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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 284 276
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +109
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 278 242 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.79% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.91% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 144 244
10th Percentile £449 £511 £525
25th Percentile £525 £584 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £778 £750
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 7
10th Percentile £36.25 - £60.96
25th Percentile £49.25 £60.75 £69.73
Median hourly rate £86.50 £61.50 £73.31
Median % change year-on-year +40.66% -16.12% +1.12%
75th Percentile £91.94 £78.40 £84.36
90th Percentile £100.00 £81.28 £86.17
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £61.50 £73.31
% change year-on-year +38.22% -16.12% +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 27,183 26,639 35,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.25% 86.82% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,253 16,245 24,094
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,480
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £47.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.94 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +25.71%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +33 140 £650 -7.14% 76
South East +7 48 £650 +8.33% 47
North of England +1 41 £700 +7.69% 13
Midlands -37 22 £525 -22.22% 9
West Midlands -30 19 £600 -14.29% 8
North West -5 18 £717 +4.33% 10
Yorkshire -23 15 £563 +33.29% 3
South West -21 10 £688 -1.79% 12
North East - 9 £725 -
East of England -15 7 £850 +17.24% 9
East Midlands -18 3 £400 -8.15% 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 10 (3.60%) Confluence
1 10 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.44%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 115 (41.37%) Azure
2 88 (31.65%) AWS
3 49 (17.63%) GCP
4 36 (12.95%) Entra ID
5 28 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.83%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (6.47%) SaaS
8 15 (5.40%) PaaS
9 13 (4.68%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.96%) IaaS
11 8 (2.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (2.88%) GitHub
11 8 (2.88%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.44%) AWS KMS
14 4 (1.44%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 65 (23.38%) Firewall
2 50 (17.99%) Network Security
3 22 (7.91%) VPN
4 15 (5.40%) DNS
5 13 (4.68%) WAN
6 12 (4.32%) SD-WAN
7 10 (3.60%) BGP
7 10 (3.60%) DHCP
7 10 (3.60%) LAN
8 8 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (2.88%) OSPF
8 8 (2.88%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (2.16%) NGFW
11 5 (1.80%) VXLAN
12 4 (1.44%) BIG-IP
12 4 (1.44%) EIGRP
12 4 (1.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (1.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.24%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.44%) Metadata
3 2 (0.72%) GIS
4 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.36%) Redis
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (3.96%) GitLab
2 9 (3.24%) JIRA
3 8 (2.88%) Git
4 6 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.36%) MLflow
6 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 85 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 75 (26.98%) Finance
3 34 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.47%) Banking
6 12 (4.32%) Legal
7 11 (3.96%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.60%) Military
8 10 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.08%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Law
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Electronics
13 1 (0.36%) Local Government
13 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (67.27%) Architect
2 151 (54.32%) Security Architect
3 33 (11.87%) Senior
3 33 (11.87%) Solutions Architect
4 24 (8.63%) Consultant
4 24 (8.63%) Senior Architect
4 24 (8.63%) Senior Security Architect
5 23 (8.27%) Security Engineer
6 18 (6.47%) Security Consultant
7 17 (6.12%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 14 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 14 (5.04%) Lead
8 14 (5.04%) Network Architect
9 13 (4.68%) Azure Architect
9 13 (4.68%) Security Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.60%) Analyst
11 9 (3.24%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.24%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (3.24%) Enterprise Security Architect
12 8 (2.88%) AWS Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.24%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (2.52%) Web Services
3 6 (2.16%) OAuth
4 5 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.80%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.80%) RESTful
4 5 (1.80%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.44%) .NET
5 4 (1.44%) Google JAX
5 4 (1.44%) JAX
5 4 (1.44%) OpenID
5 4 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.44%) SAML
5 4 (1.44%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.08%) JBoss Seam
6 3 (1.08%) LDAP
6 3 (1.08%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.08%) React
6 3 (1.08%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.72%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.23%) Security Posture
2 24 (8.63%) Management Information System
3 23 (8.27%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.40%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.04%) Cyber Threat
6 13 (4.68%) Data Centre
6 13 (4.68%) PKI
7 12 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (4.32%) Onboarding
8 10 (3.60%) Operational Technology
8 10 (3.60%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.16%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (2.16%) Taxonomies
12 5 (1.80%) NHS
12 5 (1.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.55%) Windows
2 8 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.16%) Linux
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (42.45%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (29.14%) Cloud Security
3 66 (23.74%) Threat Modelling
4 58 (20.86%) SIEM
5 52 (18.71%) Incident Response
6 45 (16.19%) CI/CD
7 43 (15.47%) TOGAF
8 41 (14.75%) Roadmaps
8 41 (14.75%) Zero Trust
9 40 (14.39%) Identity Access Management
10 38 (13.67%) DevOps
11 36 (12.95%) Information Security
11 36 (12.95%) Risk Management
12 35 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (11.15%) Data Loss Prevention
13 31 (11.15%) DevSecOps
14 30 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (10.07%) Application Security
16 28 (10.07%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.55%) Python
2 14 (5.04%) Kusto Query Language
3 8 (2.88%) Java
4 7 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.80%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.44%) Bash
6 4 (1.44%) C++
6 4 (1.44%) R
6 4 (1.44%) SQL
7 3 (1.08%) C
8 2 (0.72%) Bicep
8 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.36%) Go
9 1 (0.36%) SOQL
9 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 72 (25.90%) CISSP
3 46 (16.55%) SC Cleared
4 32 (11.51%) CISM
5 29 (10.43%) Degree
6 27 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (6.83%) AWS Certification
8 18 (6.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (6.12%) CCSP
9 17 (6.12%) DV Cleared
10 16 (5.76%) Azure Certification
11 12 (4.32%) CCNP
12 11 (3.96%) CCIE
13 10 (3.60%) CEH
14 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (2.16%) CompTIA CySA+
14 6 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.80%) CCIE Security
15 5 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (28.78%) NIST
2 79 (28.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (19.42%) GDPR
4 27 (9.71%) PCI DSS
5 17 (6.12%) NCSC
6 11 (3.96%) QA
7 10 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (3.60%) EU AI Act
8 9 (3.24%) GRC
9 8 (2.88%) HIPAA
9 8 (2.88%) PSD2
10 6 (2.16%) COBIT
11 5 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.44%) Data Quality
12 4 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (1.08%) JSP 440
13 3 (1.08%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.52%) Docker
3 6 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.80%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.99%) Terraform
3 15 (5.40%) Ansible
4 9 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.16%) Fluentd
7 5 (1.80%) SCCM
8 3 (1.08%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.08%) WSUS
9 2 (0.72%) CASB
9 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.72%) Grafana
9 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
10 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.36%) OPNET
10 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (25.54%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.83%) Splunk
3 18 (6.47%) Cisco
4 15 (5.40%) Darktrace
5 14 (5.04%) Fortinet
5 14 (5.04%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.68%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.96%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.60%) F5
9 8 (2.88%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.52%) CheckPoint
10 7 (2.52%) Cribl.io
10 7 (2.52%) SAP
10 7 (2.52%) Sparx
10 7 (2.52%) Zscaler
11 6 (2.16%) Google
11 6 (2.16%) Juniper
11 6 (2.16%) VMware
12 5 (1.80%) Oracle