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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 256 238
Rank change year-on-year -12 -18 +113
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 262 301 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 0.92% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.07% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 185 324
10th Percentile £513 £531 £525
25th Percentile £600 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £698
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.94% +7.31%
75th Percentile £750 £804 £775
90th Percentile £800 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 12
10th Percentile £52.05 £73.43 £68.48
25th Percentile £63.75 £84.67 £71.02
Median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £73.66
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +18.74% +1.59%
75th Percentile £88.87 - £86.71
90th Percentile £100.55 - £93.38
UK median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £73.31
% change year-on-year -0.48% +19.30% +1.12%

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 24,859 28,043 38,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.86% 86.03% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,781 17,557 26,415
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £404 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £648 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,478 1,320 1,438
10th Percentile £14.29 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%
75th Percentile £48.74 £66.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +19 135 £650 -10.34% 53
South East +33 47 £650 +8.33% 51
North of England -40 33 £719 -10.19% 22
North West -49 20 £716 -10.50% 10
Midlands -28 15 £800 +18.52% 23
West Midlands -25 13 £800 +14.29% 12
South West +14 12 £688 -8.33% 26
North East - 8 £738 - 4
Yorkshire - 6 £738 - 10
East of England +6 4 £850 +17.24% 17
East Midlands -4 2 - - 9
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 8 (3.05%) Confluence
1 8 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.53%) Workday HCM
2 3 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 93 (35.50%) Azure
2 76 (29.01%) AWS
3 45 (17.18%) GCP
4 26 (9.92%) Entra ID
5 21 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.73%) SaaS
7 12 (4.58%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (4.20%) IaaS
9 9 (3.44%) PaaS
10 6 (2.29%) GitHub
11 5 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.15%) Akamai
13 3 (1.15%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (1.15%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.15%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.15%) Serverless
13 3 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (20.23%) Firewall
2 37 (14.12%) Network Security
3 17 (6.49%) VPN
4 12 (4.58%) SD-WAN
4 12 (4.58%) WAN
5 9 (3.44%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (2.67%) NGFW
6 7 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.29%) DNS
8 5 (1.91%) LAN
9 4 (1.53%) BGP
9 4 (1.53%) DHCP
10 3 (1.15%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (1.15%) HTTP
10 3 (1.15%) OSPF
11 2 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.76%) Internet
11 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.44%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.29%) GIS
3 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.76%) Metadata
3 2 (0.76%) SAP BW
3 2 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (0.76%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Git
1 7 (2.67%) JIRA
2 6 (2.29%) GitLab
3 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.38%) MLflow
5 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 71 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.66%) Finance
3 31 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.73%) Banking
6 11 (4.20%) Military
7 9 (3.44%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.44%) Legal
8 8 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Marketing
12 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.15%) Law
13 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Automotive
14 1 (0.38%) German Language
14 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 176 (67.18%) Architect
2 151 (57.63%) Security Architect
3 43 (16.41%) Senior
4 29 (11.07%) Senior Architect
5 27 (10.31%) Senior Security Architect
6 26 (9.92%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (6.49%) Lead
7 17 (6.49%) Security Engineer
8 14 (5.34%) Consultant
9 13 (4.96%) Security Consultant
10 12 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 11 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
11 11 (4.20%) IT Architect
11 11 (4.20%) IT Security Architect
12 10 (3.82%) Security Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.82%) Security Specialist
13 9 (3.44%) Analyst
13 9 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 9 (3.44%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.44%) Enterprise Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.05%) Web Services
2 7 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.67%) JBoss Seam
3 6 (2.29%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (1.91%) .NET
4 5 (1.91%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.91%) RESTful
4 5 (1.91%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.53%) Google JAX
5 4 (1.53%) JAX
5 4 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.53%) React
5 4 (1.53%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.53%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.15%) LDAP
6 3 (1.15%) OAuth
6 3 (1.15%) OpenID
7 2 (0.76%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.76%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.98%) Security Posture
2 32 (12.21%) Management Information System
3 19 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.34%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (4.96%) Operational Technology
6 12 (4.58%) PKI
6 12 (4.58%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.67%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.67%) SCADA
9 6 (2.29%) Cyberattack
9 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.29%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.91%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.07%) Windows
2 16 (6.11%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.67%) Linux
4 3 (1.15%) Unix
5 2 (0.76%) Debian
5 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (45.80%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (27.86%) Cloud Security
3 57 (21.76%) Threat Modelling
4 49 (18.70%) Risk Management
5 46 (17.56%) SIEM
6 40 (15.27%) Incident Response
6 40 (15.27%) Information Security
7 38 (14.50%) Identity Access Management
8 35 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (12.60%) Application Security
9 33 (12.60%) DevOps
10 32 (12.21%) TOGAF
11 31 (11.83%) Roadmaps
11 31 (11.83%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 30 (11.45%) Vulnerability Management
13 28 (10.69%) CI/CD
14 25 (9.54%) Enterprise Architecture
15 24 (9.16%) Decision-Making
15 24 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (8.78%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.73%) Python
2 12 (4.58%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.44%) Java
3 9 (3.44%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (1.53%) Bash
4 4 (1.53%) C++
4 4 (1.53%) R
4 4 (1.53%) SQL
5 3 (1.15%) C
6 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.76%) Bicep
6 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.76%) CISSP
3 46 (17.56%) SC Cleared
4 32 (12.21%) DV Cleared
5 29 (11.07%) CISM
6 21 (8.02%) Degree
7 16 (6.11%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (4.58%) AWS Certification
8 12 (4.58%) Azure Certification
9 11 (4.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (3.44%) CISA
11 8 (3.05%) CCSP
12 7 (2.67%) CEH
12 7 (2.67%) CRISC
12 7 (2.67%) GIAC
13 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.29%) PMP
14 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.91%) CompTIA CySA+
14 5 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (31.68%) NIST
2 68 (25.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (17.56%) GDPR
4 23 (8.78%) PCI DSS
5 18 (6.87%) NCSC
6 12 (4.58%) HIPAA
7 8 (3.05%) QA
8 7 (2.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (2.29%) EU AI Act
9 6 (2.29%) GRC
10 5 (1.91%) COBIT
10 5 (1.91%) NIST 800
10 5 (1.91%) PSD2
11 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.76%) RMADS
System Software
1 23 (8.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.53%) Docker
3 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.11%) Terraform
3 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.91%) Ansible
6 2 (0.76%) CASB
6 2 (0.76%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.76%) Fluentd
6 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.76%) SCCM
6 2 (0.76%) WSUS
7 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.38%) Istio
7 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.38%) OPNET
7 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.49%) Darktrace
3 12 (4.58%) CyberArk
3 12 (4.58%) Splunk
4 10 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.44%) Cisco
5 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.05%) SAP
6 8 (3.05%) Zscaler
7 7 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (2.67%) Oracle
8 6 (2.29%) ESRI
8 6 (2.29%) Okta
8 6 (2.29%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.91%) Google
10 4 (1.53%) Remedy
10 4 (1.53%) Workday
11 3 (1.15%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.15%) Databricks
11 3 (1.15%) F5