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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 248 237
Rank change year-on-year +31 -11 +19
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 525 270 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 1.03% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.13% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 166 251
10th Percentile £463 £522 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £720
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.18% +2.79%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £797
90th Percentile £825 £809 £850
UK median daily rate £621 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.57% +2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 16
10th Percentile £82.23 £57.82 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £87.04 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -0.48% +19.13%
75th Percentile - £89.78 £87.53
90th Percentile £103.63 £99.25 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £87.04 £87.46
% change year-on-year -3.49% -0.48% +20.08%

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 37,549 23,970 31,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.39% 91.01% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,634 15,421 20,733
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,193 2,304
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +40 261 £625 -7.41% 101
North of England -13 89 £650 -7.14% 22
South East -47 70 £650 +1.96% 44
North West +4 61 £621 -12.29% 17
Midlands -29 39 £550 -31.25% 9
South West -14 31 £573 -15.19% 17
West Midlands -43 31 £590 -26.25% 4
Yorkshire -30 27 £675 +22.73% 5
East of England -20 11 £613 - 6
East Midlands -11 6 £442 - 5
North East -42 2 - -
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 14 (2.67%) Confluence
2 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.57%) Camunda
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Appian
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 234 (44.57%) Azure
2 191 (36.38%) AWS
3 85 (16.19%) GCP
4 71 (13.52%) Entra ID
5 29 (5.52%) SaaS
6 26 (4.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (3.81%) PaaS
9 19 (3.62%) IaaS
10 17 (3.24%) Serverless
11 16 (3.05%) GitHub
12 14 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.52%) OpenShift
16 8 (1.52%) Power Platform
17 7 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
17 7 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 102 (19.43%) Network Security
2 71 (13.52%) Firewall
3 21 (4.00%) VPN
4 17 (3.24%) WAN
5 16 (3.05%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.48%) DHCP
7 12 (2.29%) DNS
8 11 (2.10%) IPsec
8 11 (2.10%) NGFW
9 9 (1.71%) Internet
9 9 (1.71%) LAN
10 8 (1.52%) BGP
11 7 (1.33%) OSPF
11 7 (1.33%) SSL
12 6 (1.14%) HTTPS
12 6 (1.14%) Wireless
13 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.95%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.33%) Power BI
3 6 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.14%) Metadata
4 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.76%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.76%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.38%) Big Data
7 2 (0.38%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.38%) MySQL
7 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (3.24%) JIRA
2 9 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.33%) GitLab
4 6 (1.14%) Snyk
5 5 (0.95%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.76%) Git
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) ERwin
8 1 (0.19%) Hudson
8 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 127 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 117 (22.29%) Finance
3 71 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.29%) Banking
5 27 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.67%) Military
8 13 (2.48%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.29%) Legal
9 12 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.71%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.52%) Retail
12 7 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.95%) Aviation
13 5 (0.95%) Local Government
13 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.76%) Law
15 3 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 319 (60.76%) Architect
2 230 (43.81%) Security Architect
3 67 (12.76%) Security Engineer
4 45 (8.57%) Lead
5 43 (8.19%) Senior
6 41 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
7 36 (6.86%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 27 (5.14%) Consultant
9 26 (4.95%) Cloud Architect
10 25 (4.76%) Technical Architect
11 18 (3.43%) Security Consultant
11 18 (3.43%) Senior Security Engineer
12 17 (3.24%) Lead Architect
12 17 (3.24%) Security Specialist
13 16 (3.05%) Network Architect
13 16 (3.05%) Senior Architect
14 15 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.86%) Enterprise Security Architect
15 14 (2.67%) Enterprise Architect
