2 20 (2.15%) VPN
3 16 (1.72%) WAN
4 14 (1.50%) IPsec
5 13 (1.39%) LAN
6 12 (1.29%) MPLS
7 10 (1.07%) BGP
8 9 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.64%) DNS
9 6 (0.64%) NGFW
9 6 (0.64%) SSL
9 6 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (0.54%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.43%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.43%) RFID
12 3 (0.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 3 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.18%) Data Lake
2 37 (3.97%) Metadata
3 30 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.58%) Power BI
5 18 (1.93%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.29%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.18%) Base SAS
7 11 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.97%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 6 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.54%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (0.43%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (0.32%) Big Data
12 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.32%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (1.39%) JIRA
2 10 (1.07%) Git
3 6 (0.64%) GitLab
3 6 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.54%) Hudson
5 4 (0.43%) ERwin
5 4 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 287 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 244 (26.18%) Finance
3 150 (16.09%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.94%) Banking
5 83 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (8.48%) Retail
7 57 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (4.61%) Legal
9 27 (2.90%) Military
10 26 (2.79%) Aerospace
11 22 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.93%) Local Government
14 17 (1.82%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.61%) Telecoms
17 12 (1.29%) Billing
17 12 (1.29%) Marketing
18 11 (1.18%) Law
19 9 (0.97%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 659 (70.71%) Architect
2 222 (23.82%) Solutions Architect
3 153 (16.42%) Enterprise Architect
4 109 (11.70%) Lead
5 74 (7.94%) Technical Architect
6 71 (7.62%) Senior
7 61 (6.55%) Data Architect
8 53 (5.69%) Lead Architect
9 49 (5.26%) Security Architect
10 47 (5.04%) Senior Architect
11 34 (3.65%) SAP Architect
12 33 (3.54%) Project Manager
13 30 (3.22%) ServiceNow Architect
14 23 (2.47%) Analyst
14 23 (2.47%) Cloud Architect
15 22 (2.36%) Technical Leader
16 20 (2.15%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.15%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.04%) Azure Architect
17 19 (2.04%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.83%) REST
2 63 (6.76%) Middleware
3 44 (4.72%) SOAP
4 36 (3.86%) .NET
5 23 (2.47%) OAuth
6 22 (2.36%) Web Services
7 20 (2.15%) Kafka
8 15 (1.61%) SAML
9 14 (1.50%) React
10 13 (1.39%) OpenID
11 11 (1.18%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.18%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (1.18%) XML
12 10 (1.07%) JSON
13 9 (0.97%) Node.js
13 9 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (0.86%) SAPUI5
15 7 (0.75%) .NET Core
15 7 (0.75%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.41%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.44%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.65%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.65%) Operational Technology
5 33 (3.54%) CMDB
6 32 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (3.11%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (2.36%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (2.04%) IoT
13 18 (1.93%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.82%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.29%) FMCG
16 9 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 9 (0.97%) Private Cloud
17 8 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.72%) Windows
2 13 (1.39%) Linux
3 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (34.12%) Roadmaps
2 252 (27.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 225 (24.14%) TOGAF
4 211 (22.64%) Agile
5 179 (19.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 178 (19.10%) Integration Patterns
7 162 (17.38%) Migration
8 152 (16.31%) AI
9 149 (15.99%) Architectural Patterns
9 149 (15.99%) Technical Leadership
10 129 (13.84%) Decision-Making
11 127 (13.63%) DevOps
12 123 (13.20%) CI/CD
13 115 (12.34%) Cybersecurity
14 114 (12.23%) Architecture Governance
15 108 (11.59%) Analytics
16 106 (11.37%) Data Modelling
17 105 (11.27%) Data Architecture
17 105 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
18 103 (11.05%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 71 (7.62%) Python
2 49 (5.26%) SQL
3 46 (4.94%) Java
4 20 (2.15%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.39%) C#
6 12 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.18%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.86%) ABAP
9 6 (0.64%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.64%) Bash
9 6 (0.64%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.32%) Bicep
12 2 (0.21%) Go
12 2 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.21%) Korn
12 2 (0.21%) Ruby
12 2 (0.21%) Rust
12 2 (0.21%) Scala
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 261 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 196 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.90%) DV Cleared
4 49 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 49 (5.26%) Degree
5 32 (3.43%) TOGAF Certification
6 30 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 29 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.00%) CISSP
9 19 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (2.04%) CISM
10 15 (1.61%) PMP
11 11 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.97%) CCIE
12 9 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.86%) CCNP
13 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.75%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.26%) GDPR
3 37 (3.97%) NIST
4 33 (3.54%) NCSC
5 32 (3.43%) GRC
6 26 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.93%) QA
8 15 (1.61%) COBIT
9 14 (1.50%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.18%) PMO
11 10 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (1.07%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.97%) SLA
13 8 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.64%) ISO 31000
14 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (0.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.25%) Docker
3 8 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.86%) VMware NSX
4 7 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.43%) RACF
7 2 (0.21%) 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 39 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.00%) Terraform
3 20 (2.15%) Ansible
4 13 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.43%) SCCM
7 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) CASB
9 1 (0.11%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.11%) Grafana
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) SCOM
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 182 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 84 (9.01%) SAP
3 79 (8.48%) Oracle
4 60 (6.44%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.97%) Databricks
6 36 (3.86%) Salesforce
7 31 (3.33%) Google
8 29 (3.11%) BiZZdesign
9 23 (2.47%) Sparx
10 21 (2.25%) Workday
11 18 (1.93%) Zscaler
12 17 (1.82%) VMware
13 15 (1.61%) Ariba
14 13 (1.39%) Cisco
14 13 (1.39%) MuleSoft
15 12 (1.29%) Informatica
16 9 (0.97%) Foundry
16 9 (0.97%) Palo Alto
17 8 (0.86%) Liquidlogic
17 8 (0.86%) OpenAI