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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 263 230
Rank change year-on-year +44 -33 +14
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 536 276 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.00% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.10% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 171 233
10th Percentile £468 £513 £515
25th Percentile £525 £581 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £804
90th Percentile £825 £805 £850
UK median daily rate £623 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.78% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £82.23 £48.10 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £86.50 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -1.10% +20.08%
75th Percentile - £88.87 -
90th Percentile £103.63 £98.50 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £86.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year -2.89% -1.10% +20.44%

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 38,369 25,044 29,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 90.72% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,058 16,057 19,314
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £423 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,388 1,359 1,834
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.56 £51.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +48 263 £650 -3.70% 133
South East -48 89 £638 -1.92% 43
North of England -23 86 £634 -9.46% 34
North West -9 58 £620 -13.41% 21
Midlands -30 36 £600 -22.58% 13
West Midlands -31 32 £600 -22.58% 5
South West -24 27 £588 -14.55% 13
Yorkshire -25 27 £675 +22.73% 13
East of England -7 14 £600 - 5
East Midlands -12 2 £475 - 8
North East -48 2 - -
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 12 (2.24%) Confluence
2 4 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Appian
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 238 (44.40%) Azure
2 185 (34.51%) AWS
3 82 (15.30%) GCP
4 69 (12.87%) Entra ID
5 25 (4.66%) Azure Sentinel
6 24 (4.48%) SaaS
7 22 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.17%) GitHub
9 16 (2.99%) Serverless
10 15 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.80%) PaaS
11 14 (2.61%) IaaS
12 13 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (1.49%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.49%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.31%) Vertex AI
15 7 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 88 (16.42%) Network Security
2 63 (11.75%) Firewall
3 20 (3.73%) VPN
4 18 (3.36%) WAN
5 13 (2.43%) DNS
6 11 (2.05%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.87%) DHCP
7 10 (1.87%) NGFW
8 9 (1.68%) Internet
8 9 (1.68%) LAN
9 7 (1.31%) IPsec
10 6 (1.12%) 4G
10 6 (1.12%) SSL
10 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.93%) 5G
11 5 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.75%) BGP
12 4 (0.75%) Intranet
12 4 (0.75%) VLAN
13 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.31%) Power BI
3 6 (1.12%) Metadata
4 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.93%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.75%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.75%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.37%) Big Data
7 2 (0.37%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.17%) JIRA
2 11 (2.05%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.87%) GitLab
4 6 (1.12%) Snyk
5 5 (0.93%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) ERwin
7 1 (0.19%) Git
7 1 (0.19%) Hudson
General
1 136 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.27%) Finance
3 77 (14.37%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.34%) Banking
5 24 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (2.80%) Military
9 14 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.43%) Legal
11 12 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.05%) Local Government
13 8 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.49%) Retail
14 7 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.75%) Aviation
16 4 (0.75%) Police
16 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 343 (63.99%) Architect
2 245 (45.71%) Security Architect
3 63 (11.75%) Security Engineer
4 61 (11.38%) Lead
5 45 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
6 40 (7.46%) Senior
7 35 (6.53%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 30 (5.60%) Lead Architect
9 27 (5.04%) Consultant
10 26 (4.85%) Cloud Architect
11 20 (3.73%) Lead Security Architect
11 20 (3.73%) Technical Architect
12 19 (3.54%) Enterprise Architect
13 18 (3.36%) Security Consultant
13 18 (3.36%) Senior Architect
14 17 (3.17%) Enterprise Security Architect
14 17 (3.17%) Network Architect
15 16 (2.99%) Security Specialist
15 16 (2.99%) Senior Security Engineer
16 15 (2.80%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.17%) OAuth
2 16 (2.99%) REST
3 14 (2.61%) OpenID
4 13 (2.43%) OAuth2
4 13 (2.43%) SailPoint
5 12 (2.24%) SAML
6 8 (1.49%) 802.1X
6 8 (1.49%) LangChain
6 8 (1.49%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.49%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.12%) LDAP
7 6 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.12%) SLSA
8 4 (0.75%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (0.75%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (0.75%) JSP
8 4 (0.75%) Middleware
8 4 (0.75%) ModSecurity
8 4 (0.75%) SOAP
9 3 (0.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 80 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.31%) Security Posture
3 41 (7.65%) Operational Technology
4 25 (4.66%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.80%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.80%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.24%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.24%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.24%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 9 (1.68%) PKI
11 8 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (1.49%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.31%) SCADA
12 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.66%) Linux
2 21 (3.92%) Windows
3 8 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.75%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (36.75%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (30.22%) Threat Modelling
3 147 (27.43%) Cloud Security
4 126 (23.51%) CI/CD
5 118 (22.01%) Zero Trust
6 109 (20.34%) Risk Management
7 108 (20.15%) Roadmaps
8 101 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 97 (18.10%) DevSecOps
9 97 (18.10%) TOGAF
10 95 (17.72%) DevOps
11 91 (16.98%) SIEM
12 90 (16.79%) Architectural Patterns
12 90 (16.79%) Identity Access Management
13 87 (16.23%) Vulnerability Management
14 83 (15.49%) SABSA
15 82 (15.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 77 (14.37%) AI
17 68 (12.69%) Agile
18 64 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.28%) Python
2 20 (3.73%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.73%) SQL
3 19 (3.54%) Java
4 14 (2.61%) Bicep
5 9 (1.68%) Bash
6 3 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.37%) ABAP
7 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.37%) Ruby
7 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.19%) Groovy
8 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 188 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 137 (25.56%) CISSP
3 122 (22.76%) SC Cleared
4 59 (11.01%) CISM
5 50 (9.33%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (8.96%) DV Cleared
7 42 (7.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 34 (6.34%) Degree
9 33 (6.16%) AWS Certification
10 26 (4.85%) GIAC
11 24 (4.48%) Azure Certification
12 21 (3.92%) CCSP
13 19 (3.54%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (2.61%) CEH
14 14 (2.61%) CRISC
15 13 (2.43%) SANS
16 12 (2.24%) CISA
17 10 (1.87%) OSCP
18 9 (1.68%) CESG Certified Professional
18 9 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (25.37%) NIST
2 98 (18.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (8.40%) NCSC
4 41 (7.65%) GDPR
5 26 (4.85%) GRC
6 25 (4.66%) NIST 800
6 25 (4.66%) PCI DSS
7 17 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.87%) SLA
9 9 (1.68%) JSP 440
9 9 (1.68%) QA
10 8 (1.49%) ISO 31000
11 7 (1.31%) COBIT
11 7 (1.31%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.93%) Data Quality
13 5 (0.93%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 38 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.36%) Docker
3 8 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.56%) RACF
4 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) IAG
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.19%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (7.28%) Terraform
2 36 (6.72%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.80%) Ansible
4 9 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.93%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.75%) CASB
8 3 (0.56%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.56%) SCCM
9 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.37%) QRadar
10 1 (0.19%) Grafana
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.19%) Packer
10 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 113 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.85%) CyberArk
3 24 (4.48%) Google
4 18 (3.36%) Splunk
5 17 (3.17%) Okta
6 16 (2.99%) SAP
7 15 (2.80%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.24%) Zscaler
9 11 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 11 (2.05%) Tenable
10 10 (1.87%) Cisco
10 10 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (1.87%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.68%) Databricks
11 9 (1.68%) Qualys
11 9 (1.68%) VMware
12 8 (1.49%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.12%) IBM
13 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.12%) Oracle