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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 493 493
Rank change year-on-year -56 0 +148
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 73 27 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.092% 0.22%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.14% 1.11% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 23 62
10th Percentile £400 £513 £505
25th Percentile £563 £563 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £590 £725
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -18.62% +15.45%
75th Percentile £775 £619 £825
90th Percentile £788 £649 £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 1 6
10th Percentile - - £56.49
25th Percentile - £66.25 £56.70
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +17.74% -18.10%
75th Percentile - £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - £57.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +17.74% -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 3,405 2,424 3,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 8.24% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,953 1,365 1,943
10th Percentile £361 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £744 £788 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 51 115
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £14.71
25th Percentile £33.75 £40.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +50.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £79.13 £59.71
90th Percentile £87.40 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.83% +50.00% -18.37%

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 19 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 19 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 -51 69 £700 +16.67% 13
UK excluding London -76 45 £750 +25.00% 9
South East -22 35 £750 +27.12% 3
London -30 23 £645 +14.67% 6
Midlands -57 12 £515 -20.77%
West Midlands -54 9 £625 -3.85%
Work from Home -40 7 £550 -4.35% 1
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
South West - 2 £563 - 6
Scotland +3 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 (2.74%) Confluence
1 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.11%) AWS
1 3 (4.11%) Azure
2 2 (2.74%) Collibra
2 2 (2.74%) dbt
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.37%) GCP
3 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.37%) SaaS
3 1 (1.37%) Serverless
3 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.40%) Metadata
2 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.48%) Data Vault
3 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.48%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.74%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.37%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.37%) Parquet
5 1 (1.37%) Power BI
5 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.37%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) ERwin
2 5 (6.85%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (5.48%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.74%) JIRA
General
1 29 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.59%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Retail
7 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (67.12%) Architect
2 24 (32.88%) Enterprise Architect
3 11 (15.07%) Data Modeller
4 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
5 6 (8.22%) Analyst
5 6 (8.22%) Security Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Geospatial Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Business Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Business Design Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) Payments Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow Architect
10 1 (1.37%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 1 (1.37%) AWS Architect
10 1 (1.37%) Lead
10 1 (1.37%) Senior
10 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow Specialist
10 1 (1.37%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) JSON
1 2 (2.74%) Kafka
1 2 (2.74%) REST
1 2 (2.74%) SOAP
1 2 (2.74%) XML
2 1 (1.37%) JAAS
2 1 (1.37%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
1 5 (6.85%) Reference Data
2 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.74%) CMDB
3 2 (2.74%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.74%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.74%) Taxonomies
3 2 (2.74%) Wiki
4 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Enterprise Architecture
2 28 (38.36%) ArchiMate
3 25 (34.25%) TOGAF
4 21 (28.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (27.40%) Data Modelling
6 19 (26.03%) Roadmaps
7 18 (24.66%) GAP Analysis
8 16 (21.92%) Data Governance
9 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (19.18%) Agile
11 13 (17.81%) Logical Data Model
12 12 (16.44%) Decision-Making
12 12 (16.44%) UML
13 10 (13.70%) Data Lineage
13 10 (13.70%) Physical Data Model
14 9 (12.33%) BPMN
14 9 (12.33%) Knowledge Transfer
14 9 (12.33%) Metadata Management
14 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 7 (9.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.85%) SQL
2 1 (1.37%) Java
2 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.37%) LookML
2 1 (1.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (61.64%) Security Cleared
2 24 (32.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.85%) GDPR
2 5 (6.85%) NCSC
3 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (97.26%) Sparx
2 20 (27.40%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (4.11%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.74%) Databricks
4 2 (2.74%) Informatica
4 2 (2.74%) OneTrust
4 2 (2.74%) Palantir
4 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.37%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle
5 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.37%) WSO2