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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 284 288
Rank change year-on-year +46 +4 -27
Contract jobs citing TOGAF 322 328 524
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 0.77% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.89% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 242 358
10th Percentile £448 £500 £510
25th Percentile £513 £575 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £660 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £719 £750 £750
90th Percentile £771 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £670 £625
% change year-on-year -10.52% +7.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 2
10th Percentile - £56.91 £70.22
25th Percentile £25.26 £57.33 £70.42
Median hourly rate £27.13 £67.50 £73.44
Median % change year-on-year -59.81% -8.09% -11.37%
75th Percentile £46.74 £81.33 £79.06
90th Percentile £78.70 £86.89 £80.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £62.47 £73.44
% change year-on-year -56.58% -14.94% -16.75%

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 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +42 247 £618 -6.43% 266
UK excluding London +9 136 £600 -10.52% 187
London +33 135 £650 - 120
Work from Home +25 124 £575 -11.54% 142
South East +61 34 £625 -5.66% 78
North of England -1 29 £550 -17.91% 38
Midlands +22 27 £594 +8.05% 24
North West -9 22 £538 -19.17% 23
West Midlands +14 19 £600 -7.69% 18
Scotland +9 19 £600 -14.29% 19
South West +9 17 £600 -11.11% 23
Wales +11 11 £446 -14.02% 3
East Midlands +14 8 £465 +29.17% 5
Yorkshire +13 5 £550 -31.25% 8
East of England +17 2 £675 +3.05% 2
North East -2 2 £838 -6.63% 7

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 12 (3.73%) Confluence
2 3 (0.93%) ArcGIS
2 3 (0.93%) Camunda
2 3 (0.93%) Smallworld
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (6.21%) MS Visio
2 12 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.24%) Trello
4 3 (0.93%) Revit
4 3 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (4.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (1.24%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.24%) SAP MDG-S
4 3 (0.93%) Maximo
4 3 (0.93%) Primavera
5 2 (0.62%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.62%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.31%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 120 (37.27%) Azure
2 107 (33.23%) AWS
3 44 (13.66%) GCP
4 35 (10.87%) SaaS
5 32 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (6.83%) PaaS
7 19 (5.90%) IaaS
8 17 (5.28%) Entra ID
9 16 (4.97%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.86%) Serverless
12 5 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.24%) GitHub
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.93%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (0.93%) Boomi
14 3 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.93%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.28%) Network Security
2 14 (4.35%) WAN
3 13 (4.04%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.42%) DNS
4 11 (3.42%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.42%) VPN
5 10 (3.11%) MPLS
5 10 (3.11%) NGFW
6 9 (2.80%) BGP
6 9 (2.80%) OSPF
7 8 (2.48%) Firewall
7 8 (2.48%) VLAN
8 7 (2.17%) SSL
9 5 (1.55%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.55%) VSAN
10 4 (1.24%) LAN
11 3 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.62%) 4G
12 2 (0.62%) GPON
12 2 (0.62%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.11%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.80%) SAP HANA
4 8 (2.48%) Big Data
4 8 (2.48%) Hadoop
4 8 (2.48%) Power BI
5 7 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.86%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.86%) GIS
7 5 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.55%) Metadata
8 4 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.24%) Tableau
9 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.93%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.62%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (3.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.62%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.31%) ERwin
3 1 (0.31%) Mockito
3 1 (0.31%) Toad
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (31.99%) Social Skills
2 92 (28.57%) Finance
3 35 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.45%) Banking
6 21 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.35%) Retail
8 12 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.73%) Legal
9 8 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.55%) Police
12 4 (1.24%) Back Office
12 4 (1.24%) French Language
12 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.24%) Law
12 4 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 285 (88.51%) Architect
2 133 (41.30%) Solutions Architect
3 49 (15.22%) Enterprise Architect
4 39 (12.11%) Technical Architect
5 35 (10.87%) Security Architect
6 27 (8.39%) Integration Architect
7 26 (8.07%) Senior
7 26 (8.07%) Senior Architect
8 25 (7.76%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (6.52%) Infrastructure Architect
9 21 (6.52%) TOGAF Architect
10 19 (5.90%) SAP Architect
11 16 (4.97%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 15 (4.66%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 15 (4.66%) Technical Solutions Architect
13 13 (4.04%) Data Architect
14 12 (3.73%) Lead
15 7 (2.17%) Azure Architect
15 7 (2.17%) Security Solutions Architect
16 6 (1.86%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.90%) Middleware
2 13 (4.04%) .NET
3 12 (3.73%) Kafka
4 8 (2.48%) .NET Framework
4 8 (2.48%) SAML
5 5 (1.55%) SAP PI
6 4 (1.24%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.24%) REST
7 3 (0.93%) SOAP
7 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.93%) YAML
8 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.62%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (0.62%) OAuth
8 2 (0.62%) OpenID
8 2 (0.62%) OpenJDK
8 2 (0.62%) PostGIS
8 2 (0.62%) React
8 2 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.62%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.07%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.52%) Public Cloud
4 16 (4.97%) Data Centre
5 15 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.73%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.11%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.48%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.48%) PKI
9 8 (2.48%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.17%) Low-Code
10 7 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.86%) NHS
12 5 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.24%) EPoS
13 4 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.90%) Windows
2 12 (3.73%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (31.68%) Roadmaps
2 81 (25.16%) Enterprise Architecture
3 76 (23.60%) Agile
4 62 (19.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 53 (16.46%) ITIL
6 52 (16.15%) Migration
7 49 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 43 (13.35%) IT Strategy
10 40 (12.42%) MODAF
11 39 (12.11%) DevOps
12 34 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
12 34 (10.56%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (10.25%) Decision-Making
14 32 (9.94%) Microservices
14 32 (9.94%) Zachman Framework
15 30 (9.32%) CI/CD
15 30 (9.32%) Technology Strategy
16 29 (9.01%) ArchiMate
16 29 (9.01%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.59%) Java
2 16 (4.97%) SQL
3 14 (4.35%) Python
4 8 (2.48%) C#
5 7 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.55%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.93%) Magik
7 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.62%) Bicep
8 2 (0.62%) COBOL
8 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.62%) VB
9 1 (0.31%) Bash
9 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (22.67%) TOGAF Certification
2 67 (20.81%) Security Cleared
3 42 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 41 (12.73%) CISSP
4 41 (12.73%) Degree
5 30 (9.32%) Azure Certification
6 28 (8.70%) CISM
7 21 (6.52%) AWS Certification
8 18 (5.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (5.59%) DV Cleared
9 15 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (4.04%) Master's Degree
11 11 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.80%) CCNP
13 7 (2.17%) MCSE
13 7 (2.17%) SAP Certification
14 6 (1.86%) CCSP
14 6 (1.86%) GCIH
14 6 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.32%) NIST
2 23 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (6.21%) GDPR
4 10 (3.11%) QA
5 9 (2.80%) NCSC
6 8 (2.48%) GRC
6 8 (2.48%) SLA
7 7 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.55%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (1.24%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.62%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.31%) OASIS TOSCA
12 1 (0.31%) PMO
12 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.66%) Terraform
2 8 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (1.55%) Ansible
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.93%) VxRail
5 1 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.39%) SAP
3 25 (7.76%) VMware
4 22 (6.83%) Cisco
4 22 (6.83%) Oracle
5 17 (5.28%) Google
5 17 (5.28%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.42%) BiZZdesign
7 10 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.80%) Informatica
8 9 (2.80%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.48%) Qualys
10 6 (1.86%) Ariba
10 6 (1.86%) Autodesk
10 6 (1.86%) Sparx
11 5 (1.55%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.55%) ESRI
12 4 (1.24%) iManage
12 4 (1.24%) Juniper