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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 269 256
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 +85
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 330 233 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.91% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.01% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 153 221
10th Percentile £447 £533 £500
25th Percentile £513 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £775
90th Percentile £788 £855 £851
UK median daily rate £617 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 14
10th Percentile £34.06 - £76.62
25th Percentile £48.19 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.31 £85.38
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -14.14% -
75th Percentile - £80.80 £87.53
90th Percentile £89.50 £83.20 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £73.46 £85.38
% change year-on-year +14.36% -13.97% -

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 30,906 23,179 32,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.22% 90.17% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,822 14,560 21,758
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,906 762 2,042
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.52 £75.23 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -7 161 £625 -10.71% 30
North of England -22 52 £615 +13.47% 21
South East -38 42 £650 +4.00% 9
Midlands -37 29 £485 -30.71% 11
North West -4 28 £620 -4.62% 18
West Midlands -32 24 £525 -25.00% 8
Yorkshire -48 21 £563 +2.27% 3
South West -22 17 £575 -8.00% 9
East of England -28 8 £575 -23.33% 1
East Midlands -25 5 £438 +0.46% 3
North East -14 4 £498 +3.22% 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 (3.64%) Confluence
2 6 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Summit
2 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (45.45%) Azure
2 128 (38.79%) AWS
3 50 (15.15%) Entra ID
4 49 (14.85%) GCP
5 26 (7.88%) SaaS
6 23 (6.97%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (6.67%) PaaS
8 20 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (5.76%) IaaS
10 15 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 14 (4.24%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.42%) AWS KMS
15 8 (2.42%) GitHub
15 8 (2.42%) Serverless
16 7 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (2.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 80 (24.24%) Network Security
2 75 (22.73%) Firewall
3 26 (7.88%) VPN
4 18 (5.45%) WAN
5 17 (5.15%) DHCP
5 17 (5.15%) SD-WAN
6 16 (4.85%) LAN
7 14 (4.24%) DNS
8 13 (3.94%) BGP
9 12 (3.64%) IPsec
9 12 (3.64%) OSPF
10 10 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 9 (2.73%) SSL
11 9 (2.73%) Wireless
12 7 (2.12%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.12%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (2.12%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.12%) VXLAN
13 6 (1.82%) Kerberos
13 6 (1.82%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.52%) Metadata
2 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.61%) Power BI
2 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.30%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.30%) Redis
3 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (3.64%) GitLab
1 12 (3.64%) JIRA
2 4 (1.21%) Git
2 4 (1.21%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.21%) Robot Framework
2 4 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.61%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.61%) Snyk
4 1 (0.30%) ERwin
General
1 78 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.91%) Finance
3 45 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.55%) Banking
7 14 (4.24%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.33%) Legal
10 7 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.12%) Military
11 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.21%) Law
12 4 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.61%) Aviation
14 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.61%) Marketing
15 1 (0.30%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 197 (59.70%) Architect
2 147 (44.55%) Security Architect
3 39 (11.82%) Security Engineer
4 35 (10.61%) Solutions Architect
5 29 (8.79%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 24 (7.27%) Consultant
7 22 (6.67%) Senior
8 20 (6.06%) Network Architect
8 20 (6.06%) Security Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (5.45%) Security Consultant
10 15 (4.55%) Technical Architect
11 13 (3.94%) Network Security Architect
12 12 (3.64%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.33%) Azure Architect
14 10 (3.03%) Senior Architect
15 8 (2.42%) Cloud Security Architect
15 8 (2.42%) Lead
15 8 (2.42%) Security Manager
16 7 (2.12%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.15%) OAuth
2 13 (3.94%) OpenID
3 12 (3.64%) OAuth2
3 12 (3.64%) SAML
4 7 (2.12%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.52%) LangChain
5 5 (1.52%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.52%) REST
5 5 (1.52%) scikit-learn
5 5 (1.52%) Web Services
5 5 (1.52%) XACML
6 4 (1.21%) ADO
6 4 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.91%) .NET
7 3 (0.91%) Kafka
7 3 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.91%) Middleware
7 3 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.61%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.61%) ONNX
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.82%) Security Posture
2 29 (8.79%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.15%) PKI
5 14 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.94%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.03%) IoT
8 9 (2.73%) Cloud Security Posture
8 9 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.73%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.42%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.42%) Taxonomies
10 7 (2.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.21%) NHS
13 4 (1.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.97%) Windows
2 16 (4.85%) Linux
3 12 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.21%) Unix
5 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.61%) Android
6 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
2 99 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
3 97 (29.39%) Cloud Security
4 87 (26.36%) Zero Trust
5 71 (21.52%) CI/CD
6 70 (21.21%) SIEM
7 57 (17.27%) DevOps
8 56 (16.97%) DevSecOps
9 53 (16.06%) Identity Access Management
9 53 (16.06%) TOGAF
10 50 (15.15%) Roadmaps
11 47 (14.24%) Risk Management
12 44 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (12.73%) Incident Response
13 42 (12.73%) Vulnerability Management
14 41 (12.42%) Migration
15 40 (12.12%) Data Loss Prevention
15 40 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 39 (11.82%) Agile
16 39 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.00%) Python
2 13 (3.94%) PowerShell
2 13 (3.94%) SQL
3 7 (2.12%) Java
3 7 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.82%) Bash
5 5 (1.52%) Bicep
6 3 (0.91%) Apex Code
6 3 (0.91%) Go
6 3 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.61%) C
7 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.61%) Swift
8 1 (0.30%) C-shell
8 1 (0.30%) Korn
8 1 (0.30%) ProC
8 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 107 (32.42%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.55%) CISSP
3 68 (20.61%) SC Cleared
4 39 (11.82%) CISM
5 34 (10.30%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (8.48%) DV Cleared
7 25 (7.58%) Degree
8 23 (6.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 22 (6.67%) AWS Certification
10 19 (5.76%) CCSP
11 13 (3.94%) Azure Certification
11 13 (3.94%) CCIE
12 12 (3.64%) CCNP
13 10 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (2.42%) PMI Certification
14 8 (2.42%) PMP
15 6 (1.82%) CCIE Security
15 6 (1.82%) CEH
15 6 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (1.82%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (28.18%) NIST
2 80 (24.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (15.15%) GDPR
4 29 (8.79%) NCSC
5 26 (7.88%) PCI DSS
6 11 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.73%) GRC
7 9 (2.73%) NIST 800
8 7 (2.12%) EU AI Act
8 7 (2.12%) JSP 440
9 6 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.82%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.52%) QA
10 5 (1.52%) SOC 2
11 4 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (1.21%) Data Quality
11 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (1.21%) RMADS
12 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.91%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.64%) Docker
2 12 (3.64%) VMware NSX
3 11 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.52%) RACF
4 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 42 (12.73%) Terraform
3 25 (7.58%) Ansible
4 16 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.12%) SCCM
7 6 (1.82%) Fluentd
8 5 (1.52%) WSUS
9 4 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.91%) CASB
10 3 (0.91%) Grafana
11 2 (0.61%) Argo
11 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.30%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.30%) Packer
12 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 68 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.58%) Cisco
3 24 (7.27%) Splunk
4 17 (5.15%) Fortinet
5 16 (4.85%) VMware
6 15 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 15 (4.55%) Palo Alto
7 14 (4.24%) F5
8 13 (3.94%) Zscaler
9 10 (3.03%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.03%) Google
10 9 (2.73%) Juniper
11 8 (2.42%) Cribl.io
12 7 (2.12%) ForeScout
12 7 (2.12%) Okta
12 7 (2.12%) Sparx
13 6 (1.82%) Tenable
14 5 (1.52%) BiZZdesign
14 5 (1.52%) Darktrace
14 5 (1.52%) Virgin Media