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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 242 268
Rank change year-on-year +70 +26 -23
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 701 312 384
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.07% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.19% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 195 255
10th Percentile £463 £470 £477
25th Percentile £513 £549 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.68% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile £51.52 - £55.00
25th Percentile £61.25 - £65.31
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £70.00
75th Percentile £90.09 - £83.81
90th Percentile £95.50 - £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.80%

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 37,704 26,329 38,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 90.53% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,901 17,073 24,878
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.13% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 942 2,338
10th Percentile £14.94 £15.20 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.31 £57.75
90th Percentile £75.12 £77.10 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -5.54% +0.83% -12.50%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +56 599 £625 -0.79% 207
UK excluding London +25 345 £615 -1.68% 137
London +54 268 £625 -3.85% 96
Work from Home +60 191 £550 -10.93% 91
South East +5 105 £650 +4.00% 61
North of England -22 88 £600 +6.76% 33
Midlands -5 75 £553 -3.78% 19
West Midlands -3 59 £560 -6.67% 15
South West -7 43 £650 - 10
North West -23 43 £575 +2.68% 12
Yorkshire -26 41 £625 +13.93% 17
Scotland +10 22 £575 -9.73% 6
East of England -19 16 £650 - 8
East Midlands -20 15 £536 +26.12% 4
North East -4 9 £713 -5.00% 4
Wales -10 3 £550 -12.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 -

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 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.28%) SAS
3 14 (2.00%) Confluence
4 9 (1.28%) Camunda
4 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.86%) Appian
5 6 (0.86%) NetWeaver
5 6 (0.86%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 29 (4.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 23 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.00%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.43%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
7 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (34.95%) Azure
2 164 (23.40%) AWS
3 67 (9.56%) GCP
4 56 (7.99%) SaaS
5 39 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 36 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (4.42%) Serverless
8 26 (3.71%) Entra ID
8 26 (3.71%) PaaS
9 25 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (3.00%) IaaS
12 19 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (2.71%) Microsoft Copilot
13 18 (2.57%) OCI
14 15 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (2.00%) GitHub
15 14 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
17 12 (1.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.28%) Firewall
2 14 (2.00%) VPN
3 13 (1.85%) SD-WAN
4 12 (1.71%) WAN
5 11 (1.57%) DNS
5 11 (1.57%) Network Security
6 10 (1.43%) IPsec
7 8 (1.14%) SSL
8 7 (1.00%) DHCP
8 7 (1.00%) LAN
8 7 (1.00%) MPLS
9 5 (0.71%) BGP
9 5 (0.71%) Internet
9 5 (0.71%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.57%) BIG-IP
10 4 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.57%) Intranet
10 4 (0.57%) RFID
10 4 (0.57%) VLAN
10 4 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.28%) Data Lake
1 30 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (3.28%) Metadata
2 23 (3.28%) Oracle Database
2 23 (3.28%) Power BI
3 20 (2.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.71%) Metadata Repository
8 5 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.57%) Pentaho
10 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.43%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.43%) GIS
10 3 (0.43%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.43%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (2.71%) JIRA
2 16 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.85%) Git
4 12 (1.71%) GitLab
5 8 (1.14%) Selenium
6 7 (1.00%) JUnit
7 4 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.43%) ERwin
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.29%) Flyway
9 2 (0.29%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.14%) gulp
10 1 (0.14%) Hudson
10 1 (0.14%) LSMW
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 212 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 166 (23.68%) Finance
3 108 (15.41%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (9.42%) Banking
6 46 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (3.71%) Legal
7 26 (3.71%) Retail
8 23 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.85%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.28%) Military
10 16 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.71%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.28%) Billing
13 8 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.14%) Marketing
14 7 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.00%) Local Government
