Security Architecture Contracts in England

Security Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 229 249
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 +71
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 271 389 484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.05% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.22% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 250 359
10th Percentile £522 £500 £525
25th Percentile £600 £600 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £775
90th Percentile £809 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £684
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.34% +5.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 9
10th Percentile £57.82 - £66.40
25th Percentile £60.75 £81.88 £71.20
Median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +20.08% +0.46%
75th Percentile £89.78 £87.53 £90.00
90th Percentile £99.25 - £95.00
UK median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £72.62
% change year-on-year -0.48% +20.44% +0.16%

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 24,147 31,870 43,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 85.64% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,520 20,680 30,282
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,216 2,288 1,563
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%
75th Percentile £54.81 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £72.73 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architecture in England over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +8 135 £675 -6.90% 381
South East +31 61 £638 +6.25% 113
North of England -31 29 £700 -12.50% 80
North West -36 17 £708 -11.50% 51
South West +11 13 £675 +5.47% 47
Midlands -4 13 £800 +23.08% 44
West Midlands -11 11 £800 +23.08% 27
North East - 10 £663 - 7
Yorkshire +7 3 £550 - 22
East of England +23 2 - - 40
East Midlands +2 2 - - 17
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.48%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.48%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.48%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.11%) SAP GRC
3 3 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.74%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 110 (40.59%) Azure
2 80 (29.52%) AWS
3 40 (14.76%) GCP
4 20 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (7.01%) Entra ID
6 16 (5.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (4.80%) SaaS
8 8 (2.95%) IaaS
9 7 (2.58%) PaaS
10 6 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.21%) Serverless
11 5 (1.85%) GitHub
11 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.48%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (1.11%) Akamai
13 3 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.11%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.11%) OCI
13 3 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (18.82%) Firewall
2 38 (14.02%) Network Security
3 16 (5.90%) VPN
3 16 (5.90%) WAN
4 15 (5.54%) SD-WAN
5 13 (4.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 12 (4.43%) DNS
7 7 (2.58%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.48%) HTTP
8 4 (1.48%) LAN
9 3 (1.11%) DHCP
9 3 (1.11%) NGFW
9 3 (1.11%) SMTP
10 2 (0.74%) BGP
10 2 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.74%) IPsec
10 2 (0.74%) Wireless
11 1 (0.37%) HSRP
11 1 (0.37%) Modbus
11 1 (0.37%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.32%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.21%) GIS
3 3 (1.11%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.11%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Git
2 5 (1.85%) JIRA
3 3 (1.11%) GitLab
4 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 75 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.03%) Finance
3 31 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.17%) Banking
6 13 (4.80%) Military
7 12 (4.43%) Legal
8 8 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.48%) Law
11 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.11%) Marketing
11 3 (1.11%) Retail
12 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Automotive
13 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 181 (66.79%) Architect
2 159 (58.67%) Security Architect
3 60 (22.14%) Senior
4 35 (12.92%) Senior Architect
5 33 (12.18%) Senior Security Architect
6 24 (8.86%) Lead
7 23 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (6.64%) Enterprise Architect
9 15 (5.54%) Enterprise Security Architect
10 14 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (5.17%) Consultant
10 14 (5.17%) IT Architect
10 14 (5.17%) IT Security Architect
11 13 (4.80%) Security Specialist
12 12 (4.43%) Security Consultant
12 12 (4.43%) Security Engineer
12 12 (4.43%) Security Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.06%) Azure Architect
13 11 (4.06%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 10 (3.69%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.80%) Web Services
2 10 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.32%) JBoss Seam
4 6 (2.21%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (2.21%) React
5 5 (1.85%) .NET
5 5 (1.85%) RESTful
6 4 (1.48%) Google JAX
6 4 (1.48%) JAX
6 4 (1.48%) LDAP
6 4 (1.48%) OAuth
6 4 (1.48%) OpenID
6 4 (1.48%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.48%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.48%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.48%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.11%) Node.js
7 3 (1.11%) SAML
8 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.28%) Management Information System
2 32 (11.81%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.80%) Operational Technology
5 12 (4.43%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.06%) PKI
7 9 (3.32%) SCADA
8 8 (2.95%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.58%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.58%) Cyberattack
9 7 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.49%) Windows
2 16 (5.90%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.48%) Linux
4 2 (0.74%) Debian
5 1 (0.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (39.85%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (31.00%) Cloud Security
3 70 (25.83%) Risk Management
4 60 (22.14%) Threat Modelling
5 50 (18.45%) Information Security
6 44 (16.24%) Identity Access Management
7 38 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.02%) SIEM
8 37 (13.65%) Incident Response
9 36 (13.28%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 34 (12.55%) SABSA
10 34 (12.55%) Vulnerability Management
11 32 (11.81%) Application Security
12 30 (11.07%) DevOps
13 29 (10.70%) Security Operations
14 28 (10.33%) Enterprise Architecture
15 27 (9.96%) Roadmaps
16 26 (9.59%) Risk Assessment
17 25 (9.23%) Agile
18 24 (8.86%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.54%) PowerShell
2 14 (5.17%) Python
3 9 (3.32%) Java
4 5 (1.85%) Bash
4 5 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.48%) C++
5 4 (1.48%) R
6 3 (1.11%) C
7 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.74%) SQL
7 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.37%) Bicep
8 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 91 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.99%) CISSP
3 58 (21.40%) SC Cleared
4 39 (14.39%) CISM
5 38 (14.02%) DV Cleared
6 23 (8.49%) Degree
7 13 (4.80%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (4.06%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.06%) CISA
9 10 (3.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (3.69%) CRISC
10 8 (2.95%) GIAC
11 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.21%) PMP
12 5 (1.85%) CCSK
12 5 (1.85%) CEH
12 5 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (33.58%) NIST
2 65 (23.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (16.61%) GDPR
4 19 (7.01%) NCSC
5 18 (6.64%) PCI DSS
6 15 (5.54%) GRC
7 14 (5.17%) HIPAA
7 14 (5.17%) NIST 800
8 8 (2.95%) QA
9 7 (2.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.85%) COBIT
10 5 (1.85%) EU AI Act
10 5 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.48%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.74%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 19 (7.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) IAG
3 1 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.95%) Terraform
3 7 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.48%) CASB
6 2 (0.74%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Cilium
7 1 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.37%) Grafana
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 62 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.06%) Darktrace
3 8 (2.95%) Google
3 8 (2.95%) SAP
4 7 (2.58%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (2.58%) CyberArk
4 7 (2.58%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.21%) Cisco
5 6 (2.21%) ESRI
5 6 (2.21%) Okta
5 6 (2.21%) Oracle
5 6 (2.21%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.21%) Zscaler
6 5 (1.85%) Databricks
7 4 (1.48%) Workday
8 3 (1.11%) Sparx
8 3 (1.11%) Splunk
9 2 (0.74%) Dell KACE
9 2 (0.74%) Ping Identity