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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 205 287
Rank change year-on-year +61 +82 -49
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1,053 438 305
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.95% 1.33% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.47% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 295 185
10th Percentile £465 £450 £450
25th Percentile £525 £507 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £646
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -4.02% -3.22%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £748
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 3 4
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £82.41 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.46% -21.97% -3.57%
75th Percentile £108.13 £77.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.21 £42.34 -
% change year-on-year +94.18% - -

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 45,630 29,844 33,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.69% 90.49% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,001 18,599 21,039
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £728 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,875 1,760 1,727
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.29 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.86 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.05
% change year-on-year +93.36% -45.93% +12.12%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +60 923 £625 - 206
London +71 508 £650 - 104
UK excluding London +7 407 £600 +4.35% 128
Work from Home +63 303 £600 +4.35% 99
South East +9 139 £580 -6.07% 57
North of England +5 112 £574 +5.23% 30
Midlands -17 72 £638 +6.33% 15
Yorkshire +5 54 £550 -6.38% 13
North West -23 53 £586 +9.12% 13
West Midlands -28 48 £650 +8.51% 10
South West -37 47 £650 - 15
Scotland -6 26 £600 +11.27% 6
East Midlands -10 21 £600 -14.29% 5
East of England -12 12 £650 -3.70% 5
North East -40 5 £625 +13.64% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £713 -
Channel Islands - 1 £625 - 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 49 (4.65%) SAS
2 28 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.18%) Confluence
4 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.66%) Apache
8 5 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
8 5 (0.47%) Mule
8 5 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.38%) NetWeaver
9 4 (0.38%) SAP EP
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.19%) Camunda
11 2 (0.19%) Mendix
12 1 (0.095%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.095%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.095%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.76%) ContrOCC
5 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.57%) Primavera
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.38%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.28%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.28%) Endur
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.28%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.28%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 342 (32.48%) Azure
2 223 (21.18%) AWS
3 119 (11.30%) GCP
4 64 (6.08%) SaaS
5 63 (5.98%) Power Platform
6 56 (5.32%) Entra ID
7 44 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (2.94%) Serverless
9 25 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
10 24 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (2.28%) PaaS
11 23 (2.18%) OCI
12 20 (1.90%) Azure AI
13 19 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.80%) iPaaS
13 19 (1.80%) Snowflake
14 18 (1.71%) GitHub
15 16 (1.52%) Boomi
16 15 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
16 15 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.94%) Network Security
2 26 (2.47%) Firewall
3 23 (2.18%) VPN
4 19 (1.80%) WAN
5 14 (1.33%) LAN
6 10 (0.95%) BGP
7 9 (0.85%) MPLS
8 8 (0.76%) DNS
8 8 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.66%) HTTP
9 7 (0.66%) IPsec
10 6 (0.57%) NGFW
10 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.38%) 4G
12 4 (0.38%) 5G
12 4 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.38%) DHCP
12 4 (0.38%) Modbus
12 4 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.75%) Data Lake
2 48 (4.56%) Metadata
3 32 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (2.75%) Power BI
5 18 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.14%) Base SAS
7 12 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.66%) Big Data
9 7 (0.66%) Neo4j
10 6 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (0.38%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
13 3 (0.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 17 (1.61%) JIRA
2 12 (1.14%) Git
3 8 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.57%) ERwin
4 6 (0.57%) GitLab
5 5 (0.47%) Hudson
6 4 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.19%) Flyway
7 2 (0.19%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.19%) Postman
7 2 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.19%) Subversion
7 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.095%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.095%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.095%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.095%) Selenium
8 1 (0.095%) TeamCity
General
1 344 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 268 (25.45%) Finance
3 167 (15.86%) Public Sector
4 96 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (9.12%) Banking
5 95 (9.02%) Retail
6 68 (6.46%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (3.89%) Legal
8 30 (2.85%) Military
9 28 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (2.28%) Local Government
12 22 (2.09%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.80%) Marketing
