Security Architecture Contracts in the East of England

Security Architecture
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 110 109
Rank change year-on-year +32 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 5 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.50% 0.26% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.31% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £485 £510
25th Percentile £763 £535 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £625 £800
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -21.88% +25.49%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £838
90th Percentile - £783 £850
England median daily rate £675 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
England median hourly rate £79.30 £87.46 £73.42
% change year-on-year -9.33% +19.13% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 897 1,628 1,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.88% 83.87% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 664 1,004
10th Percentile £225 £202 £206
25th Percentile £383 £315 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 614 326
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.93 £15.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £40.00 £21.65
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +84.76% +39.68%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.30 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% +4.17% +41.18%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the East of England

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in the East of England

Security Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architecture in the East of England

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Hertfordshire +25 4 £775 +24.00% 12
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 13
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Auditor
2 2 (40.00%) IT Auditor
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Auditor
2 2 (40.00%) Senior IT Auditor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) IT Audit
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (20.00%) GDPR
4 1 (20.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler