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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 266 264
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +81
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 323 227 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.89% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.99% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 150 219
10th Percentile £448 £532 £500
25th Percentile £513 £600 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £784 £775
90th Percentile £788 £829 £856
UK median daily rate £617 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 14
10th Percentile £33.18 £59.25 £76.62
25th Percentile £35.15 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £61.75 £67.40 £85.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% -21.06% -
75th Percentile £86.75 £78.40 £87.53
90th Percentile £91.70 £83.20 -
UK median hourly rate £82.00 £73.31 £85.38
% change year-on-year +11.85% -14.14% -

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 30,532 22,872 32,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.28% 90.11% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,556 14,324 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,892 747 2,040
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.48 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.18 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -8 160 £625 -10.71% 44
North of England -27 50 £616 +13.65% 18
South East -36 38 £650 +4.00% 22
Midlands -42 30 £485 -30.71% 14
North West -9 27 £620 -4.62% 15
West Midlands -40 25 £525 -25.00% 11
Yorkshire -39 20 £550 - 3
South West -19 17 £575 -8.00% 8
East of England -19 8 £575 -23.33% 2
East Midlands -29 5 £438 +0.46% 3
North East -12 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 (3.72%) Confluence
2 6 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.31%) Summit
2 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (45.82%) Azure
2 128 (39.63%) AWS
3 49 (15.17%) Entra ID
4 46 (14.24%) GCP
5 25 (7.74%) SaaS
6 23 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (6.81%) PaaS
8 20 (6.19%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (5.88%) IaaS
10 15 (4.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 14 (4.33%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.48%) AWS KMS
15 8 (2.48%) GitHub
15 8 (2.48%) Serverless
16 7 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 79 (24.46%) Network Security
2 73 (22.60%) Firewall
3 26 (8.05%) VPN
4 18 (5.57%) WAN
5 17 (5.26%) DHCP
5 17 (5.26%) SD-WAN
6 16 (4.95%) LAN
7 14 (4.33%) DNS
8 13 (4.02%) BGP
9 12 (3.72%) IPsec
9 12 (3.72%) OSPF
10 10 (3.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 9 (2.79%) SSL
11 9 (2.79%) Wireless
12 7 (2.17%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.17%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.17%) VXLAN
13 6 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (1.86%) MPLS
13 6 (1.86%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.17%) Metadata
2 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.62%) Power BI
2 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.31%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.31%) Redis
3 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (3.72%) GitLab
1 12 (3.72%) JIRA
2 4 (1.24%) Git
2 4 (1.24%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.24%) Robot Framework
2 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.62%) Snyk
4 1 (0.31%) ERwin
General
1 76 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.05%) Finance
3 47 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.33%) Banking
6 14 (4.33%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.41%) Legal
9 8 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.48%) Military
10 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.24%) Law
11 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.62%) Aviation
12 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Marketing
13 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 197 (60.99%) Architect
2 145 (44.89%) Security Architect
3 37 (11.46%) Security Engineer
4 36 (11.15%) Solutions Architect
5 28 (8.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 24 (7.43%) Consultant
7 22 (6.81%) Senior
8 20 (6.19%) Security Solutions Architect
9 19 (5.88%) Network Architect
10 18 (5.57%) Security Consultant
11 17 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (4.95%) Technical Architect
13 12 (3.72%) Network Security Architect
13 12 (3.72%) Project Manager
14 11 (3.41%) Azure Architect
15 10 (3.10%) Senior Architect
16 9 (2.79%) Lead
17 7 (2.17%) AWS Architect
17 7 (2.17%) Cloud Security Architect
17 7 (2.17%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.95%) OAuth
2 12 (3.72%) OpenID
2 12 (3.72%) SAML
3 11 (3.41%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.86%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.55%) LangChain
5 5 (1.55%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.55%) REST
5 5 (1.55%) scikit-learn
5 5 (1.55%) Web Services
5 5 (1.55%) XACML
6 4 (1.24%) ADO
6 4 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.93%) .NET
7 3 (0.93%) Kafka
7 3 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.93%) Middleware
7 3 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.62%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.62%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 27 (8.36%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.57%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.26%) PKI
5 13 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.10%) IoT
7 9 (2.79%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.79%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Taxonomies
9 7 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.55%) NHS
10 5 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.24%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.12%) Windows
2 16 (4.95%) Linux
3 12 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.24%) Unix
5 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.96%) Cybersecurity
2 95 (29.41%) Cloud Security
3 93 (28.79%) Threat Modelling
4 83 (25.70%) Zero Trust
5 68 (21.05%) SIEM
6 67 (20.74%) CI/CD
7 57 (17.65%) DevOps
8 53 (16.41%) DevSecOps
8 53 (16.41%) TOGAF
9 52 (16.10%) Identity Access Management
10 48 (14.86%) Roadmaps
11 43 (13.31%) Risk Management
12 42 (13.00%) Incident Response
12 42 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (12.69%) Migration
14 40 (12.38%) Data Loss Prevention
14 40 (12.38%) Vulnerability Management
15 38 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 38 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (11.46%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 33 (10.22%) Python
2 13 (4.02%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.02%) SQL
3 7 (2.17%) Java
3 7 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.86%) Bash
5 5 (1.55%) Bicep
6 3 (0.93%) Apex Code
6 3 (0.93%) Go
6 3 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.62%) C
7 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.62%) Swift
8 1 (0.31%) C-shell
8 1 (0.31%) Korn
8 1 (0.31%) ProC
8 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.31%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 105 (32.51%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.15%) CISSP
3 67 (20.74%) SC Cleared
4 38 (11.76%) CISM
5 33 (10.22%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (8.67%) DV Cleared
7 23 (7.12%) Degree
8 22 (6.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (6.81%) AWS Certification
9 19 (5.88%) CCSP
10 13 (4.02%) Azure Certification
10 13 (4.02%) CCIE
11 12 (3.72%) CCNP
12 10 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (2.48%) PMI Certification
13 8 (2.48%) PMP
14 6 (1.86%) CCIE Security
14 6 (1.86%) CEH
14 6 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (27.24%) NIST
2 78 (24.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (15.79%) GDPR
4 30 (9.29%) NCSC
5 25 (7.74%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.79%) GRC
8 7 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (2.17%) EU AI Act
8 7 (2.17%) JSP 440
8 7 (2.17%) NIST 800
9 6 (1.86%) Data Quality
9 6 (1.86%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.55%) QA
11 4 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (1.24%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.93%) COBIT
12 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.93%) RMADS
12 3 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (8.98%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.72%) Docker
2 12 (3.72%) VMware NSX
3 11 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.55%) RACF
4 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (12.69%) Kubernetes
1 41 (12.69%) Terraform
2 25 (7.74%) Ansible
3 16 (4.95%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.17%) SCCM
6 6 (1.86%) Fluentd
7 5 (1.55%) WSUS
8 4 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.93%) Grafana
10 2 (0.62%) Argo
10 2 (0.62%) CASB
10 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.31%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.31%) Packer
11 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.43%) Cisco
2 24 (7.43%) Splunk
3 17 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 16 (4.95%) VMware
5 15 (4.64%) Palo Alto
6 14 (4.33%) CyberArk
6 14 (4.33%) F5
7 13 (4.02%) Zscaler
8 10 (3.10%) CheckPoint
8 10 (3.10%) Google
9 9 (2.79%) Juniper
10 8 (2.48%) Cribl.io
11 7 (2.17%) ForeScout
11 7 (2.17%) Okta
11 7 (2.17%) Sparx
12 6 (1.86%) Tenable
13 5 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (1.55%) Darktrace
13 5 (1.55%) Virgin Media