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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 252 215
Rank change year-on-year +25 -37 +74
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 445 234 406
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 0.97% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.06% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 152 259
10th Percentile £456 £534 £500
25th Percentile £520 £600 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £808
90th Percentile £825 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 17
10th Percentile £57.60 £59.25 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.46 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% -16.01% +6.66%
75th Percentile - £86.43 £87.53
90th Percentile £105.72 £89.23 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £73.60 £87.46
% change year-on-year +14.13% -15.85% +18.19%

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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +15 210 £646 -4.26% 57
North of England +6 82 £634 +12.67% 23
South East -59 59 £618 -1.20% 23
North West +7 54 £621 -7.45% 20
South West -19 30 £575 -14.81% 10
Midlands -53 28 £525 -26.32% 10
Yorkshire -26 25 £663 +20.45% 3
West Midlands -46 22 £525 -26.32% 7
East of England -27 8 £710 -8.39% 10
North East -14 4 £498 +3.22%
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 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 (3.15%) Confluence
2 9 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Camunda
4 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Appian
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.22%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 190 (42.70%) Azure
2 158 (35.51%) AWS
3 61 (13.71%) GCP
4 60 (13.48%) Entra ID
5 28 (6.29%) SaaS
6 25 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.72%) PaaS
8 20 (4.49%) IaaS
9 19 (4.27%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (3.15%) Serverless
12 12 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 12 (2.70%) GitHub
13 11 (2.47%) AWS KMS
14 10 (2.25%) OpenShift
14 10 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (1.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 98 (22.02%) Network Security
2 60 (13.48%) Firewall
3 16 (3.60%) WAN
4 15 (3.37%) LAN
4 15 (3.37%) SD-WAN
5 14 (3.15%) VPN
6 12 (2.70%) DHCP
7 11 (2.47%) IPsec
8 10 (2.25%) SSL
9 8 (1.80%) BGP
9 8 (1.80%) DNS
9 8 (1.80%) OSPF
10 6 (1.35%) BIG-IP
10 6 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (1.35%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.35%) Kerberos
10 6 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.35%) Wireless
11 5 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (1.12%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.35%) Metadata
2 6 (1.35%) Power BI
3 5 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.12%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.45%) Big Data
5 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.45%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 14 (3.15%) JIRA
2 7 (1.57%) GitLab
3 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.90%) Git
4 4 (0.90%) Robot Framework
4 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.45%) Snyk
6 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.22%) ERwin
6 1 (0.22%) Hudson
General
1 97 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 90 (20.22%) Finance
3 60 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.52%) Banking
5 21 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.15%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.92%) Military
9 12 (2.70%) Legal
10 10 (2.25%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.12%) Law
14 4 (0.90%) Aviation
14 4 (0.90%) Local Government
15 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.67%) Retail
15 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 259 (58.20%) Architect
2 190 (42.70%) Security Architect
3 47 (10.56%) Security Engineer
4 35 (7.87%) Lead
5 33 (7.42%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 30 (6.74%) Senior
7 28 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (5.84%) Consultant
9 22 (4.94%) Cloud Architect
10 20 (4.49%) Technical Architect
11 18 (4.04%) Security Consultant
12 15 (3.37%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.37%) Security Specialist
13 14 (3.15%) Network Architect
14 12 (2.70%) Lead Architect
15 11 (2.47%) Migration Manager
15 11 (2.47%) Migration Project Manager
15 11 (2.47%) Network Security Architect
15 11 (2.47%) Security Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.25%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.04%) OAuth
2 14 (3.15%) OAuth2
2 14 (3.15%) OpenID
3 11 (2.47%) SAML
4 10 (2.25%) SailPoint
