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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 266 290
Rank change year-on-year +64 +24 -37
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 618 271 264
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 0.98% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.08% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 164 156
10th Percentile £463 £513 £519
25th Percentile £513 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £710
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.90% +5.15%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £791
90th Percentile £813 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 5
10th Percentile - £52.05 -
25th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £60.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £87.04 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% -0.48% +19.30%
75th Percentile £95.00 £88.87 -
90th Percentile - £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £87.04 £87.46
% change year-on-year -4.64% -0.48% +19.69%

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 39,416 25,077 27,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.84% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,046 15,915 17,172
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,836 1,513 1,250
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.58
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +44 316 £625 -3.85% 316
South East -18 98 £600 -7.69% 92
North of England -30 81 £600 -16.49% 42
South West +5 54 £525 -23.64% 49
Yorkshire -13 38 £663 -10.17% 7
North West -31 38 £590 -17.53% 32
Midlands -32 33 £600 -25.00% 33
West Midlands -23 30 £625 -21.88% 23
East of England -16 17 £600 -29.41% 11
North East -42 4 £680 -7.80% 3
East Midlands -19 3 £538 +34.38% 10
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 11 (1.78%) Confluence
2 8 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.13%) Apache
4 5 (0.81%) IIS
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.49%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 3 (0.49%) nginx
6 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.49%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.32%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.32%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 248 (40.13%) Azure
2 188 (30.42%) AWS
3 96 (15.53%) GCP
4 75 (12.14%) Entra ID
5 30 (4.85%) GitHub
5 30 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (4.53%) SaaS
7 25 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 18 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
10 16 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.43%) Serverless
12 12 (1.94%) Power Platform
13 11 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.62%) PaaS
15 9 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (1.46%) IaaS
16 8 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 7 (1.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 90 (14.56%) Network Security
2 60 (9.71%) Firewall
3 28 (4.53%) VPN
4 22 (3.56%) WAN
5 14 (2.27%) SD-WAN
6 13 (2.10%) NGFW
7 11 (1.78%) Internet
8 10 (1.62%) BGP
8 10 (1.62%) DNS
9 8 (1.29%) LAN
10 7 (1.13%) SSL
11 6 (0.97%) 4G
11 6 (0.97%) MPLS
11 6 (0.97%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.81%) 5G
12 5 (0.81%) DHCP
12 5 (0.81%) OSPF
12 5 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
13 4 (0.65%) VLAN
13 4 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.29%) SAP HANA
2 7 (1.13%) Data Lake
3 6 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.97%) Power BI
4 5 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.65%) Big Data
5 4 (0.65%) Metadata
5 4 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.65%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.65%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.49%) Trino
7 2 (0.32%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.32%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (2.91%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.75%) GitLab
2 17 (2.75%) JIRA
3 5 (0.81%) Burp Suite
3 5 (0.81%) Git
3 5 (0.81%) Snyk
4 4 (0.65%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.49%) MSTest
5 3 (0.49%) NUnit
5 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.16%) Maven
6 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 199 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 112 (18.12%) Finance
3 75 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 38 (6.15%) Banking
5 33 (5.34%) Influencing Skills
6 31 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.43%) Legal
10 14 (2.27%) Military
11 13 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.62%) Local Government
12 10 (1.62%) Retail
13 8 (1.29%) Law
14 7 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.65%) Aviation
16 4 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 417 (67.48%) Architect
2 266 (43.04%) Security Architect
3 56 (9.06%) Lead
3 56 (9.06%) Security Engineer
4 53 (8.58%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (7.44%) Senior
6 38 (6.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 33 (5.34%) Cloud Architect
8 32 (5.18%) Consultant
9 30 (4.85%) Technical Architect
10 26 (4.21%) Lead Architect
11 23 (3.72%) Senior Architect
12 21 (3.40%) Enterprise Architect
12 21 (3.40%) Lead Security Architect
