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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 523 530
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +219
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 40 24 96
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.066% 0.20%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.32% 0.90% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 55
10th Percentile £491 £439 £512
25th Percentile £513 £450 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £666 £699 £738
90th Percentile £716 £716 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £463 £560
% change year-on-year +18.92% -17.41% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 26
10th Percentile - £66.05 £53.84
25th Percentile - £66.13 -
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - +19.49% -5.85%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £66.83
90th Percentile - £73.75 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year - +19.49% -9.76%

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 3,039 2,672 3,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 7.30% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,424 2,057
10th Percentile £358 £363 £369
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £660 £665 £664
90th Percentile £750 £755 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 66 86
10th Percentile £13.35 £25.20 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £35.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -23.44% +25.53%
75th Percentile £77.69 £61.72 £80.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £79.75 £89.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £40.91 £56.49
% change year-on-year +2.30% -27.58% +25.53%

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 8 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 8 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 -3 38 £575 -4.17% 78
London +28 24 £575 -6.50% 22
UK excluding London -30 15 £550 +18.92% 64
Work from Home +9 11 £525 -8.30% 21
South East +6 10 £550 -18.52% 41
South West -3 4 £538 +19.44% 10
Midlands - 2 £650 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 1
Scotland - 1 £750 -
Wales - 1 £750 - 1

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 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Snowflake
3 6 (15.00%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) Collibra
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Data Vault
1 8 (20.00%) Metadata
1 8 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.50%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Spatial Data
4 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) ERwin
2 12 (30.00%) PowerDesigner
3 10 (25.00%) JIRA
4 5 (12.50%) ER Studio
5 2 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Architect
2 12 (30.00%) Data Modeller
3 6 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Geospatial Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Modeller
6 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (17.50%) Reinsurance
3 5 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (7.50%) Contract for Difference
4 3 (7.50%) Taxonomies
5 2 (5.00%) Life Science
5 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
5 2 (5.00%) Wiki
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Data Governance
1 18 (45.00%) Data Modelling
2 17 (42.50%) TOGAF
3 12 (30.00%) Logical Data Model
4 11 (27.50%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) ArchiMate
5 10 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
6 9 (22.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (22.50%) Roadmaps
7 8 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
7 8 (20.00%) Data Lineage
7 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.00%) Analytics
9 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
9 6 (15.00%) Data Transformation
9 6 (15.00%) Kanban
9 6 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 6 (15.00%) Scrum
9 6 (15.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) GxP
3 1 (2.50%) IFRS
3 1 (2.50%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.50%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (95.00%) Sparx
2 2 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (5.00%) IBM
2 2 (5.00%) Informatica
2 2 (5.00%) OneTrust
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
2 2 (5.00%) Palantir
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce