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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 269 254
Rank change year-on-year +61 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 599 266 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 0.96% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.05% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 158 186
10th Percentile £465 £513 £540
25th Percentile £520 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% -6.90% +4.32%
75th Percentile £730 £752 £803
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £722
% change year-on-year -11.11% -6.54% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 7
10th Percentile £71.00 £52.75 £73.43
25th Percentile £79.18 £59.12 £84.67
Median hourly rate £83.50 £86.50 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% -1.10% +19.13%
75th Percentile £95.00 £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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
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 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +38 294 £625 -3.85% 209
South East -16 103 £616 -5.23% 52
North of England -18 85 £600 -16.87% 35
North West -21 52 £600 -16.35% 29
South West -6 48 £538 -21.82% 18
Midlands -36 33 £600 -25.00% 15
Yorkshire -20 30 £663 -10.17% 3
West Midlands -27 29 £625 -21.88% 4
East of England -16 16 £600 -29.41% 4
East Midlands -16 3 £538 - 11
North East -52 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 11 (1.84%) Confluence
2 8 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.50%) Apache
3 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.33%) Camunda
4 2 (0.33%) IIS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.17%) Appian
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.17%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 250 (41.74%) Azure
2 186 (31.05%) AWS
3 96 (16.03%) GCP
4 70 (11.69%) Entra ID
5 28 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (4.67%) SaaS
6 26 (4.34%) GitHub
7 24 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 21 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (2.17%) Serverless
12 10 (1.67%) PaaS
13 9 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (1.50%) IaaS
13 9 (1.50%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
15 7 (1.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 86 (14.36%) Network Security
2 57 (9.52%) Firewall
3 21 (3.51%) WAN
4 20 (3.34%) VPN
5 14 (2.34%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.17%) DNS
7 11 (1.84%) NGFW
8 10 (1.67%) Internet
8 10 (1.67%) LAN
9 8 (1.34%) BGP
9 8 (1.34%) DHCP
10 6 (1.00%) 4G
10 6 (1.00%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.83%) 5G
11 5 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.67%) Intranet
12 4 (0.67%) MPLS
12 4 (0.67%) OSPF
12 4 (0.67%) SSL
12 4 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.00%) Power BI
2 6 (1.00%) SAP HANA
3 5 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.83%) SAP BW
3 5 (0.83%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.67%) Metadata
4 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.50%) Big Data
5 3 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.33%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.33%) Trino
Development Applications
1 18 (3.01%) GitLab
1 18 (3.01%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.84%) JIRA
3 6 (1.00%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.83%) Snyk
5 4 (0.67%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.50%) Git
6 3 (0.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.17%) Hudson
7 1 (0.17%) Maven
7 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 183 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 109 (18.20%) Finance
3 77 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 38 (6.34%) Banking
5 28 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
6 26 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (3.01%) Aerospace
9 17 (2.84%) Legal
9 17 (2.84%) Military
10 14 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.84%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.67%) Local Government
13 9 (1.50%) Retail
14 6 (1.00%) Law
14 6 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.83%) Police
15 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 418 (69.78%) Architect
2 273 (45.58%) Security Architect
3 61 (10.18%) Lead
4 52 (8.68%) Solutions Architect
5 49 (8.18%) Security Engineer
6 45 (7.51%) Senior
7 38 (6.34%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 34 (5.68%) Consultant
9 32 (5.34%) Cloud Architect
10 31 (5.18%) Lead Architect
11 29 (4.84%) Technical Architect
12 23 (3.84%) Lead Security Architect
12 23 (3.84%) Security Consultant
13 21 (3.51%) Enterprise Architect
14 20 (3.34%) Senior Architect
15 17 (2.84%) Security Specialist
16 16 (2.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
16 16 (2.67%) Network Architect
17 13 (2.17%) Azure Architect
18 12 (2.00%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.18%) Terraform
2 26 (4.34%) LDAP
3 23 (3.84%) REST
4 20 (3.34%) OAuth
5 14 (2.34%) OpenID
5 14 (2.34%) SAML
6 11 (1.84%) OAuth2
7 10 (1.67%) SailPoint
8 8 (1.34%) Middleware
8 8 (1.34%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (1.17%) SLSA
9 7 (1.17%) SOAP
10 5 (0.83%) .NET
10 5 (0.83%) 802.1X
10 5 (0.83%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.83%) ModSecurity
10 5 (0.83%) SAP Basis
11 4 (0.67%) Jakarta EE
11 4 (0.67%) JSON
11 4 (0.67%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 84 (14.02%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.35%) Security Posture
3 44 (7.35%) Operational Technology
4 34 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 28 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 20 (3.34%) Data Centre
7 18 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.01%) PKI
8 17 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
8 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
10 14 (2.34%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
11 12 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.84%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.67%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.67%) SCADA
14 8 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.17%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.67%) Windows
2 27 (4.51%) Linux
3 10 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.50%) Unix
5 5 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.17%) Android
8 1 (0.17%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (38.90%) Cybersecurity
2 181 (30.22%) Cloud Security
3 159 (26.54%) Threat Modelling
4 144 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 126 (21.04%) Zero Trust
6 125 (20.87%) Risk Management
7 119 (19.87%) CI/CD
8 118 (19.70%) DevSecOps
8 118 (19.70%) Roadmaps
9 116 (19.37%) Identity Access Management
10 106 (17.70%) TOGAF
11 100 (16.69%) DevOps
11 100 (16.69%) Technical Leadership
12 98 (16.36%) Architectural Patterns
12 98 (16.36%) SIEM
13 96 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 92 (15.36%) SABSA
14 92 (15.36%) Vulnerability Management
15 81 (13.52%) AI
16 70 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.51%) Python
2 26 (4.34%) PowerShell
3 21 (3.51%) Java
4 17 (2.84%) Bicep
5 14 (2.34%) SQL
6 11 (1.84%) Bash
7 4 (0.67%) ABAP
8 3 (0.50%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.33%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.33%) C#
9 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.33%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Go
10 1 (0.17%) Groovy
10 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.17%) R
10 1 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 231 (38.56%) Security Cleared
2 158 (26.38%) CISSP
3 141 (23.54%) SC Cleared
4 79 (13.19%) DV Cleared
5 72 (12.02%) CISM
6 64 (10.68%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (8.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 36 (6.01%) AWS Certification
9 32 (5.34%) Degree
10 30 (5.01%) Azure Certification
11 28 (4.67%) CCSP
12 27 (4.51%) GIAC
13 23 (3.84%) TOGAF Certification
14 17 (2.84%) CRISC
15 16 (2.67%) CEH
15 16 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
15 16 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (2.50%) CISA
16 15 (2.50%) SANS
17 12 (2.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (28.71%) NIST
2 132 (22.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (10.18%) NCSC
4 39 (6.51%) GDPR
4 39 (6.51%) GRC
5 24 (4.01%) PCI DSS
6 22 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 21 (3.51%) NIST 800
8 12 (2.00%) JSP 440
9 10 (1.67%) ISO 31000
10 9 (1.50%) QA
11 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
11 7 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.00%) COBIT
13 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.67%) SLA
14 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.01%) Docker
3 11 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.33%) IAG
5 2 (0.33%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.17%) Ansible
3 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.00%) SCCM
6 5 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.83%) CASB
6 5 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.67%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) Istio
8 2 (0.33%) QRadar
9 1 (0.17%) Argo
9 1 (0.17%) Grafana
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 132 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.84%) CyberArk
3 30 (5.01%) Google
4 22 (3.67%) Cisco
4 22 (3.67%) Palo Alto
5 20 (3.34%) SAP
5 20 (3.34%) Splunk
6 16 (2.67%) VMware
7 15 (2.50%) Zscaler
8 14 (2.34%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.84%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.84%) Okta
11 10 (1.67%) Qualys
11 10 (1.67%) Tenable
12 9 (1.50%) Oracle
12 9 (1.50%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.17%) Databricks
14 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.83%) Rapid7