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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 199 302
Rank change year-on-year +46 +103 -66
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 900 435 332
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.35% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.49% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 288 208
10th Percentile £463 £450 £450
25th Percentile £529 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -3.85% -1.52%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £742
90th Percentile £825 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £620 £650
% change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 6
10th Percentile £20.31 £34.27 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £40.67 £63.75
Median hourly rate £82.75 £52.67 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.11% -21.97% -3.57%
75th Percentile £106.81 £77.00 £83.81
90th Percentile £110.75 £90.80 £88.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.75 £42.34 £87.50
% change year-on-year +95.46% -51.62% +25.00%

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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +39 775 £650 +4.00% 268
London +59 397 £650 - 129
UK excluding London -5 380 £625 +0.81% 155
Work from Home +47 268 £600 - 151
South East +1 127 £640 +2.40% 58
North of England -21 102 £575 -7.26% 32
Midlands -18 76 £575 -4.17% 14
Yorkshire -4 55 £663 +6.00% 5
West Midlands -26 55 £576 -3.96% 8
North West -30 44 £550 -5.98% 25
South West -35 39 £650 - 25
Scotland -8 29 £625 +4.87% 3
East Midlands -11 19 £575 -17.86% 6
East of England -18 10 £650 +10.64% 15
North East -25 8 £800 - 2
Wales -16 2 - - 6
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 3

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 27 (3.00%) SAS
1 27 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.11%) Confluence
3 11 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.56%) Apache
5 5 (0.56%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.56%) SAP EP
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.33%) Camunda
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.22%) Mule
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (0.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (2.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.89%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.67%) Primavera
6 5 (0.56%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.33%) Endur
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.22%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.22%) SAP CS
8 2 (0.22%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 284 (31.56%) Azure
2 190 (21.11%) AWS
3 78 (8.67%) GCP
4 61 (6.78%) SaaS
5 42 (4.67%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (3.67%) Entra ID
8 32 (3.56%) PaaS
8 32 (3.56%) Serverless
9 20 (2.22%) IaaS
10 19 (2.11%) OCI
11 18 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.89%) Azure AI
13 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (1.33%) GitHub
16 11 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (1.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.78%) Network Security
2 22 (2.44%) Firewall
3 20 (2.22%) VPN
4 18 (2.00%) WAN
5 15 (1.67%) IPsec
6 13 (1.44%) LAN
7 12 (1.33%) MPLS
7 12 (1.33%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.11%) BGP
9 7 (0.78%) DNS
10 6 (0.67%) NGFW
10 6 (0.67%) SSL
10 6 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.56%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.56%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.44%) DHCP
12 4 (0.44%) MQTT
12 4 (0.44%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 30 (3.33%) Metadata
3 28 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (2.44%) Power BI
5 17 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.33%) Oracle Database
7 12 (1.33%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.22%) Base SAS
8 11 (1.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 7 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.33%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.33%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (1.67%) JIRA
2 10 (1.11%) Git
3 8 (0.89%) GitLab
3 8 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.56%) Hudson
5 4 (0.44%) ERwin
5 4 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.22%) Flyway
7 2 (0.22%) JUnit
7 2 (0.22%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 264 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 233 (25.89%) Finance
3 146 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 95 (10.56%) Banking
5 77 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (8.00%) Retail
7 53 (5.89%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (4.89%) Legal
9 26 (2.89%) Military
10 24 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 23 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.89%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.89%) Local Government
12 17 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.22%) Billing
14 11 (1.22%) Law
14 11 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.11%) Marketing
16 9 (1.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 631 (70.11%) Architect
2 215 (23.89%) Solutions Architect
3 148 (16.44%) Enterprise Architect
4 106 (11.78%) Lead
5 75 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 71 (7.89%) Senior
7 56 (6.22%) Data Architect
8 50 (5.56%) Lead Architect
9 47 (5.22%) Security Architect
