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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 271 254
Rank change year-on-year +59 -17 +6
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 567 265 317
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 0.96% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.06% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 159 201
10th Percentile £463 £513 £525
25th Percentile £525 £594 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £764 £804
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £601 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -11.04% -6.90% +6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 6
10th Percentile £71.00 £52.75 £84.67
25th Percentile £79.18 £59.12 -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £86.50 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% -1.10% +19.13%
75th Percentile £88.33 £88.87 -
90th Percentile £103.07 £100.00 -
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £86.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year -4.05% -1.10% +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 38,772 25,064 28,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.82% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,937 15,945 18,292
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,483 1,510
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -37.90% -4.71%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +46 288 £625 -3.85% 69
South East -18 95 £623 -4.23% 29
North of England -17 86 £623 -13.68% 32
North West -14 51 £600 -16.35% 20
South West -22 34 £600 -12.73% 34
Yorkshire -23 32 £663 -10.17% 9
Midlands -36 32 £600 -25.00% 10
West Midlands -35 27 £613 -23.44% 5
East of England -10 15 £600 -29.41% 4
East Midlands -14 3 £538 - 5
North East -47 2 £650 -11.86% 3
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 10 (1.76%) Confluence
2 8 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.53%) Camunda
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) Appian
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.35%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 243 (42.86%) Azure
2 182 (32.10%) AWS
3 94 (16.58%) GCP
4 69 (12.17%) Entra ID
5 27 (4.76%) SaaS
6 26 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (4.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (4.06%) GitHub
8 21 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.65%) Serverless
11 14 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.12%) PaaS
13 11 (1.94%) IaaS
14 10 (1.76%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (1.76%) Power Platform
15 8 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
16 7 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
16 7 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 82 (14.46%) Network Security
2 57 (10.05%) Firewall
3 19 (3.35%) VPN
3 19 (3.35%) WAN
4 14 (2.47%) DNS
5 11 (1.94%) NGFW
5 11 (1.94%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.76%) Internet
6 10 (1.76%) LAN
7 8 (1.41%) DHCP
8 7 (1.23%) BGP
9 6 (1.06%) 4G
9 6 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.88%) 5G
10 5 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (0.71%) Intranet
11 4 (0.71%) VLAN
12 3 (0.53%) IPsec
12 3 (0.53%) OSPF
12 3 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.23%) Power BI
3 6 (1.06%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.06%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.88%) Metadata
4 5 (0.88%) SAP HANA
5 4 (0.71%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.53%) Big Data
6 3 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.35%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.35%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.35%) Trino
Development Applications
1 16 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.65%) GitLab
2 15 (2.65%) JIRA
3 6 (1.06%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.88%) Snyk
5 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.35%) Git
8 1 (0.18%) Hudson
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 163 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.58%) Finance
3 78 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 38 (6.70%) Banking
5 28 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
6 23 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (3.53%) Aerospace
9 17 (3.00%) Legal
10 14 (2.47%) Military
11 13 (2.29%) Local Government
11 13 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.41%) Retail
13 8 (1.41%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.88%) Law
15 5 (0.88%) Police
16 4 (0.71%) Aviation
16 4 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 383 (67.55%) Architect
2 256 (45.15%) Security Architect
3 63 (11.11%) Lead
4 50 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 49 (8.64%) Security Engineer
6 44 (7.76%) Senior
7 35 (6.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 34 (6.00%) Consultant
9 32 (5.64%) Cloud Architect
10 31 (5.47%) Lead Architect
11 27 (4.76%) Technical Architect
