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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 262 233
Rank change year-on-year +46 -29 +18
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 504 254 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 1.02% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.12% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 159 248
10th Percentile £462 £525 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £770 £794
90th Percentile £825 £809 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 16
10th Percentile £82.23 £57.82 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £85.75 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -1.96% +19.13%
75th Percentile - £88.87 £87.53
90th Percentile £103.63 £92.14 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £85.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year -1.18% -2.81% +20.08%

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 36,836 22,759 32,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.40% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,282 14,723 20,802
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,303 1,078 2,398
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +72.39% -32.00% +7.05%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +23 255 £639 -5.37% 55
North of England -9 85 £658 -1.97% 10
South East -55 61 £600 -7.69% 28
North West +2 58 £621 -11.29% 6
Midlands -34 37 £538 -32.81% 12
South West -11 30 £575 -14.81% 15
West Midlands -41 29 £600 -25.00% 8
Yorkshire -34 27 £675 +22.73% 4
East of England -28 8 £710 -8.39% 5
East Midlands -13 6 £442 - 4
North East -38 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 14 (2.78%) Confluence
2 7 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) Camunda
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.20%) Appian
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 222 (44.05%) Azure
2 180 (35.71%) AWS
3 82 (16.27%) GCP
4 68 (13.49%) Entra ID
5 30 (5.95%) SaaS
6 25 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.77%) IaaS
8 19 (3.77%) PaaS
9 17 (3.37%) Serverless
10 13 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.58%) GitHub
11 11 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 8 (1.59%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.59%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.39%) Azure AI
14 6 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 101 (20.04%) Network Security
2 66 (13.10%) Firewall
3 18 (3.57%) WAN
4 16 (3.17%) VPN
5 15 (2.98%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.58%) LAN
7 11 (2.18%) IPsec
8 10 (1.98%) DHCP
8 10 (1.98%) NGFW
9 8 (1.59%) DNS
9 8 (1.59%) Internet
9 8 (1.59%) SSL
10 7 (1.39%) BGP
11 6 (1.19%) HTTPS
11 6 (1.19%) Kerberos
11 6 (1.19%) OSPF
11 6 (1.19%) Wireless
12 5 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 4 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.39%) Power BI
2 6 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.19%) Metadata
3 5 (0.99%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.79%) SAP BW
4 4 (0.79%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.40%) Big Data
6 2 (0.40%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.40%) MySQL
6 2 (0.40%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.17%) JIRA
2 8 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.19%) GitLab
3 6 (1.19%) Snyk
4 5 (0.99%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.79%) Git
6 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.20%) ERwin
7 1 (0.20%) Hudson
General
1 116 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 111 (22.02%) Finance
3 68 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 31 (6.15%) Banking
5 26 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.78%) Legal
7 14 (2.78%) Military
8 12 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.18%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.59%) Retail
11 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Aviation
12 5 (0.99%) Law
12 5 (0.99%) Local Government
13 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Police
13 3 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 301 (59.72%) Architect
2 216 (42.86%) Security Architect
3 63 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 43 (8.53%) Lead
4 43 (8.53%) Senior
5 38 (7.54%) Solutions Architect
6 37 (7.34%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 27 (5.36%) Consultant
8 25 (4.96%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (4.56%) Technical Architect
10 18 (3.57%) Security Consultant
11 17 (3.37%) Security Specialist
11 17 (3.37%) Senior Architect
11 17 (3.37%) Senior Security Engineer
12 15 (2.98%) Lead Architect
12 15 (2.98%) Network Architect
13 13 (2.58%) Enterprise Security Architect
14 12 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (2.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 12 (2.38%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.17%) OAuth
2 17 (3.37%) OpenID
3 16 (3.17%) OAuth2
4 15 (2.98%) SAML
5 13 (2.58%) SailPoint
6 12 (2.38%) REST
7 11 (2.18%) 802.1X
8 8 (1.59%) LangChain
8 8 (1.59%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.59%) scikit-learn
9 6 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.99%) .NET
10 5 (0.99%) LDAP
10 5 (0.99%) Web Services
10 5 (0.99%) XACML
11 4 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
11 4 (0.79%) J2EE
11 4 (0.79%) JSP
12 3 (0.60%) FHIR
12 3 (0.60%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 68 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 61 (12.10%) Security Posture
3 42 (8.33%) Operational Technology
4 24 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.98%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
9 12 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
9 12 (2.38%) PKI
10 11 (2.18%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.98%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.98%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (1.59%) IoT
13 7 (1.39%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.39%) SCADA
13 7 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.36%) Linux
1 27 (5.36%) Windows
2 14 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.79%) Unix
4 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.79%) Alpine Linux
6 3 (0.60%) Android
6 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (35.91%) Cybersecurity
2 165 (32.74%) Threat Modelling
3 132 (26.19%) Cloud Security
4 121 (24.01%) Zero Trust
5 106 (21.03%) CI/CD
6 94 (18.65%) SIEM
7 91 (18.06%) DevOps
8 89 (17.66%) Risk Management
9 88 (17.46%) Vulnerability Management
10 86 (17.06%) DevSecOps
10 86 (17.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 81 (16.07%) Architectural Patterns
12 75 (14.88%) Roadmaps
12 75 (14.88%) TOGAF
13 74 (14.68%) Identity Access Management
14 73 (14.48%) SABSA
15 70 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 68 (13.49%) Agile
17 56 (11.11%) SDLC
18 55 (10.91%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 45 (8.93%) Python
2 21 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.97%) Java
4 18 (3.57%) SQL
5 13 (2.58%) Bicep
6 9 (1.79%) Bash
7 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.40%) ABAP
9 2 (0.40%) Ruby
9 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.40%) Swift
10 1 (0.20%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 122 (24.21%) CISSP
3 113 (22.42%) SC Cleared
4 55 (10.91%) CISM
5 50 (9.92%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (8.53%) DV Cleared
7 42 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 34 (6.75%) Degree
9 30 (5.95%) GIAC
10 29 (5.75%) AWS Certification
11 21 (4.17%) CCSP
12 19 (3.77%) Azure Certification
13 16 (3.17%) SANS
14 14 (2.78%) CEH
14 14 (2.78%) CRISC
15 11 (2.18%) CISA
15 11 (2.18%) PMI Certification
15 11 (2.18%) PMP
16 10 (1.98%) OSCP
17 9 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (28.57%) NIST
2 109 (21.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (10.32%) GDPR
4 48 (9.52%) NCSC
5 28 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 22 (4.37%) GRC
6 22 (4.37%) NIST 800
7 16 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 10 (1.98%) SLA
9 9 (1.79%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.59%) COBIT
10 8 (1.59%) ISO 31000
10 8 (1.59%) QA
11 7 (1.39%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.39%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 5 (0.99%) RMADS
13 3 (0.60%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 41 (8.13%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.98%) Docker
3 12 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.99%) RACF
6 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.40%) IAG
7 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.20%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (8.13%) Terraform
2 35 (6.94%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.37%) Ansible
4 16 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.79%) CASB
6 4 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.60%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.40%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
9 1 (0.20%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) QRadar
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 103 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.95%) CyberArk
3 22 (4.37%) Splunk
4 20 (3.97%) Google
5 16 (3.17%) Cisco
5 16 (3.17%) Okta
6 15 (2.98%) VMware
6 15 (2.98%) Zscaler
7 14 (2.78%) Palo Alto
8 13 (2.58%) SAP
9 12 (2.38%) Fortinet
9 12 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.18%) Tenable
11 9 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.79%) Qualys
12 8 (1.59%) Rapid7
13 7 (1.39%) ForeScout
14 6 (1.19%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.19%) F5
15 5 (0.99%) Oracle