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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 322 265
Rank change year-on-year +112 -57 -14
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 506 250 441
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 0.68% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 0.79% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 139 275
10th Percentile £450 £459 £500
25th Percentile £511 £546 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £700 £743 £750
90th Percentile £800 £800 £866
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £622 £626
% change year-on-year -11.58% -0.64% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £30.74 - £51.00
25th Percentile £31.86 - £58.13
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £70.00
75th Percentile £90.09 - -
90th Percentile £93.04 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £70.00

All Process and 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 31,798 31,745 40,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.44% 86.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,901 19,110 27,507
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £740 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 1,148 1,575
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.74 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.05% -26.97% +39.06%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 +121 456 £600 -7.69% 212
UK excluding London +63 238 £550 -11.58% 169
London +104 228 £625 -10.71% 64
Work from Home +71 134 £575 -8.00% 135
Midlands +29 72 £552 -9.06% 31
South East +30 56 £550 -15.38% 76
West Midlands +24 52 £575 -5.27% 24
South West +26 41 £575 -23.33% 22
North of England -22 41 £544 +3.57% 25
North West -12 24 £526 +12.57% 14
East Midlands +6 19 £525 - 5
Scotland +1 16 £550 - 7
Yorkshire -23 15 £613 -1.53% 10
East of England -9 14 £800 +22.61% 6
Wales +2 2 £588 -6.00% 3
Northern Ireland -4 2 £500 - 2
North East -11 2 £550 -22.81% 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 19 (3.75%) SAS
2 18 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.36%) Confluence
4 9 (1.78%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.99%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.79%) Apache
7 4 (0.79%) Appian
7 4 (0.79%) Camunda
8 3 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.59%) CMS
8 3 (0.59%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.20%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.20%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 8 (1.58%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.20%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 29 (5.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.79%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.59%) Avolution ABACUS
6 3 (0.59%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.40%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.40%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 205 (40.51%) Azure
2 132 (26.09%) AWS
3 39 (7.71%) GCP
4 37 (7.31%) Power Platform
5 33 (6.52%) SaaS
6 32 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (5.14%) Entra ID
8 23 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.56%) PaaS
11 15 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.77%) IaaS
13 12 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (2.17%) Snowflake
15 10 (1.98%) Serverless
16 9 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 8 (1.58%) Azure API Management
17 8 (1.58%) Copilot Studio
17 8 (1.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.73%) Firewall
2 17 (3.36%) WAN
3 16 (3.16%) Network Security
4 14 (2.77%) VPN
5 13 (2.57%) LAN
6 11 (2.17%) DNS
6 11 (2.17%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.98%) MPLS
8 9 (1.78%) BGP
9 6 (1.19%) DHCP
10 5 (0.99%) Internet
10 5 (0.99%) SAN
11 4 (0.79%) ATM
11 4 (0.79%) VLAN
11 4 (0.79%) Wireless
12 3 (0.59%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.59%) IPv4
12 3 (0.59%) IPv6
12 3 (0.59%) OSPF
12 3 (0.59%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (4.55%) Power BI
3 21 (4.15%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.16%) Oracle Database
4 16 (3.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 13 (2.57%) Metadata
6 7 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.38%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.38%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.19%) Big Data
7 6 (1.19%) SAP BW
8 5 (0.99%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.99%) Delta Lake
8 5 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.79%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.59%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.59%) GIS
10 3 (0.59%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (5.93%) JIRA
2 14 (2.77%) Git
3 12 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.99%) GitLab
4 5 (0.99%) JUnit
4 5 (0.99%) Selenium
5 3 (0.59%) ERwin
5 3 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.40%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 198 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 126 (24.90%) Finance
3 70 (13.83%) Public Sector
4 68 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.49%) Banking
