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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 533 534
Rank change year-on-year -82 +1 +40
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 51 19 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.057% 0.098%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.33% 0.67% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 16 29
10th Percentile £413 - £490
25th Percentile £575 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £661 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year +14.96% -7.26% -7.94%
75th Percentile £725 £714 £825
90th Percentile £809 £738 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £538 £620
% change year-on-year +30.23% -13.31% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £56.67
25th Percentile - - £56.94
Median hourly rate - - £57.44
75th Percentile - - £61.75
90th Percentile - - £64.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.44
% change year-on-year - - +0.19%

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 3,839 2,854 2,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.20% 8.61% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,158 1,639 1,680
10th Percentile £357 £363 £353
25th Percentile £456 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £747 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 59 81
10th Percentile £18.75 £17.70 £22.75
25th Percentile £27.10 £27.06 £35.36
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -8.89% -15.09%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £91.00 £78.50 £65.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +24.44% -19.89%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -75 49 £662 +21.70% 15
London -68 25 £661 +20.18% 11
UK excluding London -81 20 £700 +30.23% 6
Work from Home -42 12 £661 +14.96% 9
South East -66 9 £794 +32.29% 1
Midlands - 6 £450 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £450 - 1
South West -38 5 £663 +23.26% 1
Scotland - 1 £410 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (13.73%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) ArcGIS
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.96%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) GCP
4 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.96%) dbt
5 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
5 1 (1.96%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) Metadata
2 7 (13.73%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.84%) Power BI
5 2 (3.92%) Data Vault
5 2 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.92%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (3.92%) QGIS
5 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.92%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.96%) OLAP
6 1 (1.96%) OLTP
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.96%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) ERwin
2 6 (11.76%) ER Studio
3 5 (9.80%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Public Sector
4 10 (19.61%) Finance
5 4 (7.84%) Banking
6 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Local Government
7 2 (3.92%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (68.63%) Architect
2 17 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Data Modeller
4 5 (9.80%) Data Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Technical Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Finance Modeller
7 2 (3.92%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Data Integration Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Senior
8 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow Specialist
8 1 (1.96%) Technical Design Architect
8 1 (1.96%) Technical Design Authority
8 1 (1.96%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) REST
2 2 (3.92%) .NET
2 2 (3.92%) JSON
2 2 (3.92%) Kafka
2 2 (3.92%) LDAP
2 2 (3.92%) OAuth
2 2 (3.92%) OpenID
2 2 (3.92%) SAML
2 2 (3.92%) SOAP
2 2 (3.92%) XML
3 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.96%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.92%) CMDB
4 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.98%) ArchiMate
2 25 (49.02%) UML
3 22 (43.14%) TOGAF
4 20 (39.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 18 (35.29%) BPMN
6 17 (33.33%) Agile
7 14 (27.45%) Data Governance
7 14 (27.45%) Data Modelling
8 13 (25.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 12 (23.53%) Waterfall
10 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (19.61%) Logical Data Model
11 10 (19.61%) Metadata Management
11 10 (19.61%) MODAF
11 10 (19.61%) Physical Data Model
12 9 (17.65%) Data Architecture
12 9 (17.65%) Decision-Making
13 8 (15.69%) Data Integration
13 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) Java
2 2 (3.92%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (62.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (35.29%) DV Cleared
3 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) Degree
5 3 (5.88%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) CISM
6 2 (3.92%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.96%) CEH
7 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) GDPR
2 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (5.88%) NCSC
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) Sparx
2 6 (11.76%) Databricks
3 5 (9.80%) BiZZdesign
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.92%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) IBM
5 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.96%) Informatica
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) Talend
6 1 (1.96%) Teradata
6 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.96%) VMware