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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 309 256
Rank change year-on-year +46 -53 +102
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 278 237 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 0.74% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.85% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 133 300
10th Percentile £463 £515 £525
25th Percentile £575 £598 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +2.31%
75th Percentile £750 £780 £775
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £52.05 - £68.26
25th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £71.20
Median hourly rate £87.04 £67.55 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.86% -8.72% +2.07%
75th Percentile £93.47 £79.60 £86.31
90th Percentile £100.55 £81.76 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £86.50 £67.55 £74.00
% change year-on-year +28.06% -8.72% +2.07%

All Process and 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 25,655 27,725 36,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.95% 86.47% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,262 16,906 24,993
10th Percentile £296 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,620 1,099 1,474
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%
75th Percentile £45.00 £66.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.55 £74.09 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +39 149 £662 -7.99% 43
South East +23 48 £650 +8.33% 37
North of England +7 33 £719 +10.54% 10
North West +1 20 £716 +10.15% 7
Midlands -29 16 £800 +23.08% 7
West Midlands -23 13 £800 +23.08% 6
South West -2 12 £688 -8.33% 16
North East - 8 £738 - 1
East of England +2 7 £850 +17.24% 6
Yorkshire - 6 £738 - 2
East Midlands -11 3 £400 -27.27%
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 9 (3.24%) Confluence
2 8 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.44%) Workday HCM
2 3 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 105 (37.77%) Azure
2 80 (28.78%) AWS
3 47 (16.91%) GCP
4 32 (11.51%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.83%) Azure Sentinel
6 19 (6.83%) SaaS
7 14 (5.04%) IaaS
8 12 (4.32%) PaaS
9 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (2.16%) GitHub
11 4 (1.44%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Control Tower
12 3 (1.08%) AWS KMS
12 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (19.78%) Firewall
2 43 (15.47%) Network Security
3 14 (5.04%) VPN
4 11 (3.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (3.60%) DNS
5 10 (3.60%) WAN
6 9 (3.24%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.88%) NGFW
8 7 (2.52%) DHCP
8 7 (2.52%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.16%) BGP
9 6 (2.16%) LAN
10 4 (1.44%) OSPF
11 3 (1.08%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 3 (1.08%) Internet
12 2 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.72%) IPsec
12 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.24%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.08%) GIS
2 3 (1.08%) Metadata
2 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.72%) SAP BW
3 2 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (0.72%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (2.88%) JIRA
2 7 (2.52%) Git
2 7 (2.52%) GitLab
3 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.36%) MLflow
5 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 78 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 74 (26.62%) Finance
3 36 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.12%) Banking
6 12 (4.32%) Legal
7 10 (3.60%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.24%) Military
9 7 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.16%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.44%) Marketing
12 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.08%) Law
13 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.36%) German Language
14 1 (0.36%) Police
14 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 189 (67.99%) Architect
2 157 (56.47%) Security Architect
3 41 (14.75%) Senior
4 35 (12.59%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (9.71%) Senior Architect
6 25 (8.99%) Senior Security Architect
7 23 (8.27%) Consultant
8 20 (7.19%) Security Consultant
9 19 (6.83%) Security Engineer
10 17 (6.12%) Security Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.76%) Lead
12 14 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 14 (5.04%) Azure Architect
13 13 (4.68%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 11 (3.96%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (3.96%) IT Architect
14 11 (3.96%) IT Security Architect
15 10 (3.60%) Security Specialist
16 9 (3.24%) Analyst
16 9 (3.24%) Enterprise Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.88%) Web Services
2 7 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (2.16%) JBoss Seam
4 5 (1.80%) OAuth
4 5 (1.80%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.80%) RESTful
4 5 (1.80%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.44%) .NET
5 4 (1.44%) Google JAX
5 4 (1.44%) JAX
5 4 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.44%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.44%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.08%) LDAP
6 3 (1.08%) React
7 2 (0.72%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.72%) OpenID
8 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.03%) Security Posture
2 30 (10.79%) Management Information System
3 19 (6.83%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.40%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (4.32%) Operational Technology
7 10 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.60%) PKI
8 9 (3.24%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.88%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.52%) SCADA
11 6 (2.16%) Cyberattack
11 6 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.80%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.80%) Taxonomies
13 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.27%) Windows
2 10 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.88%) Linux
4 3 (1.08%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) Debian
5 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (45.68%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (28.06%) Cloud Security
3 66 (23.74%) Threat Modelling
4 57 (20.50%) SIEM
5 51 (18.35%) Risk Management
6 47 (16.91%) Incident Response
7 42 (15.11%) Identity Access Management
8 41 (14.75%) Information Security
9 39 (14.03%) Roadmaps
10 37 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (12.95%) TOGAF
12 34 (12.23%) DevOps
12 34 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (11.15%) Application Security
14 30 (10.79%) Data Loss Prevention
14 30 (10.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 29 (10.43%) Zero Trust
16 28 (10.07%) CI/CD
16 28 (10.07%) Vulnerability Management
17 27 (9.71%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.40%) Python
2 13 (4.68%) Kusto Query Language
3 8 (2.88%) Java
4 7 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.44%) C++
5 4 (1.44%) R
6 3 (1.08%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.08%) Bash
6 3 (1.08%) C
6 3 (1.08%) SQL
7 2 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.58%) CISSP
3 45 (16.19%) SC Cleared
4 30 (10.79%) CISM
5 29 (10.43%) DV Cleared
6 21 (7.55%) Degree
7 16 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (3.60%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (3.24%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.88%) CCSP
10 8 (2.88%) CEH
11 6 (2.16%) CCNP
11 6 (2.16%) GIAC
11 6 (2.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 5 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.80%) CCIE
12 5 (1.80%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (30.58%) NIST
2 73 (26.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (17.99%) GDPR
4 21 (7.55%) NCSC
5 20 (7.19%) PCI DSS
6 11 (3.96%) EU AI Act
6 11 (3.96%) HIPAA
7 9 (3.24%) QA
8 8 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (2.88%) GRC
9 5 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.80%) COBIT
9 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.80%) PSD2
10 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.44%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
11 3 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 22 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.80%) Docker
3 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.40%) Terraform
3 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.52%) Ansible
6 3 (1.08%) SCCM
6 3 (1.08%) WSUS
7 2 (0.72%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.72%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.36%) CASB
8 1 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.36%) Grafana
8 1 (0.36%) Istio
8 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.12%) Darktrace
3 15 (5.40%) Splunk
4 13 (4.68%) CyberArk
5 12 (4.32%) Cisco
6 11 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.60%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.24%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.88%) SAP
10 7 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (2.52%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.52%) Oracle
10 7 (2.52%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.16%) Google
11 6 (2.16%) Okta
12 5 (1.80%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.80%) F5
13 4 (1.44%) Juniper
13 4 (1.44%) Remedy
13 4 (1.44%) Workday