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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 209 272
Rank change year-on-year +45 +63 -15
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 751 377 369
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.30% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.43% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 242 251
10th Percentile £461 £476 £463
25th Percentile £513 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £738
90th Percentile £808 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £56.20 -
25th Percentile £65.88 £63.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £76.34 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +13.09% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87.50 £88.50 £83.81
90th Percentile £101.25 £95.40 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.25 £52.67 £87.50
% change year-on-year +44.77% -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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +26 639 £628 -0.32% 242
UK excluding London +12 354 £625 - 147
London +45 294 £650 - 126
Work from Home +60 226 £573 -4.50% 112
South East +1 111 £650 +3.83% 44
North of England +2 110 £563 -6.25% 36
Midlands -30 60 £569 -8.17% 24
Yorkshire -7 57 £563 -13.46% 13
North West -15 49 £563 -0.27% 17
West Midlands -39 40 £560 -6.67% 13
South West -35 39 £675 +3.85% 15
Scotland -3 24 £563 +0.05% 8
East Midlands -16 18 £575 -28.13% 11
East of England -22 12 £650 -3.70% 13
North East - 9 £713 - 6
Wales -13 2 - - 9
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 35 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.40%) Confluence
3 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.07%) SAS
5 6 (0.80%) NetWeaver
5 6 (0.80%) SAP EP
6 5 (0.67%) Camunda
6 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.53%) Apache
8 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.27%) Appian
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 29 (3.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 20 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.80%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.40%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
7 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.13%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 218 (29.03%) Azure
2 161 (21.44%) AWS
3 63 (8.39%) GCP
4 56 (7.46%) SaaS
5 39 (5.19%) Power Platform
6 37 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (4.39%) Serverless
8 28 (3.73%) PaaS
9 26 (3.46%) Entra ID
10 18 (2.40%) IaaS
10 18 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
10 18 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 18 (2.40%) OCI
11 16 (2.13%) Azure AI
11 16 (2.13%) GitHub
12 15 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.86%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (1.73%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.33%) Firewall
1 10 (1.33%) IPsec
1 10 (1.33%) WAN
2 9 (1.20%) VPN
3 8 (1.07%) SD-WAN
4 7 (0.93%) MPLS
5 6 (0.80%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.80%) LAN
5 6 (0.80%) Network Security
5 6 (0.80%) SSL
6 4 (0.53%) BGP
6 4 (0.53%) Intranet
6 4 (0.53%) MQTT
6 4 (0.53%) RFID
7 3 (0.40%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.40%) DHCP
7 3 (0.40%) DNS
7 3 (0.40%) Internet
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.20%) Data Lake
2 22 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (2.93%) Metadata
3 19 (2.53%) Power BI
4 12 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.46%) Oracle Database
6 9 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.07%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 7 (0.93%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.53%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.40%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.40%) GIS
11 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.40%) Tableau
12 2 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (2.13%) JIRA
2 8 (1.07%) GitLab
2 8 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.67%) Hudson
4 4 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.40%) ERwin
5 3 (0.40%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.27%) Flyway
6 2 (0.27%) JUnit
6 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) gulp
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.13%) Yeoman
General
1 220 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 183 (24.37%) Finance
3 108 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.99%) Banking
5 66 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (5.73%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (5.33%) Legal
8 35 (4.66%) Retail
9 17 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.00%) Military
10 15 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.86%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.20%) Billing
13 9 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.07%) Law
15 7 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.80%) Aviation
16 6 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 531 (70.71%) Architect
2 161 (21.44%) Solutions Architect
3 149 (19.84%) Enterprise Architect
4 69 (9.19%) Lead
5 66 (8.79%) Technical Architect
6 52 (6.92%) Senior
7 38 (5.06%) Data Architect
8 37 (4.93%) Security Architect
9 33 (4.39%) Lead Architect
10 27 (3.60%) Senior Architect
11 25 (3.33%) Consultant
11 25 (3.33%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.33%) ServiceNow Architect
12 20 (2.66%) SAP Architect
13 19 (2.53%) Analyst
13 19 (2.53%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (2.53%) Salesforce Architect
14 18 (2.40%) Applications Architect
15 17 (2.26%) Azure Architect
16 16 (2.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.32%) REST
2 43 (5.73%) Middleware
3 30 (3.99%) SOAP
4 24 (3.20%) .NET
5 21 (2.80%) Web Services
6 18 (2.40%) OAuth
7 14 (1.86%) AngularJS
8 13 (1.73%) SAML
9 12 (1.60%) Kafka
9 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (1.46%) OpenID
10 11 (1.46%) React
11 9 (1.20%) A2A Protocol
11 9 (1.20%) LangChain
11 9 (1.20%) LangGraph
11 9 (1.20%) Model Context Protocol
11 9 (1.20%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.93%) RESTful
12 7 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.19%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.99%) CMDB
4 26 (3.46%) Operational Technology
5 25 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 18 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.26%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.00%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.00%) IoT
9 15 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.60%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.07%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.93%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.80%) Windows
2 11 (1.46%) Linux
3 6 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.67%) Unix
4 5 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (37.15%) Roadmaps
2 178 (23.70%) TOGAF
3 173 (23.04%) Agile
4 158 (21.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 144 (19.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 125 (16.64%) Architectural Patterns
7 123 (16.38%) Decision-Making
8 122 (16.25%) Integration Patterns
9 118 (15.71%) AI
10 100 (13.32%) Migration
11 94 (12.52%) Architectural Design
12 93 (12.38%) CI/CD
13 92 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (11.98%) Business Strategy
14 90 (11.98%) Data Modelling
15 89 (11.85%) Cybersecurity
15 89 (11.85%) Technical Leadership
16 85 (11.32%) DevOps
17 83 (11.05%) Architecture Governance
18 82 (10.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 56 (7.46%) Python
2 34 (4.53%) SQL
3 32 (4.26%) Java
4 17 (2.26%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.60%) C#
6 12 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.20%) Bash
8 7 (0.93%) ABAP
9 6 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.27%) Ruby
12 2 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) Go
13 1 (0.13%) Korn
13 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 207 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 147 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.39%) DV Cleared
4 43 (5.73%) Degree
5 32 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 27 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 20 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.40%) CISSP
10 16 (2.13%) ISEB
11 15 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.46%) CISM
13 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (1.20%) PMP
14 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.80%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.67%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.26%) GDPR
2 41 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 35 (4.66%) NIST
4 25 (3.33%) COBIT
5 21 (2.80%) NCSC
6 20 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (2.00%) GRC
8 13 (1.73%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.07%) NIST 800
9 8 (1.07%) QA
10 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.93%) Def Stans
10 7 (0.93%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.80%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 6 (0.80%) PMO
12 4 (0.53%) IFRS
12 4 (0.53%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (3.46%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.53%) Docker
3 9 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.67%) RACF
5 5 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) IAG
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.40%) Terraform
3 13 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.46%) SCCM
5 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.07%) Ansible
7 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.13%) Grafana
8 1 (0.13%) Istio
8 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 139 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.12%) SAP
3 58 (7.72%) ServiceNow
4 49 (6.52%) Oracle
5 41 (5.46%) Salesforce
6 29 (3.86%) Sparx
7 26 (3.46%) Google
8 25 (3.33%) Databricks
9 24 (3.20%) BiZZdesign
10 20 (2.66%) VMware
11 15 (2.00%) Ariba
12 13 (1.73%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.46%) Workday
14 9 (1.20%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.20%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.93%) Citrix
16 6 (0.80%) Cisco
16 6 (0.80%) Dynatrace
17 5 (0.67%) Pega
18 4 (0.53%) Atlassian