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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 536 527
Rank change year-on-year -75 -9 +72
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 50 19 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.058% 0.11%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.31% 0.68% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 16 34
10th Percentile £413 £513 £500
25th Percentile £575 £531 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £688
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -16.36% +9.74%
75th Percentile £725 £714 £825
90th Percentile £809 £738 £878
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £600 £620
% change year-on-year +16.67% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £56.67
25th Percentile - - £56.94
Median hourly rate - - £57.44
75th Percentile - - £61.75
90th Percentile - - £64.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.44
% change year-on-year - - +0.19%

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 3,827 2,779 2,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.25% 8.43% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,140 1,591 1,747
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £454 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% - -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% +0.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 60 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £18.28 £22.38
25th Percentile £28.50 £27.23 £35.36
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.63 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.00 £82.75 £65.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.91% +30.56% -18.18%

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 27 July 2026.

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 8 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 27 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 -77 49 £675 +12.50% 6
London -41 24 £661 +5.34% 1
UK excluding London -82 20 £700 +16.67% 6
Work from Home -48 11 £668 +16.17% 2
South East -67 11 £756 +26.04% 2
South West - 5 £663 - 3
Midlands - 5 £528 -
West Midlands - 5 £528 -

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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) ArcGIS
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) dbt
6 1 (2.00%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) ATM
1 3 (6.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) Metadata
2 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.00%) Power BI
4 3 (6.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (4.00%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (4.00%) QGIS
5 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.00%) Spatial Data
6 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.00%) OLAP
6 1 (2.00%) OLTP
6 1 (2.00%) Parquet
6 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) ERwin
2 5 (10.00%) ER Studio
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (16.00%) Finance
5 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (70.00%) Architect
2 19 (38.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (12.00%) Data Modeller
4 5 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Data Integration Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Senior
7 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
7 1 (2.00%) Technical Design Architect
7 1 (2.00%) Technical Design Authority
7 1 (2.00%) Traffic Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) JSON
1 2 (4.00%) Kafka
1 2 (4.00%) LDAP
1 2 (4.00%) OAuth
1 2 (4.00%) OpenID
1 2 (4.00%) REST
1 2 (4.00%) SAML
1 2 (4.00%) SOAP
1 2 (4.00%) XML
2 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) CMDB
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) ArchiMate
2 25 (50.00%) UML
3 22 (44.00%) TOGAF
4 20 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 17 (34.00%) BPMN
6 15 (30.00%) Agile
7 13 (26.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 12 (24.00%) Data Modelling
9 11 (22.00%) Data Governance
9 11 (22.00%) Decision-Making
9 11 (22.00%) MODAF
9 11 (22.00%) Waterfall
10 10 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (16.00%) Logical Data Model
11 8 (16.00%) Metadata Management
11 8 (16.00%) Physical Data Model
11 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
11 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) SQL
2 2 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.00%) LookML
3 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (38.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) CISM
6 2 (4.00%) CISSP
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.00%) CEH
7 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (6.00%) NCSC
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) Sparx
2 7 (14.00%) BiZZdesign
3 6 (12.00%) Databricks
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Talend
6 1 (2.00%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.00%) VMware