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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 272 243
Rank change year-on-year +58 -29 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 567 266 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 0.97% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.06% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 160 204
10th Percentile £463 £513 £525
25th Percentile £525 £597 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £801
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £604 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -10.52% -6.90% +6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £71.00 £53.23 £84.67
25th Percentile £79.18 £59.94 -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £87.04 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -0.48% +19.13%
75th Percentile £88.33 £89.78 -
90th Percentile £103.07 £99.25 -
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £87.04 £87.46
% change year-on-year -4.64% -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 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +41 286 £625 -3.85% 185
South East -33 95 £623 -4.23% 51
North of England -17 87 £625 -13.40% 46
North West -16 51 £600 -16.35% 28
South West -24 34 £600 -12.73% 41
Yorkshire -11 33 £663 -10.17% 13
Midlands -34 32 £600 -25.00% 14
West Midlands -43 27 £613 -23.44% 8
East of England -12 15 £600 -29.41% 14
East Midlands -14 3 £538 - 6
North East -47 2 £650 -11.86% 5
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 10 (1.76%) Confluence
2 7 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.53%) Camunda
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.18%) Appian
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.18%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 243 (42.86%) Azure
2 183 (32.28%) AWS
3 96 (16.93%) GCP
4 68 (11.99%) Entra ID
5 27 (4.76%) SaaS
6 24 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (4.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 23 (4.06%) GitHub
8 21 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.65%) Serverless
11 14 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.12%) PaaS
13 11 (1.94%) IaaS
14 10 (1.76%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (1.59%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
17 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
17 7 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (14.29%) Network Security
2 57 (10.05%) Firewall
3 19 (3.35%) VPN
3 19 (3.35%) WAN
4 14 (2.47%) DNS
5 11 (1.94%) NGFW
5 11 (1.94%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.76%) Internet
6 10 (1.76%) LAN
7 8 (1.41%) DHCP
8 7 (1.23%) BGP
9 6 (1.06%) 4G
9 6 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.88%) 5G
10 5 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (0.71%) Intranet
11 4 (0.71%) VLAN
12 3 (0.53%) IPsec
12 3 (0.53%) OSPF
12 3 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.06%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.06%) Power BI
2 6 (1.06%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.88%) SAP HANA
4 4 (0.71%) Metadata
4 4 (0.71%) SAP BW
5 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.53%) Big Data
5 3 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.35%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.35%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.65%) GitLab
2 15 (2.65%) JIRA
3 6 (1.06%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.88%) Snyk
5 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.35%) Git
8 1 (0.18%) Hudson
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.58%) Finance
3 77 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.53%) Banking
5 28 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
6 23 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (3.53%) Aerospace
9 17 (3.00%) Legal
10 13 (2.29%) Local Government
10 13 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.29%) Military
11 10 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.41%) Retail
12 8 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.88%) Law
14 5 (0.88%) Police
15 4 (0.71%) Aviation
15 4 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 383 (67.55%) Architect
2 257 (45.33%) Security Architect
3 63 (11.11%) Lead
4 50 (8.82%) Security Engineer
4 50 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 42 (7.41%) Senior
6 36 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 34 (6.00%) Consultant
8 32 (5.64%) Cloud Architect
9 31 (5.47%) Lead Architect
10 27 (4.76%) Technical Architect
11 23 (4.06%) Security Consultant
12 22 (3.88%) Lead Security Architect
13 21 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
14 18 (3.17%) Senior Architect
15 17 (3.00%) Security Specialist
16 16 (2.82%) Enterprise Security Architect
17 15 (2.65%) Network Architect
18 14 (2.47%) Azure Architect
19 13 (2.29%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.11%) Terraform
2 22 (3.88%) OAuth
3 20 (3.53%) REST
4 16 (2.82%) OpenID
5 14 (2.47%) SAML
6 13 (2.29%) OAuth2
7 12 (2.12%) SailPoint
8 11 (1.94%) LDAP
9 8 (1.41%) Middleware
10 7 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
10 7 (1.23%) SLSA
11 6 (1.06%) 802.1X
12 5 (0.88%) .NET
12 5 (0.88%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.88%) ModSecurity
12 5 (0.88%) SOAP
13 4 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
13 4 (0.71%) Jakarta EE
13 4 (0.71%) JSP
13 4 (0.71%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.64%) Cloud Native
2 60 (10.58%) Security Posture
3 42 (7.41%) Operational Technology
4 26 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 24 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.17%) PKI
7 17 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.65%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 15 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.12%) Cloud Security Posture
10 12 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
10 12 (2.12%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.76%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.41%) SCADA
13 6 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.88%) Linux
2 21 (3.70%) Windows
3 8 (1.41%) Unix
4 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (37.74%) Cybersecurity
2 172 (30.34%) Cloud Security
3 160 (28.22%) Threat Modelling
4 132 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 130 (22.93%) Zero Trust
6 124 (21.87%) CI/CD
7 117 (20.63%) Risk Management
7 117 (20.63%) Roadmaps
8 107 (18.87%) Identity Access Management
9 104 (18.34%) DevSecOps
10 100 (17.64%) TOGAF
11 97 (17.11%) DevOps
12 92 (16.23%) Architectural Patterns
13 91 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 87 (15.34%) SABSA
15 84 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
16 83 (14.64%) SIEM
17 80 (14.11%) AI
18 78 (13.76%) Technical Leadership
19 66 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (6.70%) Python
2 23 (4.06%) Java
3 22 (3.88%) PowerShell
4 18 (3.17%) Bicep
5 15 (2.65%) SQL
6 10 (1.76%) Bash
7 3 (0.53%) ABAP
7 3 (0.53%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.35%) C#
8 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.35%) Ruby
9 1 (0.18%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.18%) Go
9 1 (0.18%) Groovy
9 1 (0.18%) R
9 1 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 203 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 145 (25.57%) CISSP
3 129 (22.75%) SC Cleared
4 64 (11.29%) CISM
5 59 (10.41%) DV Cleared
6 53 (9.35%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (7.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 33 (5.82%) Degree
9 32 (5.64%) AWS Certification
10 28 (4.94%) GIAC
11 26 (4.59%) Azure Certification
12 22 (3.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 21 (3.70%) CCSP
14 17 (3.00%) CEH
15 15 (2.65%) CRISC
16 14 (2.47%) SANS
17 13 (2.29%) CISA
17 13 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
19 10 (1.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (28.04%) NIST
2 116 (20.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (9.88%) NCSC
4 39 (6.88%) GDPR
5 34 (6.00%) GRC
6 24 (4.23%) PCI DSS
7 22 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.88%) NIST 800
8 12 (2.12%) JSP 440
9 9 (1.59%) QA
10 8 (1.41%) ISO 31000
11 7 (1.23%) COBIT
11 7 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (1.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (1.23%) SLA
12 5 (0.88%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.71%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.53%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 38 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.65%) Docker
3 10 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) IAG
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 37 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.88%) Ansible
3 9 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.88%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.71%) CASB
5 4 (0.71%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.71%) SCCM
6 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.35%) Istio
6 2 (0.35%) QRadar
7 1 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 124 (21.87%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.94%) CyberArk
2 28 (4.94%) Google
3 20 (3.53%) Palo Alto
4 18 (3.17%) Cisco
4 18 (3.17%) SAP
4 18 (3.17%) Splunk
5 16 (2.82%) Zscaler
6 13 (2.29%) VMware
7 11 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (1.94%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.94%) Okta
8 10 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.76%) Tenable
9 9 (1.59%) Databricks
9 9 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.23%) Oracle
11 7 (1.23%) Qualys
12 5 (0.88%) Rapid7