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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 234 263
Rank change year-on-year +68 +29 -19
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 732 336 379
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.14% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.26% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 222 256
10th Percentile £463 £480 £463
25th Percentile £513 £526 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £738
90th Percentile £800 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 9
10th Percentile £58.85 - £60.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £100.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +48.15% -7.98%
75th Percentile £91.32 - £71.25
90th Percentile £100.63 - £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.25 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.57%

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 39,180 26,703 37,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.74% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,749 17,293 24,471
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,327 1,032 2,410
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.85 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%
75th Percentile £65.25 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £34.21
% change year-on-year +39.13% -15.96% -2.26%

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 April 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 April 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 18 April 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 +60 621 £625 -3.85% 228
UK excluding London +19 354 £600 -4.00% 150
London +72 285 £625 -3.85% 95
Work from Home +56 206 £550 -8.33% 80
South East +17 108 £650 +3.17% 45
North of England -14 96 £563 -7.79% 40
Midlands -17 68 £540 -10.00% 27
West Midlands -26 53 £548 -8.75% 14
Yorkshire -14 49 £575 -11.54% 22
North West -34 43 £550 -2.14% 14
South West -19 42 £650 - 21
Scotland 0 25 £550 -2.18% 4
East of England -20 14 £650 -3.70% 14
East Midlands -24 14 £535 -33.13% 13
North East -6 9 £713 -5.00% 5
Wales -12 3 £550 +14.58% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 - 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 38 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.01%) SAS
3 17 (2.32%) Confluence
4 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.09%) Camunda
6 6 (0.82%) NetWeaver
6 6 (0.82%) SAP EP
7 5 (0.68%) Apache
7 5 (0.68%) Appian
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 31 (4.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.96%) SAP CRM
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.41%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.14%) Summit
8 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 234 (31.97%) Azure
2 162 (22.13%) AWS
3 67 (9.15%) GCP
4 57 (7.79%) SaaS
5 39 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 33 (4.51%) Serverless
7 27 (3.69%) PaaS
8 26 (3.55%) Entra ID
9 23 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.01%) IaaS
11 21 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 20 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
12 20 (2.73%) OCI
13 16 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (2.05%) Azure AI
14 15 (2.05%) GitHub
14 15 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.19%) Firewall
2 13 (1.78%) VPN
3 12 (1.64%) SD-WAN
3 12 (1.64%) WAN
4 10 (1.37%) DNS
4 10 (1.37%) IPsec
5 8 (1.09%) Network Security
6 7 (0.96%) LAN
6 7 (0.96%) MPLS
7 6 (0.82%) DHCP
7 6 (0.82%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.82%) SSL
8 5 (0.68%) BGP
8 5 (0.68%) Internet
9 4 (0.55%) BIG-IP
9 4 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.55%) Intranet
9 4 (0.55%) RFID
9 4 (0.55%) VLAN
9 4 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.69%) Data Lake
2 26 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.42%) Metadata
4 23 (3.14%) Oracle Database
5 20 (2.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 18 (2.46%) Power BI
7 13 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.64%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.68%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.41%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (0.41%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.41%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (3.01%) JIRA
2 16 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.64%) Git
3 12 (1.64%) GitLab
4 8 (1.09%) Selenium
5 7 (0.96%) JUnit
6 3 (0.41%) ERwin
6 3 (0.41%) Hudson
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.27%) Flyway
7 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.14%) gulp
8 1 (0.14%) LSMW
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 218 (29.78%) Social Skills
2 177 (24.18%) Finance
3 109 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 71 (9.70%) Banking
5 69 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
7 36 (4.92%) Legal
8 35 (4.78%) Retail
9 24 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.19%) Military
11 16 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.78%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.50%) Billing
13 11 (1.50%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.09%) Law
16 7 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.96%) Marketing
