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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 262 284
Rank change year-on-year +52 +22 -34
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 614 276 267
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 0.99% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.09% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 169 155
10th Percentile £463 £495 £518
25th Percentile £513 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £720
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -6.18% +6.59%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £794
90th Percentile £806 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 5
10th Percentile - £52.05 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £60.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £87.04 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% -0.48% +19.30%
75th Percentile £95.00 £88.87 -
90th Percentile - £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £87.04 £87.46
% change year-on-year -4.64% -0.48% +19.69%

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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +42 316 £625 -3.85% 371
South East -24 98 £600 -7.69% 104
North of England -23 82 £600 -16.49% 54
South West -2 51 £538 -21.82% 54
North West -25 39 £582 -18.72% 40
Yorkshire -9 38 £663 -10.17% 10
Midlands -29 32 £600 -25.00% 28
West Midlands -29 29 £625 -21.88% 20
East of England -24 16 £600 -29.41% 14
North East -43 4 £680 -7.80% 4
East Midlands -15 3 £538 +34.38% 8
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 11 (1.79%) Confluence
2 8 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.14%) Apache
4 5 (0.81%) IIS
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.49%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 3 (0.49%) nginx
6 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.49%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.33%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.33%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 242 (39.41%) Azure
2 186 (30.29%) AWS
3 93 (15.15%) GCP
4 76 (12.38%) Entra ID
5 30 (4.89%) GitHub
5 30 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.72%) SaaS
7 25 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.91%) Azure Sentinel
9 18 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.12%) Serverless
12 12 (1.95%) Power Platform
13 10 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.63%) PaaS
14 9 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (1.47%) IaaS
15 8 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.30%) OCI
16 7 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 88 (14.33%) Network Security
2 63 (10.26%) Firewall
3 29 (4.72%) VPN
4 22 (3.58%) WAN
5 14 (2.28%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.12%) NGFW
7 11 (1.79%) BGP
7 11 (1.79%) Internet
8 10 (1.63%) DNS
9 8 (1.30%) LAN
10 7 (1.14%) SSL
11 6 (0.98%) 4G
11 6 (0.98%) MPLS
11 6 (0.98%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.81%) 5G
12 5 (0.81%) DHCP
12 5 (0.81%) OSPF
12 5 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
13 4 (0.65%) VLAN
13 4 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.47%) SAP HANA
2 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
3 6 (0.98%) Power BI
4 5 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.81%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.65%) Metadata
5 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.65%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.49%) Big Data
6 3 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.49%) Trino
7 2 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.33%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.16%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 19 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.77%) GitLab
2 17 (2.77%) JIRA
3 5 (0.81%) Burp Suite
3 5 (0.81%) Git
3 5 (0.81%) Snyk
4 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.49%) MSTest
4 3 (0.49%) NUnit
4 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.16%) Maven
5 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 202 (32.90%) Social Skills
2 113 (18.40%) Finance
3 76 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.03%) Banking
5 33 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
7 22 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.61%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.44%) Legal
10 14 (2.28%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.28%) Military
11 13 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.95%) Retail
13 10 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.63%) Local Government
14 8 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.14%) Law
16 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.65%) Aviation
17 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 412 (67.10%) Architect
2 260 (42.35%) Security Architect
3 58 (9.45%) Security Engineer
4 56 (9.12%) Lead
5 52 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
6 49 (7.98%) Senior
7 37 (6.03%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 33 (5.37%) Cloud Architect
9 31 (5.05%) Consultant
10 30 (4.89%) Technical Architect
11 26 (4.23%) Lead Architect
12 23 (3.75%) Senior Architect
13 21 (3.42%) Enterprise Architect
13 21 (3.42%) Lead Security Architect
14 20 (3.26%) Security Consultant
