TOGAF Contracts

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring TOGAF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TOGAF over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 282 272
Rank change year-on-year +36 -10 -14
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 320 364 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 0.83% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.97% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 271 391
10th Percentile £450 £500 £510
25th Percentile £513 £600 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £670 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +3.08% -
75th Percentile £716 £750 £744
90th Percentile £755 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 4
10th Percentile - £56.83 £38.25
25th Percentile £25.26 £57.33 £41.63
Median hourly rate £27.13 £67.50 £56.84
Median % change year-on-year -59.81% +18.76% -35.57%
75th Percentile £83.18 £75.92 £73.19
90th Percentile £91.47 £86.22 £78.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £57.44 £56.84
% change year-on-year -52.78% +1.06% -35.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

TOGAF falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

TOGAF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TOGAF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TOGAF.

Daily rate trend for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TOGAF over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TOGAF.

Hourly rate trend for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TOGAF over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for TOGAF in the UK

TOGAF
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOGAF within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +26 253 £620 -6.06% 202
UK excluding London +14 145 £600 -11.11% 117
London +33 133 £650 +0.78% 88
Work from Home +32 121 £579 -10.96% 108
South East +55 40 £630 -16.00% 42
North of England +10 29 £550 -17.91% 28
Midlands +29 26 £590 +7.18% 20
West Midlands +21 22 £600 -11.84% 17
North West -4 22 £550 -16.67% 21
Scotland -3 20 £625 -10.71% 5
South West +11 18 £600 -11.11% 15
Wales +14 11 £446 -14.02% 5
Yorkshire +13 5 £550 -29.03% 4
East Midlands +10 4 £402 -2.90% 3
East of England +24 2 £675 +4.01% 1
North East -1 2 £838 -6.63% 3

TOGAF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.44%) Confluence
2 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.63%) Apache
3 2 (0.63%) Camunda
4 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.31%) Smallworld
Applications
1 16 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 9 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.25%) Trello
4 3 (0.94%) Revit
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.56%) SAP MDG
2 5 (1.56%) SAP MDG-S
2 5 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.94%) Maximo
3 3 (0.94%) Primavera
4 2 (0.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.31%) Avolution ABACUS
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 125 (39.06%) Azure
2 104 (32.50%) AWS
3 45 (14.06%) GCP
4 42 (13.13%) SaaS
5 36 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (8.75%) PaaS
7 25 (7.81%) IaaS
8 20 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 16 (5.00%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.19%) Serverless
12 6 (1.88%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.25%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.25%) GitHub
14 4 (1.25%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.63%) Network Security
2 14 (4.38%) WAN
3 13 (4.06%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.75%) VSAN
5 11 (3.44%) DNS
5 11 (3.44%) NGFW
5 11 (3.44%) SD-WAN
5 11 (3.44%) VPN
6 9 (2.81%) BGP
6 9 (2.81%) MPLS
6 9 (2.81%) OSPF
7 8 (2.50%) Firewall
7 8 (2.50%) SSL
7 8 (2.50%) VLAN
8 5 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.25%) LAN
10 3 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.63%) DHCP
11 2 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.31%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.31%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.81%) Hadoop
2 9 (2.81%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.50%) Big Data
4 7 (2.19%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.19%) Power BI
4 7 (2.19%) SAP HANA
5 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.56%) Metadata
6 5 (1.56%) Tableau
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.63%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.63%) GIS
9 2 (0.63%) Impala
9 2 (0.63%) Looker
9 2 (0.63%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 11 (3.44%) JIRA
2 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.31%) ERwin
3 1 (0.31%) Mockito
3 1 (0.31%) Toad
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 84 (26.25%) Finance
3 39 (12.19%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.94%) Banking
6 16 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.44%) Legal
8 10 (3.13%) Retail
9 7 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.25%) Law
11 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.25%) Police
11 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.94%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 281 (87.81%) Architect
2 121 (37.81%) Solutions Architect
3 48 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 43 (13.44%) Technical Architect
5 35 (10.94%) Security Architect
6 31 (9.69%) Senior
6 31 (9.69%) Senior Architect
7 25 (7.81%) Cloud Architect
7 25 (7.81%) Integration Architect
8 23 (7.19%) Infrastructure Architect
9 18 (5.63%) TOGAF Architect
10 15 (4.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.69%) SAP Architect
11 12 (3.75%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.75%) Lead
11 12 (3.75%) SAP Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.75%) Senior Technical Architect
12 11 (3.44%) Technical Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.19%) Analyst
13 7 (2.19%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.00%) Middleware
2 14 (4.38%) .NET
3 10 (3.13%) Kafka
4 9 (2.81%) SAML
5 8 (2.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.94%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.94%) SAP PI
6 3 (0.94%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.94%) YAML
7 2 (0.63%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.63%) JMS
7 2 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.63%) OAuth
7 2 (0.63%) OpenID
7 2 (0.63%) OpenJDK
7 2 (0.63%) React
7 2 (0.63%) REST
7 2 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.63%) Spring
7 2 (0.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.81%) Public Cloud
2 21 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (6.56%) Management Information System
3 20 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 16 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.38%) PKI
6 12 (3.75%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.13%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.81%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.50%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.50%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.88%) NHS
10 6 (1.88%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.56%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.88%) Windows
2 13 (4.06%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 77 (24.06%) Enterprise Architecture
3 76 (23.75%) Agile
4 59 (18.44%) ITIL
4 59 (18.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (14.69%) IT Strategy
6 45 (14.06%) Migration
7 44 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (12.81%) CI/CD
8 41 (12.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 41 (12.81%) Zachman Framework
9 40 (12.50%) Microservices
10 38 (11.88%) DevOps
11 36 (11.25%) DevSecOps
12 35 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (10.63%) Technology Strategy
14 33 (10.31%) MODAF
15 29 (9.06%) Decision-Making
15 29 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (8.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.63%) Java
2 16 (5.00%) SQL
3 15 (4.69%) Python
4 8 (2.50%) C#
5 7 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.63%) Bicep
8 2 (0.63%) COBOL
8 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.63%) Scala
8 2 (0.63%) VB
9 1 (0.31%) Bash
9 1 (0.31%) Magik
Qualifications
1 78 (24.38%) Security Cleared
2 77 (24.06%) TOGAF Certification
3 52 (16.25%) SC Cleared
4 40 (12.50%) CISSP
5 38 (11.88%) Degree
6 30 (9.38%) Azure Certification
7 28 (8.75%) CISM
8 23 (7.19%) DV Cleared
9 20 (6.25%) AWS Certification
9 20 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (5.94%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (5.00%) MCSE
13 14 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (3.75%) CCNP
14 12 (3.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 10 (3.13%) Master's Degree
16 7 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (1.88%) CCSP
17 6 (1.88%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.50%) NIST
2 24 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (6.25%) GDPR
4 18 (5.63%) NCSC
5 13 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.81%) QA
7 8 (2.50%) GRC
7 8 (2.50%) SLA
8 6 (1.88%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.56%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (1.56%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.63%) COBIT
12 2 (0.63%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.63%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 33 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.38%) VMware NSX
4 11 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (4.38%) Terraform
2 7 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.94%) Ansible
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.94%) VxRail
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.19%) VMware
3 28 (8.75%) Cisco
4 24 (7.50%) SAP
5 18 (5.63%) Google
5 18 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.00%) Oracle
6 16 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.44%) BiZZdesign
8 10 (3.13%) Informatica
9 8 (2.50%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.50%) Qualys
10 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.88%) Ariba
11 6 (1.88%) Autodesk
11 6 (1.88%) Sparx
12 5 (1.56%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.25%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.25%) iManage
13 4 (1.25%) Juniper