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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 513 523
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +196
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 56 35 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.096% 0.21%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.80% 1.31% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 25 60
10th Percentile £509 £439 £504
25th Percentile £519 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £738
90th Percentile £788 £714 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £590 £560
% change year-on-year +22.88% +5.36% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 25
10th Percentile - £66.05 £53.44
25th Percentile - £66.13 -
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - +19.49% -16.00%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £57.33
90th Percentile - £73.75 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year - +19.49% -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 3,105 2,671 3,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 7.32% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,784 1,428 2,062
10th Percentile £358 £356 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 64 86
10th Percentile £18.04 £23.87 £31.20
25th Percentile £25.25 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% -20.34% +28.39%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.33 £80.00
90th Percentile £91.19 £80.75 £89.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.67 £43.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year +3.27% -23.44% +41.23%

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 26 November 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 10 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 26 November 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 -1 52 £648 +8.82% 31
London +21 26 £575 -4.17% 7
UK excluding London -36 26 £725 +22.88% 25
South East +3 20 £738 +25.00% 21
Work from Home +9 13 £538 -9.09% 8
South West -6 4 £538 +19.44% 3
West Midlands -19 3 £650 -
Midlands -29 3 £650 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) AWS
3 7 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 6 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) Collibra
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Metadata
2 8 (14.29%) Data Vault
2 8 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) ERwin
2 12 (21.43%) PowerDesigner
3 10 (17.86%) JIRA
4 5 (8.93%) ER Studio
5 2 (3.57%) MSI
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.57%) Finance
3 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (3.57%) Retail
4 1 (1.79%) Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (53.57%) Architect
2 12 (21.43%) Data Modeller
3 11 (19.64%) Enterprise Architect
4 8 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 8 (14.29%) Security Architect
5 5 (8.93%) Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Geospatial Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Business Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) Senior
8 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Modeller
8 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 1 (1.79%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Data Structures
2 7 (12.50%) Reinsurance
3 6 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (5.36%) Contract for Difference
5 3 (5.36%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.57%) Life Science
6 2 (3.57%) Reference Data
6 2 (3.57%) Wiki
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 21 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 20 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 16 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (26.79%) ArchiMate
5 15 (26.79%) Enterprise Architecture
5 15 (26.79%) Logical Data Model
6 14 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 12 (21.43%) Physical Data Model
8 11 (19.64%) Agile
9 10 (17.86%) Data Lineage
10 9 (16.07%) Conceptual Models
11 8 (14.29%) Security Architecture
11 8 (14.29%) UML
12 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.71%) Data Architecture
13 6 (10.71%) GAP Analysis
13 6 (10.71%) Kanban
13 6 (10.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 6 (10.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 21 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (33.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) NCSC
3 2 (3.57%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) GxP
4 1 (1.79%) IFRS
4 1 (1.79%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.79%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (96.43%) Sparx
2 5 (8.93%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (3.57%) IBM
3 2 (3.57%) Informatica
3 2 (3.57%) OneTrust
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) Palantir
4 1 (1.79%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce