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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 248 233
Rank change year-on-year +25 -15 +17
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 550 281 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.02% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.12% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 171 227
10th Percentile £463 £513 £520
25th Percentile £525 £575 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.94%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £815
90th Percentile £825 £805 £850
UK median daily rate £622 £673 £700
% change year-on-year -7.65% -3.86% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile £75.36 £47.15 £81.88
25th Percentile £83.00 £57.50 £86.07
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 £101.13 £98.50 £87.48
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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +38 270 £625 -7.41% 205
South East -36 93 £638 -1.92% 65
North of England -1 90 £623 -11.00% 51
North West -10 59 £620 -12.43% 28
Midlands -30 36 £580 -25.16% 15
West Midlands -37 32 £580 -25.16% 6
Yorkshire -18 29 £675 +22.73% 22
South West -27 27 £600 -12.73% 33
East of England -4 15 £600 - 9
East Midlands -8 2 £475 - 9
North East -49 1 - - 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 12 (2.18%) Confluence
2 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.55%) Camunda
4 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.18%) Appian
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.36%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 237 (43.09%) Azure
2 180 (32.73%) AWS
3 89 (16.18%) GCP
4 71 (12.91%) Entra ID
5 26 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
6 23 (4.18%) SaaS
7 22 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.45%) GitHub
9 16 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.18%) Serverless
12 11 (2.00%) PaaS
13 10 (1.82%) IaaS
14 9 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (1.45%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.45%) Power Platform
15 8 (1.45%) Vertex AI
16 7 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.27%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 87 (15.82%) Network Security
2 60 (10.91%) Firewall
3 19 (3.45%) VPN
4 18 (3.27%) WAN
5 13 (2.36%) DNS
6 11 (2.00%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.82%) NGFW
8 9 (1.64%) Internet
8 9 (1.64%) LAN
9 8 (1.45%) DHCP
10 6 (1.09%) 4G
10 6 (1.09%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.91%) 5G
11 5 (0.91%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.73%) BGP
12 4 (0.73%) Intranet
12 4 (0.73%) IPsec
12 4 (0.73%) VLAN
13 3 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.55%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.27%) Power BI
3 5 (0.91%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.91%) Metadata
3 5 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.73%) SAP BW
4 4 (0.73%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.36%) Big Data
6 2 (0.36%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.36%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (3.09%) JIRA
2 12 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.00%) GitLab
4 6 (1.09%) Snyk
5 5 (0.91%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Git
8 1 (0.18%) Hudson
General
1 141 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 118 (21.45%) Finance
3 76 (13.82%) Public Sector
4 35 (6.36%) Banking
5 25 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.91%) Legal
9 15 (2.73%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.36%) Military
11 11 (2.00%) Local Government
12 8 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.45%) Retail
13 7 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.91%) Police
15 4 (0.73%) Law
15 4 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 355 (64.55%) Architect
2 256 (46.55%) Security Architect
3 63 (11.45%) Security Engineer
4 62 (11.27%) Lead
5 48 (8.73%) Solutions Architect
6 38 (6.91%) Senior
7 36 (6.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 31 (5.64%) Lead Architect
9 29 (5.27%) Consultant
10 27 (4.91%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (3.82%) Lead Security Architect
12 19 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
12 19 (3.45%) Security Consultant
13 17 (3.09%) Enterprise Security Architect
13 17 (3.09%) Network Architect
13 17 (3.09%) Security Specialist
13 17 (3.09%) Technical Architect
14 16 (2.91%) Senior Security Engineer
15 15 (2.73%) Network Security Architect
15 15 (2.73%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.45%) OAuth
2 16 (2.91%) REST
3 15 (2.73%) OpenID
4 14 (2.55%) OAuth2
5 13 (2.36%) SailPoint
5 13 (2.36%) SAML
6 8 (1.45%) LangChain
6 8 (1.45%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.45%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.09%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.09%) LDAP
7 6 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.09%) SLSA
8 5 (0.91%) Middleware
9 4 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (0.73%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (0.73%) JSP
9 4 (0.73%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.73%) SOAP
10 3 (0.55%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 87 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 70 (12.73%) Security Posture
3 42 (7.64%) Operational Technology
4 26 (4.73%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.36%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.09%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.91%) Cloud Security Posture
8 15 (2.73%) PKI
9 14 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.55%) Product Ownership
10 13 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (2.00%) Data Centre
13 9 (1.64%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.45%) SCADA
15 7 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 6 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.73%) Linux
2 21 (3.82%) Windows
3 8 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.27%) Unix
5 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.73%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (36.91%) Cybersecurity
2 166 (30.18%) Threat Modelling
3 157 (28.55%) Cloud Security
4 129 (23.45%) CI/CD
5 124 (22.55%) Zero Trust
6 111 (20.18%) Risk Management
7 110 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 109 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 103 (18.73%) DevSecOps
10 99 (18.00%) TOGAF
11 97 (17.64%) Identity Access Management
12 93 (16.91%) DevOps
12 93 (16.91%) SIEM
13 91 (16.55%) Architectural Patterns
14 87 (15.82%) Vulnerability Management
15 85 (15.45%) SABSA
15 85 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 82 (14.91%) AI
17 69 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (11.45%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 40 (7.27%) Python
2 21 (3.82%) PowerShell
3 19 (3.45%) Java
4 16 (2.91%) Bicep
4 16 (2.91%) SQL
5 10 (1.82%) Bash
6 3 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.36%) ABAP
7 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.36%) Ruby
7 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.18%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.18%) Groovy
8 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 193 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 140 (25.45%) CISSP
3 123 (22.36%) SC Cleared
4 60 (10.91%) CISM
5 51 (9.27%) Cisco Certification
5 51 (9.27%) DV Cleared
6 43 (7.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 36 (6.55%) Degree
8 33 (6.00%) AWS Certification
9 26 (4.73%) GIAC
10 23 (4.18%) Azure Certification
11 21 (3.82%) CCSP
12 20 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (2.73%) CEH
14 14 (2.55%) CRISC
14 14 (2.55%) SANS
15 12 (2.18%) CISA
16 10 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.82%) OSCP
17 9 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (26.55%) NIST
2 106 (19.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (8.91%) NCSC
4 43 (7.82%) GDPR
5 28 (5.09%) GRC
6 26 (4.73%) PCI DSS
7 25 (4.55%) NIST 800
8 19 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.82%) SLA
10 9 (1.64%) JSP 440
10 9 (1.64%) QA
11 8 (1.45%) ISO 31000
11 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (1.27%) COBIT
12 7 (1.27%) HIPAA
12 7 (1.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (1.09%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.27%) Docker
3 8 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.36%) IAG
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (7.82%) Kubernetes
1 43 (7.82%) Terraform
2 16 (2.91%) Ansible
3 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.91%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.73%) CASB
7 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.55%) SCCM
8 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.36%) Istio
8 2 (0.36%) QRadar
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Grafana
9 1 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.18%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.18%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.27%) Google
3 26 (4.73%) CyberArk
4 18 (3.27%) Splunk
5 17 (3.09%) Okta
5 17 (3.09%) SAP
6 16 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 13 (2.36%) Zscaler
8 11 (2.00%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.00%) Tenable
9 10 (1.82%) Cisco
9 10 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.64%) Qualys
10 9 (1.64%) VMware
11 8 (1.45%) Databricks
11 8 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.27%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.09%) IBM
13 6 (1.09%) Oracle