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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 262 230
Rank change year-on-year +31 -32 +42
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 470 225 378
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 0.94% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.03% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 142 245
10th Percentile £457 £526 £500
25th Percentile £520 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £759 £813
90th Percentile £825 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £622 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.93% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 16
10th Percentile £82.23 £59.25 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £62.63 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £78.40 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.36% +18.19%
75th Percentile - £88.53 £87.53
90th Percentile £103.63 £89.23 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £83.20 £87.46
% change year-on-year +0.96% -4.87% +19.48%

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 35,508 21,848 31,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 91.31% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,529 14,223 20,659
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 949 2,294
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +15 233 £648 -4.07% 35
North of England -5 80 £653 +18.73% 10
South East -36 60 £575 -11.61% 26
North West +14 55 £621 -7.45% 7
South West -11 31 £575 -14.81% 10
Midlands -38 30 £500 -26.61% 7
Yorkshire -31 25 £675 +22.73% 2
West Midlands -44 24 £525 -22.94% 5
East of England -25 7 £730 -5.81% 5
East Midlands -24 4 £438 - 2
North East -28 1 - - 1
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 (2.98%) Confluence
2 8 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.64%) Camunda
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) Appian
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.21%) Summit
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 210 (44.68%) Azure
2 171 (36.38%) AWS
3 71 (15.11%) GCP
4 67 (14.26%) Entra ID
5 29 (6.17%) SaaS
6 24 (5.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (4.26%) IaaS
8 20 (4.26%) PaaS
9 15 (3.19%) Serverless
10 12 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.13%) OpenShift
12 9 (1.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 9 (1.91%) GitHub
12 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.70%) AWS KMS
14 7 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 98 (20.85%) Network Security
2 59 (12.55%) Firewall
3 16 (3.40%) VPN
3 16 (3.40%) WAN
4 15 (3.19%) LAN
4 15 (3.19%) SD-WAN
5 12 (2.55%) IPsec
6 11 (2.34%) DHCP
7 10 (2.13%) SSL
8 8 (1.70%) BGP
8 8 (1.70%) NGFW
8 8 (1.70%) OSPF
9 7 (1.49%) DNS
10 6 (1.28%) BIG-IP
10 6 (1.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (1.28%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.28%) Kerberos
10 6 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.28%) Wireless
11 5 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.28%) Metadata
3 5 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.06%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.06%) Power BI
3 5 (1.06%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.64%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.43%) Big Data
5 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.43%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.43%) MySQL
5 2 (0.43%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (2.55%) JIRA
2 3 (0.64%) Git
2 3 (0.64%) GitLab
2 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.64%) Robot Framework
2 3 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.43%) Snyk
4 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.21%) ERwin
4 1 (0.21%) Hudson
General
1 105 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.00%) Finance
3 60 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 31 (6.60%) Banking
5 23 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.98%) Military
8 13 (2.77%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.77%) Legal
9 11 (2.34%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.28%) Law
13 5 (1.06%) Aviation
14 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.64%) Local Government
14 3 (0.64%) Retail
15 2 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 274 (58.30%) Architect
2 201 (42.77%) Security Architect
3 57 (12.13%) Security Engineer
4 40 (8.51%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 40 (8.51%) Lead
5 36 (7.66%) Senior
6 31 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (5.96%) Consultant
8 24 (5.11%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (4.47%) Technical Architect
10 19 (4.04%) Security Consultant
11 17 (3.62%) Security Specialist
12 15 (3.19%) Network Architect
13 14 (2.98%) Lead Architect
13 14 (2.98%) Senior Security Engineer
14 13 (2.77%) Project Manager
14 13 (2.77%) Security Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.77%) Senior Architect
15 12 (2.55%) Enterprise Security Architect
