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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 503 503
Rank change year-on-year -68 0 +126
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 59 21 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.071% 0.18%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.72% 0.85% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 17 48
10th Percentile £405 - £510
25th Percentile £625 £513 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -20.69% +15.45%
75th Percentile £775 £600 £825
90th Percentile £788 £647 £925
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 6
10th Percentile - - £56.49
25th Percentile - - £56.70
Median hourly rate - - £57.33
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £57.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.33
% change year-on-year - - -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 3,426 2,463 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.14% 8.38% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,924 1,392 1,855
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £743 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 52 114
10th Percentile £25.70 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £34.01 £39.53 £21.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +50.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £78.31 £57.87
90th Percentile £87.25 £86.00 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% +50.00% -20.00%

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 18 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 18 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 -55 58 £700 +16.67% 12
UK excluding London -73 34 £700 +16.67% 6
South East -42 26 £750 +25.00% 4
London -39 21 £650 +23.81% 8
Midlands -54 9 £404 -37.92%
West Midlands -51 6 £625 -3.85%
Work from Home -37 5 £638 +10.87% 5
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 (3.39%) Confluence
1 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.08%) AWS
1 3 (5.08%) Azure
2 2 (3.39%) dbt
3 1 (1.69%) GCP
3 1 (1.69%) iPaaS
3 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.69%) SaaS
3 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Metadata
2 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.39%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.39%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.69%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.69%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.69%) Parquet
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) ERwin
2 4 (6.78%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
General
1 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
3 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.47%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (69.49%) Architect
2 27 (45.76%) Enterprise Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Data Modeller
4 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.08%) Analyst
5 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.39%) Business Design Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Payments Architect
6 2 (3.39%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.39%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow Architect
7 1 (1.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Architect
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Security Architect
7 1 (1.69%) Data Integration Architect
7 1 (1.69%) Geospatial Architect
7 1 (1.69%) Lead
7 1 (1.69%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow Specialist
7 1 (1.69%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) JSON
1 2 (3.39%) Kafka
1 2 (3.39%) REST
1 2 (3.39%) SOAP
1 2 (3.39%) XML
2 1 (1.69%) JAAS
2 1 (1.69%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
1 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
1 3 (5.08%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) CMDB
2 2 (3.39%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) ArchiMate
2 29 (49.15%) Enterprise Architecture
3 25 (42.37%) TOGAF
4 17 (28.81%) UML
5 16 (27.12%) BPMN
6 13 (22.03%) Agile
6 13 (22.03%) Data Modelling
6 13 (22.03%) GAP Analysis
6 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.03%) Roadmaps
6 13 (22.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (18.64%) Decision-Making
8 9 (15.25%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (15.25%) MODAF
8 9 (15.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 8 (13.56%) Waterfall
10 7 (11.86%) Data Governance
10 7 (11.86%) Logical Data Model
10 7 (11.86%) Metadata Management
10 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.47%) SQL
2 1 (1.69%) Java
2 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.69%) LookML
2 1 (1.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (66.10%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.59%) DV Cleared
3 16 (27.12%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Degree
5 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.78%) GDPR
2 4 (6.78%) NCSC
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
Vendors
1 59 (100.00%) Sparx
2 15 (25.42%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (5.08%) Virgin Media
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) WSO2