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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 287 288
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +77
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 265 218 278
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.81% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.91% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 136 186
10th Percentile £430 £525 £512
25th Percentile £513 £600 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -1.81% -
75th Percentile £750 £778 £775
90th Percentile £800 £825 £863
UK median daily rate £618 £651 £675
% change year-on-year -5.07% -3.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £33.18 - £70.70
25th Percentile £35.15 £60.75 £74.37
Median hourly rate £48.50 £73.46 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -33.97% -11.94% +13.10%
75th Percentile £70.44 £79.60 £85.61
90th Percentile £85.18 £83.20 £86.44
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £73.60 £83.41
% change year-on-year -6.59% -11.76% +13.10%

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 28,110 24,036 31,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.29% 89.17% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,964 14,778 21,397
10th Percentile £304 £309 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £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 1,739 771 1,493
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £76.91
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +19 145 £625 -10.71% 44
South East -28 34 £750 +21.95% 36
North of England -18 33 £590 +5.08% 18
Midlands -42 19 £508 -27.50% 8
Yorkshire -35 18 £550 -1.96% 8
West Midlands -33 16 £525 -25.00% 1
North West -7 12 £770 - 9
South West -19 10 £675 +17.39% 15
East of England -18 7 £713 -5.00% 9
East Midlands -28 3 £419 -3.85% 6
North East - 3 £498 - 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 7 (2.64%) Confluence
1 7 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 116 (43.77%) Azure
2 96 (36.23%) AWS
3 44 (16.60%) GCP
4 33 (12.45%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.42%) SaaS
7 15 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (5.66%) PaaS
8 13 (4.91%) IaaS
9 10 (3.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (3.77%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.02%) AWS KMS
10 8 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.26%) GitHub
12 5 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.51%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 63 (23.77%) Firewall
2 56 (21.13%) Network Security
3 24 (9.06%) VPN
4 19 (7.17%) WAN
5 17 (6.42%) LAN
6 16 (6.04%) DNS
7 15 (5.66%) BGP
7 15 (5.66%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.91%) OSPF
9 12 (4.53%) DHCP
10 11 (4.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 10 (3.77%) TCP/IP
12 8 (3.02%) BIG-IP
13 7 (2.64%) VXLAN
14 6 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 6 (2.26%) IPsec
14 6 (2.26%) MPLS
14 6 (2.26%) NGFW
14 6 (2.26%) SSL
15 5 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.89%) Metadata
2 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.38%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.38%) Power BI
2 1 (0.38%) Redis
2 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.15%) GitLab
2 6 (2.26%) JIRA
3 4 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.51%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.13%) Git
5 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.13%) Finance
3 36 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.66%) Banking
5 15 (5.66%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.53%) Legal
7 8 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.26%) Military
8 6 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.89%) Law
10 3 (1.13%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 171 (64.53%) Architect
2 137 (51.70%) Security Architect
3 31 (11.70%) Solutions Architect
4 29 (10.94%) Security Engineer
5 21 (7.92%) Consultant
5 21 (7.92%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 19 (7.17%) Network Architect
7 15 (5.66%) Security Consultant
7 15 (5.66%) Security Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.53%) Senior
9 11 (4.15%) Azure Architect
9 11 (4.15%) Network Security Architect
10 10 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.02%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.64%) Analyst
12 7 (2.64%) AWS Architect
12 7 (2.64%) Senior Architect
12 7 (2.64%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.26%) Security Manager
13 6 (2.26%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.64%) OAuth
2 5 (1.89%) OpenID
2 5 (1.89%) REST
2 5 (1.89%) SAML
3 4 (1.51%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.13%) Kafka
4 3 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (1.13%) Middleware
4 3 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.75%) .NET
5 2 (0.75%) JWT
5 2 (0.75%) ModSecurity
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.75%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.38%) ADO
6 1 (0.38%) JSSE
6 1 (0.38%) SOAP
6 1 (0.38%) Web Services
6 1 (0.38%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.70%) Security Posture
2 24 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.55%) PKI
4 14 (5.28%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (4.53%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.15%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.77%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.40%) Private Cloud
10 8 (3.02%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (3.02%) Public Cloud
10 8 (3.02%) Taxonomies
11 7 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.64%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.89%) NHS
13 4 (1.51%) IoT
13 4 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.68%) Windows
2 9 (3.40%) Linux
2 9 (3.40%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.89%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Android
4 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (34.34%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (30.57%) Cloud Security
3 73 (27.55%) Threat Modelling
4 61 (23.02%) Zero Trust
5 59 (22.26%) SIEM
6 50 (18.87%) CI/CD
7 49 (18.49%) Incident Response
8 46 (17.36%) TOGAF
9 41 (15.47%) Roadmaps
10 39 (14.72%) Identity Access Management
11 38 (14.34%) DevSecOps
11 38 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (13.58%) DevOps
13 35 (13.21%) Migration
13 35 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 33 (12.45%) Information Security
15 29 (10.94%) Data Loss Prevention
16 26 (9.81%) Regulatory Compliance
16 26 (9.81%) Threat Detection
16 26 (9.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.43%) Python
2 11 (4.15%) Kusto Query Language
3 10 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.26%) Java
4 6 (2.26%) SQL
5 5 (1.89%) Bash
6 3 (1.13%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.13%) Go
6 3 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.75%) Bicep
7 2 (0.75%) C
7 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.75%) Swift
8 1 (0.38%) C-shell
8 1 (0.38%) Korn
8 1 (0.38%) ProC
8 1 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 79 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.15%) CISSP
3 51 (19.25%) SC Cleared
4 32 (12.08%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (10.94%) CISM
6 24 (9.06%) AWS Certification
7 21 (7.92%) DV Cleared
8 20 (7.55%) Degree
9 18 (6.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 18 (6.79%) CCSP
10 15 (5.66%) Azure Certification
10 15 (5.66%) CCIE
11 14 (5.28%) CCNP
12 9 (3.40%) CEH
13 7 (2.64%) JNCIE
13 7 (2.64%) JNCIP
14 6 (2.26%) CCIE Security
14 6 (2.26%) OSCP
14 6 (2.26%) PMI Certification
14 6 (2.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (30.57%) NIST
2 74 (27.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (18.11%) GDPR
4 28 (10.57%) PCI DSS
5 26 (9.81%) NCSC
6 9 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.02%) PSD2
8 7 (2.64%) EU AI Act
8 7 (2.64%) JSP 440
9 6 (2.26%) GRC
10 5 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.89%) QA
11 4 (1.51%) HIPAA
12 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.77%) Docker
3 8 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.02%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.38%) RACF
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (14.34%) Terraform
2 31 (11.70%) Kubernetes
3 26 (9.81%) Ansible
4 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.02%) SCCM
6 7 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.26%) Fluentd
7 6 (2.26%) WSUS
8 3 (1.13%) Grafana
9 2 (0.75%) Argo
9 2 (0.75%) CASB
9 2 (0.75%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.38%) Istio
10 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.81%) Cisco
3 23 (8.68%) Splunk
4 16 (6.04%) Fortinet
5 14 (5.28%) CyberArk
5 14 (5.28%) F5
5 14 (5.28%) Palo Alto
5 14 (5.28%) Zscaler
6 13 (4.91%) VMware
7 11 (4.15%) CheckPoint
7 11 (4.15%) Darktrace
8 10 (3.77%) Juniper
9 7 (2.64%) Cribl.io
9 7 (2.64%) Sparx
10 6 (2.26%) Google
10 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.26%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.26%) Sophos
11 5 (1.89%) Meraki
11 5 (1.89%) Remedy