15 17 (2.77%) Security Specialist
16 14 (2.28%) Enterprise Security Architect
16 14 (2.28%) Network Architect
17 13 (2.12%) Analyst
17 13 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (9.45%) Terraform
2 34 (5.54%) LDAP
3 30 (4.89%) REST
4 23 (3.75%) OAuth
5 15 (2.44%) Middleware
5 15 (2.44%) SAML
6 13 (2.12%) OpenID
7 11 (1.79%) SailPoint
8 10 (1.63%) OAuth2
8 10 (1.63%) SAP Fiori
8 10 (1.63%) SOAP
9 8 (1.30%) SLSA
10 7 (1.14%) 802.1X
10 7 (1.14%) ModSecurity
11 6 (0.98%) .NET
11 6 (0.98%) JSON
11 6 (0.98%) Kafka
11 6 (0.98%) SAP Basis
11 6 (0.98%) SAP PI
11 6 (0.98%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.52%) Cloud Native
2 60 (9.77%) Security Posture
3 47 (7.65%) Onboarding
4 38 (6.19%) Operational Technology
5 31 (5.05%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.91%) PKI
7 23 (3.75%) Public Cloud
8 22 (3.58%) Data Centre
8 22 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
10 15 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 14 (2.28%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.12%) AI Agents
12 13 (2.12%) Cloud Security Posture
13 12 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
13 12 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.95%) SCADA
14 9 (1.47%) Cyberattack
14 9 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.35%) Windows
2 36 (5.86%) Linux
3 16 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.63%) Unix
5 5 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (39.74%) Cybersecurity
2 181 (29.48%) Cloud Security
3 166 (27.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 138 (22.48%) Risk Management
4 138 (22.48%) Threat Modelling
5 135 (21.99%) Roadmaps
6 134 (21.82%) CI/CD
7 126 (20.52%) Identity Access Management
8 122 (19.87%) Zero Trust
9 119 (19.38%) DevSecOps
10 111 (18.08%) TOGAF
11 110 (17.92%) SIEM
12 109 (17.75%) DevOps
13 106 (17.26%) Technical Leadership
14 101 (16.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 96 (15.64%) Vulnerability Management
16 89 (14.50%) Architectural Patterns
17 87 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (13.36%) SABSA
19 81 (13.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 48 (7.82%) Python
2 33 (5.37%) PowerShell
3 19 (3.09%) Java
4 15 (2.44%) SQL
5 14 (2.28%) Bicep
6 13 (2.12%) Bash
7 8 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.81%) ABAP
8 5 (0.81%) C#
9 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.33%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.33%) Go
10 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.16%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.16%) Groovy
11 1 (0.16%) R
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 247 (40.23%) Security Cleared
2 155 (25.24%) CISSP
3 147 (23.94%) SC Cleared
4 89 (14.50%) DV Cleared
5 75 (12.21%) CISM
6 71 (11.56%) Cisco Certification
7 54 (8.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 38 (6.19%) AWS Certification
9 36 (5.86%) Degree
10 34 (5.54%) Azure Certification
10 34 (5.54%) CCSP
11 28 (4.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (3.91%) GIAC
13 20 (3.26%) CRISC
14 16 (2.61%) CISA
14 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (2.44%) CEH
15 15 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (2.28%) CCNP
17 13 (2.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (29.15%) NIST
2 147 (23.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (11.56%) NCSC
4 43 (7.00%) GRC
5 30 (4.89%) GDPR
6 25 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (4.07%) PCI DSS
7 23 (3.75%) NIST 800
8 13 (2.12%) JSP 440
9 12 (1.95%) ISO 31000
10 9 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 8 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
12 7 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.81%) COBIT
13 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.81%) QA
14 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (10.75%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.09%) Docker
3 13 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.65%) ISA Server
4 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.49%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.33%) vSphere
7 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.16%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) IAG
Systems Management
1 48 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 32 (5.21%) Ansible
3 12 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.98%) CASB
5 6 (0.98%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.81%) SCCM
7 4 (0.65%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.49%) Istio
8 3 (0.49%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.49%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 3 (0.49%) VxRail
9 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.33%) QRadar
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Grafana
10 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.14%) CyberArk
3 37 (6.03%) Google
4 27 (4.40%) Cisco
4 27 (4.40%) Palo Alto
5 22 (3.58%) Splunk
6 18 (2.93%) SAP
6 18 (2.93%) VMware
7 16 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (2.44%) Zscaler
9 14 (2.28%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.95%) Oracle
10 12 (1.95%) Qualys
10 12 (1.95%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.47%) Okta
11 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.30%) Databricks
12 8 (1.30%) F5
12 8 (1.30%) IBM
12 8 (1.30%) Tenable