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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 280 276
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +118
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 272 246 316
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 0.81% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.92% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 152 225
10th Percentile £435 £513 £525
25th Percentile £514 £588 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £765
90th Percentile £800 £873 £865
UK median daily rate £638 £668 £650
% change year-on-year -4.49% +2.69% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 6
10th Percentile £35.37 - £59.13
25th Percentile £45.75 £60.75 £69.79
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £81.08
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% -24.15% +11.83%
75th Percentile £88.87 £78.40 £85.06
90th Percentile £97.10 £81.28 £86.31
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £61.50 £81.08
% change year-on-year +30.09% -24.15% +11.83%

All Process and 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 27,450 26,620 34,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.50% 87.73% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,481 16,323 23,332
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,780 955 1,444
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.24 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +29 140 £643 -8.21% 39
South East 0 45 £650 +7.00% 48
North of England -11 43 £688 +1.85% 24
Midlands -32 21 £525 -25.00% 12
West Midlands -28 20 £525 -25.00% 4
North West -9 18 £717 +4.33% 10
Yorkshire -21 15 £563 +0.27% 10
North East - 11 £663 - 4
South West -19 9 £688 -8.33% 9
East of England -12 7 £713 -1.72% 3
East Midlands -19 1 £400 -8.15% 7
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 (3.68%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.31%) Confluence
3 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.47%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 112 (41.18%) Azure
2 90 (33.09%) AWS
3 47 (17.28%) GCP
4 37 (13.60%) Entra ID
5 28 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (6.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (5.88%) SaaS
8 15 (5.51%) PaaS
9 12 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (3.68%) IaaS
11 9 (3.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 9 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.94%) GitHub
13 7 (2.57%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.84%) AWS KMS
15 5 (1.84%) Azure Key Vault
16 4 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (22.06%) Firewall
2 45 (16.54%) Network Security
3 22 (8.09%) VPN
4 16 (5.88%) DNS
5 13 (4.78%) WAN
6 12 (4.41%) SD-WAN
7 11 (4.04%) DHCP
8 10 (3.68%) BGP
8 10 (3.68%) LAN
9 9 (3.31%) TCP/IP
10 8 (2.94%) OSPF
11 7 (2.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.21%) NGFW
13 5 (1.84%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (1.84%) VXLAN
14 4 (1.47%) BIG-IP
14 4 (1.47%) EIGRP
14 4 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 4 (1.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.31%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.47%) Metadata
3 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.37%) GIS
3 1 (0.37%) Power BI
3 1 (0.37%) Redis
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (4.78%) GitLab
2 10 (3.68%) JIRA
3 6 (2.21%) Git
3 6 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
5 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 73 (26.84%) Finance
3 32 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.51%) Banking
6 12 (4.41%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.41%) Legal
7 10 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.94%) Military
9 8 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.10%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Electronics
13 1 (0.37%) German Language
13 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (66.18%) Architect
2 144 (52.94%) Security Architect
3 34 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 30 (11.03%) Senior
5 25 (9.19%) Security Engineer
6 24 (8.82%) Consultant
7 22 (8.09%) Senior Architect
7 22 (8.09%) Senior Security Architect
8 18 (6.62%) Security Consultant
9 17 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 14 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 14 (5.15%) Network Architect
11 13 (4.78%) Security Solutions Architect
12 12 (4.41%) Azure Architect
12 12 (4.41%) Lead
13 10 (3.68%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.31%) AWS Security Architect
15 8 (2.94%) Analyst
16 7 (2.57%) Enterprise Architect
16 7 (2.57%) Enterprise Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.31%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (2.21%) OAuth
3 5 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.84%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.84%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.84%) Web Services
4 4 (1.47%) .NET
4 4 (1.47%) Google JAX
4 4 (1.47%) JAX
4 4 (1.47%) OpenID
4 4 (1.47%) RESTful
4 4 (1.47%) SAML
4 4 (1.47%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.10%) Kafka
5 3 (1.10%) LDAP
5 3 (1.10%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.10%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.74%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 25 (9.19%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.99%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.15%) Cyber Threat
6 13 (4.78%) Data Centre
6 13 (4.78%) PKI
7 12 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (4.04%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.31%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (3.31%) Operational Technology
9 9 (3.31%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (2.21%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.21%) Taxonomies
13 5 (1.84%) Cyberattack
13 5 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.84%) NHS
13 5 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.35%) Windows
2 7 (2.57%) Linux
3 6 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.10%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (39.34%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (29.04%) Cloud Security
3 62 (22.79%) Threat Modelling
4 57 (20.96%) SIEM
5 52 (19.12%) Incident Response
6 51 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 42 (15.44%) TOGAF
8 41 (15.07%) Roadmaps
9 40 (14.71%) Zero Trust
10 39 (14.34%) DevOps
11 34 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (12.13%) Identity Access Management
12 33 (12.13%) Information Security
12 33 (12.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (11.76%) DevSecOps
14 31 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (11.40%) Risk Management
15 29 (10.66%) Data Loss Prevention
16 27 (9.93%) Migration
17 26 (9.56%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.19%) Python
2 14 (5.15%) Kusto Query Language
3 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.94%) Java
5 5 (1.84%) Apex Code
5 5 (1.84%) Bash
6 4 (1.47%) C
6 4 (1.47%) C++
6 4 (1.47%) R
6 4 (1.47%) SQL
7 3 (1.10%) Go
7 3 (1.10%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.37%) C-shell
9 1 (0.37%) Korn
9 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.37%) ProC
9 1 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 73 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.90%) CISSP
3 45 (16.54%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.66%) Degree
5 26 (9.56%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (9.56%) CISM
6 22 (8.09%) AWS Certification
7 17 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 17 (6.25%) Azure Certification
8 16 (5.88%) CCSP
8 16 (5.88%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.41%) CCNP
10 11 (4.04%) CCIE
11 10 (3.68%) CEH
12 6 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.21%) OSCP
13 5 (1.84%) CCIE Security
13 5 (1.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (28.68%) NIST
2 76 (27.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (18.75%) GDPR
4 28 (10.29%) PCI DSS
5 16 (5.88%) NCSC
6 12 (4.41%) QA
7 10 (3.68%) EU AI Act
8 9 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (2.94%) PSD2
10 6 (2.21%) COBIT
10 6 (2.21%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.84%) GRC
12 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
12 4 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (1.10%) JSP 440
13 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 16 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.94%) Docker
3 6 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.84%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.03%) Terraform
3 17 (6.25%) Ansible
4 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.21%) Fluentd
6 6 (2.21%) SCCM
7 4 (1.47%) WSUS
8 3 (1.10%) CASB
8 3 (1.10%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.10%) Grafana
9 2 (0.74%) Argo
9 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.37%) Istio
10 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.37%) OPNET
10 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.35%) Splunk
3 18 (6.62%) Cisco
4 14 (5.15%) Darktrace
4 14 (5.15%) Fortinet
4 14 (5.15%) Palo Alto
5 13 (4.78%) CyberArk
6 12 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.68%) F5
8 8 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.94%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.57%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.57%) Cribl.io
9 7 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (2.57%) SAP
9 7 (2.57%) VMware
10 6 (2.21%) Google
10 6 (2.21%) Juniper
10 6 (2.21%) Sparx
11 5 (1.84%) Workday