5 9 (2.02%) REST
6 8 (1.80%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.12%) LangChain
7 5 (1.12%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.12%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.12%) Web Services
7 5 (1.12%) XACML
8 4 (0.90%) ADO
8 4 (0.90%) J2EE
8 4 (0.90%) JSP
8 4 (0.90%) JWT
9 3 (0.67%) .NET
9 3 (0.67%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.67%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 54 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.79%) Security Posture
3 29 (6.52%) Operational Technology
4 18 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.82%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.60%) PKI
7 12 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.25%) Cloud Security Posture
10 9 (2.02%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.02%) IoT
10 9 (2.02%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.35%) SCADA
14 5 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.29%) Windows
2 22 (4.94%) Linux
3 11 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.02%) Unix
5 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.45%) Android
6 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.69%) Cybersecurity
2 139 (31.24%) Threat Modelling
3 113 (25.39%) Cloud Security
4 105 (23.60%) Zero Trust
5 99 (22.25%) CI/CD
6 80 (17.98%) SIEM
7 73 (16.40%) DevOps
7 73 (16.40%) DevSecOps
8 72 (16.18%) Vulnerability Management
9 68 (15.28%) Risk Management
10 64 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 61 (13.71%) TOGAF
12 59 (13.26%) Architectural Patterns
12 59 (13.26%) Identity Access Management
13 57 (12.81%) Agile
14 56 (12.58%) SABSA
15 53 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 52 (11.69%) Roadmaps
17 48 (10.79%) SDLC
18 47 (10.56%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.76%) Python
2 19 (4.27%) SQL
3 18 (4.04%) Java
4 17 (3.82%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.02%) Bash
6 8 (1.80%) Bicep
7 4 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.90%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.67%) Go
9 2 (0.45%) C
9 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.45%) Ruby
9 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.45%) Swift
10 1 (0.22%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.22%) C-shell
10 1 (0.22%) Korn
10 1 (0.22%) ProC
Qualifications
1 156 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 103 (23.15%) CISSP
3 100 (22.47%) SC Cleared
4 47 (10.56%) CISM
5 44 (9.89%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (8.09%) DV Cleared
7 35 (7.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 32 (7.19%) Degree
9 27 (6.07%) AWS Certification
10 19 (4.27%) CCSP
11 18 (4.04%) GIAC
12 16 (3.60%) Azure Certification
13 13 (2.92%) PMI Certification
13 13 (2.92%) PMP
13 13 (2.92%) SANS
14 10 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (2.25%) CESG Certified Professional
15 9 (2.02%) CEH
16 8 (1.80%) CRISC
17 7 (1.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (27.19%) NIST
2 98 (22.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (11.91%) GDPR
4 39 (8.76%) NCSC
5 30 (6.74%) PCI DSS
6 18 (4.04%) GRC
6 18 (4.04%) NIST 800
7 13 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (2.02%) QA
8 9 (2.02%) SLA
9 7 (1.57%) COBIT
9 7 (1.57%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.57%) JSP 440
10 6 (1.35%) ISO 31000
10 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.35%) SOC 2
11 5 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.90%) RMADS
13 3 (0.67%) DICOM
13 3 (0.67%) HL7
System Software
1 39 (8.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.92%) Docker
3 10 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.02%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.12%) RACF
5 5 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) IAG
7 1 (0.22%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (9.44%) Terraform
2 36 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.04%) Ansible
4 14 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.90%) CASB
7 4 (0.90%) SCCM
7 4 (0.90%) WSUS
8 3 (0.67%) Argo
9 2 (0.45%) Grafana
9 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.22%) Packer
10 1 (0.22%) QRadar
10 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.62%) CyberArk
3 18 (4.04%) Splunk
4 17 (3.82%) Cisco
5 16 (3.60%) VMware
5 16 (3.60%) Zscaler
6 11 (2.47%) Google
6 11 (2.47%) Okta
7 9 (2.02%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.80%) ForeScout
8 8 (1.80%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.80%) SAP
9 7 (1.57%) F5
9 7 (1.57%) Oracle
9 7 (1.57%) Sparx
9 7 (1.57%) Tenable
10 6 (1.35%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.35%) Juniper
11 5 (1.12%) OpenAI