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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 269 264
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 +91
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 316 229 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.89% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.99% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 151 216
10th Percentile £447 £533 £500
25th Percentile £513 £600 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £781 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
UK median daily rate £620 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.15% - -
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 30,251 23,118 33,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.20% 90.09% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,354 14,421 21,936
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 1,884 749 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.40 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.34 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.84 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.91 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.68% -3.93% -2.14%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -3 156 £625 -10.71% 45
North of England -14 48 £617 +13.84% 17
South East -33 38 £650 +4.00% 21
Midlands -38 29 £480 -31.43% 14
North West -10 25 £621 -4.46% 14
West Midlands -41 24 £508 -27.50% 10
Yorkshire -40 20 £550 - 3
South West -18 17 £575 -8.00% 9
East of England -27 8 £575 -23.33% 3
East Midlands -26 5 £438 +0.46% 4
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 11 (3.48%) Confluence
2 6 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Summit
2 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (46.20%) Azure
2 124 (39.24%) AWS
3 48 (15.19%) Entra ID
4 46 (14.56%) GCP
5 25 (7.91%) SaaS
6 23 (7.28%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (6.96%) PaaS
8 20 (6.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 19 (6.01%) IaaS
10 14 (4.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 13 (4.11%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (2.53%) GitHub
15 8 (2.53%) Serverless
16 7 (2.22%) AWS KMS
16 7 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 6 (1.90%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 79 (25.00%) Network Security
2 71 (22.47%) Firewall
3 26 (8.23%) VPN
4 18 (5.70%) WAN
5 17 (5.38%) DHCP
5 17 (5.38%) SD-WAN
6 16 (5.06%) LAN
7 14 (4.43%) DNS
8 13 (4.11%) BGP
9 12 (3.80%) IPsec
9 12 (3.80%) OSPF
10 10 (3.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 9 (2.85%) SSL
11 9 (2.85%) Wireless
12 7 (2.22%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.22%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.22%) VXLAN
13 6 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (1.90%) MPLS
13 6 (1.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.22%) Metadata
2 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.63%) Power BI
2 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.32%) Redis
3 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (3.80%) GitLab
2 10 (3.16%) JIRA
3 4 (1.27%) Git
3 4 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.27%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.63%) Snyk
5 1 (0.32%) ERwin
General
1 75 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 64 (20.25%) Finance
3 45 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.01%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.43%) Banking
6 14 (4.43%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.48%) Legal
9 8 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.53%) Military
10 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.27%) Law
11 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Aviation
12 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 194 (61.39%) Architect
2 142 (44.94%) Security Architect
3 36 (11.39%) Solutions Architect
4 35 (11.08%) Security Engineer
5 28 (8.86%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 24 (7.59%) Consultant
7 22 (6.96%) Senior
8 20 (6.33%) Security Solutions Architect
9 19 (6.01%) Network Architect
10 18 (5.70%) Security Consultant
11 17 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (5.06%) Technical Architect
13 12 (3.80%) Network Security Architect
14 11 (3.48%) Azure Architect
14 11 (3.48%) Project Manager
15 10 (3.16%) Senior Architect
16 9 (2.85%) Lead
17 7 (2.22%) AWS Architect
17 7 (2.22%) Cloud Security Architect
17 7 (2.22%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.06%) OAuth
2 12 (3.80%) OpenID
2 12 (3.80%) SAML
3 11 (3.48%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.90%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.58%) REST
5 5 (1.58%) Web Services
5 5 (1.58%) XACML
6 4 (1.27%) ADO
6 4 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.27%) LangChain
6 4 (1.27%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.27%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.95%) .NET
7 3 (0.95%) Kafka
7 3 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.95%) Middleware
7 3 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.63%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.76%) Security Posture
2 25 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.70%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.38%) PKI
5 16 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.80%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.16%) IoT
9 9 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.85%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.53%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.53%) Taxonomies
11 7 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.58%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.58%) NHS
12 5 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.28%) Windows
2 15 (4.75%) Linux
3 12 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.27%) Unix
5 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.63%) Android
6 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (30.70%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (29.43%) Cloud Security
3 92 (29.11%) Threat Modelling
4 83 (26.27%) Zero Trust
5 66 (20.89%) SIEM
6 65 (20.57%) CI/CD
7 55 (17.41%) DevOps
8 51 (16.14%) DevSecOps
8 51 (16.14%) Identity Access Management
8 51 (16.14%) TOGAF
9 46 (14.56%) Roadmaps
10 42 (13.29%) Incident Response
10 42 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (12.97%) Migration
11 41 (12.97%) Risk Management
12 39 (12.34%) Data Loss Prevention
12 39 (12.34%) Vulnerability Management
13 38 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 36 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (11.08%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.81%) Python
2 13 (4.11%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.80%) SQL
4 7 (2.22%) Java
4 7 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.90%) Bash
6 5 (1.58%) Bicep
7 3 (0.95%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.95%) Go
7 3 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.63%) C
8 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.63%) Swift
9 1 (0.32%) C-shell
9 1 (0.32%) Korn
9 1 (0.32%) ProC
9 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 104 (32.91%) Security Cleared
2 76 (24.05%) CISSP
3 66 (20.89%) SC Cleared
4 37 (11.71%) CISM
5 33 (10.44%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (8.86%) DV Cleared
7 23 (7.28%) Degree
8 22 (6.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 20 (6.33%) AWS Certification
10 19 (6.01%) CCSP
11 13 (4.11%) Azure Certification
11 13 (4.11%) CCIE
12 12 (3.80%) CCNP
13 10 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (2.53%) PMI Certification
14 8 (2.53%) PMP
15 6 (1.90%) CCIE Security
15 6 (1.90%) CEH
15 6 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (27.85%) NIST
2 77 (24.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (15.82%) GDPR
4 29 (9.18%) NCSC
5 25 (7.91%) PCI DSS
6 12 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.85%) GRC
8 7 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (2.22%) EU AI Act
8 7 (2.22%) JSP 440
8 7 (2.22%) NIST 800
9 6 (1.90%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.58%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.58%) QA
11 4 (1.27%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.95%) COBIT
12 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.95%) RMADS
System Software
1 28 (8.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.80%) VMware NSX
3 11 (3.48%) Docker
3 11 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.58%) RACF
4 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (12.97%) Terraform
2 40 (12.66%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.91%) Ansible
4 16 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.22%) SCCM
7 6 (1.90%) Fluentd
8 5 (1.58%) WSUS
9 4 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.95%) Grafana
11 2 (0.63%) Argo
11 2 (0.63%) CASB
11 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.32%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.32%) Packer
12 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.59%) Cisco
2 24 (7.59%) Splunk
3 17 (5.38%) Fortinet
4 16 (5.06%) VMware
5 15 (4.75%) Palo Alto
6 14 (4.43%) CyberArk
6 14 (4.43%) F5
7 13 (4.11%) Zscaler
8 10 (3.16%) CheckPoint
8 10 (3.16%) Google
9 9 (2.85%) Juniper
10 8 (2.53%) Cribl.io
11 7 (2.22%) ForeScout
11 7 (2.22%) Okta
11 7 (2.22%) Sparx
12 6 (1.90%) Tenable
13 5 (1.58%) BiZZdesign
13 5 (1.58%) Darktrace
13 5 (1.58%) Virgin Media