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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 458 504
Rank change year-on-year -27 +46 +142
Contract jobs citing TOGAF Certification 106 92 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.85% 0.91% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 56 61
10th Percentile £405 £419 £500
25th Percentile £492 £567 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £643 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% +7.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £756 £688
90th Percentile - £863 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £575 £534
% change year-on-year +26.09% +7.68% -14.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 15
10th Percentile £86.50 - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £56.49
75th Percentile £101.75 - -
90th Percentile £104.30 - £56.99
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 12,543 10,061 13,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.73% 29.91% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,190 6,165 8,250
10th Percentile £313 £301 £300
25th Percentile £416 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £505 £539
% change year-on-year -0.99% -6.31% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 484 746
10th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.23 £23.90 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -22.91% +15.31%
75th Percentile £52.52 £66.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £50.39
% change year-on-year -40.82% -15.66% +11.98%

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 27 December 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 15 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 27 December 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 -17 102 £695 +9.45% 35
UK excluding London -21 77 £725 +26.09% 20
South West +19 34 £725 -0.85% 2
London -18 26 £525 -23.64% 17
Work from Home -14 21 £480 -17.34% 24
North of England -43 18 £537 -5.29% 4
South East -10 16 £480 -26.15% 8
Yorkshire -33 14 £537 -5.29% 2
Midlands -48 4 £525 - 3
East of England - 4 £528 - 4
North West -21 3 £639 +63.78% 2
West Midlands -36 2 £625 +19.05% 2
East Midlands - 2 £465 - 1
Scotland +5 1 £575 -2.13%
North East -7 1 £900 +7.46%

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 41 (38.68%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 30 (28.30%) Microsoft Office
1 30 (28.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (36.79%) Azure
2 38 (35.85%) AWS
3 11 (10.38%) GCP
4 6 (5.66%) IaaS
4 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.66%) PaaS
4 6 (5.66%) SaaS
5 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.89%) Boomi
7 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.89%) Serverless
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.94%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) Kerberos
2 4 (3.77%) Firewall
2 4 (3.77%) Network Security
3 2 (1.89%) S/MIME
3 2 (1.89%) SAN
3 2 (1.89%) SSL
4 1 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.94%) Internet
4 1 (0.94%) NGN
4 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.94%) VLAN
4 1 (0.94%) VPN
4 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.89%) Metadata
2 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.89%) Power BI
2 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.94%) MySQL
3 1 (0.94%) OLAP
3 1 (0.94%) Parquet
3 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (38.68%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) ERwin
3 1 (0.94%) Git
3 1 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
General
1 62 (58.49%) Social Skills
2 41 (38.68%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (30.19%) Military
4 21 (19.81%) Finance
5 11 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Banking
8 4 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.83%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.89%) Retail
11 1 (0.94%) Aviation
11 1 (0.94%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Electronics
11 1 (0.94%) Legal
11 1 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 97 (91.51%) Architect
2 34 (32.08%) Solutions Architect
3 30 (28.30%) Service Architect
4 15 (14.15%) Security Architect
5 12 (11.32%) Lead
5 12 (11.32%) Lead Architect
6 10 (9.43%) Security Solutions Architect
7 9 (8.49%) Technical Architect
8 8 (7.55%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Data Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 5 (4.72%) Lead Security Architect
12 3 (2.83%) Design Engineer
12 3 (2.83%) Lead Data Architect
12 3 (2.83%) Payments Architect
12 3 (2.83%) Payments Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.89%) Administrator
13 2 (1.89%) Infrastructure Architect
13 2 (1.89%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) OAuth
2 8 (7.55%) SAML
3 4 (3.77%) Middleware
4 3 (2.83%) .NET
4 3 (2.83%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.89%) Kafka
5 2 (1.89%) OpenID
5 2 (1.89%) RESTful
6 1 (0.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.94%) FHIR
6 1 (0.94%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.94%) JWT
6 1 (0.94%) LDAP
6 1 (0.94%) RAML
6 1 (0.94%) React
6 1 (0.94%) SOAP
6 1 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.30%) Product Ownership
2 26 (24.53%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.43%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.60%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.83%) NHS
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.89%) HP Storage
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.89%) PKI
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.94%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.94%) SystemC
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Linux
1 3 (2.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 48 (45.28%) Agile
3 36 (33.96%) Analytical Thinking
3 36 (33.96%) ITIL
4 35 (33.02%) Service Design
5 31 (29.25%) Business Continuity
6 30 (28.30%) Acceptance Criteria
6 30 (28.30%) Critical Thinking
6 30 (28.30%) Knowledge Transfer
6 30 (28.30%) Security Patching
6 30 (28.30%) Service Management
7 26 (24.53%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (20.75%) Computer Science
8 22 (20.75%) Roadmaps
9 21 (19.81%) Enterprise Architecture
10 18 (16.98%) Decision-Making
10 18 (16.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (16.04%) Identity Access Management
11 17 (16.04%) Security Operations
12 16 (15.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.72%) Java
2 3 (2.83%) Python
3 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
3 2 (1.89%) SQL
4 1 (0.94%) C#
4 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (54.72%) Degree
2 48 (45.28%) Security Cleared
3 43 (40.57%) SC Cleared
4 25 (23.58%) CISSP
5 20 (18.87%) AWS Certification
5 20 (18.87%) Azure Certification
6 14 (13.21%) CISM
6 14 (13.21%) Master's Degree
7 12 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (10.38%) PhD
9 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.89%) CCSP
11 2 (1.89%) CFA
11 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.94%) MySQL Certification
12 1 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) GDPR
2 7 (6.60%) NIST
3 5 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.83%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.89%) COBIT
5 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.94%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.94%) GRC
6 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.94%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.94%) MiFID
6 1 (0.94%) NCSC
6 1 (0.94%) PSD2
6 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (7.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (28.30%) OPNET
2 9 (8.49%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.60%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.83%) SCCM
5 2 (1.89%) Terraform
6 1 (0.94%) Ansible
6 1 (0.94%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (29.25%) ServiceNow
2 30 (28.30%) Atlassian
2 30 (28.30%) Remedy
3 18 (16.98%) Microsoft
4 11 (10.38%) BiZZdesign
5 10 (9.43%) CyberArk
6 8 (7.55%) Centrify
7 6 (5.66%) SAP
8 5 (4.72%) Cisco
9 4 (3.77%) Databricks
9 4 (3.77%) Fortinet
9 4 (3.77%) Tenable
9 4 (3.77%) VMware
10 3 (2.83%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.83%) Dell
10 3 (2.83%) Guidewire
10 3 (2.83%) OpenAI
10 3 (2.83%) Sparx
11 2 (1.89%) HP
11 2 (1.89%) Salesforce