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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 223 269
Rank change year-on-year +51 +46 -18
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 739 344 373
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.18% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.30% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 226 252
10th Percentile £457 £480 £463
25th Percentile £513 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% -1.89%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £738
90th Percentile £808 £813 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 8
10th Percentile £58.36 - £58.50
25th Percentile £63.75 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £100.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +48.15% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87.50 - £75.44
90th Percentile £101.25 - £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.14%

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 39,818 26,498 37,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.82% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,090 17,105 24,099
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,069 2,428
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.82 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.66 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.87% -16.94% -6.17%
75th Percentile £65.88 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.25 £28.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.89% -22.27% +0.06%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +56 627 £625 -3.85% 149
UK excluding London +22 358 £600 -4.00% 91
London +50 288 £628 -3.46% 79
Work from Home +57 217 £558 -7.08% 59
South East 0 112 £650 +3.17% 32
North of England -13 103 £575 -5.74% 21
Midlands -24 59 £564 -5.94% 19
Yorkshire -15 52 £563 -13.46% 6
North West -16 47 £588 +4.54% 14
South West -24 43 £650 - 7
West Midlands -35 39 £560 -6.67% 10
Scotland +3 27 £521 -1.37% 3
East Midlands -24 18 £570 -28.75% 9
East of England -24 14 £650 -3.70% 9
North East -8 9 £713 -5.00% 1
Wales -17 3 £550 +14.58% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £638 - 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 37 (5.01%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.17%) Confluence
3 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.22%) SAS
5 7 (0.95%) Camunda
6 6 (0.81%) NetWeaver
6 6 (0.81%) SAP EP
7 4 (0.54%) Apache
7 4 (0.54%) Appian
7 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (4.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 22 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.95%) SAP CRM
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.41%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.14%) Summit
8 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 231 (31.26%) Azure
2 166 (22.46%) AWS
3 65 (8.80%) GCP
4 58 (7.85%) SaaS
5 41 (5.55%) Power Platform
6 40 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (5.14%) Serverless
8 28 (3.79%) PaaS
9 26 (3.52%) Entra ID
10 20 (2.71%) IaaS
11 19 (2.57%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (2.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (2.57%) OCI
12 17 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (2.17%) Azure AI
13 16 (2.17%) GitHub
14 14 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.62%) Firewall
2 10 (1.35%) IPsec
2 10 (1.35%) VPN
2 10 (1.35%) WAN
3 9 (1.22%) Network Security
3 9 (1.22%) SD-WAN
4 7 (0.95%) DNS
5 6 (0.81%) Kerberos
5 6 (0.81%) MPLS
5 6 (0.81%) SSL
6 5 (0.68%) Internet
6 5 (0.68%) LAN
7 4 (0.54%) BIG-IP
7 4 (0.54%) Intranet
7 4 (0.54%) MQTT
7 4 (0.54%) RFID
8 3 (0.41%) BGP
8 3 (0.41%) DHCP
9 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.27%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.79%) Data Lake
2 24 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (3.11%) Metadata
4 21 (2.84%) Power BI
5 12 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.49%) Oracle Database
7 9 (1.22%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.08%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 5 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.41%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.41%) GIS
10 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.41%) Tableau
11 2 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 16 (2.17%) JIRA
2 8 (1.08%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.95%) GitLab
4 4 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.41%) Git
5 3 (0.41%) Hudson
5 3 (0.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.27%) ERwin
6 2 (0.27%) Flyway
6 2 (0.27%) JUnit
6 2 (0.27%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.14%) gulp
7 1 (0.14%) LSMW
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
General
1 216 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 183 (24.76%) Finance
3 112 (15.16%) Public Sector
4 75 (10.15%) Banking
5 67 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (5.41%) Legal
8 36 (4.87%) Retail
9 21 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.44%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.17%) Military
12 15 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.49%) Billing
14 11 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (1.08%) Law
17 6 (0.81%) Aviation
17 6 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 522 (70.64%) Architect
2 158 (21.38%) Solutions Architect
3 146 (19.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 71 (9.61%) Lead
5 67 (9.07%) Technical Architect
6 53 (7.17%) Senior
7 33 (4.47%) Lead Architect
7 33 (4.47%) Security Architect
8 32 (4.33%) Data Architect
9 28 (3.79%) ServiceNow Architect
10 27 (3.65%) Senior Architect
11 23 (3.11%) Consultant
12 22 (2.98%) Project Manager
12 22 (2.98%) SAP Architect
13 21 (2.84%) Azure Architect
14 20 (2.71%) Analyst
15 19 (2.57%) Cloud Architect
15 19 (2.57%) Salesforce Architect
16 18 (2.44%) Applications Architect
17 15 (2.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.71%) REST
2 37 (5.01%) Middleware
3 32 (4.33%) SOAP
4 25 (3.38%) .NET
5 21 (2.84%) Web Services
6 19 (2.57%) OAuth
7 14 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 13 (1.76%) Kafka
8 13 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 12 (1.62%) OpenID
9 12 (1.62%) React
9 12 (1.62%) SAML
10 10 (1.35%) Node.js
10 10 (1.35%) OAuth2
11 9 (1.22%) A2A Protocol
11 9 (1.22%) LangChain
11 9 (1.22%) LangGraph
11 9 (1.22%) Model Context Protocol
11 9 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (1.08%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.47%) CMDB
4 26 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (2.84%) Operational Technology
6 20 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.57%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.17%) IoT
10 15 (2.03%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.35%) NHS
15 9 (1.22%) FMCG
15 9 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 8 (1.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.84%) Windows
2 12 (1.62%) Linux
3 6 (0.81%) Mac OS
3 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.54%) Unix
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (39.51%) Roadmaps
2 181 (24.49%) TOGAF
3 175 (23.68%) Agile
4 162 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 154 (20.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 124 (16.78%) AI
7 123 (16.64%) Integration Patterns
8 119 (16.10%) Architectural Patterns
9 115 (15.56%) Decision-Making
10 100 (13.53%) Migration
11 99 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
12 98 (13.26%) CI/CD
13 96 (12.99%) Data Modelling
14 91 (12.31%) Business Strategy
15 90 (12.18%) DevOps
16 88 (11.91%) Cybersecurity
16 88 (11.91%) ITIL
17 87 (11.77%) Architectural Design
18 86 (11.64%) Technical Leadership
19 80 (10.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (8.66%) Python
2 37 (5.01%) SQL
3 35 (4.74%) Java
4 21 (2.84%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.89%) C#
7 12 (1.62%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.22%) Bash
9 8 (1.08%) ABAP
10 6 (0.81%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.54%) Bicep
13 3 (0.41%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.27%) Ruby
15 1 (0.14%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) ProC
15 1 (0.14%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 202 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 142 (19.22%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.50%) Degree
4 47 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.47%) TOGAF Certification
6 26 (3.52%) Azure Certification
7 23 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (2.71%) AWS Certification
9 20 (2.71%) CISSP
10 16 (2.17%) ISEB
11 15 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.62%) CISM
13 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.08%) PMP
16 7 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.81%) MCSE
17 6 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.71%) GDPR
2 39 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 33 (4.47%) NIST
4 25 (3.38%) COBIT
5 21 (2.84%) NCSC
6 20 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (2.44%) PCI DSS
8 17 (2.30%) GRC
9 10 (1.35%) PMO
10 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.95%) Def Stans
10 7 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.81%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.81%) ISO 31000
11 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 6 (0.81%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.81%) QA
12 5 (0.68%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.71%) Docker
3 11 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.81%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.68%) RACF
6 5 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.27%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 32 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.38%) Terraform
3 13 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.49%) SCCM
6 8 (1.08%) Ansible
7 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) Grafana
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.14%) Podman
9 1 (0.14%) SCOM
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 138 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 63 (8.53%) SAP
4 48 (6.50%) Salesforce
5 47 (6.36%) Oracle
6 31 (4.19%) Sparx
7 29 (3.92%) BiZZdesign
8 26 (3.52%) Databricks
9 25 (3.38%) Google
10 22 (2.98%) VMware
11 16 (2.17%) Ariba
12 15 (2.03%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.49%) Pega
14 10 (1.35%) Cisco
15 9 (1.22%) Workday
16 8 (1.08%) MuleSoft
16 8 (1.08%) Zscaler
17 7 (0.95%) Citrix
18 6 (0.81%) Dynatrace
18 6 (0.81%) Genesys