15 17 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.52%) Billing
17 12 (1.14%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 742 (70.47%) Architect
2 244 (23.17%) Solutions Architect
3 170 (16.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 134 (12.73%) Lead
5 81 (7.69%) Technical Architect
6 70 (6.65%) Data Architect
7 65 (6.17%) Lead Architect
8 60 (5.70%) Senior
9 57 (5.41%) Security Architect
10 38 (3.61%) Senior Architect
11 35 (3.32%) Technical Leader
12 34 (3.23%) Project Manager
13 31 (2.94%) SAP Architect
14 27 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
14 27 (2.56%) ServiceNow Architect
15 24 (2.28%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 23 (2.18%) Azure Architect
16 23 (2.18%) Integration Architect
17 22 (2.09%) Analyst
17 22 (2.09%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (8.07%) REST
2 66 (6.27%) Middleware
3 50 (4.75%) SOAP
4 36 (3.42%) .NET
5 32 (3.04%) Terraform
6 30 (2.85%) OAuth
7 24 (2.28%) Kafka
8 17 (1.61%) JSON
8 17 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
8 17 (1.61%) SAML
8 17 (1.61%) XML
9 15 (1.42%) OAuth2
9 15 (1.42%) React
9 15 (1.42%) Web Services
10 13 (1.23%) JWT
10 13 (1.23%) OpenID
11 10 (0.95%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.95%) GraphQL
12 9 (0.85%) EDI
12 9 (0.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 128 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 78 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 76 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 44 (4.18%) CMDB
6 43 (4.08%) AI Agents
7 38 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (3.32%) Operational Technology
9 33 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (2.66%) Management Information System
11 27 (2.56%) Security Posture
12 26 (2.47%) Data Centre
12 26 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.90%) IoT
15 15 (1.42%) Public Cloud
16 13 (1.23%) FMCG
17 12 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
18 11 (1.04%) Data Structures
18 11 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.71%) Windows
2 14 (1.33%) Linux
3 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.19%) Android
5 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (33.90%) Roadmaps
2 337 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 238 (22.60%) TOGAF
4 205 (19.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 198 (18.80%) Agile
6 197 (18.71%) Integration Patterns
7 190 (18.04%) AI
8 187 (17.76%) Technical Leadership
9 180 (17.09%) Migration
10 152 (14.43%) Architectural Patterns
11 149 (14.15%) Architecture Governance
12 147 (13.96%) Analytics
13 144 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
14 142 (13.49%) Decision-Making
15 141 (13.39%) DevOps
16 135 (12.82%) CI/CD
17 128 (12.16%) Data Architecture
18 127 (12.06%) Event-Driven
19 120 (11.40%) Data Integration
19 120 (11.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (7.12%) Python
2 49 (4.65%) Java
3 48 (4.56%) SQL
4 21 (1.99%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.23%) C#
6 13 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 8 (0.76%) Bash
7 8 (0.76%) Kotlin
8 7 (0.66%) ABAP
9 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.38%) Bicep
9 4 (0.38%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.28%) Korn
11 2 (0.19%) Go
11 2 (0.19%) Ruby
11 2 (0.19%) Rust
11 2 (0.19%) Scala
12 1 (0.095%) Solidity
12 1 (0.095%) Swift
Qualifications
1 302 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 227 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 57 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 57 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 55 (5.22%) Degree
5 41 (3.89%) TOGAF Certification
6 30 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (2.75%) CISSP
8 22 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.71%) CISM
10 15 (1.42%) PMP
11 13 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.66%) CCIE
13 7 (0.66%) CCNP
14 6 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 50 (4.75%) GRC
3 47 (4.46%) GDPR
3 47 (4.46%) NIST
4 43 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.13%) NCSC
6 19 (1.80%) QA
7 14 (1.33%) PMO
8 12 (1.14%) COBIT
8 12 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 12 (1.14%) NIST 800
9 8 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.76%) SLA
10 7 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.57%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.57%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 34 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.99%) Docker
3 12 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.095%) IAG
8 1 (0.095%) KVM
8 1 (0.095%) NFS
8 1 (0.095%) Samba
8 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.095%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.99%) Ansible
3 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.38%) Grafana
5 4 (0.38%) SCCM
6 2 (0.19%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.19%) Puppet
6 2 (0.19%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.095%) CASB
7 1 (0.095%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.095%) Istio
7 1 (0.095%) Nagios
7 1 (0.095%) OpenNMS
7 1 (0.095%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.095%) SCOM
7 1 (0.095%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 211 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 101 (9.59%) Oracle
3 87 (8.26%) SAP
4 69 (6.55%) ServiceNow
5 57 (5.41%) Google
6 54 (5.13%) Databricks
7 41 (3.89%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.18%) Workday
9 22 (2.09%) BiZZdesign
9 22 (2.09%) Sparx
9 22 (2.09%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.99%) MuleSoft
10 21 (1.99%) VMware
11 18 (1.71%) Informatica
12 17 (1.61%) Cisco
13 15 (1.42%) IBM
14 14 (1.33%) Foundry
15 12 (1.14%) Ariba
16 11 (1.04%) OpenAI
17 9 (0.85%) Adobe