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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 465 496
Rank change year-on-year -25 +31 +169
Contract jobs citing TOGAF Certification 87 93 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.72% 0.86% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 57 70
10th Percentile £410 £452 £481
25th Percentile £492 £567 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year - +9.24% -8.46%
75th Percentile £738 £756 £700
90th Percentile £743 £820 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £713 £585 £534
% change year-on-year +21.79% +9.55% -16.27%
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 12,030 10,800 13,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 29.44% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,752 6,504 8,446
10th Percentile £305 £310 £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 £723 £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 1,029 532 758
10th Percentile £17.59 £18.73 £17.74
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £53.68
Median % change year-on-year -41.43% -20.01% +19.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £67.01 £68.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.77% -10.01% +19.32%

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 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 27 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 -8 84 £650 - 34
UK excluding London -24 63 £713 +21.79% 31
South West +9 23 £725 -1.69% 2
London -12 22 £492 -24.31% 8
Work from Home -13 19 £490 -15.93% 14
South East -1 17 £480 -22.58% 15
North of England -31 16 £537 -5.29% 8
Yorkshire -31 13 £537 -5.29% 2
Midlands -33 4 £525 - 2
North West -23 2 £639 +63.78% 5
West Midlands -38 2 £625 +19.05% 1
East Midlands - 2 £465 - 1
Scotland -2 1 £575 -17.86% 3
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 31 (35.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft Office
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.08%) AWS
1 34 (39.08%) Azure
2 11 (12.64%) GCP
3 6 (6.90%) SaaS
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.45%) IaaS
6 3 (3.45%) PaaS
7 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.15%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.15%) Boomi
8 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) Kerberos
2 4 (4.60%) Firewall
3 3 (3.45%) Network Security
4 2 (2.30%) S/MIME
4 2 (2.30%) SAN
4 2 (2.30%) SSL
4 2 (2.30%) WAN
5 1 (1.15%) DNS
5 1 (1.15%) Internet
5 1 (1.15%) LAN
5 1 (1.15%) NGN
5 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.15%) VLAN
5 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Metadata
2 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.15%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.15%) EDMS
2 1 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.15%) GIS
2 1 (1.15%) MySQL
2 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.15%) OLAP
2 1 (1.15%) OLTP
2 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (35.63%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) ERwin
3 1 (1.15%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 52 (59.77%) Social Skills
2 31 (35.63%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (26.44%) Military
4 20 (22.99%) Finance
5 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.60%) Banking
7 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.45%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Marketing
9 2 (2.30%) Retail
10 1 (1.15%) Aviation
10 1 (1.15%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Electronics
10 1 (1.15%) Legal
10 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (89.66%) Architect
2 30 (34.48%) Solutions Architect
3 21 (24.14%) Service Architect
4 14 (16.09%) Security Architect
5 8 (9.20%) Lead
5 8 (9.20%) Lead Architect
5 8 (9.20%) Security Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.05%) Enterprise Architect
6 7 (8.05%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.90%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Lead Security Architect
10 3 (3.45%) Design Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Head of Architecture
10 3 (3.45%) Payments Architect
10 3 (3.45%) Payments Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Architect
11 2 (2.30%) Backup Administrator
11 2 (2.30%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) OAuth
2 8 (9.20%) SAML
3 3 (3.45%) Middleware
3 3 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.30%) .NET
4 2 (2.30%) OpenID
5 1 (1.15%) FHIR
5 1 (1.15%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.15%) JWT
5 1 (1.15%) Kafka
5 1 (1.15%) LDAP
5 1 (1.15%) RAML
5 1 (1.15%) RESTful
5 1 (1.15%) SOAP
5 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 21 (24.14%) Product Ownership
3 10 (11.49%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.30%) HP Storage
6 2 (2.30%) NHS
6 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.15%) Clustering
7 1 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.15%) IoT
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 38 (43.68%) Agile
3 27 (31.03%) ITIL
4 26 (29.89%) Analytical Thinking
4 26 (29.89%) Service Design
5 24 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (24.14%) Acceptance Criteria
6 21 (24.14%) Business Continuity
6 21 (24.14%) Critical Thinking
6 21 (24.14%) Knowledge Transfer
6 21 (24.14%) Security Patching
6 21 (24.14%) Service Management
7 20 (22.99%) Roadmaps
8 18 (20.69%) Computer Science
8 18 (20.69%) Enterprise Architecture
9 17 (19.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (18.39%) Identity Access Management
10 16 (18.39%) SABSA
11 15 (17.24%) Security Operations
11 15 (17.24%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.60%) Java
2 2 (2.30%) Python
2 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (49.43%) Degree
2 38 (43.68%) Security Cleared
3 33 (37.93%) SC Cleared
4 24 (27.59%) CISSP
5 22 (25.29%) AWS Certification
6 16 (18.39%) Azure Certification
7 14 (16.09%) CISM
8 13 (14.94%) Master's Degree
9 10 (11.49%) PhD
10 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (2.30%) CCSP
13 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
14 1 (1.15%) CCIE
14 1 (1.15%) CCNP
14 1 (1.15%) ISEB
14 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) GDPR
2 7 (8.05%) NIST
3 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.45%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.15%) COBIT
6 1 (1.15%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.15%) GRC
6 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.15%) MiFID
6 1 (1.15%) NCSC
6 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (24.14%) OPNET
2 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.05%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) ServiceNow
2 21 (24.14%) Atlassian
2 21 (24.14%) Remedy
3 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
4 10 (11.49%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (10.34%) CyberArk
6 7 (8.05%) Centrify
7 5 (5.75%) Cisco
8 4 (4.60%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.60%) VMware
9 3 (3.45%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.45%) Databricks
9 3 (3.45%) Dell
9 3 (3.45%) Guidewire
9 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
9 3 (3.45%) Sparx
9 3 (3.45%) Tenable
10 2 (2.30%) 3PAR
10 2 (2.30%) MuleSoft
10 2 (2.30%) Nimble Storage