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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 257 266
Rank change year-on-year +49 +9 -19
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 614 268 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 0.97% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.06% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 160 178
10th Percentile £463 £513 £529
25th Percentile £519 £600 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +6.54%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £800
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 7
10th Percentile £71.00 £52.05 £73.43
25th Percentile £76.45 £63.75 £84.67
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 £104.69 £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 39,349 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,108 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £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 2,747 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +36 315 £625 -3.85% 464
South East -21 98 £617 -5.08% 127
North of England -33 79 £600 -16.49% 72
South West -3 52 £525 -23.64% 50
North West -19 42 £599 -16.28% 53
Yorkshire -19 33 £663 -10.17% 14
Midlands -31 33 £600 -25.00% 47
West Midlands -37 29 £625 -21.88% 26
East of England -16 17 £600 -29.41% 25
East Midlands -6 3 £538 - 21
North East -46 3 £665 -9.83% 5
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 (1.79%) Confluence
2 8 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.49%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.49%) IIS
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.33%) Camunda
4 2 (0.33%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) Appian
5 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.16%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 250 (40.72%) Azure
2 188 (30.62%) AWS
3 94 (15.31%) GCP
4 72 (11.73%) Entra ID
5 31 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.72%) GitHub
7 28 (4.56%) SaaS
8 24 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 18 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
11 16 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.28%) Serverless
13 11 (1.79%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.63%) PaaS
15 9 (1.47%) IaaS
16 8 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
17 7 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
17 7 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (13.52%) Network Security
2 54 (8.79%) Firewall
3 23 (3.75%) VPN
4 20 (3.26%) WAN
5 13 (2.12%) NGFW
6 12 (1.95%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.79%) DNS
8 9 (1.47%) BGP
8 9 (1.47%) Internet
9 8 (1.30%) LAN
10 7 (1.14%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.98%) 4G
11 6 (0.98%) DHCP
12 5 (0.81%) 5G
12 5 (0.81%) MPLS
12 5 (0.81%) OSPF
12 5 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
12 5 (0.81%) SSL
13 4 (0.65%) VLAN
14 3 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
1 7 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (1.14%) SAP HANA
2 6 (0.98%) Power BI
2 6 (0.98%) SAP BW
3 5 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.65%) Big Data
4 4 (0.65%) Metadata
4 4 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.65%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.33%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.33%) Trino
Development Applications
1 19 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.77%) GitLab
3 16 (2.61%) JIRA
4 5 (0.81%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.81%) Git
4 5 (0.81%) Snyk
5 4 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.33%) MSTest
7 2 (0.33%) NUnit
8 1 (0.16%) Hudson
8 1 (0.16%) Maven
8 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 112 (18.24%) Finance
3 75 (12.21%) Public Sector
4 39 (6.35%) Banking
5 29 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
6 27 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.61%) Aerospace
8 16 (2.61%) Legal
9 15 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.44%) Military
10 12 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.63%) Local Government
11 10 (1.63%) Retail
12 7 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.98%) Law
14 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.65%) Aviation
15 4 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 423 (68.89%) Architect
2 274 (44.63%) Security Architect
3 62 (10.10%) Lead
4 52 (8.47%) Security Engineer
4 52 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (7.49%) Senior
6 40 (6.51%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 34 (5.54%) Consultant
8 32 (5.21%) Cloud Architect
8 32 (5.21%) Lead Architect
9 31 (5.05%) Technical Architect
10 24 (3.91%) Lead Security Architect
11 22 (3.58%) Security Consultant
11 22 (3.58%) Senior Architect
12 21 (3.42%) Enterprise Architect
13 16 (2.61%) Enterprise Security Architect
13 16 (2.61%) Security Specialist
14 15 (2.44%) Network Architect
15 13 (2.12%) Analyst
15 13 (2.12%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (7.98%) Terraform
2 33 (5.37%) LDAP
3 28 (4.56%) REST
4 23 (3.75%) OAuth
5 14 (2.28%) OpenID
5 14 (2.28%) SAML
6 12 (1.95%) SailPoint
7 11 (1.79%) OAuth2
8 10 (1.63%) Middleware
9 9 (1.47%) SAP Fiori
9 9 (1.47%) SOAP
10 7 (1.14%) SLSA
11 6 (0.98%) .NET
11 6 (0.98%) 802.1X
11 6 (0.98%) JSON
11 6 (0.98%) SAP Basis
12 5 (0.81%) Kafka
12 5 (0.81%) ModSecurity
12 5 (0.81%) SAP PI
12 5 (0.81%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 61 (9.93%) Security Posture
3 43 (7.00%) Operational Technology
4 41 (6.68%) Onboarding
5 30 (4.89%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.42%) PKI
7 20 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
7 20 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (3.09%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.93%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 15 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
12 14 (2.28%) AI Agents
13 13 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (2.12%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.79%) SCADA
15 10 (1.63%) Private Cloud
16 9 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
17 8 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
18 7 (1.14%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.37%) Windows
2 31 (5.05%) Linux
3 13 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.47%) 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
1 241 (39.25%) Cybersecurity
2 182 (29.64%) Cloud Security
3 158 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 147 (23.94%) Threat Modelling
5 130 (21.17%) Risk Management
6 126 (20.52%) Roadmaps
7 124 (20.20%) CI/CD
8 120 (19.54%) Identity Access Management
9 119 (19.38%) Zero Trust
10 116 (18.89%) DevSecOps
11 113 (18.40%) TOGAF
12 110 (17.92%) SIEM
13 109 (17.75%) Technical Leadership
14 104 (16.94%) DevOps
15 100 (16.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 93 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
17 90 (14.66%) Architectural Patterns
18 89 (14.50%) SABSA
19 81 (13.19%) AI
20 76 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 42 (6.84%) Python
2 29 (4.72%) PowerShell
3 23 (3.75%) Java
4 17 (2.77%) SQL
5 14 (2.28%) Bicep
6 12 (1.95%) Bash
7 5 (0.81%) ABAP
7 5 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.65%) C#
9 2 (0.33%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.33%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.33%) Ruby
9 2 (0.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.16%) Groovy
10 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.16%) R
10 1 (0.16%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 244 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 154 (25.08%) CISSP
3 147 (23.94%) SC Cleared
4 84 (13.68%) DV Cleared
5 69 (11.24%) Cisco Certification
5 69 (11.24%) CISM
6 53 (8.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 37 (6.03%) AWS Certification
8 34 (5.54%) Azure Certification
8 34 (5.54%) Degree
9 31 (5.05%) CCSP
10 27 (4.40%) GIAC
10 27 (4.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (2.93%) CRISC
12 16 (2.61%) CEH
12 16 (2.61%) CISA
12 16 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (2.44%) SANS
14 13 (2.12%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (28.50%) NIST
2 146 (23.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (10.26%) NCSC
4 42 (6.84%) GRC
5 33 (5.37%) GDPR
6 25 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (3.91%) PCI DSS
8 22 (3.58%) NIST 800
9 12 (1.95%) JSP 440
10 11 (1.79%) ISO 31000
11 10 (1.63%) QA
12 8 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (1.14%) Data Quality
13 7 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.98%) COBIT
15 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 4 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.93%) Docker
3 11 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
4 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.33%) IAG
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.56%) Ansible
3 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.98%) FortiGate
5 6 (0.98%) SCCM
6 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.81%) CASB
7 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) Istio
8 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.33%) QRadar
8 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.33%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.16%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.16%) VxRail
9 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 140 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.98%) CyberArk
3 32 (5.21%) Google
4 25 (4.07%) Cisco
4 25 (4.07%) Palo Alto
5 23 (3.75%) SAP
6 21 (3.42%) Splunk
7 16 (2.61%) VMware
8 15 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (2.44%) Zscaler
9 12 (1.95%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.79%) Okta
10 11 (1.79%) Oracle
11 10 (1.63%) Qualys
12 9 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.47%) Tenable
13 7 (1.14%) Databricks
13 7 (1.14%) F5
14 6 (0.98%) OpenAI