Security Architecture Contracts in Berkshire

Security Architecture
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 81 86
Rank change year-on-year +28 +5 +42
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 40 36 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.27% 1.89% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 2.19% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 20
10th Percentile £524 £458 £519
25th Percentile £568 £481 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -1.64% -18.67%
75th Percentile £666 £608 £688
90th Percentile £688 £629 £703
South East median daily rate £638 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 4
10th Percentile £60.75 - -
25th Percentile £77.06 £81.88 £71.20
Median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £72.62
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +20.44% -
75th Percentile £88.87 £87.53 £74.06
90th Percentile £89.96 - £74.18
South East median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £72.40
% change year-on-year -0.48% +20.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Security Architecture 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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,126 1,644 1,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.14% 86.44% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 836 1,045
10th Percentile £325 £303 £330
25th Percentile £413 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £515
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 96 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.50 £18.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.19 £24.50
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.53 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% +0.88% +166.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.89 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.40 £87.46 £76.20
South East median hourly rate £21.99 £54.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.75% +9.24% +122.22%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in Berkshire

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in Berkshire

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in Berkshire

Security Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architecture in Berkshire

Security Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architecture in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architecture in Berkshire

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Reading +35 20 £625 -3.85% 7
Wokingham -16 3 £550 +2.33% 1
Security Architecture
South East

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (2.50%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 10 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (7.50%) VPN
4 2 (5.00%) Network Security
5 1 (2.50%) BGP
5 1 (2.50%) DNS
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) MLflow
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Military
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Automotive
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Senior
2 13 (32.50%) Architect
2 13 (32.50%) Security Architect
3 10 (25.00%) Lead
4 7 (17.50%) Security Advisor
5 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Information Security Specialist
5 5 (12.50%) Information Specialist
5 5 (12.50%) Security Specialist
6 4 (10.00%) Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) Security Consultant
6 4 (10.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Security Specialist
8 2 (5.00%) Information Security Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Information Security Risk Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Risk Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Information Security Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (20.00%) JBoss Seam
3 5 (12.50%) PyTorch
3 5 (12.50%) TensorFlow
4 4 (10.00%) Google JAX
4 4 (10.00%) JAX
4 4 (10.00%) scikit-learn
4 4 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.00%) CESG
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.50%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 24 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 19 (47.50%) Risk Assessment
3 18 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 15 (37.50%) Information Security
6 13 (32.50%) DevOps
6 13 (32.50%) Information Assurance
7 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
9 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 5 (12.50%) Validation
10 4 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (10.00%) Data Science
10 4 (10.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) C++
2 4 (10.00%) Java
2 4 (10.00%) R
3 3 (7.50%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 12 (30.00%) CISSP
4 8 (20.00%) CISM
5 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.50%) Degree
7 2 (5.00%) CEH
8 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.50%) CCNA
8 1 (2.50%) CCNP
8 1 (2.50%) CCSK
8 1 (2.50%) CCSP
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.50%) GIAC
8 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) NCSC
2 9 (22.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (17.50%) NIST
4 5 (12.50%) EU AI Act
4 5 (12.50%) GDPR
5 1 (2.50%) GRC
5 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.50%) RMADS
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) CASB
2 1 (2.50%) Kubeflow
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Darktrace
2 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (2.50%) Forcepoint
2 1 (2.50%) Google
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Splunk