16 13 (2.48%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.81%) OAuth
2 16 (3.05%) OpenID
3 15 (2.86%) OAuth2
4 14 (2.67%) SAML
5 13 (2.48%) REST
5 13 (2.48%) SailPoint
6 11 (2.10%) 802.1X
7 8 (1.52%) LangChain
7 8 (1.52%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.52%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.14%) LDAP
8 6 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (0.95%) .NET
10 4 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.76%) J2EE
10 4 (0.76%) JSP
10 4 (0.76%) Web Services
10 4 (0.76%) XACML
11 3 (0.57%) FHIR
11 3 (0.57%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.71%) Cloud Native
2 65 (12.38%) Security Posture
3 44 (8.38%) Operational Technology
4 23 (4.38%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.67%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
8 13 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.29%) PKI
10 11 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 10 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.71%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
13 8 (1.52%) IoT
14 7 (1.33%) SCADA
14 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.95%) Linux
1 26 (4.95%) Windows
2 12 (2.29%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.33%) Unix
4 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Android
6 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (34.67%) Cybersecurity
2 163 (31.05%) Threat Modelling
3 142 (27.05%) Cloud Security
4 126 (24.00%) Zero Trust
5 108 (20.57%) CI/CD
6 96 (18.29%) Risk Management
7 95 (18.10%) SIEM
8 94 (17.90%) DevOps
9 90 (17.14%) DevSecOps
9 90 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 89 (16.95%) Vulnerability Management
11 86 (16.38%) Architectural Patterns
12 83 (15.81%) TOGAF
13 80 (15.24%) Identity Access Management
13 80 (15.24%) SABSA
14 79 (15.05%) Roadmaps
15 71 (13.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 67 (12.76%) Agile
17 58 (11.05%) AI
18 57 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.38%) Python
2 21 (4.00%) Java
3 20 (3.81%) PowerShell
4 19 (3.62%) SQL
5 15 (2.86%) Bicep
6 8 (1.52%) Bash
7 3 (0.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.38%) ABAP
8 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.38%) Ruby
8 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.19%) Groovy
9 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 186 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 128 (24.38%) CISSP
3 118 (22.48%) SC Cleared
4 58 (11.05%) CISM
5 53 (10.10%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (9.14%) DV Cleared
7 43 (8.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 35 (6.67%) Degree
9 32 (6.10%) AWS Certification
10 29 (5.52%) GIAC
11 22 (4.19%) Azure Certification
12 21 (4.00%) CCSP
13 14 (2.67%) CEH
13 14 (2.67%) CRISC
13 14 (2.67%) SANS
14 11 (2.10%) CISA
14 11 (2.10%) OSCP
15 10 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
16 9 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (27.81%) NIST
2 108 (20.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (9.52%) NCSC
4 49 (9.33%) GDPR
5 30 (5.71%) PCI DSS
6 26 (4.95%) NIST 800
7 23 (4.38%) GRC
8 17 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (2.10%) JSP 440
10 10 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 10 (1.90%) SLA
11 9 (1.71%) SOC 2
12 8 (1.52%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.52%) QA
13 7 (1.33%) COBIT
13 7 (1.33%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.95%) RMADS
15 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 42 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.86%) Docker
3 10 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.14%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.76%) RACF
6 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.38%) IAG
7 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (8.38%) Terraform
2 37 (7.05%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.24%) Ansible
4 16 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.95%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.76%) CASB
7 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.57%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.38%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.19%) Grafana
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.19%) Packer
10 1 (0.19%) QRadar
10 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 108 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.52%) CyberArk
3 22 (4.19%) Google
3 22 (4.19%) Splunk
4 17 (3.24%) Palo Alto
5 16 (3.05%) Okta
6 14 (2.67%) Fortinet
6 14 (2.67%) SAP
7 13 (2.48%) Cisco
7 13 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.48%) Zscaler
8 12 (2.29%) VMware
9 11 (2.10%) Tenable
10 10 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.71%) Qualys
12 8 (1.52%) Rapid7
13 7 (1.33%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.33%) ForeScout
14 6 (1.14%) Juniper
14 6 (1.14%) Salesforce