Security Architecture Contracts in England

Security Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 212 291
Rank change year-on-year -55 +79 +42
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 229 409 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.10% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.27% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 261 317
10th Percentile £537 £500 £513
25th Percentile £602 £605 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £813 £775
90th Percentile £826 £850 £850
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £688
% change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 6
10th Percentile £59.25 - £70.85
25th Percentile £60.75 £81.88 £71.90
Median hourly rate £73.46 £87.46 £82.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.01% +6.66% -
75th Percentile £86.43 £87.53 £92.81
90th Percentile £89.23 - £96.88
UK median hourly rate £73.60 £87.46 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +18.19% -

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -6 126 £675 -6.90% 123
South East +8 52 £625 +15.74% 121
Midlands +11 13 £700 -3.45% 67
West Midlands +4 13 £700 -6.67% 37
North of England -34 13 £563 -29.69% 106
South West +19 9 £663 +6.00% 51
North West -39 8 £671 -16.13% 59
East of England +27 5 £775 +14.81% 54
Yorkshire +8 3 £550 - 34
North East - 2 £482 - 13
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.75%) SAP GRC
3 3 (1.31%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 95 (41.48%) Azure
2 70 (30.57%) AWS
3 31 (13.54%) GCP
4 17 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.80%) SaaS
6 10 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.93%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (3.49%) Serverless
9 5 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.18%) AWS KMS
9 5 (2.18%) IaaS
10 4 (1.75%) GitHub
11 3 (1.31%) Akamai
11 3 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.31%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (1.31%) PaaS
11 3 (1.31%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.87%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 43 (18.78%) Firewall
2 37 (16.16%) Network Security
3 15 (6.55%) DNS
4 14 (6.11%) VPN
4 14 (6.11%) WAN
5 13 (5.68%) SD-WAN
6 11 (4.80%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.93%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (3.06%) SSL
9 6 (2.62%) DHCP
10 5 (2.18%) NGFW
11 4 (1.75%) HTTP
11 4 (1.75%) IPsec
12 3 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (1.31%) Radio Access Network
12 3 (1.31%) SMTP
13 2 (0.87%) BGP
13 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.87%) LAN
13 2 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) GIS
2 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (2.18%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) GitLab
2 2 (0.87%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) Git
General
1 61 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.47%) Finance
3 25 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.55%) Legal
6 9 (3.93%) Military
6 9 (3.93%) Retail
6 9 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.49%) Banking
8 7 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Law
9 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Police
11 1 (0.44%) Automotive
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Electronics
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 152 (66.38%) Architect
2 129 (56.33%) Security Architect
3 42 (18.34%) Senior
4 23 (10.04%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.86%) Lead
6 17 (7.42%) Senior Architect
6 17 (7.42%) Senior Security Architect
7 16 (6.99%) Security Engineer
8 12 (5.24%) Enterprise Architect
8 12 (5.24%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.80%) Enterprise Security Architect
9 11 (4.80%) Security Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.37%) Azure Architect
10 10 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.93%) Consultant
11 9 (3.93%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 9 (3.93%) Security Specialist
12 8 (3.49%) Cloud Security Architect
12 8 (3.49%) Network Architect
13 7 (3.06%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.49%) SAML
1 8 (3.49%) Web Services
2 7 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (3.06%) Node.js
3 6 (2.62%) JBoss Seam
4 5 (2.18%) React
5 4 (1.75%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.75%) OAuth
5 4 (1.75%) OpenID
5 4 (1.75%) REST
6 3 (1.31%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.87%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.87%) Spring
7 2 (0.87%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.87%) XACML
8 1 (0.44%) .NET
8 1 (0.44%) JSON
8 1 (0.44%) SOAP
8 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.79%) Management Information System
1 27 (11.79%) Security Posture
2 15 (6.55%) Operational Technology
3 14 (6.11%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.37%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.62%) PKI
6 6 (2.62%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.18%) SCADA
8 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.75%) IoT
8 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.31%) CESG
9 3 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.61%) Windows
2 15 (6.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.31%) Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (37.55%) Cybersecurity
2 69 (30.13%) Cloud Security
3 66 (28.82%) Risk Management
4 53 (23.14%) Information Security
5 46 (20.09%) Threat Modelling
6 37 (16.16%) SIEM
7 32 (13.97%) Identity Access Management
7 32 (13.97%) Security Operations
8 31 (13.54%) Application Security
8 31 (13.54%) Vulnerability Management
9 30 (13.10%) Incident Response
10 29 (12.66%) SABSA
11 28 (12.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 27 (11.79%) DevOps
12 27 (11.79%) Roadmaps
13 26 (11.35%) Risk Assessment
14 23 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (9.61%) Decision-Making
16 21 (9.17%) TOGAF
17 20 (8.73%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.68%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.06%) Python
3 4 (1.75%) Bash
3 4 (1.75%) SQL
4 3 (1.31%) Java
4 3 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.44%) PHP
6 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (34.50%) Security Cleared
2 57 (24.89%) CISSP
3 53 (23.14%) SC Cleared
4 39 (17.03%) CISM
5 31 (13.54%) DV Cleared
6 23 (10.04%) Degree
7 14 (6.11%) AWS Certification
8 13 (5.68%) Azure Certification
9 12 (5.24%) CISA
9 12 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (4.80%) CRISC
11 9 (3.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (3.06%) GIAC
13 6 (2.62%) CEH
13 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.62%) SANS
14 5 (2.18%) CCNA
14 5 (2.18%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (35.37%) NIST
2 48 (20.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (13.97%) GDPR
4 16 (6.99%) NCSC
4 16 (6.99%) NIST 800
5 15 (6.55%) GRC
6 14 (6.11%) PCI DSS
7 7 (3.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (3.06%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.75%) COBIT
10 3 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.87%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.44%) FISMA
12 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 18 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) IAG
2 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.31%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.87%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.49%) Terraform
3 6 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.31%) CASB
6 3 (1.31%) CSIRT
6 3 (1.31%) SCCM
6 3 (1.31%) WSUS
7 2 (0.87%) Ansible
7 2 (0.87%) Packer
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.44%) Cilium
8 1 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.44%) Grafana
8 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.44%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 44 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.49%) Darktrace
2 8 (3.49%) Google
3 6 (2.62%) SAP
4 5 (2.18%) Cisco
4 5 (2.18%) VMware
5 4 (1.75%) ESRI
5 4 (1.75%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.75%) Rapid7
5 4 (1.75%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.31%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.31%) Genesys
6 3 (1.31%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.31%) Sophos
7 2 (0.87%) Aruba
7 2 (0.87%) Dell KACE
7 2 (0.87%) Meraki
7 2 (0.87%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.87%) Splunk