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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 277 281
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +69
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 285 211 311
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.80% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.90% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 130 200
10th Percentile £438 £537 £500
25th Percentile £510 £600 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - -
75th Percentile £731 £775 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £613 £651 £675
% change year-on-year -5.84% -3.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 10
10th Percentile £33.18 - £73.76
25th Percentile £35.15 £60.75 £81.87
Median hourly rate £48.50 £73.46 £85.38
Median % change year-on-year -33.97% -13.97% +17.77%
75th Percentile £70.44 £79.60 £87.40
90th Percentile £85.18 £83.20 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £73.60 £85.38
% change year-on-year -6.59% -13.80% +17.77%

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 28,613 23,512 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.45% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,292 14,362 22,132
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £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 1,780 759 1,832
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.72% +12.50%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +22 154 £625 -10.71% 34
South East -37 34 £650 +5.69% 23
North of England -25 33 £590 +5.08% 5
Midlands -48 22 £475 -32.14% 3
Yorkshire -29 18 £550 -1.96% 2
West Midlands -28 17 £525 -25.00% 2
South West -17 16 £675 +12.50% 10
North West -19 12 £770 - 3
East of England -14 7 £713 -5.00% 1
East Midlands -25 5 £438 +0.46% 1
North East - 3 £498 -
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 (2.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 118 (41.40%) Azure
2 98 (34.39%) AWS
3 42 (14.74%) GCP
4 37 (12.98%) Entra ID
5 24 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (7.72%) SaaS
7 18 (6.32%) PaaS
8 17 (5.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 16 (5.61%) IaaS
10 13 (4.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 11 (3.86%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.51%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.46%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.46%) GitHub
13 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.75%) AWS Control Tower
14 5 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (23.86%) Firewall
2 61 (21.40%) Network Security
3 22 (7.72%) VPN
4 18 (6.32%) WAN
5 16 (5.61%) LAN
5 16 (5.61%) SD-WAN
6 15 (5.26%) DNS
7 14 (4.91%) BGP
7 14 (4.91%) DHCP
8 12 (4.21%) OSPF
9 10 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 9 (3.16%) IPsec
10 9 (3.16%) TCP/IP
11 7 (2.46%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.46%) NGFW
11 7 (2.46%) SSL
11 7 (2.46%) VXLAN
12 6 (2.11%) MPLS
12 6 (2.11%) Wireless
13 5 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.75%) Metadata
2 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.35%) Power BI
2 1 (0.35%) Redis
2 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (3.86%) GitLab
2 6 (2.11%) JIRA
3 4 (1.40%) Git
3 4 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.40%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.00%) Finance
3 37 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 14 (4.91%) Banking
7 13 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.56%) Legal
8 10 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.11%) Law
10 6 (2.11%) Military
11 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.05%) Marketing
13 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.35%) Electronics
14 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (61.75%) Architect
2 137 (48.07%) Security Architect
3 32 (11.23%) Solutions Architect
4 31 (10.88%) Security Engineer
5 25 (8.77%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 23 (8.07%) Consultant
7 18 (6.32%) Network Architect
8 17 (5.96%) Security Consultant
8 17 (5.96%) Security Solutions Architect
9 16 (5.61%) Senior
10 12 (4.21%) Technical Architect
11 11 (3.86%) Azure Architect
11 11 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.86%) Network Security Architect
12 10 (3.51%) Project Manager
13 8 (2.81%) Security Manager
14 7 (2.46%) Analyst
14 7 (2.46%) AWS Architect
14 7 (2.46%) Lead
14 7 (2.46%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.21%) OAuth
2 8 (2.81%) OpenID
2 8 (2.81%) SAML
3 7 (2.46%) OAuth2
4 5 (1.75%) REST
5 3 (1.05%) .NET
5 3 (1.05%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.05%) ADO
