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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 267 226
Rank change year-on-year +15 -41 +102
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 408 222 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.91% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.01% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 156 250
10th Percentile £456 £519 £498
25th Percentile £513 £600 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £740 £788 £792
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £615 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 16
10th Percentile £45.60 £59.25 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.46 £87.23
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% -15.79% +6.70%
75th Percentile - £82.00 £87.53
90th Percentile £107.92 £84.13 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £73.60 £87.23
% change year-on-year +14.13% -15.63% +22.86%

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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £615 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +2 189 £625 -10.71% 73
North of England -3 77 £617 +12.18% 39
North West +13 51 £625 +8.65% 23
South East -47 51 £650 +4.00% 33
Midlands -45 32 £490 -30.00% 21
South West -12 27 £573 -8.40% 16
West Midlands -40 26 £525 -25.00% 16
Yorkshire -35 23 £563 +2.27% 12
East of England -32 8 £575 -25.81% 16
North East -10 4 £498 +3.22% 5
East Midlands -34 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 12 (2.94%) Confluence
2 6 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) Camunda
3 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.25%) Summit
3 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 179 (43.87%) Azure
2 153 (37.50%) AWS
3 66 (16.18%) GCP
4 54 (13.24%) Entra ID
5 28 (6.86%) SaaS
6 23 (5.64%) PaaS
7 21 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 20 (4.90%) IaaS
8 20 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 15 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.43%) Serverless
11 12 (2.94%) OpenShift
11 12 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (2.70%) GitHub
13 9 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.21%) AWS KMS
14 8 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (23.28%) Network Security
2 70 (17.16%) Firewall
3 23 (5.64%) VPN
4 22 (5.39%) WAN
5 20 (4.90%) SD-WAN
6 19 (4.66%) LAN
7 18 (4.41%) DHCP
8 15 (3.68%) DNS
9 12 (2.94%) BGP
9 12 (2.94%) IPsec
9 12 (2.94%) OSPF
10 10 (2.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 10 (2.45%) SSL
11 9 (2.21%) Wireless
12 7 (1.72%) BIG-IP
13 6 (1.47%) HTTPS
13 6 (1.47%) Kerberos
13 6 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
13 6 (1.47%) TCP/IP
13 6 (1.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.47%) Metadata
2 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.98%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.98%) Power BI
4 3 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.49%) Big Data
5 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.49%) MySQL
5 2 (0.49%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.25%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (3.19%) JIRA
2 11 (2.70%) GitLab
3 5 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) Git
4 4 (0.98%) Robot Framework
4 4 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.49%) Snyk
6 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.25%) ERwin
6 1 (0.25%) Hudson
General
1 91 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.85%) Finance
3 58 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.64%) Banking
6 19 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.68%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.43%) Legal
9 13 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.70%) Military
11 9 (2.21%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.23%) Law
14 4 (0.98%) Local Government
14 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.49%) Aviation
15 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 250 (61.27%) Architect
2 180 (44.12%) Security Architect
3 44 (10.78%) Security Engineer
4 39 (9.56%) Solutions Architect
5 35 (8.58%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 31 (7.60%) Consultant
7 29 (7.11%) Senior
8 22 (5.39%) Lead
8 22 (5.39%) Network Architect
9 21 (5.15%) Security Consultant
10 19 (4.66%) Security Solutions Architect
11 18 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (3.92%) Project Manager
12 16 (3.92%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.43%) Network Security Architect
14 12 (2.94%) Azure Architect
15 11 (2.70%) Lead Architect
15 11 (2.70%) Migration Manager
15 11 (2.70%) Migration Project Manager
16 10 (2.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.90%) OAuth
2 15 (3.68%) OpenID
3 14 (3.43%) OAuth2
4 12 (2.94%) SAML
5 9 (2.21%) REST
6 8 (1.96%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.23%) LangChain
7 5 (1.23%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.23%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.23%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.23%) Web Services
7 5 (1.23%) XACML
8 4 (0.98%) ADO
8 4 (0.98%) JWT
9 3 (0.74%) .NET
9 3 (0.74%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.74%) FHIR
9 3 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 42 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.17%) PKI
5 16 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.68%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.68%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.94%) Private Cloud
8 11 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
8 11 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.21%) IoT
10 8 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.96%) Taxonomies
11 7 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.23%) NHS
13 5 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.90%) Windows
2 14 (3.43%) Linux
3 10 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.49%) Android
5 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (33.58%) Threat Modelling
2 126 (30.88%) Cybersecurity
3 113 (27.70%) Cloud Security
4 107 (26.23%) Zero Trust
5 85 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 69 (16.91%) DevSecOps
7 68 (16.67%) SIEM
8 65 (15.93%) DevOps
9 63 (15.44%) TOGAF
10 59 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (13.48%) Risk Management
11 55 (13.48%) Roadmaps
12 54 (13.24%) Vulnerability Management
13 52 (12.75%) Identity Access Management
14 51 (12.50%) Agile
15 49 (12.01%) Architectural Patterns
16 47 (11.52%) Migration
17 46 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 43 (10.54%) AI
18 43 (10.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.07%) Python
2 17 (4.17%) SQL
3 16 (3.92%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.19%) Java
5 8 (1.96%) Bash
5 8 (1.96%) Bicep
6 7 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.74%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.74%) Go
7 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.49%) C
8 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.49%) Ruby
8 2 (0.49%) Swift
9 1 (0.25%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.25%) C-shell
9 1 (0.25%) Korn
9 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 143 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 97 (23.77%) CISSP
3 88 (21.57%) SC Cleared
4 44 (10.78%) CISM
5 39 (9.56%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (8.09%) DV Cleared
7 29 (7.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 29 (7.11%) Degree
8 22 (5.39%) AWS Certification
9 20 (4.90%) CCSP
10 14 (3.43%) Azure Certification
10 14 (3.43%) GIAC
11 13 (3.19%) CCIE
11 13 (3.19%) PMI Certification
11 13 (3.19%) PMP
12 11 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (2.70%) CCNP
13 9 (2.21%) CEH
14 7 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (1.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (26.47%) NIST
2 92 (22.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (15.20%) GDPR
4 34 (8.33%) NCSC
4 34 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 14 (3.43%) GRC
6 13 (3.19%) NIST 800
7 10 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (2.45%) QA
8 8 (1.96%) EU AI Act
9 7 (1.72%) COBIT
9 7 (1.72%) JSP 440
9 7 (1.72%) SLA
10 6 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.47%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.47%) SOC 2
11 5 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.98%) RMADS
13 3 (0.74%) HL7
System Software
1 29 (7.11%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.19%) Docker
3 12 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.23%) RACF
5 5 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) IAG
7 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (11.03%) Terraform
2 42 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.64%) Ansible
4 16 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.47%) SCCM
7 5 (1.23%) CASB
8 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.98%) Fluentd
8 4 (0.98%) WSUS
9 2 (0.49%) Argo
9 2 (0.49%) Grafana
9 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.64%) Cisco
3 21 (5.15%) Splunk
4 17 (4.17%) VMware
5 16 (3.92%) CyberArk
5 16 (3.92%) Zscaler
6 15 (3.68%) Fortinet
7 13 (3.19%) F5
7 13 (3.19%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.70%) Google
9 9 (2.21%) CheckPoint
9 9 (2.21%) Juniper
9 9 (2.21%) Okta
9 9 (2.21%) SAP
9 9 (2.21%) Tenable
10 8 (1.96%) ForeScout
11 7 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.72%) Sparx
12 6 (1.47%) Cribl.io
12 6 (1.47%) Oracle