10 45 (5.00%) Senior Architect
11 31 (3.44%) Project Manager
12 29 (3.22%) SAP Architect
13 28 (3.11%) ServiceNow Architect
14 23 (2.56%) Analyst
14 23 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (2.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.33%) Technical Leader
16 20 (2.22%) Technical Manager
17 18 (2.00%) Azure Architect
17 18 (2.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.11%) REST
2 60 (6.67%) Middleware
3 40 (4.44%) SOAP
4 37 (4.11%) .NET
5 23 (2.56%) OAuth
6 21 (2.33%) Web Services
7 18 (2.00%) Kafka
8 15 (1.67%) SAML
9 14 (1.56%) OpenID
10 13 (1.44%) React
11 12 (1.33%) OAuth2
12 11 (1.22%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (1.00%) XML
14 8 (0.89%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.89%) JSON
14 8 (0.89%) Node.js
14 8 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
15 7 (0.78%) NETCONF
15 7 (0.78%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 94 (10.44%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.78%) CMDB
5 31 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 29 (3.22%) Operational Technology
7 27 (3.00%) AI Agents
8 26 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (2.67%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.44%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (2.44%) Security Posture
11 21 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.89%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.56%) IoT
14 9 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (1.00%) FMCG
14 9 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.44%) Windows
2 16 (1.78%) Linux
3 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.56%) Unix
3 5 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.22%) Android
5 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (33.78%) Roadmaps
2 230 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 217 (24.11%) TOGAF
4 205 (22.78%) Agile
5 175 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 166 (18.44%) Integration Patterns
7 154 (17.11%) Migration
8 144 (16.00%) AI
8 144 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 144 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
9 131 (14.56%) Decision-Making
10 126 (14.00%) CI/CD
10 126 (14.00%) DevOps
11 116 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
12 110 (12.22%) Architecture Governance
13 100 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (10.89%) Data Modelling
15 97 (10.78%) Microservices
16 95 (10.56%) Event-Driven
17 93 (10.33%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.22%) Python
2 47 (5.22%) SQL
3 44 (4.89%) Java
4 17 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.56%) C#
6 12 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.22%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.78%) ABAP
9 6 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 6 (0.67%) Bash
9 6 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.33%) Bicep
12 2 (0.22%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.22%) Korn
12 2 (0.22%) Ruby
12 2 (0.22%) Scala
13 1 (0.11%) Go
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 254 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 184 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 61 (6.78%) DV Cleared
4 47 (5.22%) Degree
5 46 (5.11%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.89%) AWS Certification
9 23 (2.56%) CISSP
10 17 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.78%) CISM
12 12 (1.33%) PMP
13 9 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.00%) CCIE
13 9 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.89%) CCNP
14 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.78%) JNCIE
15 7 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.22%) GDPR
3 34 (3.78%) NIST
4 32 (3.56%) NCSC
5 24 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.11%) GRC
7 18 (2.00%) QA
8 15 (1.67%) COBIT
9 14 (1.56%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.11%) NIST 800
11 9 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (1.00%) PMO
11 9 (1.00%) SLA
12 8 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.67%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.67%) ISO 31000
13 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.44%) IFRS
System Software
1 31 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.56%) Docker
3 9 (1.00%) VMware NSX
4 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.44%) RACF
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Samba
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.22%) Terraform
3 20 (2.22%) Ansible
4 13 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.78%) SCCM
6 3 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.22%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.22%) Puppet
7 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.11%) CASB
8 1 (0.11%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.11%) Grafana
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 181 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.44%) SAP
3 68 (7.56%) Oracle
4 60 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 39 (4.33%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.78%) Databricks
7 31 (3.44%) BiZZdesign
8 27 (3.00%) Google
9 24 (2.67%) Sparx
10 18 (2.00%) VMware
11 17 (1.89%) Workday
12 15 (1.67%) Cisco
13 13 (1.44%) Ariba
14 12 (1.33%) MuleSoft
14 12 (1.33%) Zscaler
15 9 (1.00%) Foundry
15 9 (1.00%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.89%) Informatica
16 8 (0.89%) Liquidlogic
16 8 (0.89%) OpenAI