Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in East London

Security Architecture
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 21 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 3 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in East London 3.13% 1.63% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 1.80% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile £545 - £616
25th Percentile £594 £725 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £770
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.60% +2.67%
75th Percentile £695 £775 -
90th Percentile £707 - -
London median daily rate £625 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -10.71% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East London

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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 111 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 84.38% 90.24% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 89 203
10th Percentile £416 £278 £353
25th Percentile £450 £400 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -6.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £652 £600 £650
90th Percentile £717 £664 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 15
10th Percentile £23.51 £14.66 £11.95
25th Percentile £29.99 £24.66 £13.07
Median hourly rate £44.75 £28.60 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year +56.46% +22.64% +3.71%
75th Percentile £68.04 £37.00 £31.07
90th Percentile £91.50 £38.80 £38.28
London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in East London

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in East London over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in East London

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 2 £695 - 1
Docklands, London -1 1 £525 -30.00%
Security Architecture
London

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (33.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithmics
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Temenos
1 1 (33.33%) Wolters Kluwer