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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 206 303
Rank change year-on-year +70 +97 -63
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1,125 448 288
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 1.35% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.49% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 297 161
10th Percentile £475 £450 £445
25th Percentile £540 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.87%
75th Percentile £719 £719 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 3 2
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £66.63 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £83.50 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.53% -21.97% -
75th Percentile £109.31 £77.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.96 £42.34 -
% change year-on-year +95.95% - -

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 46,356 30,019 32,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.58% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,940 18,640 19,751
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,287 1,869 1,348
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -48.10% +1.18%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +62 991 £625 +4.17% 928
London +67 544 £650 +4.00% 532
UK excluding London +26 434 £600 +4.35% 459
Work from Home +51 316 £600 +4.35% 438
North of England +20 137 £600 +11.53% 114
South East +18 137 £525 -8.70% 158
Midlands -23 83 £627 +4.42% 60
Yorkshire +25 74 £550 -6.38% 46
West Midlands -15 62 £627 +4.42% 39
North West -16 58 £600 +12.68% 61
South West -27 44 £650 +13.04% 44
Scotland -11 26 £625 +13.64% 37
East Midlands -17 19 £600 +9.89% 21
East of England -23 13 £600 -25.00% 33
North East -38 9 £650 +18.18% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 £650 - 15
Wales -16 1 £650 +35.42% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -

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 50 (4.44%) SAS
2 26 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.60%) Confluence
4 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.89%) Apache
7 6 (0.53%) NetWeaver
8 5 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.44%) CMS
8 5 (0.44%) Mule
8 5 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.36%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.36%) SAP EP
10 3 (0.27%) Mendix
11 2 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (1.24%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 53 (4.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.71%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.53%) Primavera
5 6 (0.53%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.36%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.27%) Cloudability
8 3 (0.27%) Endur
8 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.27%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.18%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 394 (35.02%) Azure
2 251 (22.31%) AWS
3 127 (11.29%) GCP
4 77 (6.84%) Power Platform
5 69 (6.13%) SaaS
6 67 (5.96%) Entra ID
7 57 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (3.73%) Serverless
9 36 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (2.67%) GitHub
11 26 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (2.13%) iPaaS
12 24 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 24 (2.13%) OCI
12 24 (2.13%) PaaS
13 23 (2.04%) Azure AI
14 20 (1.78%) Boomi
15 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.69%) Snowflake
16 18 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.76%) Network Security
2 29 (2.58%) Firewall
3 22 (1.96%) WAN
4 18 (1.60%) VPN
5 14 (1.24%) LAN
6 12 (1.07%) HTTP
7 10 (0.89%) BGP
8 9 (0.80%) MPLS
9 8 (0.71%) DNS
9 8 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.62%) IPsec
11 6 (0.53%) NGFW
11 6 (0.53%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.44%) 5G
12 5 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.44%) Modbus
12 5 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
13 4 (0.36%) 4G
13 4 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.87%) Metadata
2 55 (4.89%) Data Lake
3 34 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (2.84%) Power BI
5 19 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.07%) Base SAS
8 11 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 10 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.89%) SAP HANA
10 9 (0.80%) Big Data
11 8 (0.71%) Delta Lake
11 8 (0.71%) Neo4j
12 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.62%) SAP BW
12 7 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.53%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (1.42%) JIRA
2 13 (1.16%) Git
2 13 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.98%) GitLab
4 6 (0.53%) ERwin
5 3 (0.27%) Hudson
5 3 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.27%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.18%) Postman
6 2 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.18%) Subversion
6 2 (0.18%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.089%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.089%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.089%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.089%) Mockito
General
1 397 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 304 (27.02%) Finance
3 184 (16.36%) Public Sector
4 109 (9.69%) Banking
5 97 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (8.62%) Retail
6 85 (7.56%) Influencing Skills
7 37 (3.29%) Legal
8 34 (3.02%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.67%) Aerospace
9 30 (2.67%) Military
10 23 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (1.96%) Local Government
11 22 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.60%) Marketing
13 18 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.42%) Billing
15 12 (1.07%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 804 (71.47%) Architect
