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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 500 508
Rank change year-on-year -47 +8 +136
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 69 27 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.092% 0.19%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.03% 1.12% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 23 54
10th Percentile £471 £513 £507
25th Percentile £623 £531 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £583 £725
Median % change year-on-year +20.17% -19.66% +15.45%
75th Percentile £775 £600 £825
90th Percentile £788 £649 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £600 £620
% change year-on-year +25.00% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £56.49
25th Percentile - £66.25 £56.70
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +17.74% -18.10%
75th Percentile - £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - £57.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +17.74% -18.10%

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 3,407 2,412 3,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.22% 8.23% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,944 1,360 1,871
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 50 117
10th Percentile £21.83 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £38.58 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +50.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £58.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £40.16
% change year-on-year -5.83% +49.39% -18.04%

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 4 May 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 9 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 4 May 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 -60 67 £700 +18.64% 11
UK excluding London -71 42 £750 +25.00% 6
South East -32 33 £750 +27.12% 4
London -34 22 £650 +23.81% 9
Midlands -63 10 £404 -37.92%
West Midlands -56 7 £625 -3.85%
Work from Home -39 5 £575 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
South West - 2 £563 - 2

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 2 (2.90%) Confluence
1 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.45%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.35%) AWS
1 3 (4.35%) Azure
2 2 (2.90%) dbt
3 1 (1.45%) GCP
3 1 (1.45%) iPaaS
3 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.45%) SaaS
3 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) Metadata
2 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.90%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.90%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.90%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.45%) Parquet
5 1 (1.45%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) ERwin
2 4 (5.80%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
General
1 26 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.14%) Finance
5 5 (7.25%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (71.01%) Architect
2 29 (42.03%) Enterprise Architect
3 8 (11.59%) Data Modeller
4 6 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 5 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Business Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Business Design Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Geospatial Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Payments Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow Architect
9 1 (1.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Architect
9 1 (1.45%) AWS Security Architect
9 1 (1.45%) Data Integration Architect
9 1 (1.45%) Lead
9 1 (1.45%) Lead Architect
9 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) JSON
1 2 (2.90%) Kafka
1 2 (2.90%) REST
1 2 (2.90%) SOAP
1 2 (2.90%) XML
2 1 (1.45%) JAAS
2 1 (1.45%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
1 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 3 (4.35%) Reference Data
2 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.90%) CMDB
2 2 (2.90%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.83%) ArchiMate
1 33 (47.83%) Enterprise Architecture
2 28 (40.58%) TOGAF
3 19 (27.54%) Roadmaps
3 19 (27.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (21.74%) GAP Analysis
4 15 (21.74%) UML
5 14 (20.29%) Agile
5 14 (20.29%) BPMN
5 14 (20.29%) Data Modelling
6 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.39%) Decision-Making
8 9 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (11.59%) Data Governance
9 8 (11.59%) Logical Data Model
10 7 (10.14%) Metadata Management
10 7 (10.14%) Physical Data Model
10 7 (10.14%) Security Architecture
10 7 (10.14%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.25%) SQL
2 1 (1.45%) Java
2 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.45%) LookML
2 1 (1.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 48 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 23 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 22 (31.88%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) GDPR
2 5 (7.25%) NCSC
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.45%) NIST
Vendors
1 69 (100.00%) Sparx
2 20 (28.99%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (4.35%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) WSO2