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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 253 232
Rank change year-on-year +41 -21 +21
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 540 283 354
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.03% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.13% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 172 232
10th Percentile £469 £513 £514
25th Percentile £525 £575 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £801
90th Percentile £825 £805 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 11
10th Percentile £82.23 £47.85 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £58.31 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £85.75 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -1.96% +20.08%
75th Percentile - £88.87 -
90th Percentile £103.63 £97.75 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £85.75 £87.46
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.96% +20.44%

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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +37 264 £650 -3.70% 138
South East -41 90 £638 -1.92% 49
North of England -18 89 £627 -10.46% 37
North West -10 58 £620 -13.41% 22
Midlands -38 35 £590 -23.87% 12
West Midlands -40 31 £590 -23.87% 5
Yorkshire -19 30 £675 +22.73% 15
South West -23 26 £600 -12.73% 12
East of England -5 15 £600 - 5
East Midlands -12 2 £475 - 7
North East -54 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 12 (2.22%) Confluence
2 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.19%) Appian
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 238 (44.07%) Azure
2 184 (34.07%) AWS
3 85 (15.74%) GCP
4 69 (12.78%) Entra ID
5 25 (4.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 25 (4.63%) SaaS
6 22 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.15%) GitHub
8 15 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.78%) PaaS
8 15 (2.78%) Serverless
9 14 (2.59%) IaaS
10 13 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (1.48%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.48%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.30%) Azure AI
13 7 (1.30%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 86 (15.93%) Network Security
2 61 (11.30%) Firewall
3 20 (3.70%) VPN
4 18 (3.33%) WAN
5 13 (2.41%) DNS
6 11 (2.04%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.85%) NGFW
8 9 (1.67%) Internet
8 9 (1.67%) LAN
9 8 (1.48%) DHCP
10 7 (1.30%) IPsec
11 6 (1.11%) 4G
11 6 (1.11%) SSL
11 6 (1.11%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.93%) 5G
12 5 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
13 4 (0.74%) BGP
13 4 (0.74%) Intranet
13 4 (0.74%) VLAN
14 3 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.30%) Power BI
3 6 (1.11%) Metadata
4 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.93%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.74%) SAP BW
5 4 (0.74%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.37%) Big Data
7 2 (0.37%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.37%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.15%) JIRA
2 11 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.85%) GitLab
4 6 (1.11%) Snyk
5 5 (0.93%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) ERwin
7 1 (0.19%) Git
7 1 (0.19%) Hudson
General
1 137 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 116 (21.48%) Finance
3 78 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.30%) Banking
5 24 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 24 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.78%) Legal
7 15 (2.78%) Military
8 14 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 12 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.04%) Local Government
11 8 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.48%) Retail
12 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.93%) Police
14 4 (0.74%) Law
14 4 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 348 (64.44%) Architect
2 247 (45.74%) Security Architect
3 63 (11.67%) Security Engineer
4 60 (11.11%) Lead
5 48 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
6 40 (7.41%) Senior
7 35 (6.48%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 30 (5.56%) Lead Architect
9 29 (5.37%) Consultant
10 27 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
11 20 (3.70%) Lead Security Architect
11 20 (3.70%) Technical Architect
12 19 (3.52%) Enterprise Architect
12 19 (3.52%) Security Consultant
13 18 (3.33%) Senior Architect
14 17 (3.15%) Enterprise Security Architect
14 17 (3.15%) Network Architect
15 16 (2.96%) Security Specialist
15 16 (2.96%) Senior Security Engineer
16 15 (2.78%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.89%) OAuth
2 17 (3.15%) OpenID
3 16 (2.96%) OAuth2
3 16 (2.96%) REST
4 15 (2.78%) SAML
5 13 (2.41%) SailPoint
6 8 (1.48%) LangChain
6 8 (1.48%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.48%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.11%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.11%) LDAP
7 6 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.11%) SLSA
8 4 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (0.74%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (0.74%) JSP
8 4 (0.74%) Middleware
8 4 (0.74%) ModSecurity
8 4 (0.74%) SOAP
9 3 (0.56%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 83 (15.37%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.22%) Security Posture
3 41 (7.59%) Operational Technology
4 26 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.41%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.22%) PKI
9 11 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 9 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (1.30%) SCADA
12 7 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.63%) Linux
2 21 (3.89%) Windows
3 8 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.30%) Unix
5 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (36.48%) Cybersecurity
2 163 (30.19%) Threat Modelling
3 148 (27.41%) Cloud Security
4 129 (23.89%) CI/CD
5 118 (21.85%) Zero Trust
6 112 (20.74%) Roadmaps
7 110 (20.37%) Risk Management
8 105 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 99 (18.33%) DevSecOps
10 97 (17.96%) TOGAF
11 94 (17.41%) DevOps
12 92 (17.04%) Architectural Patterns
12 92 (17.04%) Identity Access Management
13 90 (16.67%) SIEM
14 85 (15.74%) Vulnerability Management
15 83 (15.37%) SABSA
16 81 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 79 (14.63%) AI
18 67 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
19 66 (12.22%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.22%) Python
2 20 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.70%) SQL
3 19 (3.52%) Java
4 14 (2.59%) Bicep
5 9 (1.67%) Bash
6 3 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.37%) ABAP
7 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.37%) Ruby
7 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.19%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.19%) Groovy
8 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 190 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 139 (25.74%) CISSP
3 122 (22.59%) SC Cleared
4 60 (11.11%) CISM
5 50 (9.26%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (9.26%) DV Cleared
6 42 (7.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 34 (6.30%) Degree
8 33 (6.11%) AWS Certification
9 26 (4.81%) GIAC
10 24 (4.44%) Azure Certification
11 21 (3.89%) CCSP
12 19 (3.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (2.59%) CEH
13 14 (2.59%) CRISC
14 13 (2.41%) SANS
15 12 (2.22%) CISA
16 10 (1.85%) OSCP
17 9 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (25.56%) NIST
2 99 (18.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (8.33%) NCSC
4 40 (7.41%) GDPR
5 26 (4.81%) GRC
6 25 (4.63%) NIST 800
6 25 (4.63%) PCI DSS
7 18 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.85%) SLA
9 9 (1.67%) JSP 440
9 9 (1.67%) QA
10 8 (1.48%) ISO 31000
11 7 (1.30%) COBIT
11 7 (1.30%) HIPAA
11 7 (1.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.93%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.93%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 38 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.33%) Docker
3 8 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.56%) RACF
4 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) IAG
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (7.22%) Kubernetes
1 39 (7.22%) Terraform
2 15 (2.78%) Ansible
3 9 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.93%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.74%) CASB
7 3 (0.56%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.56%) SCCM
8 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.37%) QRadar
9 1 (0.19%) Argo
9 1 (0.19%) Grafana
9 1 (0.19%) Istio
9 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 113 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.81%) CyberArk
2 26 (4.81%) Google
3 18 (3.33%) Splunk
4 17 (3.15%) Okta
4 17 (3.15%) SAP
5 15 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.22%) Zscaler
7 11 (2.04%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.04%) Tenable
8 10 (1.85%) Cisco
8 10 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.67%) Databricks
9 9 (1.67%) Qualys
9 9 (1.67%) VMware
10 8 (1.48%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.11%) IBM
11 6 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.11%) Oracle