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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 262 225
Rank change year-on-year +28 -37 +56
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 449 229 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.94% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.03% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 152 248
10th Percentile £458 £534 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £806
90th Percentile £825 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £673 £700
% change year-on-year -7.13% -3.86% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 17
10th Percentile - £57.75 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £60.75 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.60 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -15.85% +6.66%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £87.53
90th Percentile £108.43 £89.60 -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £78.40 £87.46
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.36% +18.19%

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 34,813 22,315 31,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.22% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,200 14,600 20,590
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 942 2,247
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.93
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.13
90th Percentile £80.02 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £28.30 £36.05
% change year-on-year +49.50% -21.50% +1.11%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +21 217 £650 -3.70% 68
North of England +1 81 £639 +13.60% 23
South East -51 57 £575 -8.00% 29
North West +10 55 £621 -7.45% 21
South West -14 29 £575 -14.81% 10
Midlands -47 29 £525 -27.59% 10
Yorkshire -38 23 £669 +21.59% 3
West Midlands -47 23 £525 -27.59% 7
East of England -24 8 £710 -8.39% 8
North East -18 4 £498 +3.22%
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 2
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 (3.12%) Confluence
2 8 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.67%) Camunda
4 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Appian
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.22%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 195 (43.43%) Azure
2 162 (36.08%) AWS
3 66 (14.70%) GCP
4 60 (13.36%) Entra ID
5 28 (6.24%) SaaS
6 23 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (4.45%) IaaS
7 20 (4.45%) PaaS
8 18 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 14 (3.12%) Serverless
10 13 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.45%) GitHub
12 10 (2.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 10 (2.23%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.00%) AWS KMS
14 8 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (1.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 96 (21.38%) Network Security
2 59 (13.14%) Firewall
3 16 (3.56%) WAN
4 15 (3.34%) LAN
4 15 (3.34%) SD-WAN
4 15 (3.34%) VPN
5 12 (2.67%) DHCP
6 11 (2.45%) IPsec
7 10 (2.23%) SSL
8 8 (1.78%) BGP
8 8 (1.78%) DNS
8 8 (1.78%) OSPF
9 7 (1.56%) NGFW
10 6 (1.34%) BIG-IP
10 6 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 6 (1.34%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.34%) Kerberos
10 6 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.34%) Wireless
11 5 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.34%) Metadata
3 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.11%) Power BI
3 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.45%) Big Data
5 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.45%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.45%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.22%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 15 (3.34%) JIRA
2 7 (1.56%) GitLab
3 5 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.89%) Robot Framework
4 4 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.67%) Git
6 2 (0.45%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.45%) Snyk
7 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) ERwin
7 1 (0.22%) Hudson
General
1 99 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.82%) Finance
3 59 (13.14%) Public Sector
4 30 (6.68%) Banking
5 22 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.12%) Financial Institution
7 14 (3.12%) Military
8 11 (2.45%) Legal
9 10 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.11%) Law
13 4 (0.89%) Aviation
14 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.67%) Local Government
14 3 (0.67%) Retail
14 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 261 (58.13%) Architect
2 190 (42.32%) Security Architect
3 50 (11.14%) Security Engineer
4 37 (8.24%) Lead
5 36 (8.02%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 30 (6.68%) Senior
7 27 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
8 24 (5.35%) Consultant
9 21 (4.68%) Technical Architect
10 17 (3.79%) Security Consultant
11 16 (3.56%) Security Specialist
