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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 257 224
Rank change year-on-year +39 -33 +29
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 538 275 387
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.01% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.12% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 169 246
10th Percentile £463 £518 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -6.90% +3.94%
75th Percentile £740 £750 £800
90th Percentile £815 £807 £850
UK median daily rate £621 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 16
10th Percentile £82.23 £48.10 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £86.50 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -1.10% +20.08%
75th Percentile - £88.87 £87.53
90th Percentile £103.63 £98.50 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £86.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year -2.89% -1.10% +20.44%

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 38,234 24,648 31,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.43% 90.68% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,071 15,798 20,362
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,374 1,309 2,214
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.70 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +35 259 £625 -7.41% 73
North of England -26 87 £634 -9.46% 24
South East -34 86 £644 +0.98% 37
North West -11 58 £620 -13.41% 22
Midlands -36 38 £565 -27.10% 6
South West -10 32 £575 -14.81% 9
West Midlands -36 32 £590 -23.87% 1
Yorkshire -28 28 £675 +22.73% 2
East of England -9 14 £600 - 5
East Midlands -9 4 £447 - 5
North East -46 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 (2.60%) Confluence
2 6 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) 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 7 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 238 (44.24%) Azure
2 189 (35.13%) AWS
3 83 (15.43%) GCP
4 73 (13.57%) Entra ID
5 29 (5.39%) SaaS
6 27 (5.02%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.53%) PaaS
9 18 (3.35%) IaaS
10 17 (3.16%) Serverless
11 16 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.97%) GitHub
12 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 8 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (1.49%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.49%) Power Platform
16 7 (1.30%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 98 (18.22%) Network Security
2 68 (12.64%) Firewall
3 20 (3.72%) VPN
4 15 (2.79%) WAN
5 14 (2.60%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.42%) DHCP
7 12 (2.23%) DNS
8 11 (2.04%) NGFW
9 10 (1.86%) IPsec
10 9 (1.67%) Internet
11 7 (1.30%) LAN
11 7 (1.30%) SSL
12 6 (1.12%) BGP
12 6 (1.12%) HTTPS
12 6 (1.12%) Wireless
13 5 (0.93%) OSPF
13 5 (0.93%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.74%) 4G
14 4 (0.74%) Intranet
14 4 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.30%) Power BI
3 6 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.12%) Metadata
4 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.93%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.74%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.74%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.37%) Big Data
7 2 (0.37%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.37%) MySQL
7 2 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (3.16%) JIRA
2 9 (1.67%) GitLab
2 9 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.12%) Snyk
4 5 (0.93%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.37%) Git
5 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.19%) ERwin
6 1 (0.19%) Hudson
General
1 133 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 118 (21.93%) Finance
3 73 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.13%) Banking
5 25 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (2.60%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.60%) Military
9 13 (2.42%) Legal
10 12 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.49%) Retail
12 6 (1.12%) Local Government
13 5 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.74%) Aviation
15 3 (0.56%) Law
15 3 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 333 (61.90%) Architect
2 238 (44.24%) Security Architect
3 65 (12.08%) Security Engineer
4 60 (11.15%) Lead
5 44 (8.18%) Solutions Architect
6 42 (7.81%) Senior
7 37 (6.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 29 (5.39%) Lead Architect
9 28 (5.20%) Consultant
10 26 (4.83%) Cloud Architect
10 26 (4.83%) Technical Architect
11 20 (3.72%) Security Consultant
12 19 (3.53%) Lead Security Architect
13 17 (3.16%) Security Specialist
13 17 (3.16%) Senior Security Engineer
14 16 (2.97%) Senior Architect
15 15 (2.79%) Enterprise Architect
15 15 (2.79%) Enterprise Security Architect
15 15 (2.79%) Network Architect
16 13 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.90%) OAuth
2 16 (2.97%) OpenID
3 15 (2.79%) OAuth2
4 14 (2.60%) REST
4 14 (2.60%) SAML
5 13 (2.42%) SailPoint
6 11 (2.04%) 802.1X
7 8 (1.49%) LangChain
7 8 (1.49%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.49%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.12%) LDAP
8 6 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (1.12%) SLSA
9 4 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.74%) J2EE
9 4 (0.74%) JSP
9 4 (0.74%) Web Services
9 4 (0.74%) XACML
10 3 (0.56%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.56%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 75 (13.94%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.27%) Security Posture
3 43 (7.99%) Operational Technology
4 27 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.28%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.79%) Cloud Security Posture
6 15 (2.79%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.60%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (2.04%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (1.86%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (1.49%) IoT
12 8 (1.49%) PKI
13 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.30%) SCADA
13 7 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.83%) Linux
2 25 (4.65%) Windows
3 11 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.30%) Unix
5 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (36.25%) Cybersecurity
2 161 (29.93%) Threat Modelling
3 148 (27.51%) Cloud Security
4 123 (22.86%) CI/CD
5 121 (22.49%) Zero Trust
6 107 (19.89%) Risk Management
7 102 (18.96%) DevSecOps
8 97 (18.03%) DevOps
8 97 (18.03%) Roadmaps
8 97 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (17.66%) SIEM
10 93 (17.29%) TOGAF
11 89 (16.54%) Vulnerability Management
12 88 (16.36%) Architectural Patterns
13 83 (15.43%) Identity Access Management
14 82 (15.24%) SABSA
15 80 (14.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 72 (13.38%) AI
17 68 (12.64%) Agile
18 59 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (7.43%) Python
2 20 (3.72%) Java
2 20 (3.72%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.72%) SQL
3 15 (2.79%) Bicep
4 8 (1.49%) Bash
5 3 (0.56%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.37%) ABAP
6 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.37%) Ruby
6 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.19%) Groovy
7 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 194 (36.06%) Security Cleared
2 140 (26.02%) CISSP
3 125 (23.23%) SC Cleared
4 60 (11.15%) CISM
5 52 (9.67%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (9.48%) DV Cleared
7 44 (8.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 34 (6.32%) Degree
9 33 (6.13%) AWS Certification
10 29 (5.39%) GIAC
11 24 (4.46%) Azure Certification
12 22 (4.09%) CCSP
13 17 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (2.60%) CEH
14 14 (2.60%) CRISC
15 13 (2.42%) SANS
16 11 (2.04%) CISA
17 10 (1.86%) OSCP
18 9 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (26.21%) NIST
2 104 (19.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (8.92%) NCSC
4 44 (8.18%) GDPR
5 27 (5.02%) NIST 800
5 27 (5.02%) PCI DSS
6 23 (4.28%) GRC
7 18 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.86%) SLA
9 9 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 8 (1.49%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.49%) JSP 440
10 8 (1.49%) QA
11 7 (1.30%) COBIT
11 7 (1.30%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.30%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.74%) RMADS
System Software
1 43 (7.99%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.97%) Docker
3 10 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.74%) RACF
6 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.37%) IAG
7 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (7.81%) Terraform
2 37 (6.88%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.16%) Ansible
4 14 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.93%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.74%) CASB
9 3 (0.56%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.56%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
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
Vendors
1 114 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.02%) CyberArk
3 22 (4.09%) Google
4 21 (3.90%) Splunk
5 17 (3.16%) Okta
6 16 (2.97%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.79%) SAP
8 13 (2.42%) Fortinet
8 13 (2.42%) Zscaler
9 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.04%) Cisco
10 11 (2.04%) Tenable
10 11 (2.04%) VMware
11 10 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (1.67%) Qualys
13 7 (1.30%) ForeScout
13 7 (1.30%) Oracle
14 6 (1.12%) Databricks
14 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 6 (1.12%) Rapid7