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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 201 272
Rank change year-on-year +38 +71 -33
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 813 398 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 1.34% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.48% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 259 237
10th Percentile £463 £450 £453
25th Percentile £525 £510 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £738
90th Percentile £825 £820 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 6
10th Percentile £52.83 £56.20 -
25th Percentile £67.19 £63.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £92.00 £76.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.52% +13.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £110.75 £88.50 £83.81
90th Percentile - £95.40 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £93.50 £52.67 £87.50
% change year-on-year +77.52% -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 42,574 26,968 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 91.03% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,549 17,103 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,556 1,231 2,598
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.01
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +39 698 £650 +4.00% 428
UK excluding London -3 359 £625 +0.81% 268
London +53 347 £675 +3.85% 190
Work from Home +53 238 £575 -3.52% 196
South East -7 113 £650 +4.00% 84
North of England -10 108 £550 -9.84% 62
Midlands -18 68 £575 -7.26% 42
Yorkshire -4 60 £563 -10.00% 22
West Midlands -25 49 £569 -5.21% 27
North West -28 45 £550 -1.26% 30
Scotland -11 28 £613 +2.77% 21
South West -37 28 £650 - 40
East Midlands -19 17 £575 -17.86% 15
East of England -19 17 £650 +10.64% 16
North East - 8 £800 - 11
Wales -15 2 - - 5
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 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 32 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.09%) Confluence
2 17 (2.09%) SAS
3 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.86%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.62%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.62%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.49%) Apache
7 3 (0.37%) Camunda
7 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (3.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.74%) Primavera
5 5 (0.62%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.37%) ContrOCC
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.25%) Endur
7 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Retail
8 1 (0.12%) Unica
8 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 243 (29.89%) Azure
2 163 (20.05%) AWS
3 60 (7.38%) SaaS
4 59 (7.26%) GCP
5 40 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 34 (4.18%) Serverless
7 33 (4.06%) PaaS
8 30 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (3.44%) Entra ID
10 21 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (2.58%) OCI
11 20 (2.46%) IaaS
12 19 (2.34%) Azure AI
13 16 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.97%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (1.72%) GitHub
16 13 (1.60%) Azure Functions
17 12 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
18 11 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.85%) Network Security
2 12 (1.48%) Firewall
2 12 (1.48%) VPN
3 11 (1.35%) IPsec
4 10 (1.23%) WAN
5 8 (0.98%) MPLS
6 7 (0.86%) SSL
7 6 (0.74%) BGP
7 6 (0.74%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.74%) LAN
7 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.62%) DHCP
8 5 (0.62%) DNS
9 4 (0.49%) Intranet
9 4 (0.49%) MQTT
9 4 (0.49%) RFID
10 3 (0.37%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.37%) NGFW
10 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.44%) Data Lake
2 24 (2.95%) Metadata
3 20 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.34%) Power BI
5 14 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.60%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 11 (1.35%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.62%) Base SAS
8 5 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (0.62%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.37%) DocumentDB
9 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (1.35%) JIRA
2 8 (0.98%) Git
2 8 (0.98%) GitLab
3 7 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.62%) Hudson
5 4 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.37%) ERwin
6 3 (0.37%) Selenium
7 2 (0.25%) Flyway
7 2 (0.25%) JUnit
7 2 (0.25%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 235 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 215 (26.45%) Finance
3 119 (14.64%) Public Sector
4 87 (10.70%) Banking
5 71 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (7.13%) Retail
7 46 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (4.80%) Legal
9 23 (2.83%) Aerospace
10 20 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.60%) Military
13 13 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.23%) Law
16 9 (1.11%) Aviation
16 9 (1.11%) Local Government