17 6 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 512 (69.95%) Architect
2 162 (22.13%) Solutions Architect
3 142 (19.40%) Enterprise Architect
4 69 (9.43%) Lead
5 63 (8.61%) Technical Architect
6 50 (6.83%) Senior
7 32 (4.37%) Lead Architect
8 31 (4.23%) Data Architect
9 30 (4.10%) Security Architect
10 27 (3.69%) Senior Architect
10 27 (3.69%) ServiceNow Architect
11 24 (3.28%) Consultant
12 23 (3.14%) SAP Architect
13 20 (2.73%) Analyst
13 20 (2.73%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.60%) Azure Architect
15 18 (2.46%) Applications Architect
16 17 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
16 17 (2.32%) Designer
17 16 (2.19%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.61%) REST
2 34 (4.64%) Middleware
3 32 (4.37%) SOAP
4 28 (3.83%) .NET
5 21 (2.87%) Web Services
6 17 (2.32%) OAuth
7 14 (1.91%) AngularJS
8 13 (1.78%) Kafka
8 13 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (1.64%) React
10 11 (1.50%) OAuth2
11 10 (1.37%) Node.js
11 10 (1.37%) OpenID
11 10 (1.37%) SAML
12 9 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
12 9 (1.23%) XML
13 8 (1.09%) A2A Protocol
13 8 (1.09%) LangGraph
13 8 (1.09%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.37%) CMDB
4 27 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.60%) Operational Technology
7 18 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.19%) IoT
9 16 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.78%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.37%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.23%) FMCG
13 9 (1.23%) NHS
13 9 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.87%) Windows
2 12 (1.64%) Linux
3 6 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 6 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.55%) Unix
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (39.07%) Roadmaps
2 183 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 177 (24.18%) Agile
4 163 (22.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 159 (21.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 128 (17.49%) Integration Patterns
7 125 (17.08%) Architectural Patterns
8 122 (16.67%) AI
9 112 (15.30%) Decision-Making
10 109 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (14.34%) CI/CD
12 100 (13.66%) DevOps
13 99 (13.52%) Data Modelling
14 95 (12.98%) Migration
15 91 (12.43%) Business Strategy
16 88 (12.02%) Analytics
17 87 (11.89%) Cybersecurity
17 87 (11.89%) ITIL
18 83 (11.34%) Architectural Design
19 81 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (9.84%) Python
2 44 (6.01%) SQL
3 34 (4.64%) Java
4 21 (2.87%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.32%) C#
6 15 (2.05%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.23%) Bash
9 8 (1.09%) ABAP
10 7 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.55%) Bicep
13 3 (0.41%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.27%) Ruby
15 1 (0.14%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.14%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 211 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 151 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.10%) Degree
4 46 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.51%) TOGAF Certification
6 29 (3.96%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.28%) CISSP
8 23 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 23 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.19%) ISEB
11 15 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.78%) CISM
13 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (1.23%) CCNP
16 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.96%) PMP
18 6 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.47%) GDPR
2 40 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 36 (4.92%) NIST
4 23 (3.14%) COBIT
5 22 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.87%) NCSC
6 21 (2.87%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.05%) GRC
8 10 (1.37%) PMO
9 7 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.96%) Def Stans
9 7 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.82%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.82%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.82%) QA
11 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.55%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.55%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (3.96%) Docker
2 26 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.68%) RACF
6 5 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.27%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.10%) Terraform
3 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.50%) Ansible
4 11 (1.50%) SCCM
5 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.14%) Argo
7 1 (0.14%) Grafana
7 1 (0.14%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.14%) Podman
7 1 (0.14%) SCOM
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 131 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.15%) ServiceNow
3 63 (8.61%) Oracle
4 61 (8.33%) SAP
5 44 (6.01%) Salesforce
6 32 (4.37%) Sparx
7 28 (3.83%) BiZZdesign
8 26 (3.55%) Databricks
9 25 (3.42%) VMware
10 24 (3.28%) Google
11 16 (2.19%) Ariba
12 15 (2.05%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.78%) Cisco
14 12 (1.64%) Pega
15 9 (1.23%) MuleSoft
15 9 (1.23%) Workday
16 8 (1.09%) F5
16 8 (1.09%) Zscaler
17 7 (0.96%) Citrix
18 6 (0.82%) Genesys