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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 349 261
Rank change year-on-year +110 -88 +21
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 545 414 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.77% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.85% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 294 204 488
10th Percentile £65,113 £51,650 £56,175
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £64,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +0.46% -8.99%
75th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £117,500 £114,250 £119,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year - -5.82% -0.46%

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 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Architecture in the UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 16 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 11 January 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 +143 500 £85,000 +6.25% 151
UK excluding London +110 321 £75,000 - 133
London +73 197 £95,000 +5.56% 40
Work from Home +98 152 £77,500 -3.13% 119
North of England +71 108 £75,000 +8.23% 27
South East +61 70 £75,000 -6.25% 49
Midlands +50 70 £85,000 +6.32% 18
North West +43 58 £70,000 +10.63% 17
Yorkshire +20 48 £75,000 -18.76% 8
West Midlands +45 45 £82,500 +3.19% 13
Scotland -18 30 - - 6
East of England +33 27 £97,500 +30.00% 19
East Midlands +9 23 £85,000 +26.16% 5
South West -1 19 £80,000 +18.52% 10
North East +7 2 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Wales -2 2 £73,925 +10.65% 7

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 22 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.83%) Confluence
4 5 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) Appian
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.37%) HCL Notes
6 2 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.57%) Oracle Smart View
2 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (2.57%) Hyperion Planning
2 14 (2.57%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (2.57%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (2.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (2.57%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (2.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.55%) Shopify
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.37%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.18%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 268 (49.17%) Azure
2 170 (31.19%) AWS
3 52 (9.54%) GCP
4 42 (7.71%) SaaS
5 40 (7.34%) Serverless
6 37 (6.79%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (6.61%) Power Platform
8 35 (6.42%) PaaS
9 27 (4.95%) Entra ID
10 23 (4.22%) IaaS
11 22 (4.04%) Amazon SageMaker
11 22 (4.04%) Azure AI
11 22 (4.04%) Vertex AI
12 16 (2.94%) OCI
13 15 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (2.20%) Azure AKS
17 11 (2.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.92%) SAN
1 5 (0.92%) VPN
2 4 (0.73%) Firewall
2 4 (0.73%) WAN
3 3 (0.55%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.37%) VLAN
5 1 (0.18%) Broadband
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.18%) LAN
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) Wireless
5 1 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 14 (2.57%) Essbase
4 11 (2.02%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.02%) Power BI
5 5 (0.92%) Big Data
5 5 (0.92%) Metadata
6 3 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.37%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.37%) MySQL
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (2.57%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (2.20%) JIRA
3 8 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.55%) Git
4 3 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.37%) ERwin
5 2 (0.37%) GitLab
5 2 (0.37%) JMeter
5 2 (0.37%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.37%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.18%) MLflow
General
1 230 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 202 (37.06%) Finance
3 63 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (10.46%) Retail
5 51 (9.36%) Pharmaceutical
6 48 (8.81%) Public Sector
7 46 (8.44%) Banking
8 42 (7.71%) Law
9 41 (7.52%) Legal
10 33 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (5.87%) Marketing
12 25 (4.59%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (2.20%) Publishing
15 11 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.73%) Military
18 3 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 321 (58.90%) Architect
2 131 (24.04%) Lead
3 111 (20.37%) Enterprise Architect
4 109 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 68 (12.48%) Senior
6 40 (7.34%) Lead Architect
7 34 (6.24%) Security Architect
7 34 (6.24%) Technical Architect
8 33 (6.06%) Enterprise Security Architect
9 29 (5.32%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 28 (5.14%) Enterprise Information Architect
10 28 (5.14%) Information Architect
10 28 (5.14%) Information Security Architect
11 27 (4.95%) Senior Architect
12 23 (4.22%) Azure Architect
13 20 (3.67%) AWS Architect
14 18 (3.30%) Data Architect
15 17 (3.12%) Analyst
16 15 (2.75%) Applications Architect
16 15 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.49%) Middleware
2 17 (3.12%) React
3 15 (2.75%) REST
4 10 (1.83%) .NET
4 10 (1.83%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.28%) Vue
6 5 (0.92%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.92%) Kafka
6 5 (0.92%) SOAP
7 4 (0.73%) LangChain
7 4 (0.73%) Node.js
7 4 (0.73%) Web Services
8 3 (0.55%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.55%) GraphQL
8 3 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.55%) OpenID
8 3 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.55%) RESTful
8 3 (0.55%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.55%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.38%) Enterprise Software
2 60 (11.01%) Life Science
3 52 (9.54%) Management Information System
4 49 (8.99%) Cloud Native
5 43 (7.89%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.85%) Pharmacovigilance
7 15 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.39%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.39%) Operational Technology
9 12 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.10%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
14 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
14 4 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.39%) Windows
2 8 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.92%) Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (43.30%) Roadmaps
2 192 (35.23%) TOGAF
3 146 (26.79%) Agile
4 132 (24.22%) AI
5 113 (20.73%) Computer Science
6 111 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 100 (18.35%) Analytics
8 91 (16.70%) Machine Learning
9 89 (16.33%) IT Strategy
10 88 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (15.78%) Microservices
11 86 (15.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 81 (14.86%) Architectural Patterns
13 79 (14.50%) Mentoring
14 78 (14.31%) Business Strategy
15 77 (14.13%) DevOps
16 76 (13.94%) ERP
17 73 (13.39%) Technology Roadmap
18 70 (12.84%) Technology Strategy
19 66 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.07%) SQL
2 40 (7.34%) C#
2 40 (7.34%) Python
3 39 (7.16%) JavaScript
4 37 (6.79%) Java
5 26 (4.77%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.57%) Groovy
7 8 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.37%) Bicep
9 2 (0.37%) C++
9 2 (0.37%) SOQL
9 2 (0.37%) SOSL
9 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Go
10 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 180 (33.03%) Degree
2 88 (16.15%) TOGAF Certification
3 70 (12.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (11.93%) Master's Degree
5 56 (10.28%) Security Cleared
6 52 (9.54%) SC Cleared
7 45 (8.26%) AWS Certification
7 45 (8.26%) Azure Certification
8 44 (8.07%) CISSP
9 42 (7.71%) CISM
10 39 (7.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 30 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (5.32%) PhD
13 28 (5.14%) DBS Check
14 23 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (2.20%) DV Cleared
16 6 (1.10%) MBA
17 4 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.16%) GxP
2 34 (6.24%) GDPR
3 30 (5.50%) GRC
4 24 (4.40%) EU AI Act
5 22 (4.04%) HIPAA
6 21 (3.85%) PSD2
6 21 (3.85%) Solvency II
7 19 (3.49%) NIST
8 13 (2.39%) QA
9 10 (1.83%) SLA
10 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 7 (1.28%) Data Quality
11 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.92%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.92%) PMO
13 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.55%) NCSC
13 3 (0.55%) RMADS
14 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.12%) Docker
2 17 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.73%) vSphere
5 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 25 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.04%) Terraform
3 13 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.92%) Ansible
5 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) MOM
6 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 133 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.17%) Oracle
3 39 (7.16%) SAP
4 33 (6.06%) Google
5 28 (5.14%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.30%) MuleSoft
6 18 (3.30%) Workday
7 17 (3.12%) VMware
8 14 (2.57%) Hyperion
9 12 (2.20%) Informatica
10 10 (1.83%) Siemens
11 9 (1.65%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (1.65%) Databricks
12 7 (1.28%) Adobe
12 7 (1.28%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.10%) Sparx
14 5 (0.92%) Dell
15 4 (0.73%) Ariba
15 4 (0.73%) Fortinet
15 4 (0.73%) Veeam