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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 259 247
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 +94
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 350 234 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.91% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.01% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 156 229
10th Percentile £449 £533 £480
25th Percentile £513 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £780
90th Percentile £788 £856 £875
UK median daily rate £617 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 14
10th Percentile £34.93 - £76.62
25th Percentile £72.06 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.31 £85.38
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -14.14% -
75th Percentile - £80.80 £87.53
90th Percentile £87.30 £83.20 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £73.46 £85.38
% change year-on-year +14.36% -13.97% -

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 31,633 23,246 33,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.88% 90.44% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,235 14,775 22,032
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 1,951 810 2,137
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.49 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.34 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +3 173 £625 -10.71% 51
North of England -19 56 £617 +13.84% 22
South East -40 44 £650 +4.00% 22
North West -9 30 £621 -4.46% 19
Midlands -48 29 £485 -30.71% 16
West Midlands -40 24 £525 -25.00% 11
Yorkshire -41 23 £563 +2.27% 3
South West -22 18 £575 -4.17% 10
East of England -20 8 £575 -25.81% 2
East Midlands -28 5 £438 +0.46% 4
North East -9 4 £498 +3.22%
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 (3.71%) Confluence
2 6 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Summit
2 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 157 (44.86%) Azure
2 136 (38.86%) AWS
3 52 (14.86%) GCP
4 50 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 28 (8.00%) SaaS
6 24 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (6.57%) PaaS
8 21 (6.00%) IaaS
9 20 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (4.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 14 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (4.00%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (2.86%) Serverless
13 10 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.57%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.57%) AWS KMS
15 8 (2.29%) GitHub
16 7 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (1.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 84 (24.00%) Network Security
2 77 (22.00%) Firewall
3 26 (7.43%) VPN
4 19 (5.43%) WAN
5 17 (4.86%) DHCP
5 17 (4.86%) LAN
5 17 (4.86%) SD-WAN
6 14 (4.00%) DNS
7 13 (3.71%) BGP
8 12 (3.43%) IPsec
8 12 (3.43%) OSPF
9 10 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 9 (2.57%) SSL
10 9 (2.57%) Wireless
11 7 (2.00%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (2.00%) TCP/IP
11 7 (2.00%) VXLAN
12 6 (1.71%) NGFW
12 6 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.00%) Metadata
2 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.86%) Power BI
4 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.29%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.29%) Redis
5 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (3.71%) JIRA
2 12 (3.43%) GitLab
3 4 (1.14%) Git
3 4 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.14%) Robot Framework
3 4 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.57%) Snyk
5 1 (0.29%) ERwin
General
1 83 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.29%) Finance
3 48 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (4.57%) Banking
7 14 (4.00%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.14%) Legal
10 8 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.00%) Military
12 5 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.14%) Law
13 4 (1.14%) Local Government
13 4 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.57%) Aviation
15 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 206 (58.86%) Architect
2 150 (42.86%) Security Architect
3 42 (12.00%) Security Engineer
4 36 (10.29%) Solutions Architect
5 29 (8.29%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 25 (7.14%) Consultant
7 22 (6.29%) Senior
8 20 (5.71%) Network Architect
8 20 (5.71%) Security Solutions Architect
9 19 (5.43%) Security Consultant
10 18 (5.14%) Cloud Architect
11 15 (4.29%) Technical Architect
12 13 (3.71%) Lead
12 13 (3.71%) Network Security Architect
12 13 (3.71%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.14%) Azure Architect
14 10 (2.86%) Senior Architect
15 8 (2.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 8 (2.29%) Cloud Security Architect
15 8 (2.29%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.14%) OAuth
2 14 (4.00%) OpenID
3 13 (3.71%) OAuth2
4 12 (3.43%) SAML
5 8 (2.29%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.43%) LangChain
6 5 (1.43%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.43%) REST
6 5 (1.43%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.43%) Web Services
6 5 (1.43%) XACML
7 4 (1.14%) ADO
7 4 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.86%) .NET
8 3 (0.86%) JWT
8 3 (0.86%) Kafka
8 3 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.86%) Middleware
8 3 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.43%) Security Posture
2 29 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.14%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.86%) PKI
5 15 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.57%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (2.57%) IoT
8 8 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.29%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.29%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.29%) Taxonomies
9 7 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.29%) Windows
2 15 (4.29%) Linux
3 11 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.86%) Unix
5 2 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (31.14%) Cybersecurity
2 106 (30.29%) Threat Modelling
3 100 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 93 (26.57%) Zero Trust
5 77 (22.00%) CI/CD
6 73 (20.86%) SIEM
7 60 (17.14%) DevSecOps
8 58 (16.57%) DevOps
9 54 (15.43%) TOGAF
10 53 (15.14%) Roadmaps
11 52 (14.86%) Identity Access Management
12 49 (14.00%) Risk Management
13 48 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (12.57%) Vulnerability Management
16 43 (12.29%) Agile
16 43 (12.29%) Migration
17 42 (12.00%) Incident Response
18 39 (11.14%) AI
18 39 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (9.71%) Python
2 13 (3.71%) PowerShell
2 13 (3.71%) SQL
3 8 (2.29%) Java
4 7 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.71%) Bash
6 5 (1.43%) Bicep
7 3 (0.86%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.86%) Go
7 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.57%) C
8 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.57%) Swift
9 1 (0.29%) C-shell
9 1 (0.29%) Korn
9 1 (0.29%) ProC
9 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 114 (32.57%) Security Cleared
2 84 (24.00%) CISSP
3 71 (20.29%) SC Cleared
4 40 (11.43%) CISM
5 35 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (8.29%) DV Cleared
7 27 (7.71%) Degree
8 24 (6.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 22 (6.29%) AWS Certification
10 19 (5.43%) CCSP
11 13 (3.71%) Azure Certification
11 13 (3.71%) CCIE
12 12 (3.43%) CCNP
13 10 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (2.57%) PMI Certification
14 9 (2.57%) PMP
15 8 (2.29%) GIAC
16 7 (2.00%) CEH
17 6 (1.71%) CCIE Security
17 6 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (28.00%) NIST
2 85 (24.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (15.14%) GDPR
4 30 (8.57%) NCSC
5 29 (8.29%) PCI DSS
6 11 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.14%) GRC
6 11 (3.14%) NIST 800
7 7 (2.00%) EU AI Act
7 7 (2.00%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.71%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (1.43%) QA
9 5 (1.43%) SOC 2
10 4 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (1.14%) COBIT
10 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.14%) RMADS
10 4 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.43%) Docker
2 12 (3.43%) VMware NSX
3 11 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.43%) RACF
4 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 42 (12.00%) Terraform
2 25 (7.14%) Ansible
3 16 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.00%) SCCM
6 6 (1.71%) Fluentd
7 5 (1.43%) WSUS
8 4 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.14%) CASB
9 3 (0.86%) Grafana
10 2 (0.57%) Argo
10 2 (0.57%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.29%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 71 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.43%) Cisco
3 25 (7.14%) Splunk
4 18 (5.14%) Fortinet
5 16 (4.57%) CyberArk
5 16 (4.57%) VMware
6 15 (4.29%) Palo Alto
6 15 (4.29%) Zscaler
7 14 (4.00%) F5
8 11 (3.14%) Google
9 10 (2.86%) CheckPoint
10 9 (2.57%) Juniper
11 8 (2.29%) Cribl.io
11 8 (2.29%) ForeScout
12 7 (2.00%) Okta
12 7 (2.00%) Sparx
12 7 (2.00%) Tenable
13 6 (1.71%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.43%) Meraki
14 5 (1.43%) Sophos