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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 508 492
Rank change year-on-year -51 -16 +169
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 70 27 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.092% 0.22%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.07% 1.12% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 22 63
10th Percentile £405 £513 £505
25th Percentile £600 £563 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £595 £725
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.93% +15.72%
75th Percentile £775 £622 £825
90th Percentile £788 £650 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £600 £580
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £67.13 £56.49
25th Percentile - £68.44 £56.70
Median hourly rate - £71.25 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +24.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile - £73.44 -
90th Percentile - £74.38 £57.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £71.25 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +24.28% -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 3,388 2,410 3,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.38% 8.23% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,933 1,355 1,954
10th Percentile £363 £400 £372
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £659 £674
90th Percentile £738 £788 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 53 112
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £33.75 £40.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £60.00 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +58.63% -20.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £80.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £87.35 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -5.83% +58.63% -22.81%

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 16 April 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 11 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 16 April 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 -50 66 £700 +16.67% 12
UK excluding London -65 43 £750 +25.00% 9
South East -28 35 £750 +27.12% 3
London -37 22 £645 +14.67% 5
Midlands -59 10 £625 -3.85% 1
Work from Home -41 7 £550 -4.97% 1
West Midlands -53 7 £650 - 1
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
South West - 2 £563 - 5
Scotland +5 1 £750 +23.36%
Wales - 1 £750 -

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 (2.86%) Confluence
1 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.29%) AWS
1 3 (4.29%) Azure
2 2 (2.86%) Collibra
2 2 (2.86%) dbt
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.43%) GCP
3 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.43%) SaaS
3 1 (1.43%) Serverless
3 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) HTTP
1 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.29%) Metadata
2 4 (5.71%) Data Vault
2 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.71%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (5.71%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.43%) Parquet
5 1 (1.43%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.43%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) ERwin
2 5 (7.14%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (5.71%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.00%) Finance
5 5 (7.14%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (70.00%) Architect
2 24 (34.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 11 (15.71%) Data Modeller
4 7 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 6 (8.57%) Analyst
5 6 (8.57%) Security Architect
6 5 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Geospatial Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Business Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Business Design Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Payments Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow Architect
10 1 (1.43%) Business Analyst
10 1 (1.43%) Developer
10 1 (1.43%) Service Analyst
10 1 (1.43%) Systems Engineer
10 1 (1.43%) Technical Architect
10 1 (1.43%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) JSON
1 2 (2.86%) Kafka
1 2 (2.86%) REST
1 2 (2.86%) SOAP
1 2 (2.86%) XML
2 1 (1.43%) JAAS
2 1 (1.43%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 5 (7.14%) Reference Data
2 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) CMDB
3 2 (2.86%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.86%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.86%) Taxonomies
3 2 (2.86%) Wiki
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 25 (35.71%) ArchiMate
2 25 (35.71%) TOGAF
3 20 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 19 (27.14%) Roadmaps
4 19 (27.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (25.71%) GAP Analysis
6 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.00%) Agile
7 14 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 13 (18.57%) Logical Data Model
9 12 (17.14%) Decision-Making
10 10 (14.29%) Data Lineage
10 10 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
11 9 (12.86%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (12.86%) UML
12 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (10.00%) Security Architecture
13 7 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
13 7 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (1.43%) Java
2 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.43%) LookML
2 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 43 (61.43%) Security Cleared
2 24 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 17 (24.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
2 5 (7.14%) NCSC
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (97.14%) Sparx
2 20 (28.57%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (4.29%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 2 (2.86%) Informatica
4 2 (2.86%) OneTrust
4 2 (2.86%) Palantir
4 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) WSO2