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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 207 299
Rank change year-on-year +57 +92 -67
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 990 427 291
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.86% 1.30% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.43% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 288 178
10th Percentile £463 £450 £449
25th Percentile £531 £510 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £648
Median % change year-on-year - -3.55% -1.52%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £825 £829 £859
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 4
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £82.21 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.08% -21.97% -3.57%
75th Percentile £106.81 £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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 6 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 6 August 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 6 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 +64 867 £625 - 557
London +77 484 £650 - 329
UK excluding London 0 381 £600 - 283
Work from Home +36 279 £600 +0.42% 231
South East +4 129 £615 -1.60% 98
North of England -7 104 £550 -5.17% 63
Midlands -25 67 £600 - 37
Yorkshire -6 52 £550 -12.00% 22
North West -31 48 £575 +6.48% 35
West Midlands -31 48 £621 +3.59% 20
South West -48 42 £650 - 34
Scotland +2 27 £600 +13.53% 30
East Midlands -6 17 £575 -17.86% 17
East of England -14 11 £600 -11.11% 13
North East -37 4 £625 - 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £713 - 7
Wales -13 1 - - 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 48 (4.85%) SAS
2 28 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.92%) Confluence
4 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.71%) Apache
8 5 (0.51%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.51%) Mule
8 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.40%) NetWeaver
9 4 (0.40%) SAP EP
10 3 (0.30%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Camunda
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 1 (0.10%) CIMPLICITY
12 1 (0.10%) Mendix
12 1 (0.10%) Predix
Applications
1 9 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.81%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.61%) Primavera
6 5 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.40%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.30%) Endur
8 3 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.20%) SAP CS
9 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 305 (30.81%) Azure
2 200 (20.20%) AWS
3 101 (10.20%) GCP
4 55 (5.56%) SaaS
5 53 (5.35%) Power Platform
6 45 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 41 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (2.73%) Serverless
9 23 (2.32%) OCI
9 23 (2.32%) PaaS
10 21 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (1.82%) Azure AI
11 18 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (1.62%) iPaaS
13 14 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.41%) GitHub
13 14 (1.41%) Snowflake
13 14 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
13 14 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.93%) Network Security
2 24 (2.42%) Firewall
3 22 (2.22%) VPN
4 17 (1.72%) WAN
5 14 (1.41%) LAN
6 10 (1.01%) MPLS
7 9 (0.91%) IPsec
8 8 (0.81%) BGP
8 8 (0.81%) DNS
8 8 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.61%) HTTP
9 6 (0.61%) NGFW
9 6 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) 5G
11 4 (0.40%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (0.40%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.65%) Data Lake
2 37 (3.74%) Metadata
3 33 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (2.73%) Power BI
5 18 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.11%) Base SAS
7 11 (1.11%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.91%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 6 (0.61%) Big Data
12 5 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.51%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 4 (0.40%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.30%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.30%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (1.52%) JIRA
2 10 (1.01%) Git
3 7 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.61%) GitLab
5 5 (0.51%) ERwin
5 5 (0.51%) Hudson
6 4 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.20%) Flyway
7 2 (0.20%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.20%) Selenium
7 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.20%) Subversion
8 1 (0.10%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.10%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.10%) JUnit
8 1 (0.10%) Postman
8 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.10%) Terragrunt
General
1 307 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 254 (25.66%) Finance
3 159 (16.06%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.30%) Banking
5 88 (8.89%) Retail
6 84 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (6.36%) Influencing Skills
8 42 (4.24%) Legal
9 28 (2.83%) Military
10 27 (2.73%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.32%) Local Government
12 21 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (2.02%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.52%) Marketing
16 14 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.31%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.21%) Billing
19 10 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 10 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 695 (70.20%) Architect
2 240 (24.24%) Solutions Architect
3 158 (15.96%) Enterprise Architect
4 120 (12.12%) Lead
5 67 (6.77%) Data Architect
6 66 (6.67%) Technical Architect
7 59 (5.96%) Senior
8 57 (5.76%) Security Architect
9 54 (5.45%) Lead Architect
10 37 (3.74%) Senior Architect
11 33 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 32 (3.23%) SAP Architect
13 29 (2.93%) ServiceNow Architect
14 26 (2.63%) Technical Leader
15 23 (2.32%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 23 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
16 22 (2.22%) Azure Architect
17 21 (2.12%) Integration Architect
17 21 (2.12%) Technical Manager
18 20 (2.02%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.98%) REST
2 66 (6.67%) Middleware
3 50 (5.05%) SOAP
4 35 (3.54%) .NET
5 29 (2.93%) OAuth
6 24 (2.42%) Kafka
7 18 (1.82%) SAML
8 17 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
8 17 (1.72%) XML
9 16 (1.62%) JSON
10 15 (1.52%) Web Services
11 14 (1.41%) React
12 13 (1.31%) OAuth2
13 12 (1.21%) OpenID
14 11 (1.11%) JWT
15 10 (1.01%) AngularJS
16 9 (0.91%) Node.js
17 8 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
18 7 (0.71%) GraphQL
18 7 (0.71%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 111 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 72 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
3 71 (7.17%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.74%) AI Agents
5 36 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 35 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (3.43%) CMDB
7 34 (3.43%) Operational Technology
8 29 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.73%) Management Information System
10 26 (2.63%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (2.02%) IoT
13 18 (1.82%) Data Centre
14 14 (1.41%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.31%) FMCG
16 10 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 9 (0.91%) Mainframe
18 8 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.72%) Windows
2 14 (1.41%) Linux
3 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.20%) Android
6 2 (0.20%) Unix
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (33.03%) Roadmaps
2 291 (29.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 233 (23.54%) TOGAF
4 194 (19.60%) Agile
4 194 (19.60%) Integration Patterns
5 180 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 171 (17.27%) Migration
7 168 (16.97%) AI
8 167 (16.87%) Technical Leadership
9 147 (14.85%) Architectural Patterns
10 140 (14.14%) Analytics
11 132 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
12 130 (13.13%) DevOps
13 129 (13.03%) Decision-Making
14 128 (12.93%) CI/CD
15 125 (12.63%) Architecture Governance
16 119 (12.02%) Data Architecture
17 118 (11.92%) Event-Driven
18 115 (11.62%) Data Integration
19 111 (11.21%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (7.27%) Python
2 49 (4.95%) Java
2 49 (4.95%) SQL
3 22 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 16 (1.62%) PowerShell
5 13 (1.31%) C#
5 13 (1.31%) TypeScript
6 7 (0.71%) ABAP
6 7 (0.71%) Bash
6 7 (0.71%) Kotlin
7 6 (0.61%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.30%) Bicep
9 3 (0.30%) Korn
10 2 (0.20%) Go
10 2 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.20%) Ruby
10 2 (0.20%) Rust
10 2 (0.20%) Scala
11 1 (0.10%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 285 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 217 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 53 (5.35%) Degree
5 52 (5.25%) Azure Certification
6 40 (4.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 31 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.13%) CISSP
8 29 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (2.22%) CISM
10 16 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.21%) PMP
12 7 (0.71%) CCIE
12 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.51%) JNCIE
14 5 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.35%) GDPR
3 48 (4.85%) GRC
4 38 (3.84%) NIST
5 37 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (3.23%) NCSC
7 19 (1.92%) QA
8 13 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.21%) COBIT
9 12 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (1.21%) PMO
10 10 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 10 (1.01%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.81%) SLA
12 7 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.61%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
15 4 (0.40%) IFRS
System Software
1 32 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.82%) Docker
3 9 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.91%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.10%) KVM
6 1 (0.10%) NFS
6 1 (0.10%) Samba
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.23%) Terraform
3 21 (2.12%) Ansible
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.40%) SCCM
7 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.20%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.20%) Grafana
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.20%) Puppet
8 2 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.10%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.10%) Nagios
9 1 (0.10%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.10%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.10%) SCOM
9 1 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 192 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 98 (9.90%) Oracle
3 78 (7.88%) SAP
4 63 (6.36%) ServiceNow
5 47 (4.75%) Google
6 45 (4.55%) Databricks
7 40 (4.04%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.53%) BiZZdesign
9 24 (2.42%) Workday
10 21 (2.12%) Sparx
10 21 (2.12%) Zscaler
11 18 (1.82%) MuleSoft
12 16 (1.62%) Informatica
13 15 (1.52%) VMware
14 13 (1.31%) Cisco
15 12 (1.21%) Ariba
16 10 (1.01%) Foundry
16 10 (1.01%) IBM
17 9 (0.91%) OpenAI
17 9 (0.91%) Palo Alto