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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 514 517
Rank change year-on-year -83 +3 +98
Contract jobs citing Sparx Enterprise Architect 50 18 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.059% 0.16%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.38% 0.72% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 48
10th Percentile £400 £513 £500
25th Percentile £558 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £575 £716
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -19.64% +14.48%
75th Percentile £725 £656 £825
90th Percentile £795 £730 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £600 £620
% change year-on-year +16.67% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.49
Median hourly rate - - £57.33
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £62.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.33
% change year-on-year - - -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 3,623 2,509 3,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.09% 8.21% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,034 1,423 1,871
10th Percentile £359 £387 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% - -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -2.23% +2.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 60 120
10th Percentile £21.82 £20.47 £16.84
25th Percentile £30.38 £32.25 £22.33
Median hourly rate £53.00 £58.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +46.88% -18.37%
75th Percentile £71.91 £73.13 £56.70
90th Percentile £90.20 £86.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.49 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.86% +50.00% -25.46%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 £656 +9.38% 8
London -47 23 £650 +3.59% 2
UK excluding London -89 22 £700 +16.67% 7
South East -54 12 £725 +20.83% 2
Work from Home -56 8 £550 -4.35% 6
Midlands - 8 £402 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £528 -
East Midlands - 3 £402 - 1
South West - 3 £613 - 3

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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (6.00%) GCP
3 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.00%) dbt
5 1 (2.00%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) Metadata
2 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.00%) Power BI
3 3 (6.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (4.00%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.00%) OLAP
5 1 (2.00%) OLTP
5 1 (2.00%) Parquet
5 1 (2.00%) QGIS
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.00%) Spatial Data
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) ERwin
2 4 (8.00%) ER Studio
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.00%) Finance
5 4 (8.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (76.00%) Architect
2 21 (42.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Data Modeller
3 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.00%) Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Business Design Analyst
5 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Data Integration Architect
6 1 (2.00%) Finance Modeller
6 1 (2.00%) Payments Architect
6 1 (2.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
6 1 (2.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) Kafka
1 2 (4.00%) LDAP
1 2 (4.00%) OAuth
1 2 (4.00%) OpenID
1 2 (4.00%) REST
1 2 (4.00%) SAML
1 2 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (2.00%) JSON
2 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.00%) Web Services
2 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) CMDB
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) ArchiMate
2 25 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 25 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 20 (40.00%) UML
4 19 (38.00%) BPMN
5 14 (28.00%) Agile
6 13 (26.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (24.00%) Roadmaps
7 12 (24.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 11 (22.00%) Data Modelling
8 11 (22.00%) Decision-Making
8 11 (22.00%) MODAF
8 11 (22.00%) Waterfall
9 10 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 10 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
10 9 (18.00%) GAP Analysis
11 7 (14.00%) Logical Data Model
11 7 (14.00%) Metadata Management
11 7 (14.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) SQL
2 2 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.00%) LookML
3 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) CISM
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) CEH
5 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.00%) NCSC
3 3 (6.00%) GDPR
4 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) Sparx
2 11 (22.00%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (10.00%) Databricks
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Talend
6 1 (2.00%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.00%) VMware