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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 211 311
Rank change year-on-year +55 +100 -73
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 944 426 309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.79% 1.30% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.44% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 287 190
10th Percentile £475 £450 £450
25th Percentile £538 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £748
90th Percentile £825 £825 £853
UK excluding London median daily rate £614 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +2.29% -7.69% +1.96%
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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 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 24 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 24 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 +53 822 £640 +2.40% 397
London +66 447 £650 - 231
UK excluding London -3 372 £614 +2.29% 195
Work from Home +44 271 £600 - 148
South East -2 119 £625 - 78
North of England -5 104 £600 -1.64% 41
Midlands -20 69 £588 -2.08% 25
Yorkshire +3 58 £675 +10.20% 10
West Midlands -31 51 £600 +0.17% 12
North West -31 42 £550 -5.98% 26
South West -44 42 £650 - 26
Scotland -7 27 £610 +8.49% 10
East Midlands -11 16 £575 -17.86% 13
East of England -12 13 £563 -16.67% 8
North East -27 9 £725 - 5
Wales -18 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £775 - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £625 - 2

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 43 (4.56%) SAS
2 28 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.80%) Confluence
4 13 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.53%) Apache
7 5 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.53%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.53%) SAP EP
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) Mule
9 1 (0.11%) CIMPLICITY
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 11 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.85%) ContrOCC
5 6 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.64%) Primavera
6 5 (0.53%) SAP CRM
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.32%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.32%) Endur
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.32%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.32%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.21%) SAP CS
9 2 (0.21%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 288 (30.51%) Azure
2 199 (21.08%) AWS
3 87 (9.22%) GCP
4 55 (5.83%) SaaS
5 46 (4.87%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.24%) Entra ID
7 35 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (3.50%) Serverless
9 29 (3.07%) PaaS
10 23 (2.44%) OCI
11 19 (2.01%) Azure AI
12 17 (1.80%) IaaS
12 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.38%) GitHub
16 12 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (1.27%) Snowflake
17 11 (1.17%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.07%) Network Security
2 23 (2.44%) Firewall
3 20 (2.12%) VPN
4 17 (1.80%) WAN
5 14 (1.48%) LAN
6 13 (1.38%) IPsec
7 10 (1.06%) MPLS
8 8 (0.85%) BGP
8 8 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.64%) DNS
9 6 (0.64%) NGFW
9 6 (0.64%) SSL
9 6 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (0.53%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.42%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (0.42%) RFID
12 3 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.13%) Data Lake
2 37 (3.92%) Metadata
3 30 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.65%) Power BI
5 19 (2.01%) NoSQL
6 12 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.17%) Base SAS
7 11 (1.17%) Oracle Database
7 11 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.17%) SQL Server
8 9 (0.95%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 6 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 4 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.32%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.32%) GIS
Development Applications
1 13 (1.38%) JIRA
2 10 (1.06%) Git
3 6 (0.64%) GitLab
3 6 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.53%) Hudson
5 4 (0.42%) ERwin
5 4 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.32%) Selenium
7 2 (0.21%) Flyway
7 2 (0.21%) JUnit
7 2 (0.21%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.21%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Postman
General
1 282 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 245 (25.95%) Finance
3 152 (16.10%) Public Sector
4 101 (10.70%) Banking
5 80 (8.47%) Retail
6 79 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (6.14%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (4.34%) Legal
9 27 (2.86%) Military
10 26 (2.75%) Aerospace
11 21 (2.22%) Local Government
12 19 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.69%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.27%) Law
16 12 (1.27%) Marketing
17 11 (1.17%) Billing
18 9 (0.95%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 669 (70.87%) Architect
2 224 (23.73%) Solutions Architect
3 153 (16.21%) Enterprise Architect
4 109 (11.55%) Lead
5 76 (8.05%) Technical Architect
6 72 (7.63%) Senior
7 61 (6.46%) Data Architect
8 54 (5.72%) Security Architect
9 52 (5.51%) Lead Architect
10 48 (5.08%) Senior Architect
11 34 (3.60%) Project Manager
12 33 (3.50%) SAP Architect
13 30 (3.18%) ServiceNow Architect
14 23 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
15 22 (2.33%) Technical Leader
16 21 (2.22%) Technical Manager
17 20 (2.12%) Analyst
17 20 (2.12%) Senior Solutions Architect
18 19 (2.01%) Azure Architect
18 19 (2.01%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.63%) REST
2 62 (6.57%) Middleware
3 45 (4.77%) SOAP
4 35 (3.71%) .NET
5 24 (2.54%) OAuth
6 22 (2.33%) Web Services
7 21 (2.22%) Kafka
8 16 (1.69%) SAML
9 15 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.48%) React
11 13 (1.38%) OpenID
12 12 (1.27%) XML
13 11 (1.17%) JSON
13 11 (1.17%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.06%) AngularJS
15 9 (0.95%) Node.js
15 9 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
16 8 (0.85%) SAPUI5
17 7 (0.74%) SAP PI
18 6 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.49%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 63 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.71%) CMDB
5 33 (3.50%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.50%) Operational Technology
6 32 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.44%) Security Posture
9 21 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (2.01%) IoT
11 18 (1.91%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.27%) FMCG
14 9 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.80%) Windows
2 13 (1.38%) Linux
3 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.21%) Android
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (33.58%) Roadmaps
2 259 (27.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 218 (23.09%) TOGAF
4 209 (22.14%) Agile
5 179 (18.96%) Integration Patterns
6 175 (18.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 166 (17.58%) Migration
8 151 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
9 150 (15.89%) Architectural Patterns
10 148 (15.68%) AI
11 131 (13.88%) Decision-Making
12 126 (13.35%) DevOps
13 124 (13.14%) CI/CD
14 119 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
15 118 (12.50%) Analytics
16 111 (11.76%) Architecture Governance
17 106 (11.23%) Data Architecture
17 106 (11.23%) Data Modelling
18 103 (10.91%) Event-Driven
18 103 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 69 (7.31%) Python
2 49 (5.19%) SQL
3 46 (4.87%) Java
4 21 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.38%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.27%) C#
6 12 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 8 (0.85%) ABAP
8 6 (0.64%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.64%) Bash
8 6 (0.64%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.32%) Bicep
11 2 (0.21%) Go
11 2 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.21%) Korn
11 2 (0.21%) Ruby
11 2 (0.21%) Rust
11 2 (0.21%) Scala
12 1 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 272 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 208 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 50 (5.30%) Azure Certification
4 50 (5.30%) Degree
5 32 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
6 30 (3.18%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (2.97%) CISSP
8 19 (2.01%) CISM
9 17 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.48%) PMP
11 11 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.85%) CCNP
14 7 (0.74%) CCIE
14 7 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.42%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.19%) GDPR
3 39 (4.13%) GRC
4 36 (3.81%) NIST
5 34 (3.60%) NCSC
6 27 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.91%) QA
8 14 (1.48%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.27%) COBIT
10 11 (1.17%) PMO
11 10 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.95%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.95%) SLA
13 8 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 8 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.64%) ISO 31000
14 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.01%) Docker
3 8 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 7 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.42%) RACF
7 2 (0.21%) 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 38 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.75%) Terraform
3 17 (1.80%) Ansible
4 12 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.42%) SCCM
7 3 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.21%) Puppet
8 2 (0.21%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) CASB
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.11%) OpenNMS
9 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) SCOM
9 1 (0.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 178 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.32%) Oracle
3 82 (8.69%) SAP
4 63 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 38 (4.03%) Databricks
6 35 (3.71%) Google
7 34 (3.60%) Salesforce
8 26 (2.75%) BiZZdesign
9 20 (2.12%) Sparx
9 20 (2.12%) Workday
10 18 (1.91%) Zscaler
11 17 (1.80%) VMware
12 14 (1.48%) Ariba
13 13 (1.38%) Cisco
13 13 (1.38%) Informatica
14 11 (1.17%) MuleSoft
15 10 (1.06%) Foundry
15 10 (1.06%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 8 (0.85%) Liquidlogic