12 21 (3.40%) Security Consultant
13 16 (2.59%) Enterprise Security Architect
13 16 (2.59%) Security Specialist
14 14 (2.27%) Network Architect
15 13 (2.10%) Analyst
15 13 (2.10%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (9.22%) Terraform
2 33 (5.34%) LDAP
3 29 (4.69%) REST
4 24 (3.88%) OAuth
5 15 (2.43%) SAML
6 14 (2.27%) Middleware
6 14 (2.27%) OpenID
7 11 (1.78%) OAuth2
7 11 (1.78%) SailPoint
8 9 (1.46%) SAP Fiori
8 9 (1.46%) SOAP
9 7 (1.13%) 802.1X
9 7 (1.13%) SLSA
10 6 (0.97%) .NET
10 6 (0.97%) JSON
10 6 (0.97%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.81%) Node.js
11 5 (0.81%) SAP Basis
11 5 (0.81%) SAP PI
11 5 (0.81%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 82 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.19%) Security Posture
3 48 (7.77%) Onboarding
4 38 (6.15%) Operational Technology
5 31 (5.02%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.72%) PKI
6 23 (3.72%) Public Cloud
7 22 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (3.40%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
10 16 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
11 14 (2.27%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
11 14 (2.27%) Product Ownership
12 12 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.94%) SCADA
13 11 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
14 9 (1.46%) Cyberattack
14 9 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (6.15%) Windows
2 35 (5.66%) Linux
3 16 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.62%) Unix
5 5 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (39.32%) Cybersecurity
2 185 (29.94%) Cloud Security
3 165 (26.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 139 (22.49%) Threat Modelling
5 137 (22.17%) Risk Management
6 134 (21.68%) CI/CD
6 134 (21.68%) Roadmaps
7 124 (20.06%) Identity Access Management
8 123 (19.90%) Zero Trust
9 118 (19.09%) DevSecOps
10 111 (17.96%) SIEM
10 111 (17.96%) TOGAF
11 110 (17.80%) Technical Leadership
12 109 (17.64%) DevOps
13 99 (16.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 96 (15.53%) Vulnerability Management
15 87 (14.08%) Architectural Patterns
16 86 (13.92%) SABSA
17 85 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (13.27%) AI
Programming Languages
1 47 (7.61%) Python
2 33 (5.34%) PowerShell
3 21 (3.40%) Java
4 16 (2.59%) SQL
5 14 (2.27%) Bicep
6 13 (2.10%) Bash
7 8 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.81%) ABAP
8 5 (0.81%) C#
9 3 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.32%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.32%) Ruby
11 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.16%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.16%) Groovy
11 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.16%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 246 (39.81%) Security Cleared
2 159 (25.73%) CISSP
3 148 (23.95%) SC Cleared
4 87 (14.08%) DV Cleared
5 74 (11.97%) Cisco Certification
5 74 (11.97%) CISM
6 57 (9.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 38 (6.15%) AWS Certification
8 36 (5.83%) Degree
9 34 (5.50%) Azure Certification
9 34 (5.50%) CCSP
10 27 (4.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (4.05%) GIAC
12 20 (3.24%) CRISC
13 17 (2.75%) CISA
14 16 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (2.43%) CEH
15 15 (2.43%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (2.27%) CCNP
16 14 (2.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (28.64%) NIST
2 144 (23.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (10.84%) NCSC
4 44 (7.12%) GRC
5 33 (5.34%) GDPR
6 26 (4.21%) PCI DSS
7 25 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (3.56%) NIST 800
9 13 (2.10%) JSP 440
10 12 (1.94%) ISO 31000
11 8 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 8 (1.29%) QA
12 7 (1.13%) Data Quality
12 7 (1.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.81%) COBIT
13 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.65%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (10.68%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.91%) Docker
3 12 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.65%) ISA Server
4 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.32%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) IAG
Systems Management
1 47 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.02%) Ansible
3 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.97%) CASB
5 6 (0.97%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.81%) SCCM
7 4 (0.65%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.49%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.49%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 2 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.32%) Istio
9 2 (0.32%) QRadar
9 2 (0.32%) VxRail
10 1 (0.16%) Argo
10 1 (0.16%) Grafana
10 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 149 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.93%) CyberArk
3 37 (5.99%) Google
4 27 (4.37%) Cisco
5 26 (4.21%) Palo Alto
6 22 (3.56%) Splunk
7 20 (3.24%) SAP
8 17 (2.75%) VMware
9 16 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
10 15 (2.43%) Zscaler
11 14 (2.27%) Fortinet
12 13 (2.10%) Oracle
13 12 (1.94%) Qualys
14 11 (1.78%) Okta
14 11 (1.78%) ServiceNow
15 9 (1.46%) Salesforce
16 8 (1.29%) Databricks
16 8 (1.29%) F5
16 8 (1.29%) IBM
16 8 (1.29%) Tenable