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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 265 217
Rank change year-on-year +27 -48 +114
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 422 224 397
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.92% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.01% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 157 255
10th Percentile £456 £530 £500
25th Percentile £513 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £738 £788 £797
90th Percentile £800 £868 £850
UK median daily rate £615 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 16
10th Percentile £45.60 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.31 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -16.18% +6.98%
75th Percentile - £83.20 £87.53
90th Percentile £105.72 £85.06 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £73.46 £87.46
% change year-on-year +14.36% -16.01% +23.18%

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 33,191 22,141 32,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.96% 90.87% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,296 14,591 21,484
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,024 863 2,161
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.38 £19.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £31.52 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.07% -4.48% -11.53%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +11 194 £625 -10.71% 73
North of England -5 80 £617 +12.18% 39
North West +3 52 £621 +8.00% 23
South East -43 52 £650 +4.00% 33
Midlands -51 34 £495 -29.29% 21
South West -8 29 £575 -9.80% 16
West Midlands -41 28 £513 -26.79% 16
Yorkshire -36 25 £563 +2.27% 12
East of England -29 8 £575 -25.81% 16
North East -11 4 £498 +3.22% 5
East Midlands -28 4 £438 +0.46% 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 13 (3.08%) Confluence
2 7 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.71%) Camunda
4 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Appian
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.24%) Summit
3 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 183 (43.36%) Azure
2 156 (36.97%) AWS
3 69 (16.35%) GCP
4 55 (13.03%) Entra ID
5 30 (7.11%) SaaS
6 23 (5.45%) PaaS
7 21 (4.98%) Azure Sentinel
7 21 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (4.74%) IaaS
9 15 (3.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 15 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.32%) Serverless
11 13 (3.08%) OpenShift
11 13 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 12 (2.84%) GitHub
13 10 (2.37%) AWS KMS
14 9 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (1.66%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 95 (22.51%) Network Security
2 71 (16.82%) Firewall
3 24 (5.69%) VPN
4 22 (5.21%) WAN
5 20 (4.74%) SD-WAN
6 19 (4.50%) LAN
7 18 (4.27%) DHCP
8 16 (3.79%) DNS
9 12 (2.84%) BGP
9 12 (2.84%) IPsec
9 12 (2.84%) OSPF
10 11 (2.61%) SSL
11 10 (2.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 9 (2.13%) Wireless
13 7 (1.66%) BIG-IP
14 6 (1.42%) HTTPS
14 6 (1.42%) Kerberos
14 6 (1.42%) MPLS
14 6 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (1.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.42%) Metadata
1 6 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.18%) Power BI
3 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.95%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.47%) Big Data
5 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.47%) MySQL
5 2 (0.47%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.24%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (3.08%) JIRA
2 11 (2.61%) GitLab
3 6 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.95%) Git
4 4 (0.95%) Robot Framework
4 4 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.47%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.47%) Snyk
6 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.24%) ERwin
6 1 (0.24%) Hudson
General
1 95 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.43%) Finance
3 60 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 29 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.45%) Banking
6 19 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.79%) Legal
8 15 (3.55%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.61%) Military
12 10 (2.37%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.18%) Law
15 4 (0.95%) Local Government
15 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.47%) Aviation
16 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 256 (60.66%) Architect
2 184 (43.60%) Security Architect
3 46 (10.90%) Security Engineer
4 39 (9.24%) Solutions Architect
5 34 (8.06%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 32 (7.58%) Consultant
7 31 (7.35%) Senior
8 25 (5.92%) Lead
9 22 (5.21%) Network Architect
9 22 (5.21%) Security Consultant
10 19 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
10 19 (4.50%) Technical Architect
11 18 (4.27%) Security Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.79%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.32%) Network Security Architect
