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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 278 259
Rank change year-on-year +85 -19 -3
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 549 270 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 0.85% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.96% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 166 268
10th Percentile £461 £450 £494
25th Percentile £513 £520 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £706 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £794 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £576 £595 £632
% change year-on-year -3.15% -5.89% +1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £44.58 - £51.00
25th Percentile £63.66 - £58.13
Median hourly rate £79.04 - £70.00
75th Percentile £91.32 - -
90th Percentile £93.53 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.04 - £70.00

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 32,749 28,251 37,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.81% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,723 17,176 25,071
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £739 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,987 905 1,714
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%
75th Percentile £56.38 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.82 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £41.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -24.93% +41.38%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +97 486 £600 -4.00% 173
UK excluding London +65 287 £576 -3.15% 151
London +76 210 £625 -3.85% 41
Work from Home +52 146 £543 -12.68% 136
South East +30 78 £663 +6.43% 53
Midlands +19 72 £578 -4.86% 15
North of England -24 70 £544 +8.75% 35
West Midlands +7 57 £578 -4.86% 11
North West -9 39 £511 +8.64% 20
South West -4 35 £550 -7.56% 17
Yorkshire -26 29 £550 +0.26% 10
East of England -5 17 £650 -13.33% 25
Scotland -2 16 £550 -4.35% 5
East Midlands - 14 £490 - 4
Wales +1 3 £588 -6.00% 8
North East -13 2 £525 -30.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 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 26 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.01%) SAS
3 10 (1.82%) Confluence
4 9 (1.64%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.28%) Apache
6 6 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.09%) Appian
6 6 (1.09%) Camunda
7 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.73%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.73%) CMS
9 3 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.36%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.36%) SAP EP
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 26 (4.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.55%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.36%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.18%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.18%) Summit
6 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 217 (39.53%) Azure
2 132 (24.04%) AWS
3 43 (7.83%) GCP
4 40 (7.29%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.29%) SaaS
5 37 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (6.01%) Entra ID
7 25 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (4.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (3.83%) Serverless
11 18 (3.28%) PaaS
12 15 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (2.55%) OCI
14 13 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (2.19%) GitHub
15 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (2.00%) IaaS
17 10 (1.82%) Snowflake
18 9 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.01%) Firewall
2 16 (2.91%) WAN
3 13 (2.37%) Network Security
3 13 (2.37%) SD-WAN
4 12 (2.19%) LAN
5 10 (1.82%) DNS
5 10 (1.82%) MPLS
5 10 (1.82%) VPN
6 9 (1.64%) BGP
7 6 (1.09%) DHCP
7 6 (1.09%) Internet
8 5 (0.91%) IPsec
9 4 (0.73%) ATM
9 4 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.73%) Intranet
9 4 (0.73%) VLAN
9 4 (0.73%) Wireless
10 3 (0.55%) MQTT
10 3 (0.55%) SSL
10 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (4.92%) Data Lake
3 21 (3.83%) Power BI
4 20 (3.64%) Oracle Database
5 19 (3.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 16 (2.91%) Metadata
7 9 (1.64%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.28%) Pentaho
9 6 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.09%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.91%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.73%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.55%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.55%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.55%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 23 (4.19%) JIRA
2 15 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.37%) Git
4 7 (1.28%) GitLab
5 5 (0.91%) JUnit
5 5 (0.91%) Selenium
6 3 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) ERwin
7 2 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) gulp
8 1 (0.18%) LSMW
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.18%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 189 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.13%) Finance
3 78 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 67 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (8.38%) Banking
6 39 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (4.19%) Telecoms
