TOGAF Certification Contract Job Trends

TOGAF Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for TOGAF Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 437 498
Rank change year-on-year -17 +61 +119
Contract jobs citing TOGAF Certification 144 96 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.04% 1.05% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 62 57
10th Percentile £470 £400 £506
25th Percentile £534 £516 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £688
90th Percentile - £863 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £690 £567 £534
% change year-on-year +21.69% +6.18% -14.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 12
10th Percentile £87.25 - -
25th Percentile £90.63 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £56.49
75th Percentile £99.63 - £57.33
90th Percentile £103.45 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £56.49
% change year-on-year - - +42.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

TOGAF Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,835 9,174 13,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 29.74% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,124 5,605 8,280
10th Percentile £325 £294 £290
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £618 £629 £650
90th Percentile £720 £715 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £504 £530
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 437 962
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.67 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.17 £24.18 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% -2.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.25 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.97% +2.62%

TOGAF Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TOGAF Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

TOGAF Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

TOGAF Certification
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TOGAF Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TOGAF Certification

TOGAF Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TOGAF Certification over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TOGAF Certification in the UK

TOGAF Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TOGAF Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing TOGAF Certification

TOGAF Certification
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOGAF Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 20 February 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 -47 127 £700 +12.00% 57
UK excluding London -37 89 £690 +21.69% 37
London -40 45 £675 -6.90% 28
South West +9 32 £725 +20.83% 6
Work from Home -23 32 £537 -7.07% 24
North of England -58 19 £600 +5.82% 9
South East -24 17 £480 -26.15% 12
Yorkshire -52 16 £569 +0.26% 1
Midlands -57 8 £555 +5.62% 5
Scotland +5 7 £683 +16.17% 1
West Midlands -51 7 £559 +6.48% 3
East of England - 6 £528 - 5
North West -29 3 £738 +89.10% 8
East Midlands -26 1 £525 +12.90% 2

TOGAF Certification
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 52 (36.11%) Confluence
2 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.39%) Apache
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.39%) nginx
4 2 (1.39%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 30 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
1 30 (20.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (45.14%) Azure
2 49 (34.03%) AWS
3 19 (13.19%) GCP
4 12 (8.33%) IaaS
4 12 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.33%) PaaS
5 8 (5.56%) SaaS
6 5 (3.47%) GitHub
6 5 (3.47%) Serverless
7 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.78%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.08%) Boomi
8 3 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.39%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.39%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.03%) Network Security
2 12 (8.33%) Firewall
3 5 (3.47%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.08%) SSL
5 2 (1.39%) Internet
5 2 (1.39%) S/MIME
5 2 (1.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) DNS
6 1 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) IPsec
6 1 (0.69%) NGN
6 1 (0.69%) SAN
6 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.69%) SSH
6 1 (0.69%) TETRA
6 1 (0.69%) VLAN
6 1 (0.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) Data Lake
2 6 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.78%) Metadata
4 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.39%) Big Data
5 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.39%) Power BI
5 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.69%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.69%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.69%) OLAP
6 1 (0.69%) Parquet
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (36.11%) JIRA
2 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.08%) GitLab
3 3 (2.08%) Snyk
4 1 (0.69%) ERwin
4 1 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
General
1 70 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 45 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (25.00%) Finance
4 32 (22.22%) Military
5 12 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.86%) Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.08%) Legal
8 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.39%) Local Government
9 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.39%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Aviation
10 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 122 (84.72%) Architect
2 37 (25.69%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (20.83%) Service Architect
4 17 (11.81%) Security Architect
5 13 (9.03%) Technical Architect
6 12 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 12 (8.33%) Lead
6 12 (8.33%) Lead Architect
7 10 (6.94%) Data Architect
8 9 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.56%) Design Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Security Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Applications Architect
12 5 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 5 (3.47%) Lead Security Architect
12 5 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.94%) OAuth
2 9 (6.25%) SAML
3 7 (4.86%) Middleware
4 4 (2.78%) .NET
5 3 (2.08%) Kafka
5 3 (2.08%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.08%) OpenID
5 3 (2.08%) SLSA
6 2 (1.39%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.39%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.39%) Flask
6 2 (1.39%) React
6 2 (1.39%) REST
7 1 (0.69%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.69%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.69%) RESTful
7 1 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 30 (20.83%) Product Ownership
3 13 (9.03%) Management Information System
4 10 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.08%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.39%) NHS
7 2 (1.39%) PKI
7 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.69%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.17%) Linux
1 6 (4.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 49 (34.03%) Agile
3 39 (27.08%) ITIL
4 38 (26.39%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (25.69%) Analytical Thinking
5 37 (25.69%) Service Design
6 35 (24.31%) Business Continuity
6 35 (24.31%) Computer Science
7 31 (21.53%) Acceptance Criteria
7 31 (21.53%) Architectural Patterns
7 31 (21.53%) Roadmaps
8 30 (20.83%) Critical Thinking
8 30 (20.83%) Knowledge Transfer
8 30 (20.83%) Security Patching
8 30 (20.83%) Service Management
9 29 (20.14%) Enterprise Architecture
10 26 (18.06%) SABSA
11 24 (16.67%) DevOps
11 24 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 24 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.17%) Python
1 6 (4.17%) SQL
2 5 (3.47%) Java
3 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.39%) C#
4 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.69%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (51.39%) Degree
2 63 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 60 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 35 (24.31%) CISSP
5 33 (22.92%) Azure Certification
6 25 (17.36%) CISM
7 24 (16.67%) AWS Certification
8 16 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (9.03%) Master's Degree
10 11 (7.64%) PhD
11 5 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.78%) CFA
12 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
13 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (1.39%) CCSP
14 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
14 2 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) GDPR
1 11 (7.64%) NIST
2 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.08%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.39%) COBIT
4 2 (1.39%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.39%) NCSC
4 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.39%) PSD2
4 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.69%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.69%) GAAP
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) IFRS
5 1 (0.69%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.69%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (9.72%) Docker
2 3 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (20.83%) OPNET
2 24 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.86%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (4.86%) Terraform
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.39%) SCCM
5 1 (0.69%) Ansible
5 1 (0.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (21.53%) Atlassian
1 31 (21.53%) ServiceNow
2 30 (20.83%) Remedy
3 22 (15.28%) BiZZdesign
3 22 (15.28%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.94%) CyberArk
5 8 (5.56%) Centrify
5 8 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 7 (4.86%) CheckPoint
6 7 (4.86%) Databricks
6 7 (4.86%) SAP
7 6 (4.17%) Oracle
7 6 (4.17%) Tenable
8 5 (3.47%) Cisco
9 4 (2.78%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.78%) VMware
10 3 (2.08%) Ariba
10 3 (2.08%) Checkmarx
10 3 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.08%) Sparx