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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 513 494
Rank change year-on-year -2 -19 +191
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 76 27 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.086% 0.25%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.47% 1.13% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 19 67
10th Percentile £463 £446 £502
25th Percentile £550 £531 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £775 £645 £738
90th Percentile £788 £652 £873
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £590 £560
% change year-on-year +22.88% +5.36% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 21
10th Percentile - £67.13 -
25th Percentile - £68.44 -
Median hourly rate - £71.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - +26.13% -16.00%
75th Percentile - £73.44 £57.33
90th Percentile - £74.38 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £71.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year - +26.13% -16.00%

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 3,079 2,388 3,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.95% 7.59% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 1,250 1,974
10th Percentile £360 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £663 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £770 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 55 122
10th Percentile £19.85 £22.27 £16.45
25th Percentile £33.75 £30.83 £22.33
Median hourly rate £49.42 £46.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% -2.78% +7.95%
75th Percentile £77.69 £76.10 £60.19
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £53.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +5.12% +13.16% +27.35%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -14 72 £650 +10.17% 9
UK excluding London -33 44 £725 +22.88% 9
South East +2 35 £750 +27.12% 2
London -13 28 £630 +12.00%
Work from Home -6 11 £525 -14.63% 1
Midlands -37 8 £625 -3.85%
West Midlands -39 5 £638 -1.92%
South West -21 4 £538 +16.22% 5
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
Scotland +6 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 1 (1.32%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.53%) AWS
2 7 (9.21%) Azure
3 6 (7.89%) Snowflake
4 5 (6.58%) GCP
5 2 (2.63%) Collibra
5 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.32%) dbt
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Firewall
1 1 (1.32%) HTTP
1 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) Metadata
2 9 (11.84%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (10.53%) Data Vault
4 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.63%) Power BI
6 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.32%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.32%) Parquet
7 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.32%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) ERwin
2 11 (14.47%) PowerDesigner
3 10 (13.16%) JIRA
4 8 (10.53%) ER Studio
5 2 (2.63%) MSI
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Banking
4 3 (3.95%) Finance
4 3 (3.95%) Retail
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (55.26%) Architect
2 18 (23.68%) Enterprise Architect
3 15 (19.74%) Data Modeller
4 8 (10.53%) Analyst
5 7 (9.21%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.89%) Security Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Geospatial Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Business Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Business Design Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Lead
9 2 (2.63%) Payments Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Senior
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Data Modeller
10 1 (1.32%) AWS Architect
10 1 (1.32%) AWS Security Architect
10 1 (1.32%) Lead Architect
10 1 (1.32%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) JSON
1 2 (2.63%) XML
2 1 (1.32%) JAAS
2 1 (1.32%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Data Structures
2 7 (9.21%) Reinsurance
3 6 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.26%) Reference Data
5 3 (3.95%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.63%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.63%) Wiki
7 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.11%) TOGAF
2 25 (32.89%) ArchiMate
2 25 (32.89%) Data Modelling
2 25 (32.89%) Enterprise Architecture
3 21 (27.63%) Roadmaps
4 18 (23.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (22.37%) Data Governance
6 16 (21.05%) Logical Data Model
7 15 (19.74%) Agile
8 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.11%) GAP Analysis
9 13 (17.11%) Physical Data Model
10 11 (14.47%) Conceptual Models
10 11 (14.47%) UML
11 9 (11.84%) Data Lineage
12 7 (9.21%) Analytics
12 7 (9.21%) Decision-Making
12 7 (9.21%) Security Architecture
12 7 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (7.89%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.58%) SQL
2 1 (1.32%) Java
2 1 (1.32%) LookML
Qualifications
1 41 (53.95%) Security Cleared
2 27 (35.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.47%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.95%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.58%) NCSC
3 4 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (97.37%) Sparx
2 14 (18.42%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.63%) Informatica
3 2 (2.63%) OneTrust
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle
3 2 (2.63%) Palantir
3 2 (2.63%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.32%) Databricks
4 1 (1.32%) IBM
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.32%) WSO2