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 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 440 512
Rank change year-on-year -31 +72 +127
Contract jobs citing TOGAF Certification 119 92 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.92% 0.99% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 56 57
10th Percentile £443 £400 £506
25th Percentile £514 £553 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +3.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £691 £688
90th Percentile - £863 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £695 £567 £535
% change year-on-year +22.57% +6.08% -14.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 14
10th Percentile £86.50 - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £56.49
75th Percentile £101.75 - -
90th Percentile £104.30 - £57.33
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 12,993 9,252 13,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.81% 29.78% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,582 5,563 8,571
10th Percentile £315 £300 £295
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 452 954
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.76 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.02 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -35.55% -15.50% +2.62%
75th Percentile £63.49 £65.71 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.47 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -10.53% +5.56%

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 2 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 2 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 -42 108 £690 +10.40% 35
UK excluding London -29 82 £695 +22.57% 22
South West +5 32 £725 +20.83% 4
London -31 32 £625 -9.09% 16
Work from Home -27 24 £525 -8.70% 19
North of England -42 19 £569 +0.26% 8
South East -20 15 £480 -26.15% 6
Yorkshire -46 15 £537 -5.29% 1
Scotland +8 6 £683 +16.17%
Midlands -59 5 £559 +6.48% 1
East of England - 5 £528 - 2
North West -28 4 £725 +85.90% 7
West Midlands -47 4 £560 +6.57% 1
East Midlands -22 1 £525 +12.90%

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 49 (41.18%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.68%) Apache
3 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (25.21%) Microsoft Office
1 30 (25.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 47 (39.50%) Azure
2 38 (31.93%) AWS
3 9 (7.56%) GCP
3 9 (7.56%) IaaS
3 9 (7.56%) PaaS
4 7 (5.88%) SaaS
5 6 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.20%) Serverless
7 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.36%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.52%) GitHub
8 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.52%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.68%) Boomi
9 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.40%) Network Security
2 6 (5.04%) Firewall
3 5 (4.20%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.68%) Internet
4 2 (1.68%) S/MIME
4 2 (1.68%) SSL
5 1 (0.84%) DNS
5 1 (0.84%) NGN
5 1 (0.84%) SAN
5 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.84%) TETRA
5 1 (0.84%) VLAN
5 1 (0.84%) VPN
5 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.68%) Metadata
3 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.68%) Power BI
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.84%) EDMS
4 1 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.84%) MySQL
4 1 (0.84%) OLAP
4 1 (0.84%) OLTP
4 1 (0.84%) Parquet
4 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.84%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (41.18%) JIRA
2 5 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.52%) GitLab
3 3 (2.52%) Snyk
4 1 (0.84%) ERwin
4 1 (0.84%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) PowerDesigner
General
1 64 (53.78%) Social Skills
2 42 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (26.89%) Military
4 31 (26.05%) Finance
5 12 (10.08%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.04%) Banking
6 6 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.68%) Legal
8 2 (1.68%) Local Government
8 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.84%) Aviation
9 1 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.84%) Electronics
9 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (84.03%) Architect
2 33 (27.73%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (25.21%) Service Architect
4 14 (11.76%) Security Architect
5 12 (10.08%) Lead
5 12 (10.08%) Lead Architect
6 10 (8.40%) Technical Architect
7 9 (7.56%) Enterprise Architect
7 9 (7.56%) Security Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.72%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.72%) Design Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.04%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 5 (4.20%) Lead Security Architect
12 4 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Designer
12 4 (3.36%) Principal Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) OAuth
2 8 (6.72%) SAML
3 4 (3.36%) Middleware
4 3 (2.52%) .NET
4 3 (2.52%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.52%) SLSA
5 2 (1.68%) Kafka
5 2 (1.68%) OpenID
5 2 (1.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.84%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.84%) JWT
6 1 (0.84%) LDAP
6 1 (0.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.73%) Cloud Native
2 30 (25.21%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.52%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.68%) NHS
8 2 (1.68%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.68%) PKI
8 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.84%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.84%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.84%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.20%) Windows
2 4 (3.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 47 (39.50%) Agile
3 37 (31.09%) ITIL
4 36 (30.25%) Analytical Thinking
4 36 (30.25%) Service Design
5 34 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 31 (26.05%) Acceptance Criteria
6 31 (26.05%) Business Continuity
7 30 (25.21%) Computer Science
7 30 (25.21%) Critical Thinking
7 30 (25.21%) Knowledge Transfer
7 30 (25.21%) Security Patching
7 30 (25.21%) Service Management
8 25 (21.01%) Roadmaps
9 23 (19.33%) Architectural Patterns
9 23 (19.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 23 (19.33%) SABSA
9 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (16.81%) UML
11 19 (15.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.36%) Java
1 4 (3.36%) SQL
2 3 (2.52%) Python
3 1 (0.84%) C#
3 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (56.30%) Degree
2 48 (40.34%) Security Cleared
3 45 (37.82%) SC Cleared
4 31 (26.05%) CISSP
5 23 (19.33%) Azure Certification
6 22 (18.49%) CISM
7 18 (15.13%) AWS Certification
8 15 (12.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (11.76%) Master's Degree
10 11 (9.24%) PhD
11 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (2.52%) CFA
12 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.68%) CCSP
14 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.84%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (0.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) GDPR
1 10 (8.40%) NIST
2 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.52%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.68%) COBIT
4 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.84%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.84%) GRC
5 1 (0.84%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.84%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.84%) MiFID
5 1 (0.84%) NCSC
5 1 (0.84%) PSD2
5 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (6.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (25.21%) OPNET
2 17 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (4.20%) Terraform
5 2 (1.68%) SCCM
6 1 (0.84%) Ansible
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.84%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (26.05%) ServiceNow
2 30 (25.21%) Atlassian
2 30 (25.21%) Remedy
3 19 (15.97%) BiZZdesign
3 19 (15.97%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.40%) CyberArk
5 8 (6.72%) Centrify
6 7 (5.88%) SAP
7 6 (5.04%) Tenable
8 5 (4.20%) Cisco
8 5 (4.20%) Databricks
8 5 (4.20%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.20%) Oracle
9 4 (3.36%) CheckPoint
9 4 (3.36%) VMware
10 3 (2.52%) Ariba
10 3 (2.52%) Black Duck
10 3 (2.52%) Guidewire
10 3 (2.52%) OpenAI
10 3 (2.52%) Sparx