Enterprise Architecture Job Trends

Enterprise Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Enterprise Architecture skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 294 299
Rank change year-on-year +77 +5 -171
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 1,028 464 647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.87% 0.94% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.05% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 567 243 244
10th Percentile £61,565 £62,500 £51,150
25th Percentile £70,250 £67,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £74,271
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +7.71% -1.70%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £95,313
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,526 44,119 60,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.04% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59,327 24,381 32,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Enterprise Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Enterprise Architecture relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Architecture job vacancy trend in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Architecture.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Architecture over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 702 £85,000 +6.25% 943
UK excluding London +42 589 £80,000 +6.67% 437
Work from Home +129 451 £87,500 +16.67% 424
London +40 313 £100,000 +11.11% 554
Northern Ireland +21 189 - - 14
North of England -37 114 £75,000 - 111
South East -30 100 £85,000 - 140
Midlands -18 82 £80,000 +6.67% 65
North West -24 64 £75,000 - 55
West Midlands +1 60 £77,500 +3.33% 44
South West -34 56 £81,250 -4.41% 35
North East -43 26 £89,250 +11.56% 7
Yorkshire -35 24 £86,616 +15.49% 49
East Midlands -26 22 £80,000 +25.98% 21
Wales -47 22 £85,000 +13.33% 3
Scotland -10 15 £100,000 +33.33% 40
East of England -29 12 £87,250 +74.50% 31

Enterprise Architecture
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 11 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 6 (0.58%) Confluence
3 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.39%) CMS
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.19%) Appian
6 2 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.097%) Apache
7 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.097%) JBoss
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.29%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.097%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.097%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.29%) SAP HR
3 3 (0.29%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.29%) SAP PP
3 3 (0.29%) SAP WM
3 3 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.19%) Primavera
4 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.19%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.19%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.097%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.097%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 376 (36.58%) Azure
2 210 (20.43%) AWS
3 156 (15.18%) SaaS
4 82 (7.98%) Power Platform
5 73 (7.10%) GCP
6 56 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 38 (3.70%) PaaS
8 35 (3.40%) IaaS
9 30 (2.92%) Serverless
10 25 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
11 24 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (2.14%) GitHub
14 19 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.75%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
17 16 (1.56%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.77%) WAN
2 39 (3.79%) LAN
3 34 (3.31%) Network Security
4 26 (2.53%) VPN
5 23 (2.24%) Firewall
6 18 (1.75%) SD-WAN
7 13 (1.26%) DNS
8 11 (1.07%) Wireless
9 10 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (0.97%) Cisco Wireless
9 10 (0.97%) SSL
10 5 (0.49%) BIG-IP
10 5 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (0.49%) NGFW
10 5 (0.49%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.39%) Internet
12 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.02%) Metadata
2 18 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 17 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 16 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.26%) Power BI
6 12 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.49%) Tableau
10 4 (0.39%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.29%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.29%) Looker
11 3 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (0.19%) Big Data
12 2 (0.19%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.19%) GIS
13 1 (0.097%) Data Mart
13 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.36%) Git
2 12 (1.17%) JIRA
3 9 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.58%) GitLab
5 4 (0.39%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.29%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.29%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.29%) ERwin
6 3 (0.29%) Gatling
6 3 (0.29%) HP UFT
6 3 (0.29%) JMeter
6 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.29%) Postman
6 3 (0.29%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.29%) Selenium
6 3 (0.29%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.19%) MLflow
General
1 347 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 252 (24.51%) Finance
3 156 (15.18%) Legal
4 145 (14.11%) Law
5 115 (11.19%) Influencing Skills
6 103 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
7 88 (8.56%) Public Sector
8 68 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (4.18%) Retail
11 31 (3.02%) Legal Technology
12 29 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.53%) Banking
14 23 (2.24%) Marketing
15 17 (1.65%) Aerospace
16 16 (1.56%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.88%) Billing
17 9 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.78%) Local Government
19 7 (0.68%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 607 (59.05%) Architect
2 206 (20.04%) Senior
3 201 (19.55%) Enterprise Architect
4 146 (14.20%) Solutions Architect
5 121 (11.77%) Lead
6 79 (7.68%) Lead Architect
7 75 (7.30%) Developer
8 71 (6.91%) Senior Manager
9 66 (6.42%) Senior Developer
10 55 (5.35%) Testing Manager
11 53 (5.16%) Technical Architect
12 51 (4.96%) Senior Architect
13 50 (4.86%) IT Manager
14 49 (4.77%) Security Architect
15 48 (4.67%) IT Services Manager
15 48 (4.67%) Resilience Manager
15 48 (4.67%) Service Manager
16 46 (4.47%) Systems Architect
17 45 (4.38%) Lead Enterprise Architect
18 38 (3.70%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (9.14%) .NET
2 88 (8.56%) Middleware
3 52 (5.06%) REST
4 50 (4.86%) Terraform
5 35 (3.40%) SOAP
6 24 (2.33%) Kafka
7 16 (1.56%) ARM Templates
7 16 (1.56%) OAuth
8 15 (1.46%) JSON
8 15 (1.46%) XML
9 14 (1.36%) React
10 13 (1.26%) RESTful
11 11 (1.07%) JWT
11 11 (1.07%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.07%) Spring
12 10 (0.97%) FastAPI
13 9 (0.88%) .NET Core
13 9 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (0.68%) LangChain
14 7 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 99 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.03%) Virtual Team
3 53 (5.16%) Cyber Threat
4 48 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 35 (3.40%) Data Centre
8 32 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 25 (2.43%) Security Posture
12 21 (2.04%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.85%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.75%) PKI
15 16 (1.56%) Low-Code
16 11 (1.07%) IoT
16 11 (1.07%) Life Science
16 11 (1.07%) Private Cloud
17 10 (0.97%) Blog
17 10 (0.97%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.36%) Windows
2 11 (1.07%) Linux
3 3 (0.29%) Kali Linux
3 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.19%) Android
4 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (41.93%) Roadmaps
2 306 (29.77%) Agile
3 265 (25.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 265 (25.78%) Technology Strategy
4 255 (24.81%) DevOps
5 252 (24.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 251 (24.42%) IT Strategy
7 236 (22.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 212 (20.62%) TOGAF
9 196 (19.07%) Business Strategy
10 189 (18.39%) AI
11 185 (18.00%) CI/CD
12 178 (17.32%) Information Security
13 173 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
14 172 (16.73%) Microservices
15 170 (16.54%) Mentoring
16 164 (15.95%) Technical Leadership
17 159 (15.47%) Project Delivery
18 156 (15.18%) Software Engineering
19 146 (14.20%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 144 (14.01%) Python
2 142 (13.81%) C#
3 78 (7.59%) JavaScript
4 71 (6.91%) TypeScript
5 67 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 40 (3.89%) Java
7 31 (3.02%) SQL
8 23 (2.24%) Bicep
9 6 (0.58%) Go
10 4 (0.39%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.39%) C++
10 4 (0.39%) R
11 3 (0.29%) Ruby
12 2 (0.19%) ABAP
12 2 (0.19%) SOQL
12 2 (0.19%) SOSL
13 1 (0.097%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.097%) XPath
Qualifications
1 123 (11.96%) Degree
2 121 (11.77%) Security Cleared
3 87 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 75 (7.30%) CISSP
5 58 (5.64%) TOGAF Certification
6 53 (5.16%) CISM
7 51 (4.96%) ITIL Certification
8 42 (4.09%) AWS Certification
9 37 (3.60%) Azure Certification
10 34 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (2.92%) DV Cleared
12 24 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (1.46%) CCNP
15 15 (1.46%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.88%) CCSP
17 7 (0.68%) CSPO
18 6 (0.58%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (12.84%) QA
2 94 (9.14%) NIST
3 48 (4.67%) GRC
3 48 (4.67%) ISO 22301
4 36 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.21%) GDPR
6 29 (2.82%) Data Quality
7 22 (2.14%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.65%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (1.17%) NCSC
11 11 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.78%) COBIT
13 8 (0.78%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.68%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.58%) PMO
16 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 49 (4.77%) Docker
2 12 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.29%) KVM
4 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.097%) HDFS
5 1 (0.097%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.46%) Ansible
3 11 (1.07%) Grafana
4 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.29%) Argo
5 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.097%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.097%) Control-M
Vendors
1 183 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.84%) SAP
3 43 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.40%) Oracle
5 27 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.43%) Google
7 23 (2.24%) MuleSoft
8 18 (1.75%) Databricks
9 16 (1.56%) Cisco
10 15 (1.46%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.46%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.46%) Splunk
11 14 (1.36%) VMware
12 12 (1.17%) Guidewire
13 11 (1.07%) Adobe
13 11 (1.07%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.97%) Arista
14 10 (0.97%) Infoblox
14 10 (0.97%) SevOne
14 10 (0.97%) SolarWinds