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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 258 229
Rank change year-on-year +46 -29 +21
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 536 275 387
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.02% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.12% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 169 247
10th Percentile £463 £524 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £800
90th Percentile £820 £807 £850
UK median daily rate £622 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.93% -3.57% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 16
10th Percentile £82.23 £48.10 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £86.50 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -1.10% +20.08%
75th Percentile - £88.87 £87.53
90th Percentile £103.63 £98.50 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £86.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year -2.89% -1.10% +20.44%

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 38,339 24,527 31,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.54% 90.74% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,173 15,771 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,262 2,268
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.21 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +32 261 £625 -7.41% 94
North of England -23 90 £650 -7.14% 23
South East -44 79 £650 - 35
North West +1 61 £621 -13.27% 14
Midlands -29 39 £550 -31.25% 8
South West -12 32 £575 -14.81% 29
West Midlands -46 31 £590 -26.25% 2
Yorkshire -24 28 £675 +22.73% 6
East of England -22 12 £613 - 4
East Midlands -10 6 £442 - 6
North East -45 2 - - 3
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 (2.61%) Confluence
2 6 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Appian
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 235 (43.84%) Azure
2 192 (35.82%) AWS
3 87 (16.23%) GCP
4 71 (13.25%) Entra ID
5 30 (5.60%) SaaS
6 26 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (3.73%) PaaS
9 19 (3.54%) IaaS
10 17 (3.17%) Serverless
11 16 (2.99%) GitHub
12 14 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 9 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (1.49%) OpenShift
16 8 (1.49%) Power Platform
17 7 (1.31%) Azure Key Vault
17 7 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 101 (18.84%) Network Security
2 70 (13.06%) Firewall
3 20 (3.73%) VPN
4 16 (2.99%) WAN
5 15 (2.80%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.43%) DHCP
7 12 (2.24%) DNS
8 11 (2.05%) IPsec
8 11 (2.05%) NGFW
9 9 (1.68%) Internet
10 8 (1.49%) LAN
11 7 (1.31%) BGP
11 7 (1.31%) SSL
12 6 (1.12%) HTTPS
12 6 (1.12%) OSPF
12 6 (1.12%) Wireless
13 5 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
13 5 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.93%) TCP/IP
14 4 (0.75%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.31%) Power BI
3 6 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.12%) Metadata
4 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.93%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.75%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.75%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.37%) Big Data
7 2 (0.37%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.37%) MySQL
7 2 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (3.17%) JIRA
2 9 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.31%) GitLab
4 6 (1.12%) Snyk
5 5 (0.93%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.75%) Git
7 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) ERwin
8 1 (0.19%) Hudson
General
1 131 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 119 (22.20%) Finance
3 72 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.16%) Banking
5 27 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.80%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.61%) Military
9 13 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.43%) Legal
10 12 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.49%) Retail
12 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.12%) Local Government
14 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.75%) Aviation
15 4 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.75%) Law
16 3 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 331 (61.75%) Architect
2 238 (44.40%) Security Architect
3 67 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 53 (9.89%) Lead
5 43 (8.02%) Senior
5 43 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.72%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 28 (5.22%) Consultant
8 26 (4.85%) Cloud Architect
8 26 (4.85%) Technical Architect
9 25 (4.66%) Lead Architect
10 20 (3.73%) Security Consultant
11 18 (3.36%) Senior Security Engineer
12 17 (3.17%) Security Specialist
13 16 (2.99%) Lead Security Architect
13 16 (2.99%) Senior Architect
14 15 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.80%) Enterprise Architect
14 15 (2.80%) Enterprise Security Architect
14 15 (2.80%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.92%) OAuth
2 16 (2.99%) OpenID
3 15 (2.80%) OAuth2
4 14 (2.61%) REST
4 14 (2.61%) SAML
5 13 (2.43%) SailPoint
6 11 (2.05%) 802.1X
7 8 (1.49%) LangChain
7 8 (1.49%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.49%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.12%) LDAP
8 6 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (0.93%) .NET
9 5 (0.93%) SLSA
10 4 (0.75%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (0.75%) J2EE
10 4 (0.75%) JSP
10 4 (0.75%) Web Services
10 4 (0.75%) XACML
11 3 (0.56%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.81%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.31%) Security Posture
3 44 (8.21%) Operational Technology
4 25 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.80%) Cloud Security Posture
6 15 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.05%) PKI
9 11 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 10 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.68%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (1.49%) IoT
13 7 (1.31%) SCADA
13 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.85%) Linux
2 25 (4.66%) Windows
3 11 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.31%) Unix
5 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.75%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (35.45%) Cybersecurity
2 166 (30.97%) Threat Modelling
3 146 (27.24%) Cloud Security
4 124 (23.13%) Zero Trust
5 117 (21.83%) CI/CD
6 105 (19.59%) Risk Management
7 98 (18.28%) DevSecOps
8 95 (17.72%) SIEM
9 94 (17.54%) DevOps
10 92 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 91 (16.98%) TOGAF
12 90 (16.79%) Roadmaps
13 89 (16.60%) Vulnerability Management
14 85 (15.86%) Architectural Patterns
15 81 (15.11%) Identity Access Management
15 81 (15.11%) SABSA
16 78 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 69 (12.87%) AI
18 65 (12.13%) Agile
19 57 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.84%) Python
2 22 (4.10%) Java
3 20 (3.73%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.73%) SQL
4 15 (2.80%) Bicep
5 8 (1.49%) Bash
6 3 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.37%) ABAP
7 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.37%) Ruby
7 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.19%) Groovy
8 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 192 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 136 (25.37%) CISSP
3 121 (22.57%) SC Cleared
4 58 (10.82%) CISM
5 52 (9.70%) Cisco Certification
5 52 (9.70%) DV Cleared
6 43 (8.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 35 (6.53%) Degree
8 32 (5.97%) AWS Certification
9 29 (5.41%) GIAC
10 23 (4.29%) Azure Certification
11 21 (3.92%) CCSP
12 14 (2.61%) CEH
12 14 (2.61%) CRISC
12 14 (2.61%) SANS
13 11 (2.05%) CISA
13 11 (2.05%) OSCP
13 11 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.87%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (27.43%) NIST
2 107 (19.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (9.14%) NCSC
4 47 (8.77%) GDPR
5 30 (5.60%) PCI DSS
6 27 (5.04%) NIST 800
7 23 (4.29%) GRC
8 17 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (2.05%) JSP 440
10 10 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 10 (1.87%) SLA
11 9 (1.68%) SOC 2
12 8 (1.49%) ISO 31000
12 8 (1.49%) QA
13 7 (1.31%) COBIT
13 7 (1.31%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.93%) RMADS
15 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 41 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.80%) Docker
3 10 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.75%) RACF
6 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.37%) IAG
7 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (7.84%) Terraform
2 37 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.80%) Ansible
3 15 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.93%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.75%) CASB
7 3 (0.56%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.56%) SCCM
8 1 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.19%) Istio
8 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.19%) Packer
8 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) QRadar
8 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 112 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.22%) CyberArk
3 24 (4.48%) Google
4 22 (4.10%) Splunk
5 17 (3.17%) Okta
5 17 (3.17%) Palo Alto
6 15 (2.80%) SAP
7 14 (2.61%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.24%) Cisco
8 12 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.24%) Zscaler
9 11 (2.05%) Tenable
9 11 (2.05%) VMware
10 10 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.68%) Qualys
12 8 (1.49%) Rapid7
13 7 (1.31%) ForeScout
13 7 (1.31%) Oracle
14 6 (1.12%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.12%) OpenAI