15 12 (2.55%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.26%) OAuth
2 16 (3.40%) OpenID
3 15 (3.19%) OAuth2
4 14 (2.98%) SAML
5 11 (2.34%) SailPoint
6 9 (1.91%) REST
7 8 (1.70%) 802.1X
8 5 (1.06%) .NET
8 5 (1.06%) LangChain
8 5 (1.06%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.06%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.06%) Web Services
8 5 (1.06%) XACML
9 4 (0.85%) ADO
9 4 (0.85%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.85%) J2EE
9 4 (0.85%) JSP
9 4 (0.85%) LDAP
10 3 (0.64%) FHIR
10 3 (0.64%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 56 (11.91%) Security Posture
3 36 (7.66%) Operational Technology
4 21 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 19 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.40%) PKI
7 14 (2.98%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 12 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 9 (1.91%) IoT
9 9 (1.91%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.70%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.49%) SCADA
11 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.17%) Windows
2 24 (5.11%) Linux
3 14 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.91%) Unix
5 4 (0.85%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) Android
7 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (35.11%) Cybersecurity
2 152 (32.34%) Threat Modelling
3 125 (26.60%) Cloud Security
4 118 (25.11%) Zero Trust
5 94 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 90 (19.15%) SIEM
7 84 (17.87%) Risk Management
8 83 (17.66%) Vulnerability Management
9 82 (17.45%) DevOps
10 79 (16.81%) DevSecOps
11 74 (15.74%) Architectural Patterns
11 74 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 73 (15.53%) Identity Access Management
13 70 (14.89%) TOGAF
14 65 (13.83%) SABSA
15 62 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 60 (12.77%) Roadmaps
17 54 (11.49%) SDLC
18 53 (11.28%) Agile
18 53 (11.28%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 40 (8.51%) Python
2 21 (4.47%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.04%) Java
4 18 (3.83%) SQL
5 12 (2.55%) Bicep
6 10 (2.13%) Bash
7 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.43%) Ruby
8 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.43%) Swift
9 1 (0.21%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.21%) C
9 1 (0.21%) C-shell
9 1 (0.21%) Go
9 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.21%) Korn
9 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (35.53%) Security Cleared
2 114 (24.26%) CISSP
3 111 (23.62%) SC Cleared
4 56 (11.91%) CISM
5 44 (9.36%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (8.30%) DV Cleared
7 35 (7.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 31 (6.60%) Degree
9 26 (5.53%) AWS Certification
10 24 (5.11%) GIAC
11 20 (4.26%) CCSP
12 16 (3.40%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.98%) SANS
14 11 (2.34%) CEH
14 11 (2.34%) PMI Certification
14 11 (2.34%) PMP
15 10 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (2.13%) CESG Certified Professional
15 10 (2.13%) CRISC
16 8 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (29.57%) NIST
2 107 (22.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (11.06%) GDPR
4 48 (10.21%) NCSC
5 26 (5.53%) PCI DSS
6 21 (4.47%) NIST 800
7 20 (4.26%) GRC
8 16 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.91%) JSP 440
9 9 (1.91%) SLA
10 8 (1.70%) COBIT
10 8 (1.70%) HIPAA
10 8 (1.70%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.70%) SOC 2
11 7 (1.49%) QA
12 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.28%) RMADS
13 5 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.64%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 41 (8.72%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.34%) Docker
3 10 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.91%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.06%) RACF
6 4 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.64%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.43%) IAG
9 1 (0.21%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (8.30%) Terraform
2 31 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.04%) Ansible
4 14 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.85%) CASB
8 3 (0.64%) SCCM
8 3 (0.64%) WSUS
9 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.21%) Argo
10 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.21%) Istio
10 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.21%) Packer
10 1 (0.21%) QRadar
10 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.32%) CyberArk
3 22 (4.68%) Splunk
4 16 (3.40%) Cisco
4 16 (3.40%) Google
5 15 (3.19%) Okta
5 15 (3.19%) VMware
5 15 (3.19%) Zscaler
6 12 (2.55%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.55%) Tenable
7 10 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.91%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.91%) SAP
9 8 (1.70%) F5
9 8 (1.70%) ForeScout
9 8 (1.70%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.49%) Qualys
11 6 (1.28%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.28%) Juniper
11 6 (1.28%) Oracle