Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Security Architecture
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands 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 74 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.83% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £436 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% - -
England median daily rate £625 £651 £650
% change year-on-year -3.92% +0.08% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 727 522 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.85% 86.14% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 319 428
10th Percentile £188 £258 £213
25th Percentile £355 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -8.32% +1.06%
75th Percentile £525 £548 £578
90th Percentile £625 £627 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 24 47
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.67 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +4.58% +27.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £26.92 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.40 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Leicestershire -12 1 £400 -8.15% 1
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect