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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 282 282
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 +91
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 270 234 284
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.83% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.93% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 145 190
10th Percentile £449 £513 £524
25th Percentile £513 £588 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% - -
75th Percentile £750 £788 £775
90th Percentile £788 £865 £875
UK median daily rate £623 £651 £650
% change year-on-year -4.30% +0.08% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £33.62 - £59.13
25th Percentile £36.25 £60.75 £69.79
Median hourly rate £54.50 £73.46 £81.08
Median % change year-on-year -25.80% -9.40% +9.93%
75th Percentile £63.25 £79.60 £85.06
90th Percentile £82.30 £83.20 £86.31
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £73.60 £81.08
% change year-on-year -21.88% -9.22% +9.93%

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 28,004 25,033 32,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.55% 88.72% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,835 15,427 21,866
10th Percentile £303 £312 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,779 821 1,411
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56.83 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.95
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.05% +25.57%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 30 December 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 +9 146 £625 -10.71% 93
South East -13 39 £663 +7.72% 208
North of England -20 38 £620 +10.52% 208
Yorkshire -27 19 £563 +0.27% 94
Midlands -41 18 £515 -26.43% 178
West Midlands -22 17 £525 -25.00% 86
South West -13 11 £681 -2.68% 114
North West -16 11 £697 - 99
North East - 9 £725 - 15
East of England -17 7 £713 -5.00% 156
East Midlands -23 1 £400 -8.15% 81
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 7 (2.59%) Confluence
1 7 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Summit
3 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (42.22%) Azure
2 100 (37.04%) AWS
3 42 (15.56%) GCP
4 32 (11.85%) Entra ID
5 24 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (5.56%) SaaS
7 14 (5.19%) PaaS
8 11 (4.07%) IaaS
9 10 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (3.70%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (2.96%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.85%) GitHub
13 4 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
14 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (22.22%) Firewall
2 51 (18.89%) Network Security
3 23 (8.52%) VPN
4 18 (6.67%) WAN
5 17 (6.30%) DNS
6 15 (5.56%) LAN
7 14 (5.19%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.81%) BGP
9 12 (4.44%) DHCP
10 11 (4.07%) OSPF
10 11 (4.07%) TCP/IP
11 9 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.22%) BIG-IP
12 6 (2.22%) NGFW
12 6 (2.22%) SSL
12 6 (2.22%) VXLAN
13 5 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 5 (1.85%) IPsec
13 5 (1.85%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.59%) MongoDB
1 7 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.85%) Metadata
3 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.37%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.37%) Power BI
3 1 (0.37%) Redis
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.44%) GitLab
2 7 (2.59%) JIRA
3 5 (1.85%) Git
3 5 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.11%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.37%) MLflow
6 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.59%) Finance
3 33 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.56%) Banking
6 14 (5.19%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.81%) Legal
8 8 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.22%) Military
11 3 (1.11%) Law
11 3 (1.11%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Local Government
13 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (66.30%) Architect
2 143 (52.96%) Security Architect
3 33 (12.22%) Solutions Architect
4 26 (9.63%) Security Engineer
5 23 (8.52%) Consultant
6 20 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 19 (7.04%) Network Architect
8 18 (6.67%) Security Consultant
8 18 (6.67%) Senior
9 15 (5.56%) Security Solutions Architect
10 14 (5.19%) Senior Architect
11 13 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 13 (4.81%) Senior Security Architect
12 11 (4.07%) Azure Architect
13 10 (3.70%) AWS Architect
13 10 (3.70%) Network Security Architect
14 9 (3.33%) AWS Security Architect
15 8 (2.96%) Analyst
15 8 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.96%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.22%) OAuth
2 5 (1.85%) PyTorch
2 5 (1.85%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.48%) Google JAX
3 4 (1.48%) JAX
3 4 (1.48%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (1.48%) OpenID
3 4 (1.48%) REST
3 4 (1.48%) SAML
3 4 (1.48%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.11%) Kafka
4 3 (1.11%) Middleware
4 3 (1.11%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.74%) JWT
5 2 (0.74%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.74%) Visualforce
5 2 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.22%) Security Posture
2 25 (9.26%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.93%) PKI
4 15 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.44%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.33%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.96%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.96%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.59%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.59%) Taxonomies
11 6 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.22%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.85%) NHS
13 4 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.78%) Windows
2 8 (2.96%) Linux
3 7 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.07%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (29.63%) Cloud Security
3 64 (23.70%) Threat Modelling
4 57 (21.11%) SIEM
5 53 (19.63%) Zero Trust
6 52 (19.26%) CI/CD
6 52 (19.26%) Incident Response
7 44 (16.30%) TOGAF
8 42 (15.56%) Roadmaps
9 41 (15.19%) DevOps
10 37 (13.70%) DevSecOps
10 37 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 36 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
12 35 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (11.85%) Information Security
14 30 (11.11%) Migration
15 29 (10.74%) AI
15 29 (10.74%) Regulatory Compliance
16 26 (9.63%) Data Loss Prevention
17 25 (9.26%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.63%) Python
2 12 (4.44%) Kusto Query Language
3 9 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.96%) Java
5 6 (2.22%) Bash
5 6 (2.22%) SQL
6 5 (1.85%) C
7 4 (1.48%) C++
7 4 (1.48%) R
8 3 (1.11%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.11%) Go
8 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Bicep
10 1 (0.37%) C-shell
10 1 (0.37%) Korn
10 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.37%) ProC
10 1 (0.37%) SOQL
10 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 77 (28.52%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.56%) CISSP
3 52 (19.26%) SC Cleared
4 30 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (11.11%) CISM
5 25 (9.26%) AWS Certification
6 21 (7.78%) Degree
7 18 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 18 (6.67%) CCSP
8 16 (5.93%) Azure Certification
8 16 (5.93%) DV Cleared
9 13 (4.81%) CCIE
9 13 (4.81%) CCNP
10 11 (4.07%) CEH
11 6 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
11 6 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 6 (2.22%) JNCIE
11 6 (2.22%) JNCIP
11 6 (2.22%) OSCP
11 6 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (30.37%) NIST
2 77 (28.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (17.41%) GDPR
4 27 (10.00%) PCI DSS
5 20 (7.41%) NCSC
6 11 (4.07%) EU AI Act
6 11 (4.07%) QA
7 9 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (2.96%) PSD2
9 5 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.85%) GRC
10 4 (1.48%) COBIT
10 4 (1.48%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.48%) JSP 440
11 3 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.11%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.96%) Docker
3 7 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.59%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) RACF
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (12.59%) Terraform
2 33 (12.22%) Kubernetes
3 24 (8.89%) Ansible
4 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.96%) SCCM
6 6 (2.22%) Fluentd
6 6 (2.22%) WSUS
7 5 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.11%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.11%) Grafana
9 2 (0.74%) Argo
9 2 (0.74%) CASB
9 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.37%) Istio
10 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.37%) OPNET
10 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.89%) Cisco
3 22 (8.15%) Splunk
4 15 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 13 (4.81%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.44%) CyberArk
6 12 (4.44%) Darktrace
6 12 (4.44%) F5
6 12 (4.44%) Zscaler
7 11 (4.07%) VMware
8 10 (3.70%) CheckPoint
9 8 (2.96%) Juniper
9 8 (2.96%) Sparx
10 7 (2.59%) Cribl.io
10 7 (2.59%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.22%) SAP
11 6 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.22%) Sophos
12 5 (1.85%) Google
12 5 (1.85%) Meraki