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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 275 267
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 +66
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 294 223 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.86% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.95% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 143 203
10th Percentile £446 £550 £478
25th Percentile £507 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £614 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -9.07% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 12
10th Percentile £32.74 £59.25 £75.12
25th Percentile £34.06 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £67.40 £85.38
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% -21.06% -
75th Percentile £68.88 £78.40 £87.53
90th Percentile £84.55 £83.20 -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £73.31 £85.38
% change year-on-year +9.13% -14.14% -

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 29,739 23,407 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.55% 89.77% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,003 14,473 21,878
10th Percentile £308 £310 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £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 1,861 738 1,959
10th Percentile £15.09 £15.62 £13.39
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -6 152 £625 -9.09% 39
North of England -32 39 £620 +12.73% 13
South East -37 34 £650 +4.00% 19
Midlands -41 26 £475 -32.14% 10
West Midlands -38 21 £490 -30.00% 7
Yorkshire -41 21 £563 +2.27% 4
South West -19 17 £575 -8.00% 8
North West -13 15 £641 -1.38% 9
East of England -23 7 £713 -5.00% 4
East Midlands -23 5 £438 +0.46% 3
North East -11 4 £498 +15.70% 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 8 (2.72%) Confluence
2 6 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 129 (43.88%) Azure
2 107 (36.39%) AWS
3 43 (14.63%) GCP
4 42 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.50%) SaaS
6 23 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (7.48%) PaaS
8 20 (6.80%) IaaS
9 17 (5.78%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 11 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (3.40%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.72%) AWS KMS
14 8 (2.72%) GitHub
14 8 (2.72%) Serverless
15 6 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.04%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 70 (23.81%) Network Security
2 67 (22.79%) Firewall
3 25 (8.50%) VPN
4 18 (6.12%) WAN
5 17 (5.78%) DHCP
6 16 (5.44%) LAN
6 16 (5.44%) SD-WAN
7 14 (4.76%) BGP
7 14 (4.76%) DNS
8 12 (4.08%) IPsec
8 12 (4.08%) OSPF
9 10 (3.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 10 (3.40%) SSL
10 9 (3.06%) Wireless
11 8 (2.72%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.38%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.38%) Kerberos
12 7 (2.38%) VXLAN
13 6 (2.04%) HTTPS
13 6 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.04%) Metadata
2 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.34%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.34%) Power BI
2 1 (0.34%) Redis
2 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.08%) GitLab
2 7 (2.38%) JIRA
3 4 (1.36%) Git
3 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.36%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.34%) ERwin
5 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 73 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.75%) Finance
3 40 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.10%) Banking
7 13 (4.42%) Financial Institution
8 12 (4.08%) Legal
8 12 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.38%) Military
10 6 (2.04%) Law
11 5 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.68%) Aviation
14 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 184 (62.59%) Architect
2 136 (46.26%) Security Architect
3 34 (11.56%) Solutions Architect
4 29 (9.86%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 27 (9.18%) Security Engineer
6 23 (7.82%) Consultant
7 21 (7.14%) Senior
8 20 (6.80%) Network Architect
9 17 (5.78%) Security Consultant
9 17 (5.78%) Security Solutions Architect
10 15 (5.10%) Technical Architect
11 14 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (4.42%) Network Security Architect
13 11 (3.74%) Azure Architect
14 10 (3.40%) Project Manager
14 10 (3.40%) Senior Architect
15 7 (2.38%) AWS Architect
15 7 (2.38%) Lead
15 7 (2.38%) Security Manager
16 6 (2.04%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.44%) OAuth
2 12 (4.08%) OpenID
2 12 (4.08%) SAML
3 11 (3.74%) OAuth2
4 6 (2.04%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.70%) REST
5 5 (1.70%) Web Services
5 5 (1.70%) XACML
6 4 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.02%) .NET
7 3 (1.02%) ADO
7 3 (1.02%) Kafka
7 3 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.02%) Middleware
7 3 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.68%) JWT
8 2 (0.68%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.68%) Visualforce
9 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.34%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.86%) Security Posture
2 20 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.46%) PKI
4 18 (6.12%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.08%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.40%) IoT
8 9 (3.06%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.06%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.72%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.72%) Taxonomies
10 7 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.70%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.70%) NHS
11 5 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.82%) Windows
2 13 (4.42%) Linux
2 13 (4.42%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.70%) Unix
4 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (32.65%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (28.91%) Threat Modelling
3 83 (28.23%) Cloud Security
4 78 (26.53%) Zero Trust
5 57 (19.39%) CI/CD
6 53 (18.03%) SIEM
7 48 (16.33%) TOGAF
8 47 (15.99%) DevOps
9 44 (14.97%) DevSecOps
9 44 (14.97%) Identity Access Management
10 43 (14.63%) Incident Response
11 41 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (13.61%) Roadmaps
13 39 (13.27%) Migration
14 38 (12.93%) Risk Management
15 37 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 32 (10.88%) Data Loss Prevention
16 32 (10.88%) Regulatory Compliance
17 31 (10.54%) Agile
17 31 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.16%) Python
2 12 (4.08%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.74%) SQL
4 7 (2.38%) Java
4 7 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (1.70%) Bash
5 5 (1.70%) Bicep
6 3 (1.02%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.02%) Go
6 3 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.68%) C
7 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.68%) Swift
8 1 (0.34%) C-shell
8 1 (0.34%) Korn
8 1 (0.34%) ProC
8 1 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 93 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 69 (23.47%) CISSP
3 61 (20.75%) SC Cleared
4 33 (11.22%) CISM
5 30 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (9.18%) DV Cleared
7 21 (7.14%) Degree
8 19 (6.46%) AWS Certification
9 18 (6.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 16 (5.44%) CCSP
11 13 (4.42%) Azure Certification
11 13 (4.42%) CCIE
12 12 (4.08%) CCNP
13 10 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (3.06%) CEH
15 7 (2.38%) GIAC
15 7 (2.38%) PMI Certification
15 7 (2.38%) PMP
16 6 (2.04%) CCIE Security
16 6 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (28.23%) NIST
2 75 (25.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (15.65%) GDPR
4 30 (10.20%) NCSC
5 23 (7.82%) PCI DSS
6 12 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (3.06%) GRC
8 7 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (2.38%) EU AI Act
8 7 (2.38%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.70%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.70%) QA
10 4 (1.36%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (1.02%) PSD2
12 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.68%) RMADS
System Software
1 26 (8.84%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (3.74%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.72%) Docker
4 5 (1.70%) RACF
4 5 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (13.95%) Terraform
2 34 (11.56%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.84%) Ansible
4 16 (5.44%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.38%) SCCM
7 6 (2.04%) Fluentd
8 5 (1.70%) WSUS
9 4 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.02%) Grafana
11 2 (0.68%) Argo
11 2 (0.68%) CASB
11 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.34%) Istio
12 1 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.34%) OPNET
12 1 (0.34%) Packer
12 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 58 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.50%) Cisco
3 24 (8.16%) Splunk
4 18 (6.12%) Fortinet
5 16 (5.44%) VMware
6 15 (5.10%) Palo Alto
7 14 (4.76%) CyberArk
7 14 (4.76%) F5
8 13 (4.42%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.40%) CheckPoint
10 9 (3.06%) Juniper
11 8 (2.72%) Cribl.io
12 7 (2.38%) Darktrace
12 7 (2.38%) ForeScout
12 7 (2.38%) Sparx
13 6 (2.04%) Google
14 5 (1.70%) Meraki
14 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.70%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.70%) Sophos