6 33 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.75%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.56%) Legal
9 16 (3.16%) Retail
10 15 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.17%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.78%) Military
13 8 (1.58%) Marketing
14 6 (1.19%) Back Office
14 6 (1.19%) Front Office
14 6 (1.19%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 361 (71.34%) Architect
2 127 (25.10%) Solutions Architect
3 110 (21.74%) Enterprise Architect
4 40 (7.91%) Lead
5 34 (6.72%) Security Architect
6 32 (6.32%) Azure Architect
6 32 (6.32%) Senior
7 25 (4.94%) Senior Architect
8 24 (4.74%) SAP Architect
9 23 (4.55%) Lead Architect
10 21 (4.15%) Analyst
11 20 (3.95%) Data Architect
12 15 (2.96%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.77%) Business Architect
13 14 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (2.77%) SAP Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.57%) Consultant
14 13 (2.57%) Technical Architect
15 12 (2.37%) Developer
16 10 (1.98%) Dynamics 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.89%) REST
2 19 (3.75%) .NET
3 16 (3.16%) Middleware
4 13 (2.57%) SOAP
5 12 (2.37%) Kafka
6 11 (2.17%) OAuth
7 10 (1.98%) JSON
7 10 (1.98%) Node.js
7 10 (1.98%) React
8 9 (1.78%) RESTful
9 8 (1.58%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.38%) Web Services
10 7 (1.38%) XML
11 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (1.19%) NETCONF
11 6 (1.19%) YANG
12 5 (0.99%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.99%) OpenID
12 5 (0.99%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.50%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 19 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.17%) CMDB
6 11 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.78%) NHS
9 8 (1.58%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.38%) FMCG
11 6 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.19%) IoT
12 5 (0.99%) PKI
12 5 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.75%) Windows
2 12 (2.37%) Linux
3 9 (1.78%) Mac OS
4 6 (1.19%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Unix
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Solaris
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (35.38%) Roadmaps
2 158 (31.23%) TOGAF
3 133 (26.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 126 (24.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 114 (22.53%) Agile
6 90 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (16.21%) DevOps
8 73 (14.43%) Migration
9 69 (13.64%) Business Strategy
9 69 (13.64%) Data Modelling
10 67 (13.24%) AI
11 65 (12.85%) Integration Patterns
12 64 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (11.66%) Analytics
13 59 (11.66%) Microservices
14 57 (11.26%) CI/CD
15 56 (11.07%) ITIL
16 55 (10.87%) IT Strategy
16 55 (10.87%) Strategic Roadmap
17 49 (9.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 59 (11.66%) Python
2 34 (6.72%) SQL
3 30 (5.93%) Java
4 15 (2.96%) PowerShell
4 15 (2.96%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.57%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.98%) C#
7 9 (1.78%) Bash
8 5 (0.99%) Bicep
9 4 (0.79%) R
10 3 (0.59%) ABAP
10 3 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) Go
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) Magik
11 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 108 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 81 (16.01%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.49%) Degree
4 28 (5.53%) Azure Certification
5 23 (4.55%) CISSP
6 21 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 17 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (3.16%) AWS Certification
10 14 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (2.37%) Master's Degree
12 11 (2.17%) CCIE
12 11 (2.17%) DV Cleared
13 10 (1.98%) ISEB
14 9 (1.78%) CISM
15 8 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (1.58%) JNCIE
16 6 (1.19%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.68%) GDPR
2 38 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.15%) NIST
4 15 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.96%) QA
5 13 (2.57%) COBIT
5 13 (2.57%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.78%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.58%) NCSC
8 7 (1.38%) GRC
9 6 (1.19%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.99%) PMO
11 4 (0.79%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.79%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.40%) SLA
13 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.55%) Docker
3 19 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.75%) Terraform
3 14 (2.77%) Ansible
4 12 (2.37%) SCCM
5 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.20%) Argo
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.88%) SAP
3 39 (7.71%) Oracle
4 35 (6.92%) Salesforce
5 33 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 22 (4.35%) VMware
7 21 (4.15%) Databricks
8 16 (3.16%) Cisco
9 15 (2.96%) Sparx
10 14 (2.77%) Pega
11 12 (2.37%) Citrix
12 11 (2.17%) OpenAI
13 10 (1.98%) Google
13 10 (1.98%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.78%) Atlassian
14 9 (1.78%) BiZZdesign
15 8 (1.58%) F5
16 7 (1.38%) Denodo
16 7 (1.38%) Talend
17 6 (1.19%) Workday