17 7 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 6 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 557 (68.51%) Architect
2 193 (23.74%) Solutions Architect
3 130 (15.99%) Enterprise Architect
4 87 (10.70%) Lead
5 68 (8.36%) Technical Architect
6 63 (7.75%) Senior
7 44 (5.41%) Data Architect
8 39 (4.80%) Security Architect
9 37 (4.55%) Senior Architect
10 35 (4.31%) Lead Architect
11 28 (3.44%) ServiceNow Architect
12 27 (3.32%) Project Manager
13 25 (3.08%) Analyst
14 23 (2.83%) Consultant
14 23 (2.83%) SAP Architect
15 19 (2.34%) Cloud Architect
16 17 (2.09%) Azure Architect
16 17 (2.09%) Technical Manager
17 16 (1.97%) Applications Architect
17 16 (1.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.75%) REST
2 57 (7.01%) Middleware
3 36 (4.43%) .NET
4 34 (4.18%) SOAP
5 21 (2.58%) Web Services
6 20 (2.46%) OAuth
7 17 (2.09%) Kafka
8 16 (1.97%) SAML
9 14 (1.72%) AngularJS
9 14 (1.72%) OpenID
9 14 (1.72%) React
10 12 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (1.23%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.11%) A2A Protocol
12 9 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
13 8 (0.98%) Node.js
14 7 (0.86%) LangChain
14 7 (0.86%) RESTful
14 7 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 65 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (4.06%) CMDB
4 33 (4.06%) Operational Technology
5 24 (2.95%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.34%) Security Posture
10 17 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.97%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.48%) IoT
13 9 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.11%) FMCG
13 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.34%) Windows
2 13 (1.60%) Linux
3 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.62%) Unix
5 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (33.83%) Roadmaps
2 199 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 182 (22.39%) Agile
3 182 (22.39%) TOGAF
4 154 (18.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 142 (17.47%) Integration Patterns
6 135 (16.61%) Architectural Patterns
7 133 (16.36%) Migration
8 128 (15.74%) AI
9 124 (15.25%) Decision-Making
10 117 (14.39%) CI/CD
11 116 (14.27%) Technical Leadership
12 111 (13.65%) DevOps
13 101 (12.42%) Cybersecurity
14 96 (11.81%) Data Modelling
15 95 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
16 91 (11.19%) Architecture Governance
17 89 (10.95%) Architectural Design
18 87 (10.70%) Microservices
19 85 (10.46%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 59 (7.26%) Python
2 39 (4.80%) Java
3 38 (4.67%) SQL
4 14 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.60%) C#
6 11 (1.35%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.98%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.74%) Kotlin
9 5 (0.62%) ABAP
9 5 (0.62%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.49%) Bash
10 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.25%) Bicep
11 2 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.25%) Ruby
11 2 (0.25%) Scala
12 1 (0.12%) C++
12 1 (0.12%) Groovy
12 1 (0.12%) Korn
12 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 211 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 153 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.90%) DV Cleared
4 42 (5.17%) Degree
5 38 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 30 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.71%) AWS Certification
9 20 (2.46%) CISSP
10 15 (1.85%) CISM
11 13 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.35%) PMP
13 9 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (0.74%) CCIE
16 6 (0.74%) JNCIE
16 6 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.78%) GDPR
3 36 (4.43%) NIST
4 23 (2.83%) NCSC
5 20 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.97%) COBIT
7 15 (1.85%) QA
8 14 (1.72%) GRC
9 12 (1.48%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.98%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.98%) PMO
11 8 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.86%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.74%) Def Stans
13 6 (0.74%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.58%) Docker
3 6 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.62%) RACF
4 5 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) IAG
6 1 (0.12%) KVM
6 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.71%) Terraform
3 14 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.60%) Ansible
5 8 (0.98%) SCCM
6 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.25%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.12%) Grafana
9 1 (0.12%) Istio
9 1 (0.12%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 159 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.36%) SAP
3 64 (7.87%) Oracle
4 58 (7.13%) ServiceNow
5 33 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 25 (3.08%) Sparx
7 24 (2.95%) Databricks
8 22 (2.71%) Google
9 20 (2.46%) BiZZdesign
10 17 (2.09%) VMware
11 15 (1.85%) Workday
12 14 (1.72%) Ariba
13 12 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 12 (1.48%) Zscaler
14 9 (1.11%) Cisco
14 9 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 6 (0.74%) Foundry
16 5 (0.62%) Informatica
17 4 (0.49%) Temenos