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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 541 539
Rank change year-on-year -86 -2 +25
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 53 24 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.073% 0.070%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.39% 0.84% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 20
10th Percentile £413 £513 £448
25th Percentile £558 £519 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -8.15%
75th Percentile £719 £700 £712
90th Percentile £808 £717 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £538 £620
% change year-on-year +34.88% -13.31% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.83%

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 3,825 2,857 2,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 8.75% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,116 1,619 1,524
10th Percentile £358 £360 £351
25th Percentile £463 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £766 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £535
% change year-on-year -2.78% +0.93% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 52 79
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.59 £24.90
25th Percentile £20.31 £25.25 £35.36
Median hourly rate £38.75 £35.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -21.16% -17.18%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.30 £74.75 £66.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £44.24 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.23% -1.69% -18.92%

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 21 September 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 9 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 21 September 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 -87 49 £650 +6.12% 41
London -66 31 £650 - 26
Work from Home -60 14 £606 +5.30% 25
UK excluding London -98 14 £725 +34.88% 24
South East -61 6 £800 +33.33% 6
Midlands - 4 £403 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £403 - 1
South West -38 3 £731 +36.05% 3
Scotland - 1 £410 - 4

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 6 (11.32%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.89%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) AWS
3 5 (9.43%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Databricks
5 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.89%) Alation
6 1 (1.89%) Collibra
6 1 (1.89%) dbt
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) HTTP
2 3 (5.66%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) Metadata
2 7 (13.21%) Data Lake
2 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.55%) Power BI
5 3 (5.66%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (3.77%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.77%) QGIS
6 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.77%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.89%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (1.89%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.89%) OLAP
7 1 (1.89%) OLTP
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) ERwin
2 6 (11.32%) JIRA
3 5 (9.43%) ER Studio
4 2 (3.77%) Git
4 2 (3.77%) PowerDesigner
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
3 9 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Retail Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.77%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (64.15%) Architect
2 16 (30.19%) Enterprise Architect
3 8 (15.09%) Data Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Data Modeller
5 6 (11.32%) Technical Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (3.77%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 1 (1.89%) Geospatial Architect
9 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow Developer
9 1 (1.89%) Traffic Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Kafka
1 4 (7.55%) REST
2 3 (5.66%) JSON
3 2 (3.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.77%) LDAP
3 2 (3.77%) OAuth
3 2 (3.77%) OpenID
3 2 (3.77%) SAML
3 2 (3.77%) SOAP
3 2 (3.77%) XML
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.89%) RESTful
4 1 (1.89%) Terraform
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
4 1 (1.89%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.77%) CMDB
4 2 (3.77%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.77%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) IoT
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) UML
2 23 (43.40%) TOGAF
3 22 (41.51%) ArchiMate
4 21 (39.62%) Enterprise Architecture
5 20 (37.74%) Data Modelling
6 18 (33.96%) BPMN
7 17 (32.08%) Data Governance
8 15 (28.30%) Agile
8 15 (28.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (24.53%) Data Architecture
9 13 (24.53%) Logical Data Model
10 12 (22.64%) Physical Data Model
10 12 (22.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 12 (22.64%) Waterfall
11 11 (20.75%) MODAF
11 11 (20.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (18.87%) AI
12 10 (18.87%) Metadata Management
13 9 (16.98%) Data Integration
13 9 (16.98%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.09%) SQL
2 2 (3.77%) Java
2 2 (3.77%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (62.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.96%) DV Cleared
3 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.32%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.77%) CISM
6 2 (3.77%) CISSP
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CEH
7 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) NCSC
3 3 (5.66%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.77%) QA
5 1 (1.89%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.89%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (100.00%) Sparx
2 9 (16.98%) Databricks
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.66%) Informatica
4 3 (5.66%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (3.77%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) IBM
5 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.77%) VMware
6 1 (1.89%) Talend
6 1 (1.89%) Teradata