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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 263 216
Rank change year-on-year +27 -47 +94
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 424 222 407
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.91% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.99% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 151 262
10th Percentile £461 £534 £500
25th Percentile £513 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £740 £775 £822
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £615 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 17
10th Percentile £45.60 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.31 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -16.18% -2.82%
75th Percentile - £83.20 £87.53
90th Percentile £105.72 £89.60 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £73.46 £87.46
% change year-on-year +14.36% -16.01% +6.66%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +4 190 £625 -7.41% 67
North of England +9 83 £619 +12.45% 28
North West +1 54 £621 +8.00% 15
South East -47 54 £643 +2.80% 34
Midlands -48 33 £500 -28.57% 22
South West -12 29 £575 -9.80% 23
West Midlands -48 27 £525 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire -42 26 £575 +4.55% 9
East of England -28 8 £710 -8.39% 26
North East -12 4 £498 +3.22% 4
East Midlands -31 4 £438 +0.46% 12
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 (3.30%) Confluence
2 8 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.71%) Camunda
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) Appian
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.24%) Summit
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 183 (43.16%) Azure
2 156 (36.79%) AWS
3 66 (15.57%) GCP
4 53 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 27 (6.37%) SaaS
6 20 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.48%) PaaS
8 17 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 16 (3.77%) IaaS
10 15 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (3.54%) OpenShift
11 14 (3.30%) Serverless
12 13 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (2.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 12 (2.83%) GitHub
14 11 (2.59%) AWS KMS
15 8 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 97 (22.88%) Network Security
2 72 (16.98%) Firewall
3 22 (5.19%) VPN
4 21 (4.95%) WAN
5 20 (4.72%) SD-WAN
6 19 (4.48%) LAN
7 16 (3.77%) DHCP
8 14 (3.30%) DNS
9 12 (2.83%) BGP
9 12 (2.83%) OSPF
10 11 (2.59%) IPsec
11 10 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 10 (2.36%) SSL
12 9 (2.12%) Wireless
13 7 (1.65%) BIG-IP
13 7 (1.65%) MPLS
13 7 (1.65%) VXLAN
14 6 (1.42%) HTTPS
14 6 (1.42%) Kerberos
14 6 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.65%) Metadata
1 7 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.42%) Power BI
3 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.47%) Big Data
5 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.47%) MySQL
5 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.47%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 14 (3.30%) JIRA
2 11 (2.59%) GitLab
3 6 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.94%) Git
4 4 (0.94%) Robot Framework
4 4 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.47%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.47%) Snyk
6 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.24%) ERwin
6 1 (0.24%) Hudson
General
1 91 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 83 (19.58%) Finance
3 59 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.84%) Banking
5 28 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.54%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.83%) Legal
10 11 (2.59%) Military
11 10 (2.36%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.18%) Law
14 4 (0.94%) Local Government
14 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.71%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Aviation
16 2 (0.47%) Police
17 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 256 (60.38%) Architect
2 181 (42.69%) Security Architect
3 48 (11.32%) Security Engineer
4 33 (7.78%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 33 (7.78%) Solutions Architect
5 27 (6.37%) Consultant
5 27 (6.37%) Lead
6 26 (6.13%) Senior
7 20 (4.72%) Network Architect
8 19 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
8 19 (4.48%) Technical Architect
9 18 (4.25%) Security Consultant
10 15 (3.54%) Project Manager
11 12 (2.83%) Lead Architect
11 12 (2.83%) Network Security Architect
11 12 (2.83%) Security Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.59%) Azure Architect
12 11 (2.59%) Migration Manager
12 11 (2.59%) Migration Project Manager
13 9 (2.12%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.25%) OAuth
2 16 (3.77%) OpenID
3 14 (3.30%) OAuth2
4 13 (3.07%) SAML
5 8 (1.89%) 802.1X
5 8 (1.89%) REST
5 8 (1.89%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.18%) LangChain
6 5 (1.18%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.18%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.18%) Web Services
6 5 (1.18%) XACML
7 4 (0.94%) ADO
7 4 (0.94%) J2EE
7 4 (0.94%) JSP
7 4 (0.94%) JWT
8 3 (0.71%) .NET
8 3 (0.71%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.71%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 46 (10.85%) Security Posture
3 20 (4.72%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 17 (4.01%) PKI
6 16 (3.77%) Operational Technology
7 15 (3.54%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.83%) Private Cloud
9 11 (2.59%) Cloud Security Posture
9 11 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.12%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.12%) IoT
11 8 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 8 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.95%) Windows
2 16 (3.77%) Linux
3 11 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) Android
5 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (32.31%) Threat Modelling
2 131 (30.90%) Cybersecurity
3 112 (26.42%) Cloud Security
4 107 (25.24%) Zero Trust
5 95 (22.41%) CI/CD
6 70 (16.51%) DevOps
6 70 (16.51%) SIEM
7 68 (16.04%) DevSecOps
8 65 (15.33%) TOGAF
9 62 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 60 (14.15%) Vulnerability Management
11 59 (13.92%) Risk Management
12 55 (12.97%) Identity Access Management
13 53 (12.50%) Roadmaps
14 52 (12.26%) Agile
15 49 (11.56%) Architectural Patterns
15 49 (11.56%) Migration
16 48 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (11.08%) SDLC
18 46 (10.85%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 41 (9.67%) Python
2 19 (4.48%) SQL
3 18 (4.25%) Java
4 17 (4.01%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.12%) Bash
6 8 (1.89%) Bicep
7 4 (0.94%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.71%) Go
8 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.47%) C
9 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.47%) Ruby
9 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.47%) Swift
10 1 (0.24%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.24%) C-shell
10 1 (0.24%) Korn
10 1 (0.24%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 147 (34.67%) Security Cleared
2 104 (24.53%) CISSP
3 88 (20.75%) SC Cleared
4 45 (10.61%) Cisco Certification
5 44 (10.38%) CISM
6 35 (8.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 35 (8.25%) DV Cleared
7 33 (7.78%) Degree
8 28 (6.60%) AWS Certification
9 24 (5.66%) CCSP
10 20 (4.72%) Azure Certification
11 13 (3.07%) CCIE
11 13 (3.07%) GIAC
11 13 (3.07%) PMI Certification
11 13 (3.07%) PMP
12 11 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (2.59%) CCNP
13 10 (2.36%) CEH
14 8 (1.89%) SANS
15 7 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (27.83%) NIST
2 94 (22.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (14.39%) GDPR
4 35 (8.25%) NCSC
5 33 (7.78%) PCI DSS
6 16 (3.77%) GRC
6 16 (3.77%) NIST 800
7 9 (2.12%) QA
8 7 (1.65%) COBIT
8 7 (1.65%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.65%) SLA
9 6 (1.42%) JSP 440
9 6 (1.42%) SOC 2
10 5 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.94%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.94%) RMADS
12 3 (0.71%) DICOM
12 3 (0.71%) HL7
System Software
1 31 (7.31%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.54%) Docker
3 14 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.07%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.18%) RACF
5 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.47%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) IAG
8 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (11.08%) Terraform
2 42 (9.91%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.66%) Ansible
4 14 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.42%) SCCM
7 5 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.94%) CASB
8 4 (0.94%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.94%) WSUS
9 3 (0.71%) Argo
10 2 (0.47%) Grafana
10 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Istio
11 1 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.24%) Packer
11 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.95%) Cisco
2 21 (4.95%) Splunk
3 20 (4.72%) CyberArk
3 20 (4.72%) VMware
4 15 (3.54%) Zscaler
5 14 (3.30%) Fortinet
6 12 (2.83%) F5
6 12 (2.83%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.59%) Google
8 10 (2.36%) Okta
9 9 (2.12%) SAP
9 9 (2.12%) Tenable
10 8 (1.89%) CheckPoint
10 8 (1.89%) ForeScout
10 8 (1.89%) Juniper
10 8 (1.89%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.65%) Oracle
11 7 (1.65%) Sparx
12 6 (1.42%) Cribl.io