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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 310 252
Rank change year-on-year +99 -58 -3
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 481 248 456
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 0.68% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.79% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 137 286
10th Percentile £450 £448 £500
25th Percentile £510 £524 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £750
90th Percentile £814 £789 £859
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £638
% change year-on-year -4.35% -9.80% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £36.40 - £51.00
25th Percentile £46.00 - £58.13
Median hourly rate £63.47 - £70.00
75th Percentile £78.22 - -
90th Percentile £85.34 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.47 - £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 31,669 31,225 41,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.01% 86.16% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,839 18,782 27,829
10th Percentile £297 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.43% -3.16%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,104 1,592
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.46 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -18.92% +23.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.53 £33.00 £43.83
% change year-on-year -31.73% -24.70% +51.64%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +120 436 £600 -4.00% 388
UK excluding London +44 226 £550 -4.35% 222
London +117 221 £625 -7.41% 179
Work from Home +46 129 £550 -12.00% 167
Midlands +25 71 £573 +9.05% 49
South East +38 52 £536 -8.38% 77
West Midlands +11 49 £575 -12.01% 35
North of England -35 42 £539 -5.90% 39
South West +15 33 £575 -23.33% 30
North West -16 27 £533 +6.50% 23
East Midlands +4 21 £540 +21.35% 12
Scotland +4 16 £598 +8.64% 9
East of England -13 14 £800 +22.61% 11
Yorkshire -25 13 £625 +0.48% 14
Northern Ireland -5 2 £500 - 4
North East -11 2 £550 -18.52% 2
Wales - 2 £588 - 4

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 (3.95%) SAS
2 16 (3.33%) Confluence
3 14 (2.91%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.25%) Camunda
7 5 (1.04%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.83%) Apache
8 4 (0.83%) Appian
8 4 (0.83%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.62%) CMS
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.62%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.21%) CICS
11 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.04%) Siemens NX
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Fusion 360
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 27 (5.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.46%) Teamcenter
5 5 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.62%) Avolution ABACUS
6 3 (0.62%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.42%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.42%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.42%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.21%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 195 (40.54%) Azure
2 130 (27.03%) AWS
3 40 (8.32%) GCP
4 34 (7.07%) Power Platform
5 30 (6.24%) SaaS
6 28 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 21 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (3.33%) PaaS
11 15 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.91%) IaaS
13 12 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.29%) Microsoft Copilot
15 9 (1.87%) Serverless
16 8 (1.66%) Azure API Management
16 8 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (1.66%) Copilot Studio
16 8 (1.66%) OpenShift
16 8 (1.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.24%) Firewall
2 16 (3.33%) WAN
3 15 (3.12%) Network Security
4 13 (2.70%) VPN
5 12 (2.49%) LAN
5 12 (2.49%) MPLS
6 11 (2.29%) DNS
7 10 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.87%) BGP
9 6 (1.25%) DHCP
10 5 (1.04%) SAN
11 4 (0.83%) ATM
11 4 (0.83%) VLAN
12 3 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.62%) EIGRP
12 3 (0.62%) Internet
12 3 (0.62%) NAS
12 3 (0.62%) OSPF
12 3 (0.62%) Wireless
12 3 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (4.37%) Data Lake
2 21 (4.37%) Power BI
3 16 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 16 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 10 (2.08%) Metadata
5 8 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.46%) Pentaho
7 6 (1.25%) Big Data
7 6 (1.25%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.04%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.04%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.04%) GIS
8 5 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.62%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.62%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (6.24%) JIRA
2 14 (2.91%) Git
3 12 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.04%) GitLab
4 5 (1.04%) JUnit
4 5 (1.04%) Selenium
5 3 (0.62%) ERwin
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.42%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
General
1 192 (39.92%) Social Skills
2 121 (25.16%) Finance
3 71 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 50 (10.40%) Banking
6 30 (6.24%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.16%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.12%) Retail
10 14 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.08%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.87%) Legal
13 9 (1.87%) Marketing
14 8 (1.66%) Military
15 6 (1.25%) Front Office
15 6 (1.25%) General Ledger
15 6 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.83%) Back Office
16 4 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 339 (70.48%) Architect
2 124 (25.78%) Solutions Architect
3 89 (18.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 34 (7.07%) Security Architect
5 33 (6.86%) Lead
6 31 (6.44%) Senior
7 30 (6.24%) Azure Architect
8 25 (5.20%) Senior Architect
9 24 (4.99%) SAP Architect
10 19 (3.95%) Analyst
11 18 (3.74%) Lead Architect
12 15 (3.12%) Data Architect
13 14 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (2.91%) Consultant
14 13 (2.70%) Business Architect
14 13 (2.70%) Designer
14 13 (2.70%) SAP Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.49%) Developer
15 12 (2.49%) Technical Architect
16 11 (2.29%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.15%) REST
2 21 (4.37%) .NET
3 19 (3.95%) Middleware
4 13 (2.70%) Kafka
4 13 (2.70%) SOAP
5 11 (2.29%) JSON
5 11 (2.29%) OAuth
5 11 (2.29%) React
6 10 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 10 (2.08%) Node.js
7 9 (1.87%) RESTful
8 7 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.46%) Web Services
8 7 (1.46%) XML
9 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (1.25%) NETCONF
9 6 (1.25%) YANG
10 5 (1.04%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.04%) OpenID
10 5 (1.04%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.82%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.74%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.29%) CMDB
9 9 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.87%) NHS
9 9 (1.87%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.46%) IoT
11 6 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.04%) PKI
12 5 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.95%) Windows
2 13 (2.70%) Linux
3 9 (1.87%) Mac OS
4 6 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) VMS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (31.60%) Roadmaps
2 141 (29.31%) TOGAF
3 126 (26.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 114 (23.70%) Agile
4 114 (23.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 96 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (17.88%) DevOps
7 76 (15.80%) Migration
8 69 (14.35%) Data Modelling
9 66 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (13.31%) Business Strategy
11 63 (13.10%) Integration Patterns
12 61 (12.68%) Microservices
13 60 (12.47%) AI
14 56 (11.64%) CI/CD
15 55 (11.43%) Analytics
16 53 (11.02%) IT Strategy
17 49 (10.19%) Architectural Patterns
18 47 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
19 46 (9.56%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 56 (11.64%) Python
2 32 (6.65%) SQL
3 31 (6.44%) Java
4 15 (3.12%) PowerShell
4 15 (3.12%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.29%) C#
7 9 (1.87%) Bash
8 4 (0.83%) Bicep
8 4 (0.83%) R
9 3 (0.62%) Magik
9 3 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.42%) ABAP
11 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.21%) C++
11 1 (0.21%) COBOL
11 1 (0.21%) Go
11 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.77%) Degree
4 29 (6.03%) Azure Certification
5 21 (4.37%) CISSP
5 21 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 15 (3.12%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.70%) Master's Degree
10 11 (2.29%) CCIE
11 10 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.87%) CISM
12 9 (1.87%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.66%) JNCIE
14 6 (1.25%) CCNP
15 5 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.04%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (9.98%) GDPR
2 37 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (4.16%) NIST
4 15 (3.12%) QA
5 13 (2.70%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.49%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.87%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.46%) GRC
8 7 (1.46%) NCSC
9 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.83%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.83%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.83%) PMO
11 3 (0.62%) COBIT
11 3 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.42%) OASIS TOSCA
12 2 (0.42%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.78%) Docker
3 20 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.83%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.74%) Terraform
3 16 (3.33%) Ansible
4 12 (2.49%) SCCM
5 10 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.42%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.21%) Argo
8 1 (0.21%) Podman
8 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.36%) SAP
3 41 (8.52%) Oracle
4 31 (6.44%) ServiceNow
5 29 (6.03%) Salesforce
6 23 (4.78%) VMware
7 16 (3.33%) Cisco
8 14 (2.91%) Databricks
8 14 (2.91%) Pega
9 12 (2.49%) Citrix
10 11 (2.29%) Sparx
11 10 (2.08%) Google
11 10 (2.08%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.87%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.66%) BiZZdesign
13 8 (1.66%) F5
13 8 (1.66%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.46%) Denodo
14 7 (1.46%) Talend
15 6 (1.25%) Palo Alto