Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Security Architecture
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 80 100
Rank change year-on-year -17 +20 +15
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 8 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.44% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.52% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £235 - -
25th Percentile £446 £663 £649
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +11.54% -15.58%
75th Percentile £875 £788 £675
90th Percentile - - £810
England median daily rate £625 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -5.70% +1.96% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £73.31 £81.08
% change year-on-year -23.61% -9.58% +11.83%

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 1,350 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 184 359
10th Percentile £14.15 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in the East of England

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in the East of England

Security Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Security Architecture

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 19 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
Cambridgeshire - 6 £850 - 8
Bedfordshire - 2 £95 - 5
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Security Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Process Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) eBPF
1 1 (12.50%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
1 5 (62.50%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) SOAR
3 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE Security
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) GIAC
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CCSP
3 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
1 2 (25.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Clearswift
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow