Sparx Enterprise Architect Contract Job Trends

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sparx Enterprise Architect skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 542 545
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +201
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 29 21 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.057% 0.19%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.00% 0.77% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 48
10th Percentile - £435 £515
25th Percentile £513 £450 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £515 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -17.60% -
75th Percentile £700 £711 £738
90th Percentile £716 £716 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £463 £560
% change year-on-year +16.22% -17.41% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 26
10th Percentile - £66.90 £53.84
25th Percentile - £68.25 -
Median hourly rate - £70.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - +24.80% -5.85%
75th Percentile - £72.75 £66.83
90th Percentile - £74.10 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year - +24.80% -9.76%

All Business Application Skills
UK

Sparx Enterprise Architect falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,892 2,719 3,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 7.32% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 1,448 2,054
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 70 85
10th Percentile £12.89 £29.54 £28.25
25th Percentile £23.83 £35.09 £49.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -23.44% +25.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.60 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £75.38 £90.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.16 £40.33 £56.49
% change year-on-year -12.82% -28.62% +41.23%

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sparx Enterprise Architect relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Sparx Enterprise Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sparx Enterprise Architect

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sparx Enterprise Architect in the UK

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sparx Enterprise Architect.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sparx Enterprise Architect

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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 -9 28 £563 +18.42% 42
London +26 16 £613 +5.11% 19
UK excluding London -18 13 £538 +16.22% 31
Work from Home +18 9 £525 +1.94% 13
South East +14 8 £538 -20.37% 16
South West +11 4 £538 +19.44% 10
Wales - 1 - - 1

Sparx Enterprise Architect
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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Snowflake
3 6 (20.69%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Collibra
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (17.24%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.90%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) ERwin
1 9 (31.03%) JIRA
2 7 (24.14%) PowerDesigner
3 5 (17.24%) ER Studio
4 2 (6.90%) MSI
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Data Modeller
2 8 (27.59%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Finance Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Modeller
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Data Structures
2 5 (17.24%) Reinsurance
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (10.34%) Contract for Difference
3 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.90%) Life Science
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) TOGAF
2 12 (41.38%) Data Modelling
3 10 (34.48%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) ArchiMate
3 10 (34.48%) Data Governance
4 8 (27.59%) Logical Data Model
4 8 (27.59%) Physical Data Model
5 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
5 7 (24.14%) Scrum
6 6 (20.69%) Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Data Transformation
6 6 (20.69%) Kanban
6 6 (20.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (17.24%) Conceptual Models
7 5 (17.24%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (17.24%) Master Data Management
7 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (13.79%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) GxP
3 1 (3.45%) IFRS
3 1 (3.45%) IFRS 9
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 20022
3 1 (3.45%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Sparx
2 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) HP