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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 468 523
Rank change year-on-year -23 +55 +135
Contract jobs citing TOGAF Certification 91 94 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.76% 0.88% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 58 70
10th Percentile £412 £452 £481
25th Percentile £494 £567 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year - +9.24% -8.46%
75th Percentile £738 £755 £700
90th Percentile £739 £815 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £588 £534
% change year-on-year +23.40% +10.02% -15.42%
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 - -
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 11,956 10,657 13,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.36% 29.39% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,724 6,436 8,517
10th Percentile £305 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 514 757
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.07 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.71 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.70% -22.05% +18.89%
75th Percentile £48.73 £66.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +15.33%

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 30 November 2025.

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 16 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 30 November 2025. 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 -17 87 £650 +1.17% 22
UK excluding London +3 65 £725 +23.40% 20
South West +20 26 £725 -1.69% 4
London +2 23 £492 -24.31% 6
Work from Home -12 19 £490 -15.93% 9
South East -2 16 £480 -22.58% 10
North of England -41 16 £537 -5.29% 2
Yorkshire -24 13 £537 -5.29% 1
Midlands -36 4 £525 - 2
North West -22 2 £639 +63.78%
West Midlands -30 2 £625 +19.05%
East Midlands - 2 £465 - 2
Scotland +5 1 £575 -17.86% 1
North East -7 1 £900 +9.09% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -
East of England - 1 £531 - 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 34 (37.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Microsoft Office
1 24 (26.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (39.56%) Azure
2 35 (38.46%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) GCP
4 6 (6.59%) SaaS
5 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.40%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.30%) IaaS
7 3 (3.30%) PaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.10%) Boomi
9 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.10%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) Kerberos
2 4 (4.40%) Firewall
3 3 (3.30%) Network Security
4 2 (2.20%) S/MIME
4 2 (2.20%) SAN
4 2 (2.20%) SSL
5 1 (1.10%) DNS
5 1 (1.10%) Internet
5 1 (1.10%) NGN
5 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.10%) VLAN
5 1 (1.10%) VPN
5 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) Metadata
2 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.10%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) OLAP
3 1 (1.10%) OLTP
3 1 (1.10%) Parquet
3 1 (1.10%) Power BI
3 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (37.36%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) ERwin
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
General
1 54 (59.34%) Social Skills
2 34 (37.36%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (28.57%) Military
4 19 (20.88%) Finance
5 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Banking
7 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Marketing
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
10 1 (1.10%) Aviation
10 1 (1.10%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Electronics
10 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (90.11%) Architect
2 29 (31.87%) Solutions Architect
3 24 (26.37%) Service Architect
4 14 (15.38%) Security Architect
5 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Architect
5 8 (8.79%) Lead
5 8 (8.79%) Lead Architect
5 8 (8.79%) Security Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.59%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Lead Security Architect
10 3 (3.30%) Design Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Head of Architecture
10 3 (3.30%) Payments Architect
10 3 (3.30%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.20%) Administrator
11 2 (2.20%) Backup Administrator
11 2 (2.20%) HP Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) OAuth
2 8 (8.79%) SAML
3 3 (3.30%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.20%) .NET
4 2 (2.20%) Kafka
4 2 (2.20%) Middleware
4 2 (2.20%) OpenID
5 1 (1.10%) FHIR
5 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.10%) JWT
5 1 (1.10%) LDAP
5 1 (1.10%) RAML
5 1 (1.10%) RESTful
5 1 (1.10%) SOAP
5 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.37%) Product Ownership
2 23 (25.27%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.99%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (2.20%) HP Storage
7 2 (2.20%) NHS
7 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.20%) PKI
8 1 (1.10%) Clustering
8 1 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.10%) IoT
8 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Linux
1 3 (3.30%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 41 (45.05%) Agile
3 29 (31.87%) Analytical Thinking
3 29 (31.87%) ITIL
3 29 (31.87%) Service Design
4 24 (26.37%) Acceptance Criteria
4 24 (26.37%) Business Continuity
4 24 (26.37%) Critical Thinking
4 24 (26.37%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (26.37%) Knowledge Transfer
4 24 (26.37%) Security Patching
4 24 (26.37%) Service Management
5 21 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 19 (20.88%) Enterprise Architecture
7 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
8 17 (18.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (17.58%) Identity Access Management
9 16 (17.58%) SABSA
10 15 (16.48%) Decision-Making
10 15 (16.48%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.40%) Java
2 2 (2.20%) Python
2 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (50.55%) Degree
2 41 (45.05%) Security Cleared
3 36 (39.56%) SC Cleared
4 24 (26.37%) CISSP
5 22 (24.18%) AWS Certification
6 17 (18.68%) Azure Certification
7 14 (15.38%) CISM
8 13 (14.29%) Master's Degree
9 10 (10.99%) PhD
10 9 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (2.20%) CCSP
13 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
14 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (1.10%) CISA
14 1 (1.10%) MySQL Certification
14 1 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) GDPR
2 7 (7.69%) NIST
3 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.30%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.10%) COBIT
6 1 (1.10%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.10%) GRC
6 1 (1.10%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.10%) MiFID
6 1 (1.10%) NCSC
6 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (26.37%) OPNET
2 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.30%) SCCM
4 1 (1.10%) Ansible
4 1 (1.10%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (27.47%) ServiceNow
2 24 (26.37%) Atlassian
2 24 (26.37%) Remedy
3 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.99%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (9.89%) CyberArk
6 7 (7.69%) Centrify
7 5 (5.49%) Cisco
8 4 (4.40%) Databricks
8 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.40%) VMware
9 3 (3.30%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.30%) Dell
9 3 (3.30%) Guidewire
9 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
9 3 (3.30%) Sparx
9 3 (3.30%) Tenable
10 2 (2.20%) 3PAR
10 2 (2.20%) NetApp
10 2 (2.20%) Veritas