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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 266 248
Rank change year-on-year -11 -18 +94
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 336 231 350
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.92% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.02% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 152 225
10th Percentile £448 £533 £489
25th Percentile £513 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £778 £775
90th Percentile £788 £860 £875
UK median daily rate £615 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 14
10th Percentile £34.06 - £76.62
25th Percentile £48.19 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.31 £85.38
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -14.14% -
75th Percentile - £80.80 £87.53
90th Percentile £89.50 £83.20 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £73.46 £85.38
% change year-on-year +14.36% -13.97% -

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 31,295 22,746 32,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.03% 90.36% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,032 14,434 21,722
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 776 2,084
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.38 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £32.50 £32.85
% change year-on-year -14.03% -1.05% -6.16%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -10 163 £625 -10.71% 59
North of England -15 55 £617 +13.84% 28
South East -37 42 £650 +4.00% 34
North West -12 30 £621 -4.46% 19
Midlands -46 29 £485 -30.71% 26
West Midlands -41 24 £525 -25.00% 13
Yorkshire -43 22 £563 +2.27% 7
South West -25 17 £575 -4.17% 18
East of England -22 8 £575 -25.81% 8
East Midlands -29 5 £438 +0.46% 12
North East -11 4 £498 +3.22% 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 13 (3.87%) Confluence
2 6 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Summit
2 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (45.83%) Azure
2 132 (39.29%) AWS
3 50 (14.88%) GCP
4 49 (14.58%) Entra ID
5 27 (8.04%) SaaS
6 23 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (6.55%) PaaS
8 20 (5.95%) Azure Sentinel
8 20 (5.95%) IaaS
9 15 (4.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 14 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.17%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.68%) Serverless
14 8 (2.38%) AWS KMS
14 8 (2.38%) GitHub
15 7 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 82 (24.40%) Network Security
2 75 (22.32%) Firewall
3 26 (7.74%) VPN
4 18 (5.36%) WAN
5 17 (5.06%) DHCP
5 17 (5.06%) SD-WAN
6 16 (4.76%) LAN
7 14 (4.17%) DNS
8 13 (3.87%) BGP
9 12 (3.57%) IPsec
9 12 (3.57%) OSPF
10 10 (2.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 9 (2.68%) SSL
11 9 (2.68%) Wireless
12 7 (2.08%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (2.08%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.08%) VXLAN
13 6 (1.79%) Kerberos
13 6 (1.79%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.49%) Metadata
2 3 (0.89%) Power BI
3 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.30%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.30%) Redis
4 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (3.87%) JIRA
2 12 (3.57%) GitLab
3 4 (1.19%) Git
3 4 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.19%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.60%) Snyk
5 1 (0.30%) ERwin
General
1 79 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.54%) Finance
3 47 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.46%) Banking
7 14 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.27%) Legal
10 7 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.08%) Military
11 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.19%) Law
12 4 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.60%) Aviation
14 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.60%) Local Government
14 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 200 (59.52%) Architect
2 147 (43.75%) Security Architect
3 39 (11.61%) Security Engineer
4 36 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
5 29 (8.63%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 24 (7.14%) Consultant
7 22 (6.55%) Senior
8 20 (5.95%) Network Architect
8 20 (5.95%) Security Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (5.36%) Security Consultant
10 15 (4.46%) Technical Architect
11 13 (3.87%) Network Security Architect
11 13 (3.87%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.27%) Azure Architect
13 10 (2.98%) Senior Architect
14 9 (2.68%) Lead
15 8 (2.38%) Cloud Security Architect
15 8 (2.38%) Migration Manager
15 8 (2.38%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.36%) OAuth
2 14 (4.17%) OpenID
3 13 (3.87%) OAuth2
4 12 (3.57%) SAML
5 8 (2.38%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.49%) LangChain
6 5 (1.49%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.49%) REST
6 5 (1.49%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.49%) Web Services
6 5 (1.49%) XACML
7 4 (1.19%) ADO
7 4 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.89%) .NET
8 3 (0.89%) JWT
8 3 (0.89%) Kafka
8 3 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.89%) Middleware
8 3 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.60%) ONNX
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.61%) Security Posture
2 28 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.06%) PKI
5 15 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (2.68%) IoT
8 8 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.38%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.38%) Taxonomies
9 7 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.19%) NHS
11 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.85%) Windows
2 16 (4.76%) Linux
3 12 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.19%) Unix
5 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 101 (30.06%) Threat Modelling
3 97 (28.87%) Cloud Security
4 88 (26.19%) Zero Trust
5 74 (22.02%) CI/CD
6 72 (21.43%) SIEM
7 58 (17.26%) DevSecOps
8 57 (16.96%) DevOps
9 53 (15.77%) Identity Access Management
10 52 (15.48%) TOGAF
11 51 (15.18%) Roadmaps
12 48 (14.29%) Risk Management
13 44 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (12.80%) Migration
14 43 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 42 (12.50%) Agile
15 42 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
16 41 (12.20%) Incident Response
17 40 (11.90%) Data Loss Prevention
18 39 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.12%) Python
2 13 (3.87%) PowerShell
2 13 (3.87%) SQL
3 8 (2.38%) Java
4 7 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.79%) Bash
6 5 (1.49%) Bicep
7 3 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.89%) Go
7 3 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.89%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.60%) C
8 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.60%) Swift
9 1 (0.30%) C-shell
9 1 (0.30%) Korn
9 1 (0.30%) ProC
9 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 110 (32.74%) Security Cleared
2 82 (24.40%) CISSP
3 70 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 39 (11.61%) CISM
5 35 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (8.63%) DV Cleared
7 24 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 24 (7.14%) Degree
8 22 (6.55%) AWS Certification
9 19 (5.65%) CCSP
10 13 (3.87%) Azure Certification
10 13 (3.87%) CCIE
11 12 (3.57%) CCNP
12 10 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (2.68%) PMI Certification
13 9 (2.68%) PMP
14 7 (2.08%) GIAC
15 6 (1.79%) CCIE Security
15 6 (1.79%) CEH
15 6 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (27.98%) NIST
2 82 (24.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (15.18%) GDPR
4 29 (8.63%) NCSC
5 27 (8.04%) PCI DSS
6 11 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (2.98%) GRC
8 9 (2.68%) NIST 800
9 7 (2.08%) EU AI Act
9 7 (2.08%) JSP 440
10 6 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.79%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (1.49%) QA
11 5 (1.49%) SOC 2
12 4 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (1.19%) Data Quality
12 4 (1.19%) RMADS
13 3 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.89%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.57%) Docker
2 12 (3.57%) VMware NSX
3 11 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.49%) RACF
4 5 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 42 (12.50%) Terraform
2 25 (7.44%) Ansible
3 16 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.08%) SCCM
6 6 (1.79%) Fluentd
7 5 (1.49%) WSUS
8 4 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.19%) CASB
9 3 (0.89%) Grafana
10 2 (0.60%) Argo
10 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.30%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.30%) Packer
11 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 69 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.74%) Cisco
3 24 (7.14%) Splunk
4 18 (5.36%) Fortinet
5 16 (4.76%) VMware
6 15 (4.46%) CyberArk
6 15 (4.46%) Palo Alto
6 15 (4.46%) Zscaler
7 14 (4.17%) F5
8 10 (2.98%) CheckPoint
8 10 (2.98%) Google
9 9 (2.68%) Juniper
10 8 (2.38%) Cribl.io
10 8 (2.38%) ForeScout
11 7 (2.08%) Okta
11 7 (2.08%) Sparx
12 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.79%) Tenable
13 5 (1.49%) Meraki
13 5 (1.49%) Sophos