5 3 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.05%) Kafka
5 3 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.05%) Middleware
5 3 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.70%) JWT
6 2 (0.70%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.70%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.70%) Web Services
6 2 (0.70%) XACML
7 1 (0.35%) JSSE
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.88%) Security Posture
2 22 (7.72%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.02%) PKI
4 17 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 15 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (4.21%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.86%) Management Information System
9 9 (3.16%) Operational Technology
9 9 (3.16%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.81%) Taxonomies
11 7 (2.46%) IoT
12 5 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.75%) NHS
12 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.12%) Windows
2 12 (4.21%) Linux
2 12 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.75%) Unix
4 2 (0.70%) Android
4 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (35.09%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (29.82%) Cloud Security
3 75 (26.32%) Threat Modelling
4 71 (24.91%) Zero Trust
5 59 (20.70%) SIEM
6 52 (18.25%) Incident Response
7 49 (17.19%) CI/CD
8 44 (15.44%) TOGAF
9 42 (14.74%) DevOps
10 40 (14.04%) Identity Access Management
10 40 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (13.68%) DevSecOps
11 39 (13.68%) Roadmaps
12 35 (12.28%) Migration
12 35 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 33 (11.58%) Data Loss Prevention
14 31 (10.88%) Risk Management
15 30 (10.53%) Information Security
16 29 (10.18%) Data Protection
16 29 (10.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (8.42%) Python
2 13 (4.56%) Kusto Query Language
3 11 (3.86%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.46%) Java
4 7 (2.46%) SQL
5 5 (1.75%) Bash
6 4 (1.40%) Bicep
7 3 (1.05%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.05%) Go
7 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.70%) C
8 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.70%) Swift
9 1 (0.35%) C-shell
9 1 (0.35%) Korn
9 1 (0.35%) ProC
9 1 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 92 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.81%) CISSP
3 59 (20.70%) SC Cleared
4 33 (11.58%) CISM
5 28 (9.82%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (9.47%) DV Cleared
7 21 (7.37%) Degree
8 19 (6.67%) AWS Certification
9 16 (5.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (5.26%) CCSP
11 13 (4.56%) Azure Certification
11 13 (4.56%) CCIE
12 12 (4.21%) CCNP
13 9 (3.16%) CEH
14 8 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (2.46%) GIAC
15 7 (2.46%) PMI Certification
15 7 (2.46%) PMP
16 6 (2.11%) CCIE Security
16 6 (2.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (30.18%) NIST
2 78 (27.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (16.49%) GDPR
4 31 (10.88%) NCSC
5 26 (9.12%) PCI DSS
6 12 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.81%) GRC
8 7 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (2.46%) EU AI Act
8 7 (2.46%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.75%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.75%) QA
10 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (1.40%) NIST 800
10 4 (1.40%) PSD2
10 4 (1.40%) SOC 2
11 3 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.70%) RMADS
System Software
1 22 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (3.86%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.81%) Docker
4 5 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.70%) RACF
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (14.04%) Terraform
2 33 (11.58%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.77%) Ansible
4 12 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.46%) SCCM
7 6 (2.11%) Fluentd
8 5 (1.75%) WSUS
9 4 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.05%) Grafana
11 2 (0.70%) Argo
11 2 (0.70%) CASB
11 2 (0.70%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.35%) Istio
12 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 61 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.47%) Splunk
3 25 (8.77%) Cisco
4 18 (6.32%) Fortinet
5 16 (5.61%) VMware
6 15 (5.26%) CyberArk
6 15 (5.26%) Palo Alto
7 14 (4.91%) F5
8 13 (4.56%) Zscaler
9 11 (3.86%) Darktrace
10 10 (3.51%) CheckPoint
11 9 (3.16%) Cribl.io
11 9 (3.16%) Juniper
12 7 (2.46%) Google
12 7 (2.46%) Sparx
13 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
14 5 (1.75%) Meraki
14 5 (1.75%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.75%) Sophos
15 4 (1.40%) SolarWinds