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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 523 526
Rank change year-on-year -94 +3 +27
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 49 29 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.088% 0.061%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.28% 1.01% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 16
10th Percentile £413 - £441
25th Percentile £556 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.35% -10.80%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £693
90th Percentile £809 £716 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £531 £538
% change year-on-year +24.71% -1.16% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.83%

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 3,818 2,861 2,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.02% 8.67% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,091 1,626 1,507
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £653 £672 £675
90th Percentile £763 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 50 72
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.98 £24.55
25th Percentile £19.49 £25.25 £35.27
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.49 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -25.58% -18.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.00 £85.10 £67.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.87 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.65% -3.53% -24.77%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -104 45 £650 +18.18% 35
London -67 29 £650 - 18
Work from Home -72 14 £565 +7.62% 21
UK excluding London -104 13 £663 +24.71% 22
West Midlands - 5 £450 - 1
Midlands - 5 £450 - 3
South East -63 4 £800 +52.38% 6
South West -38 3 £731 +36.05% 2
Scotland - 1 £410 - 4

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 7 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.08%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) AWS
3 4 (8.16%) GCP
3 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Databricks
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.04%) Alation
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.04%) Collibra
5 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.04%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
2 3 (6.12%) ATM
3 1 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Metadata
2 7 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 7 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.16%) Power BI
5 3 (6.12%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.08%) QGIS
6 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.08%) Spatial Data
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.04%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.04%) OLAP
7 1 (2.04%) OLTP
7 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) ERwin
2 7 (14.29%) JIRA
3 5 (10.20%) ER Studio
4 2 (4.08%) Git
4 2 (4.08%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Finance
5 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.08%) Local Government
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Military
8 1 (2.04%) Retail
8 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (63.27%) Architect
2 15 (30.61%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Data Modeller
4 6 (12.24%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Finance Modeller
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Architect
8 1 (2.04%) Security Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.04%) Security Technical Architect
8 1 (2.04%) Technical Design Architect
8 1 (2.04%) Technical Design Authority
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Kafka
2 3 (6.12%) JSON
2 3 (6.12%) OpenID
2 3 (6.12%) REST
3 2 (4.08%) .NET
3 2 (4.08%) LDAP
3 2 (4.08%) OAuth
3 2 (4.08%) SAML
3 2 (4.08%) XML
4 1 (2.04%) JWT
4 1 (2.04%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.04%) RESTful
4 1 (2.04%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) Web Services
4 1 (2.04%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.08%) Data Fabric
3 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) UML
2 21 (42.86%) ArchiMate
2 21 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 19 (38.78%) BPMN
3 19 (38.78%) Data Modelling
4 18 (36.73%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (32.65%) Data Governance
6 15 (30.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (28.57%) Data Architecture
8 12 (24.49%) Agile
8 12 (24.49%) Logical Data Model
8 12 (24.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 12 (24.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (24.49%) Waterfall
9 11 (22.45%) MODAF
9 11 (22.45%) Physical Data Model
10 9 (18.37%) AI
10 9 (18.37%) Data Integration
10 9 (18.37%) Metadata Management
10 9 (18.37%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) Java
3 1 (2.04%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (65.31%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.65%) DV Cleared
3 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.24%) Degree
5 3 (6.12%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.08%) CISM
6 2 (4.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.04%) CEH
7 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.16%) NCSC
3 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.08%) QA
5 1 (2.04%) Def Stans
5 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) Sparx
2 8 (16.33%) Databricks
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) Informatica
5 2 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) VMware
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) Teradata