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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 276 288
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 +81
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 256 220 277
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.81% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.91% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 134 185
10th Percentile £446 £516 £519
25th Percentile £513 £590 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -1.81% -
75th Percentile £750 £784 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £620 £651 £675
% change year-on-year -4.69% -3.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £33.18 - £70.70
25th Percentile £35.15 £60.75 £74.37
Median hourly rate £48.50 £73.46 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -33.97% -11.94% +13.10%
75th Percentile £70.44 £79.60 £85.61
90th Percentile £85.18 £83.20 £86.44
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £73.60 £83.41
% change year-on-year -6.59% -11.76% +13.10%

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 27,721 24,092 31,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.34% 88.95% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,678 14,798 21,336
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £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 1,740 781 1,437
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +22.16%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +17 143 £625 -13.79% 41
South East -25 33 £713 +15.85% 44
North of England -22 29 £577 +2.85% 25
Yorkshire -29 18 £563 +0.27% 11
Midlands -38 18 £515 -26.43% 14
West Midlands -29 17 £525 -25.00% 5
South West -15 11 £681 +18.48% 15
North West -24 8 £632 - 10
East of England -24 7 £713 -5.00% 20
North East - 3 £498 - 4
East Midlands -26 1 £400 -8.15% 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 7 (2.73%) Confluence
2 6 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 114 (44.53%) Azure
2 92 (35.94%) AWS
3 41 (16.02%) GCP
4 32 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.98%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (5.86%) SaaS
7 13 (5.08%) PaaS
8 11 (4.30%) IaaS
9 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (3.91%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (3.13%) AWS KMS
11 8 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.95%) GitHub
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (23.83%) Firewall
2 52 (20.31%) Network Security
3 23 (8.98%) VPN
4 18 (7.03%) WAN
5 16 (6.25%) DNS
6 15 (5.86%) LAN
7 14 (5.47%) SD-WAN
8 13 (5.08%) BGP
9 12 (4.69%) DHCP
10 11 (4.30%) OSPF
11 10 (3.91%) TCP/IP
12 9 (3.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (2.34%) BIG-IP
13 6 (2.34%) NGFW
13 6 (2.34%) SSL
13 6 (2.34%) VXLAN
14 5 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 5 (1.95%) IPsec
14 5 (1.95%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.95%) Metadata
2 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.39%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.39%) Power BI
2 1 (0.39%) Redis
2 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.69%) GitLab
2 7 (2.73%) JIRA
3 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.17%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.39%) Git
6 1 (0.39%) MLflow
6 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.27%) Finance
3 34 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.86%) Banking
5 15 (5.86%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.69%) Legal
7 9 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.34%) Military
9 6 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Law
11 3 (1.17%) Marketing
12 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.39%) Electronics
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 169 (66.02%) Architect
2 133 (51.95%) Security Architect
3 32 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 26 (10.16%) Security Engineer
5 21 (8.20%) Consultant
6 20 (7.81%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 19 (7.42%) Network Architect
8 15 (5.86%) Security Consultant
8 15 (5.86%) Security Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.30%) Azure Architect
9 11 (4.30%) Senior
10 10 (3.91%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 8 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Analyst
13 7 (2.73%) AWS Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.73%) Senior Architect
13 7 (2.73%) Technical Architect
14 6 (2.34%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) OAuth
2 5 (1.95%) REST
3 4 (1.56%) OpenID
3 4 (1.56%) SAML
4 3 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.17%) Kafka
4 3 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.17%) Middleware
4 3 (1.17%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.78%) JWT
5 2 (0.78%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.78%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.39%) ADO
6 1 (0.39%) JAAS
6 1 (0.39%) JSSE
6 1 (0.39%) SOAP
6 1 (0.39%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.39%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.11%) Security Posture
2 24 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.25%) PKI
4 14 (5.47%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.30%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.52%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 8 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.13%) Taxonomies
9 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.73%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.73%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.95%) NHS
11 4 (1.56%) IoT
11 4 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.20%) Windows
2 9 (3.52%) Linux
3 8 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.95%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) Android
5 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.16%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (30.47%) Cloud Security
3 64 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 58 (22.66%) SIEM
5 57 (22.27%) Zero Trust
6 48 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 48 (18.75%) Incident Response
7 42 (16.41%) Roadmaps
7 42 (16.41%) TOGAF
8 37 (14.45%) Identity Access Management
9 36 (14.06%) DevSecOps
10 35 (13.67%) DevOps
10 35 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (12.50%) Migration
13 30 (11.72%) Information Security
14 27 (10.55%) Data Loss Prevention
15 26 (10.16%) AI
15 26 (10.16%) Threat Detection
16 25 (9.77%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (8.59%) Python
2 11 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
3 9 (3.52%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.34%) SQL
5 5 (1.95%) Bash
6 4 (1.56%) Java
7 3 (1.17%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.17%) Go
7 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.78%) C
8 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.78%) Swift
9 1 (0.39%) Bicep
9 1 (0.39%) C-shell
9 1 (0.39%) Korn
9 1 (0.39%) ProC
9 1 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 72 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.61%) CISSP
3 49 (19.14%) SC Cleared
4 29 (11.33%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (11.33%) CISM
5 25 (9.77%) AWS Certification
6 19 (7.42%) Degree
7 17 (6.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 17 (6.64%) CCSP
8 16 (6.25%) Azure Certification
9 15 (5.86%) DV Cleared
10 13 (5.08%) CCIE
10 13 (5.08%) CCNP
11 10 (3.91%) CEH
12 6 (2.34%) JNCIE
12 6 (2.34%) JNCIP
12 6 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.95%) CCIE Security
13 5 (1.95%) CompTIA CySA+
13 5 (1.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (30.47%) NIST
2 70 (27.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 44 (17.19%) GDPR
4 26 (10.16%) PCI DSS
5 23 (8.98%) NCSC
6 9 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.13%) EU AI Act
7 8 (3.13%) PSD2
8 6 (2.34%) QA
9 5 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.95%) GRC
10 4 (1.56%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.56%) JSP 440
11 3 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.17%) COBIT
12 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.13%) Docker
2 8 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.13%) VMware NSX
3 6 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) RACF
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (13.28%) Terraform
2 29 (11.33%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.38%) Ansible
4 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.13%) SCCM
6 6 (2.34%) Fluentd
6 6 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.34%) WSUS
7 3 (1.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.78%) Argo
8 2 (0.78%) CASB
8 2 (0.78%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.39%) Istio
9 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.38%) Cisco
3 22 (8.59%) Splunk
4 15 (5.86%) Fortinet
5 13 (5.08%) CyberArk
5 13 (5.08%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.69%) F5
6 12 (4.69%) VMware
6 12 (4.69%) Zscaler
7 11 (4.30%) Darktrace
8 10 (3.91%) CheckPoint
9 8 (3.13%) Juniper
10 7 (2.73%) Cribl.io
10 7 (2.73%) Sparx
11 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.34%) Sophos
12 5 (1.95%) Meraki
12 5 (1.95%) SAP
12 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.56%) SolarWinds