12 15 (3.34%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.12%) Network Architect
14 13 (2.90%) Lead Architect
15 11 (2.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 11 (2.45%) Migration Project Manager
15 11 (2.45%) Network Security Architect
15 11 (2.45%) Security Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.45%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.79%) OAuth
2 13 (2.90%) OpenID
3 12 (2.67%) OAuth2
4 11 (2.45%) SailPoint
4 11 (2.45%) SAML
5 9 (2.00%) REST
6 8 (1.78%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.11%) LangChain
7 5 (1.11%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.11%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.11%) Web Services
7 5 (1.11%) XACML
8 4 (0.89%) ADO
8 4 (0.89%) J2EE
8 4 (0.89%) JSP
9 3 (0.67%) .NET
9 3 (0.67%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.67%) AWS CDK
9 3 (0.67%) FHIR
9 3 (0.67%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.25%) Cloud Native
2 49 (10.91%) Security Posture
3 33 (7.35%) Operational Technology
4 19 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 18 (4.01%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.79%) PKI
7 15 (3.34%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (2.00%) AI Agents
11 9 (2.00%) IoT
12 8 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
12 8 (1.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 8 (1.78%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.56%) SCADA
13 7 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.24%) Windows
2 22 (4.90%) Linux
3 11 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.00%) Unix
5 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.45%) Android
6 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (32.96%) Cybersecurity
2 143 (31.85%) Threat Modelling
3 110 (24.50%) Cloud Security
4 105 (23.39%) Zero Trust
5 97 (21.60%) CI/CD
6 85 (18.93%) SIEM
7 79 (17.59%) DevOps
8 75 (16.70%) Vulnerability Management
9 74 (16.48%) DevSecOps
9 74 (16.48%) Risk Management
10 65 (14.48%) TOGAF
11 64 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 63 (14.03%) Identity Access Management
13 62 (13.81%) Architectural Patterns
14 61 (13.59%) SABSA
15 57 (12.69%) Agile
16 54 (12.03%) Roadmaps
17 52 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 51 (11.36%) SDLC
19 49 (10.91%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.69%) Python
2 18 (4.01%) Java
2 18 (4.01%) SQL
3 17 (3.79%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.00%) Bash
5 8 (1.78%) Bicep
6 4 (0.89%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
7 3 (0.67%) Go
8 2 (0.45%) C
8 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.45%) Ruby
8 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.45%) Swift
9 1 (0.22%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.22%) C-shell
9 1 (0.22%) Korn
9 1 (0.22%) ProC
Qualifications
1 160 (35.63%) Security Cleared
2 107 (23.83%) CISSP
3 105 (23.39%) SC Cleared
4 51 (11.36%) CISM
5 43 (9.58%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (8.46%) DV Cleared
7 34 (7.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 30 (6.68%) Degree
9 26 (5.79%) AWS Certification
10 23 (5.12%) GIAC
11 19 (4.23%) CCSP
12 17 (3.79%) Azure Certification
13 14 (3.12%) SANS
14 13 (2.90%) PMI Certification
14 13 (2.90%) PMP
15 10 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (2.23%) CEH
15 10 (2.23%) CESG Certified Professional
16 9 (2.00%) CRISC
17 8 (1.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (28.73%) NIST
2 100 (22.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (10.69%) GDPR
4 41 (9.13%) NCSC
5 25 (5.57%) PCI DSS
6 20 (4.45%) GRC
6 20 (4.45%) NIST 800
7 14 (3.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (2.00%) SLA
9 8 (1.78%) COBIT
9 8 (1.78%) QA
10 7 (1.56%) HIPAA
10 7 (1.56%) ISO 31000
10 7 (1.56%) JSP 440
11 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (1.34%) SOC 2
12 5 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.89%) RMADS
14 3 (0.67%) DICOM
14 3 (0.67%) HL7
System Software
1 39 (8.69%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.90%) Docker
3 10 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.11%) RACF
5 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) IAG
7 1 (0.22%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (8.69%) Terraform
2 35 (7.80%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.79%) Ansible
4 13 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.89%) CASB
7 4 (0.89%) SCCM
7 4 (0.89%) WSUS
8 3 (0.67%) Argo
9 2 (0.45%) Grafana
9 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.22%) Packer
10 1 (0.22%) QRadar
10 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.01%) CyberArk
3 19 (4.23%) Splunk
4 17 (3.79%) Cisco
4 17 (3.79%) Zscaler
5 16 (3.56%) VMware
6 12 (2.67%) Google
7 11 (2.45%) Okta
7 11 (2.45%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.00%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.78%) F5
10 8 (1.78%) ForeScout
10 8 (1.78%) SAP
10 8 (1.78%) Tenable
11 7 (1.56%) Oracle
12 6 (1.34%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.34%) Juniper
13 5 (1.11%) BiZZdesign
14 4 (0.89%) OpenAI