8 20 (3.64%) Legal
9 17 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (2.91%) Retail
11 14 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.00%) Military
13 10 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.64%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.46%) Marketing
16 7 (1.28%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.28%) Billing
17 6 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.91%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 387 (70.49%) Architect
2 131 (23.86%) Solutions Architect
3 110 (20.04%) Enterprise Architect
4 52 (9.47%) Lead
5 35 (6.38%) Senior
6 28 (5.10%) Azure Architect
6 28 (5.10%) Lead Architect
6 28 (5.10%) Security Architect
7 24 (4.37%) Consultant
8 23 (4.19%) Data Architect
8 23 (4.19%) Senior Architect
8 23 (4.19%) Technical Architect
9 22 (4.01%) SAP Architect
10 18 (3.28%) Analyst
11 15 (2.73%) Business Architect
12 14 (2.55%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.55%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.37%) Salesforce Architect
14 12 (2.19%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (2.19%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.56%) REST
2 17 (3.10%) Middleware
3 16 (2.91%) .NET
4 15 (2.73%) SOAP
5 13 (2.37%) OAuth
6 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.82%) JSON
7 10 (1.82%) Node.js
8 8 (1.46%) Kafka
8 8 (1.46%) LangChain
8 8 (1.46%) React
8 8 (1.46%) RESTful
9 7 (1.28%) OpenID
10 6 (1.09%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.09%) LangGraph
10 6 (1.09%) NETCONF
10 6 (1.09%) SAML
10 6 (1.09%) Web Services
10 6 (1.09%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.37%) CMDB
6 13 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.37%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.00%) IoT
9 9 (1.64%) NHS
9 9 (1.64%) Taxonomies
10 8 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.46%) FMCG
10 8 (1.46%) SCADA
11 7 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.28%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.74%) Windows
2 11 (2.00%) Linux
2 11 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 7 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.55%) Unix
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Solaris
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (37.52%) Roadmaps
2 156 (28.42%) TOGAF
3 136 (24.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 130 (23.68%) Agile
5 129 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 91 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (16.39%) Data Modelling
8 83 (15.12%) DevOps
9 80 (14.57%) Integration Patterns
10 79 (14.39%) Analytics
11 78 (14.21%) AI
12 73 (13.30%) Business Strategy
13 72 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 68 (12.39%) Decision-Making
15 65 (11.84%) Architectural Patterns
16 64 (11.66%) CI/CD
16 64 (11.66%) IT Strategy
17 61 (11.11%) Migration
18 58 (10.56%) ITIL
19 57 (10.38%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 54 (9.84%) Python
2 40 (7.29%) SQL
3 21 (3.83%) Java
4 17 (3.10%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.91%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.19%) C#
7 11 (2.00%) Bash
7 11 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.09%) Bicep
9 4 (0.73%) ABAP
9 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.36%) R
11 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.18%) C
11 1 (0.18%) C++
11 1 (0.18%) Go
11 1 (0.18%) ProC
11 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 130 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 89 (16.21%) SC Cleared
3 54 (9.84%) Degree
4 28 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.74%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.37%) TOGAF Certification
7 21 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.46%) CISSP
9 16 (2.91%) AWS Certification
10 12 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (2.00%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.82%) CCIE
12 10 (1.82%) ISEB
13 8 (1.46%) JNCIE
14 7 (1.28%) CISM
14 7 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (1.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.93%) GDPR
2 33 (6.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.55%) NIST
4 16 (2.91%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.73%) QA
6 14 (2.55%) NCSC
7 13 (2.37%) COBIT
8 11 (2.00%) GRC
9 9 (1.64%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.09%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.09%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.91%) PMO
12 4 (0.73%) ISO 8583
12 4 (0.73%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.55%) Docker
3 21 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) RACF
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.01%) Terraform
3 16 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (2.91%) SCCM
4 13 (2.37%) Ansible
5 10 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Podman
7 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.02%) Oracle
3 53 (9.65%) SAP
4 43 (7.83%) Salesforce
5 39 (7.10%) ServiceNow
6 27 (4.92%) VMware
7 22 (4.01%) Sparx
8 21 (3.83%) Databricks
9 18 (3.28%) Google
10 17 (3.10%) OpenAI
11 16 (2.91%) Cisco
11 16 (2.91%) Pega
12 14 (2.55%) BiZZdesign
13 13 (2.37%) Citrix
14 12 (2.19%) MuleSoft
15 10 (1.82%) F5
16 8 (1.46%) Ariba
17 7 (1.28%) Atlassian
17 7 (1.28%) Palo Alto
17 7 (1.28%) Talend