15 6 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 503 (71.75%) Architect
2 157 (22.40%) Solutions Architect
3 141 (20.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 62 (8.84%) Lead
5 59 (8.42%) Technical Architect
6 50 (7.13%) Senior
7 33 (4.71%) Security Architect
8 32 (4.56%) Data Architect
9 31 (4.42%) Lead Architect
10 30 (4.28%) Senior Architect
11 25 (3.57%) Azure Architect
11 25 (3.57%) Consultant
12 24 (3.42%) SAP Architect
13 21 (3.00%) ServiceNow Architect
14 18 (2.57%) Analyst
14 18 (2.57%) Business Architect
14 18 (2.57%) Designer
15 17 (2.43%) Applications Architect
15 17 (2.43%) Cloud Architect
16 15 (2.14%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.56%) REST
2 34 (4.85%) Middleware
3 31 (4.42%) SOAP
4 22 (3.14%) .NET
5 21 (3.00%) Web Services
6 18 (2.57%) OAuth
7 12 (1.71%) Kafka
7 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (1.57%) AngularJS
8 11 (1.57%) OAuth2
8 11 (1.57%) SAML
9 10 (1.43%) OpenID
10 9 (1.28%) Node.js
10 9 (1.28%) React
10 9 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
11 8 (1.14%) JSON
11 8 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (1.14%) XML
12 7 (1.00%) pytest
12 7 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.27%) Product Ownership
2 52 (7.42%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.14%) CMDB
4 25 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.43%) IoT
8 16 (2.28%) Operational Technology
9 15 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.85%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.28%) NHS
14 8 (1.14%) FMCG
14 8 (1.14%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.85%) Windows
2 8 (1.14%) Linux
3 6 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.43%) Unix
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (39.23%) Roadmaps
2 193 (27.53%) TOGAF
3 171 (24.39%) Agile
4 158 (22.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 149 (21.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 120 (17.12%) Architectural Patterns
7 118 (16.83%) Integration Patterns
8 111 (15.83%) AI
9 107 (15.26%) Decision-Making
10 105 (14.98%) DevOps
10 105 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
11 98 (13.98%) CI/CD
12 95 (13.55%) Data Modelling
13 92 (13.12%) Migration
14 88 (12.55%) Analytics
14 88 (12.55%) Business Strategy
15 83 (11.84%) ITIL
16 82 (11.70%) Architectural Design
17 79 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
18 77 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 68 (9.70%) Python
2 46 (6.56%) SQL
3 31 (4.42%) Java
4 20 (2.85%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.00%) C#
7 9 (1.28%) Bash
8 8 (1.14%) ABAP
9 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.86%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.57%) Bicep
12 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.29%) Ruby
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) Korn
14 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.14%) R
14 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 198 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 142 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.13%) Degree
4 43 (6.13%) DV Cleared
5 32 (4.56%) Azure Certification
6 31 (4.42%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (3.57%) CISSP
9 21 (3.00%) AWS Certification
9 21 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (2.28%) ISEB
11 15 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.85%) CISM
12 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (1.14%) CCNP
15 7 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.86%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.56%) GDPR
2 37 (5.28%) NIST
3 35 (4.99%) Data Quality
4 27 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (3.28%) PCI DSS
6 21 (3.00%) NCSC
7 18 (2.57%) COBIT
8 15 (2.14%) GRC
9 10 (1.43%) PMO
10 8 (1.14%) QA
11 7 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.00%) Def Stans
11 7 (1.00%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.86%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.86%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.86%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.57%) PSD2
13 4 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (4.42%) Docker
2 26 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.14%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.71%) RACF
6 5 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.29%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.28%) Terraform
3 14 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.57%) Ansible
4 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.43%) SCCM
6 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.14%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.14%) Podman
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 126 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.99%) Oracle
3 60 (8.56%) SAP
4 57 (8.13%) ServiceNow
5 44 (6.28%) Salesforce
6 30 (4.28%) Sparx
7 27 (3.85%) BiZZdesign
8 25 (3.57%) Databricks
8 25 (3.57%) VMware
9 23 (3.28%) Google
10 15 (2.14%) OpenAI
11 14 (2.00%) Ariba
12 13 (1.85%) Cisco
12 13 (1.85%) Pega
13 10 (1.43%) F5
13 10 (1.43%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.28%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.14%) Temenos
15 8 (1.14%) Workday
15 8 (1.14%) Zscaler