12 23 (4.06%) Security Consultant
13 22 (3.88%) Lead Security Architect
14 21 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
15 18 (3.17%) Senior Architect
16 17 (3.00%) Security Specialist
17 16 (2.82%) Enterprise Security Architect
18 15 (2.65%) Network Architect
19 14 (2.47%) Azure Architect
20 13 (2.29%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.11%) Terraform
2 21 (3.70%) OAuth
3 20 (3.53%) REST
4 15 (2.65%) OpenID
5 14 (2.47%) SAML
6 12 (2.12%) OAuth2
7 11 (1.94%) LDAP
7 11 (1.94%) SailPoint
8 8 (1.41%) Middleware
9 7 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (1.23%) SLSA
10 6 (1.06%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.88%) .NET
11 5 (0.88%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.88%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.88%) SOAP
12 4 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
12 4 (0.71%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (0.71%) JSP
12 4 (0.71%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.64%) Cloud Native
2 60 (10.58%) Security Posture
3 42 (7.41%) Operational Technology
4 26 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 25 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.17%) PKI
7 17 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.65%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 15 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 13 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (2.12%) Cloud Security Posture
11 12 (2.12%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.76%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.41%) SCADA
15 6 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.88%) Linux
1 22 (3.88%) Windows
2 8 (1.41%) Unix
3 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (37.92%) Cybersecurity
2 172 (30.34%) Cloud Security
3 159 (28.04%) Threat Modelling
4 133 (23.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 128 (22.57%) Zero Trust
6 123 (21.69%) CI/CD
7 117 (20.63%) Risk Management
7 117 (20.63%) Roadmaps
8 108 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
9 102 (17.99%) DevSecOps
10 100 (17.64%) TOGAF
11 97 (17.11%) DevOps
12 94 (16.58%) Architectural Patterns
13 91 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 86 (15.17%) SABSA
15 85 (14.99%) Vulnerability Management
16 82 (14.46%) SIEM
17 80 (14.11%) AI
18 78 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
19 67 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (6.70%) Python
2 23 (4.06%) Java
2 23 (4.06%) PowerShell
3 18 (3.17%) Bicep
4 15 (2.65%) SQL
5 10 (1.76%) Bash
6 3 (0.53%) ABAP
6 3 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.35%) C#
7 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.35%) Ruby
8 1 (0.18%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.18%) Go
8 1 (0.18%) Groovy
8 1 (0.18%) R
8 1 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 205 (36.16%) Security Cleared
2 143 (25.22%) CISSP
3 131 (23.10%) SC Cleared
4 64 (11.29%) CISM
5 59 (10.41%) DV Cleared
6 52 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 33 (5.82%) Degree
9 32 (5.64%) AWS Certification
10 27 (4.76%) Azure Certification
10 27 (4.76%) GIAC
11 23 (4.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (3.70%) CCSP
13 17 (3.00%) CEH
14 15 (2.65%) CRISC
15 14 (2.47%) SANS
16 13 (2.29%) CISA
16 13 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (1.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (27.69%) NIST
2 116 (20.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (9.88%) NCSC
4 39 (6.88%) GDPR
5 34 (6.00%) GRC
6 24 (4.23%) PCI DSS
7 22 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.88%) NIST 800
8 12 (2.12%) JSP 440
9 9 (1.59%) QA
10 8 (1.41%) ISO 31000
11 7 (1.23%) COBIT
11 7 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (1.23%) SLA
12 5 (0.88%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.53%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 40 (7.05%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.65%) Docker
3 10 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) IAG
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 37 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.88%) Ansible
3 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.88%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.88%) SCCM
4 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.71%) CASB
5 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.35%) Istio
6 2 (0.35%) QRadar
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 127 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.94%) CyberArk
2 28 (4.94%) Google
3 20 (3.53%) Palo Alto
4 19 (3.35%) SAP
5 18 (3.17%) Cisco
5 18 (3.17%) Splunk
6 16 (2.82%) Zscaler
7 13 (2.29%) VMware
8 11 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (1.94%) Fortinet
8 11 (1.94%) Okta
8 11 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.76%) Tenable
10 9 (1.59%) Databricks
10 9 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.41%) Oracle
12 7 (1.23%) Qualys
13 5 (0.88%) Rapid7