Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Security Architecture
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 60 67
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 6 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.83% 0.88% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.01% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £495 £663 -
25th Percentile £501 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - £788 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -25.00% -6.67% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 646 596 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.47% 87.13% 83.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 402 405
10th Percentile £221 £197 £286
25th Percentile £370 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.75 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.38 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) CircleCI
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Engineering Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Build Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Coaching
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Argo
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft