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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 498 494
Rank change year-on-year -60 -4 +157
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 73 24 97
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.083% 0.22%
As % of the Business Applications category 2.19% 1.02% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 19 65
10th Percentile £422 £513 £507
25th Percentile £563 £569 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -17.24% +16.00%
75th Percentile £775 £635 £825
90th Percentile £788 £650 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £600 £560
% change year-on-year +25.00% +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £67.13 £56.49
25th Percentile - £68.44 £56.70
Median hourly rate - £71.25 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +24.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile - £73.44 -
90th Percentile - £74.38 £57.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £71.25 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +24.28% -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 3,327 2,361 3,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.43% 8.12% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,894 1,326 2,002
10th Percentile £363 £388 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £648 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 56 114
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.27 £15.67
25th Percentile £33.75 £39.53 £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 £79.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.70 £86.00 £86.43
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 2 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 2 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 -63 69 £700 +16.67% 10
UK excluding London -70 44 £750 +25.00% 8
South East -27 36 £750 +26.05% 2
London -44 24 £575 +2.22% 2
Midlands -55 10 £625 -3.85%
Work from Home -32 7 £525 -12.50% 1
West Midlands -57 7 £650 -
East Midlands - 3 £402 -
South West - 2 £563 - 6
Scotland +7 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 4 (5.48%) AWS
2 3 (4.11%) Azure
3 2 (2.74%) Collibra
3 2 (2.74%) dbt
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.37%) GCP
4 1 (1.37%) SaaS
4 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Firewall
1 1 (1.37%) HTTP
1 1 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.29%) Metadata
2 5 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (5.48%) Data Vault
3 4 (5.48%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.74%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (2.74%) Power BI
5 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.37%) Parquet
6 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.37%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) ERwin
2 6 (8.22%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (5.48%) ER Studio
3 4 (5.48%) JIRA
General
1 28 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 4 (5.48%) 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 12 (16.44%) Data Modeller
4 7 (9.59%) Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
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%) Lead
9 2 (2.74%) Payments Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Senior
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Data Modeller
10 1 (1.37%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 1 (1.37%) AWS Architect
10 1 (1.37%) AWS Security Architect
10 1 (1.37%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) JSON
1 2 (2.74%) Kafka
1 2 (2.74%) XML
2 1 (1.37%) JAAS
2 1 (1.37%) JSSE
2 1 (1.37%) REST
2 1 (1.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.85%) Reference Data
2 5 (6.85%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Contract for Difference
4 2 (2.74%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.74%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.74%) Wiki
5 1 (1.37%) CMDB
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Enterprise Architecture
2 26 (35.62%) ArchiMate
3 25 (34.25%) TOGAF
4 21 (28.77%) Data Modelling
5 19 (26.03%) Roadmaps
5 19 (26.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (24.66%) GAP Analysis
7 16 (21.92%) Agile
8 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (19.18%) Data Governance
10 13 (17.81%) Decision-Making
10 13 (17.81%) Logical Data Model
11 11 (15.07%) Data Lineage
11 11 (15.07%) UML
12 10 (13.70%) Physical Data Model
13 9 (12.33%) Knowledge Transfer
14 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 7 (9.59%) Metadata Management
15 7 (9.59%) Security Architecture
15 7 (9.59%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.22%) SQL
2 1 (1.37%) Java
2 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.37%) LookML
2 1 (1.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (60.27%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.25%) 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 14 (19.18%) 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%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) Palantir
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.37%) IBM
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.37%) WSO2