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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 545 554
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +211
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 23 28 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.073% 0.17%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.81% 1.00% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 42
10th Percentile £513 £448 £529
25th Percentile £519 £469 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -14.48% +11.80%
75th Percentile £700 £712 £763
90th Percentile £718 £825 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -13.31% -0.80% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 27
10th Percentile - - £54.24
25th Percentile - - £56.49
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +15.12% -4.45%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +15.12% -6.74%

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 2,854 2,805 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 7.33% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,621 1,518 1,999
10th Percentile £360 £359 £357
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £673 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +0.47% +1.90% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 79 68
10th Percentile £14.76 £24.90 £22.06
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.18 £46.75
Median hourly rate £35.48 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £64.06
90th Percentile £76.75 £66.30 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.24 £45.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -1.69% -20.34% +67.39%

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sparx Enterprise Architect as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sparx Enterprise Architect 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 17 September 2025.

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 7 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 17 September 2025. 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 +25 18 £650 +4.84% 20
London +31 12 £650 -9.15% 10
Work from Home +9 11 £575 +11.65% 6
UK excluding London -10 7 £538 -13.31% 16
South East +21 4 £600 -5.88% 7
South West +14 2 £538 -13.31% 8
Wales - 1 - - 1

Sparx Enterprise Architect
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Snowflake
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
3 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
4 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Vault
1 5 (21.74%) Snowflake Schema
2 4 (17.39%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (17.39%) Big Data
2 4 (17.39%) Hadoop
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) Tableau
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) ERwin
2 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 6 (26.09%) PowerDesigner
3 5 (21.74%) ER Studio
4 2 (8.70%) MSI
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Pharmaceutical
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Banking
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
1 11 (47.83%) Data Modeller
2 6 (26.09%) Data Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Data Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Finance Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Structures
2 5 (21.74%) Reinsurance
3 2 (8.70%) Life Science
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Data Modelling
2 10 (43.48%) Logical Data Model
3 9 (39.13%) Data Governance
3 9 (39.13%) Physical Data Model
3 9 (39.13%) TOGAF
4 7 (30.43%) Data Architecture
4 7 (30.43%) Dimensional Modelling
5 6 (26.09%) Agile
5 6 (26.09%) Data Transformation
5 6 (26.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 6 (26.09%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (21.74%) Analytics
6 5 (21.74%) Conceptual Models
6 5 (21.74%) Kanban
6 5 (21.74%) Master Data Management
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Information Management
7 4 (17.39%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (26.09%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.70%) NIST
4 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.35%) GxP
4 1 (4.35%) IFRS
4 1 (4.35%) IFRS 9
4 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
4 1 (4.35%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Sparx
2 4 (17.39%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (17.39%) Informatica
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Workday
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) IBM