2 267 (23.73%) Solutions Architect
3 180 (16.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 137 (12.18%) Lead
5 87 (7.73%) Data Architect
5 87 (7.73%) Technical Architect
6 72 (6.40%) Senior
7 66 (5.87%) Lead Architect
8 54 (4.80%) Security Architect
9 48 (4.27%) Senior Architect
10 47 (4.18%) SAP Architect
11 38 (3.38%) Technical Leader
12 34 (3.02%) Project Manager
13 33 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 32 (2.84%) Integration Architect
15 29 (2.58%) Cloud Architect
16 27 (2.40%) ServiceNow Architect
17 26 (2.31%) Azure Architect
18 25 (2.22%) Analyst
18 25 (2.22%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.29%) REST
2 72 (6.40%) Middleware
3 46 (4.09%) SOAP
4 38 (3.38%) Terraform
5 34 (3.02%) Kafka
5 34 (3.02%) OAuth
6 32 (2.84%) .NET
7 21 (1.87%) SAML
8 20 (1.78%) JSON
9 19 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
9 19 (1.69%) XML
10 17 (1.51%) JWT
11 16 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (1.33%) OAuth2
12 15 (1.33%) OpenID
12 15 (1.33%) SAPUI5
13 14 (1.24%) Swagger
14 13 (1.16%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.16%) Node.js
14 13 (1.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 152 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.82%) Enterprise Software
3 65 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 59 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 53 (4.71%) AI Agents
6 43 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 39 (3.47%) CMDB
7 39 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.76%) Operational Technology
9 29 (2.58%) Management Information System
10 28 (2.49%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (2.04%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.87%) IoT
15 19 (1.69%) Public Cloud
16 18 (1.60%) FMCG
17 16 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
18 14 (1.24%) Data Structures
19 13 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.96%) Windows
2 13 (1.16%) Linux
3 10 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.18%) Android
5 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.089%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (38.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 412 (36.62%) Roadmaps
3 246 (21.87%) TOGAF
4 223 (19.82%) AI
5 219 (19.47%) Integration Patterns
6 213 (18.93%) Agile
6 213 (18.93%) Migration
7 209 (18.58%) Technical Leadership
8 208 (18.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 186 (16.53%) Architecture Governance
10 175 (15.56%) Decision-Making
11 166 (14.76%) Analytics
12 165 (14.67%) DevOps
13 161 (14.31%) Cybersecurity
14 155 (13.78%) Architectural Patterns
15 151 (13.42%) CI/CD
16 148 (13.16%) Data Architecture
17 140 (12.44%) Event-Driven
18 133 (11.82%) Data Modelling
19 124 (11.02%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 67 (5.96%) Python
2 52 (4.62%) SQL
3 44 (3.91%) Java
4 22 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.24%) C#
6 13 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.16%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.98%) ABAP
8 6 (0.53%) Bash
9 4 (0.36%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.36%) Korn
10 3 (0.27%) Bicep
11 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.18%) Rust
12 1 (0.089%) C++
12 1 (0.089%) COBOL
12 1 (0.089%) Go
12 1 (0.089%) Groovy
12 1 (0.089%) Scala
12 1 (0.089%) Swift
Qualifications
1 297 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 227 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 62 (5.51%) Azure Certification
4 61 (5.42%) Degree
5 52 (4.62%) TOGAF Certification
6 46 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 40 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (3.02%) AWS Certification
9 31 (2.76%) CISSP
10 26 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (1.87%) PMP
12 18 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.51%) CISM
14 14 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (1.16%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.62%) CCIE
17 7 (0.62%) Master's Degree
18 6 (0.53%) CCSP
18 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (8.80%) Data Quality
2 51 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (4.36%) GRC
4 43 (3.82%) GDPR
5 39 (3.47%) NIST
6 35 (3.11%) NCSC
7 23 (2.04%) QA
8 17 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.24%) PMO
10 12 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.98%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.71%) SLA
13 6 (0.53%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.44%) COBIT
14 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.27%) GxP
15 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 39 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.22%) Docker
3 13 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.089%) NFS
8 1 (0.089%) Samba
8 1 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.69%) Ansible
3 14 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.53%) Grafana
6 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.27%) SCCM
7 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.18%) Puppet
7 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.089%) CASB
8 1 (0.089%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.089%) Nagios
8 1 (0.089%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.089%) SCOM
8 1 (0.089%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 242 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 114 (10.13%) SAP
3 102 (9.07%) Oracle
4 70 (6.22%) ServiceNow
5 62 (5.51%) Google
6 61 (5.42%) Databricks
7 41 (3.64%) Salesforce
8 27 (2.40%) MuleSoft
9 24 (2.13%) Workday
10 22 (1.96%) Informatica
10 22 (1.96%) VMware
11 20 (1.78%) IBM
12 19 (1.69%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.69%) Sparx
13 18 (1.60%) BiZZdesign
14 16 (1.42%) Cisco
14 16 (1.42%) Zscaler
15 15 (1.33%) Ariba
16 13 (1.16%) Foundry
17 12 (1.07%) Adobe