14 12 (2.84%) Azure Architect
14 12 (2.84%) Lead Architect
15 11 (2.61%) Migration Manager
15 11 (2.61%) Migration Project Manager
15 11 (2.61%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.98%) OAuth
2 16 (3.79%) OpenID
3 14 (3.32%) OAuth2
4 13 (3.08%) SAML
5 9 (2.13%) REST
6 8 (1.90%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.42%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.18%) LangChain
8 5 (1.18%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.18%) scikit-learn
8 5 (1.18%) Web Services
8 5 (1.18%) XACML
9 4 (0.95%) ADO
9 4 (0.95%) JWT
10 3 (0.71%) .NET
10 3 (0.71%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.71%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.71%) FHIR
10 3 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.61%) Security Posture
2 45 (10.66%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.50%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.27%) PKI
5 17 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.55%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.84%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
8 11 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.13%) IoT
10 8 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.90%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.18%) NHS
13 5 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.98%) Windows
2 15 (3.55%) Linux
3 11 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) Android
5 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (33.65%) Threat Modelling
2 130 (30.81%) Cybersecurity
3 115 (27.25%) Cloud Security
4 109 (25.83%) Zero Trust
5 87 (20.62%) CI/CD
6 69 (16.35%) DevSecOps
6 69 (16.35%) SIEM
7 68 (16.11%) DevOps
8 63 (14.93%) TOGAF
9 62 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (13.74%) Risk Management
10 58 (13.74%) Vulnerability Management
11 56 (13.27%) Roadmaps
12 53 (12.56%) Identity Access Management
13 52 (12.32%) Agile
14 51 (12.09%) Architectural Patterns
15 49 (11.61%) Migration
16 46 (10.90%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (10.43%) AI
17 44 (10.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.24%) Python
2 17 (4.03%) SQL
3 16 (3.79%) Java
3 16 (3.79%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.90%) Bash
4 8 (1.90%) Bicep
5 7 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.95%) Kotlin
7 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.71%) Go
7 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.47%) C
8 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.47%) Ruby
8 2 (0.47%) Swift
9 1 (0.24%) C-shell
9 1 (0.24%) Korn
9 1 (0.24%) ProC
9 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.24%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 148 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 100 (23.70%) CISSP
3 89 (21.09%) SC Cleared
4 44 (10.43%) CISM
5 41 (9.72%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (8.06%) DV Cleared
7 31 (7.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 30 (7.11%) Degree
9 24 (5.69%) AWS Certification
10 20 (4.74%) CCSP
11 15 (3.55%) Azure Certification
12 14 (3.32%) GIAC
13 13 (3.08%) CCIE
13 13 (3.08%) PMI Certification
13 13 (3.08%) PMP
14 11 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (2.61%) CCNP
15 10 (2.37%) CEH
16 8 (1.90%) SANS
17 7 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (26.54%) NIST
2 94 (22.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (14.69%) GDPR
4 36 (8.53%) NCSC
5 34 (8.06%) PCI DSS
6 15 (3.55%) GRC
6 15 (3.55%) NIST 800
7 10 (2.37%) QA
8 9 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.90%) EU AI Act
10 7 (1.66%) COBIT
10 7 (1.66%) JSP 440
10 7 (1.66%) SLA
11 6 (1.42%) HIPAA
11 6 (1.42%) SOC 2
12 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.95%) RMADS
14 3 (0.71%) HL7
System Software
1 30 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.08%) Docker
2 13 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (3.08%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.18%) RACF
3 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.47%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) IAG
5 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 44 (10.43%) Terraform
2 43 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 22 (5.21%) Ansible
4 16 (3.79%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.42%) SCCM
7 5 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.18%) CASB
8 4 (0.95%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.95%) WSUS
9 3 (0.71%) Argo
10 2 (0.47%) Grafana
10 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.24%) Packer
11 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.21%) Cisco
3 20 (4.74%) Splunk
4 19 (4.50%) VMware
5 17 (4.03%) CyberArk
5 17 (4.03%) Zscaler
6 15 (3.55%) Fortinet
7 13 (3.08%) F5
8 12 (2.84%) Palo Alto
9 11 (2.61%) Google
10 9 (2.13%) CheckPoint
10 9 (2.13%) Juniper
10 9 (2.13%) Okta
10 9 (2.13%) SAP
10 9 (2.13%) Tenable
11 8 (1.90%) ForeScout
12 7 (1.66%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.66%) Sparx
13 6 (1.42%) Cribl.io
13 6 (1.42%) Oracle