Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 260 231
Rank change year-on-year +45 -29 +27
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 516 252 385
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 0.98% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.08% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 156 246
10th Percentile £463 £525 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £800
90th Percentile £825 £815 £850
UK median daily rate £622 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.93% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 16
10th Percentile £82.23 £57.82 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £87.04 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -0.48% +19.13%
75th Percentile - £89.78 £87.53
90th Percentile £103.63 £99.25 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £87.04 £87.46
% change year-on-year -3.49% -0.48% +20.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in England

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Security Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
London +34 259 £625 -7.41% 95
North of England -8 88 £650 -3.13% 25
South East -54 66 £643 -1.15% 51
North West +7 61 £621 -11.29% 18
Midlands -33 38 £550 -31.25% 10
South West -13 30 £575 -14.81% 15
West Midlands -33 30 £590 -26.25% 5
Yorkshire -26 26 £675 +22.73% 7
East of England -15 8 £710 - 7
East Midlands -8 6 £442 - 5
North East -34 2 - -
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 14 (2.71%) Confluence
2 7 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.58%) Camunda
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Appian
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 229 (44.38%) Azure
2 186 (36.05%) AWS
3 83 (16.09%) GCP
4 71 (13.76%) Entra ID
5 29 (5.62%) SaaS
6 26 (5.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.68%) IaaS
8 19 (3.68%) PaaS
9 17 (3.29%) Serverless
10 15 (2.91%) GitHub
11 13 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (1.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.55%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.55%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.36%) AWS Control Tower
15 7 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 103 (19.96%) Network Security
2 71 (13.76%) Firewall
3 21 (4.07%) VPN
4 17 (3.29%) WAN
5 16 (3.10%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.52%) DHCP
7 12 (2.33%) DNS
8 11 (2.13%) IPsec
8 11 (2.13%) NGFW
9 9 (1.74%) Internet
9 9 (1.74%) LAN
10 8 (1.55%) BGP
11 7 (1.36%) OSPF
11 7 (1.36%) SSL
12 6 (1.16%) HTTPS
12 6 (1.16%) Wireless
13 5 (0.97%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.36%) Power BI
2 6 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.16%) Metadata
3 5 (0.97%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.78%) SAP BW
4 4 (0.78%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.58%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.39%) Big Data
6 2 (0.39%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.39%) MySQL
6 2 (0.39%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.10%) JIRA
2 9 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.36%) GitLab
4 6 (1.16%) Snyk
5 5 (0.97%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.78%) Git
7 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) ERwin
8 1 (0.19%) Hudson
8 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 125 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 113 (21.90%) Finance
3 68 (13.18%) Public Sector
4 30 (5.81%) Banking
5 26 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.71%) Military
8 13 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.52%) Legal
9 12 (2.33%) Aerospace
9 12 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.55%) Retail
12 7 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.97%) Aviation
13 5 (0.97%) Law
13 5 (0.97%) Local Government
14 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 311 (60.27%) Architect
2 225 (43.60%) Security Architect
3 67 (12.98%) Security Engineer
4 43 (8.33%) Lead
4 43 (8.33%) Senior
5 39 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 26 (5.04%) Consultant
8 25 (4.84%) Technical Architect
9 24 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (3.49%) Senior Security Engineer
11 17 (3.29%) Security Consultant
11 17 (3.29%) Security Specialist
12 16 (3.10%) Network Architect
12 16 (3.10%) Senior Architect
13 15 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (2.91%) Lead Architect
14 14 (2.71%) Enterprise Security Architect
15 13 (2.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 13 (2.52%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.88%) OAuth
2 16 (3.10%) OpenID
3 15 (2.91%) OAuth2
4 14 (2.71%) SAML
5 13 (2.52%) SailPoint
6 12 (2.33%) REST
7 11 (2.13%) 802.1X
8 8 (1.55%) LangChain
8 8 (1.55%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.55%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.16%) LDAP
9 6 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.97%) .NET
11 4 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (0.78%) J2EE
11 4 (0.78%) JSP
11 4 (0.78%) Web Services
11 4 (0.78%) XACML
12 3 (0.58%) FHIR
12 3 (0.58%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 64 (12.40%) Security Posture
3 44 (8.53%) Operational Technology
4 23 (4.46%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.91%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.91%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.71%) Cloud Security Posture
8 13 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (2.13%) PKI
10 11 (2.13%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (1.94%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.55%) IoT
13 7 (1.36%) SCADA
13 7 (1.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.04%) Linux
1 26 (5.04%) Windows
2 12 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.36%) Unix
4 5 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Android
6 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (35.08%) Cybersecurity
2 164 (31.78%) Threat Modelling
3 140 (27.13%) Cloud Security
4 126 (24.42%) Zero Trust
5 107 (20.74%) CI/CD
6 95 (18.41%) SIEM
7 93 (18.02%) Risk Management
8 92 (17.83%) DevOps
9 89 (17.25%) DevSecOps
9 89 (17.25%) Vulnerability Management
10 88 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 84 (16.28%) Architectural Patterns
12 79 (15.31%) TOGAF
13 78 (15.12%) Identity Access Management
14 77 (14.92%) SABSA
15 76 (14.73%) Roadmaps
16 71 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 66 (12.79%) Agile
18 56 (10.85%) AI
19 55 (10.66%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.72%) Python
2 21 (4.07%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.88%) Java
4 17 (3.29%) SQL
5 15 (2.91%) Bicep
6 8 (1.55%) Bash
7 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.58%) Kotlin
7 3 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.39%) ABAP
8 2 (0.39%) Ruby
8 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.19%) Groovy
9 1 (0.19%) R
9 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 181 (35.08%) Security Cleared
2 126 (24.42%) CISSP
3 116 (22.48%) SC Cleared
4 56 (10.85%) CISM
5 52 (10.08%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (8.72%) DV Cleared
7 42 (8.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 35 (6.78%) Degree
9 30 (5.81%) AWS Certification
10 29 (5.62%) GIAC
11 21 (4.07%) CCSP
12 20 (3.88%) Azure Certification
13 15 (2.91%) SANS
14 14 (2.71%) CEH
14 14 (2.71%) CRISC
15 11 (2.13%) CISA
15 11 (2.13%) OSCP
16 10 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.94%) CESG Certified Professional
17 9 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (28.29%) NIST
2 108 (20.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (9.50%) GDPR
3 49 (9.50%) NCSC
4 30 (5.81%) PCI DSS
5 25 (4.84%) NIST 800
6 23 (4.46%) GRC
7 16 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 10 (1.94%) SLA
9 9 (1.74%) JSP 440
9 9 (1.74%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.55%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.55%) QA
11 7 (1.36%) COBIT
11 7 (1.36%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 5 (0.97%) RMADS
13 3 (0.58%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 42 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.91%) Docker
3 11 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.78%) RACF
6 3 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.39%) IAG
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (8.33%) Terraform
2 37 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.29%) Ansible
4 16 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.78%) CASB
7 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.58%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.39%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Grafana
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.19%) Packer
10 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.19%) QRadar
10 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 106 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.62%) CyberArk
3 22 (4.26%) Splunk
4 20 (3.88%) Google
5 17 (3.29%) Palo Alto
6 16 (3.10%) Okta
7 14 (2.71%) Fortinet
8 13 (2.52%) Cisco
8 13 (2.52%) SAP
8 13 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.52%) VMware
8 13 (2.52%) Zscaler
9 11 (2.13%) Tenable
10 10 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.74%) Qualys
12 8 (1.55%) Rapid7
13 7 (1.36%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.36%) ForeScout
14 6 (1.16%) F5
14 6 (1.16%) Juniper