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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 248 242
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +109
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Security Architecture 268 321 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.97% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.13% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 206 331
10th Percentile £513 £519 £525
25th Percentile £600 £609 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £765 £800 £775
90th Percentile £800 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £675 £722 £681
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.14% +4.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £53.23 £84.67 £68.45
25th Percentile £59.94 - £71.20
Median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £73.42
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +19.13% +1.27%
75th Percentile £89.78 - £88.90
90th Percentile £99.25 - £94.38
UK median hourly rate £87.04 £87.46 £72.84
% change year-on-year -0.48% +20.08% +0.46%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,200 28,440 39,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.84% 85.75% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,048 18,384 27,240
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £753 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,475 1,543 1,389
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.01% +56.38%

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
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 August 2025.

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 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architecture in England

Security Architecture
DemandTrendContract 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 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -3 132 £650 -10.34% 101
South East +34 58 £650 +8.33% 44
North of England -47 31 £722 -9.78% 19
North West -47 18 £717 -10.34% 14
South West +18 14 £688 -3.51% 19
Midlands -24 14 £800 +14.29% 4
West Midlands -24 12 £800 +10.34% 4
North East - 8 £738 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £738 - 3
East of England +6 3 £850 +25.93% 11
East Midlands -2 2 - -
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 8 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.61%) Confluence
3 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.49%) Workday HCM
2 3 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.70%) Azure
2 76 (28.36%) AWS
3 45 (16.79%) GCP
4 25 (9.33%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (5.22%) SaaS
7 13 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (3.73%) IaaS
9 8 (2.99%) PaaS
10 6 (2.24%) GitHub
11 5 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.12%) Akamai
12 3 (1.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.12%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (1.12%) AWS KMS
12 3 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.12%) Serverless
12 3 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (19.78%) Firewall
2 38 (14.18%) Network Security
3 16 (5.97%) VPN
4 13 (4.85%) WAN
5 12 (4.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (4.48%) SD-WAN
6 7 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.24%) DNS
8 5 (1.87%) BGP
8 5 (1.87%) LAN
8 5 (1.87%) NGFW
9 4 (1.49%) DHCP
9 4 (1.49%) OSPF
10 3 (1.12%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (1.12%) HTTP
11 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.75%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.36%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.24%) GIS
3 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.75%) SAP BW
3 2 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Git
2 6 (2.24%) JIRA
3 4 (1.49%) GitLab
4 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.37%) MLflow
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 75 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.51%) Finance
3 30 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.60%) Banking
6 12 (4.48%) Legal
6 12 (4.48%) Military
7 11 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.24%) Law
10 5 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.12%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) German Language
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 176 (65.67%) Architect
2 155 (57.84%) Security Architect
3 52 (19.40%) Senior
4 32 (11.94%) Senior Architect
5 30 (11.19%) Senior Security Architect
6 24 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (6.72%) Lead
8 16 (5.97%) Consultant
9 14 (5.22%) Security Consultant
9 14 (5.22%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.85%) Enterprise Architect
10 13 (4.85%) IT Architect
10 13 (4.85%) IT Security Architect
10 13 (4.85%) Security Specialist
11 11 (4.10%) Enterprise Security Architect
12 10 (3.73%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 10 (3.73%) Security Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 9 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.99%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.36%) JBoss Seam
3 8 (2.99%) Web Services
4 6 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.87%) .NET
5 5 (1.87%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.87%) RESTful
5 5 (1.87%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.49%) Google JAX
6 4 (1.49%) JAX
6 4 (1.49%) LDAP
6 4 (1.49%) OAuth
6 4 (1.49%) OpenID
6 4 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.49%) React
6 4 (1.49%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.49%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.12%) SAML
8 2 (0.75%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.81%) Management Information System
2 34 (12.69%) Security Posture
3 18 (6.72%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.60%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (5.22%) Operational Technology
6 13 (4.85%) PKI
7 12 (4.48%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.36%) SCADA
9 7 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.61%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.24%) Cyberattack
10 6 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.24%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.12%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.45%) Windows
2 16 (5.97%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.87%) Linux
4 2 (0.75%) Debian
4 2 (0.75%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (45.90%) Cybersecurity
2 74 (27.61%) Cloud Security
3 64 (23.88%) Risk Management
4 62 (23.13%) Threat Modelling
5 47 (17.54%) Information Security
5 47 (17.54%) SIEM
6 38 (14.18%) Identity Access Management
7 36 (13.43%) Incident Response
7 36 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (13.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 34 (12.69%) Application Security
9 34 (12.69%) Roadmaps
10 32 (11.94%) DevOps
10 32 (11.94%) TOGAF
11 31 (11.57%) Vulnerability Management
12 27 (10.07%) Decision-Making
12 27 (10.07%) Zero Trust
13 25 (9.33%) CI/CD
13 25 (9.33%) SABSA
13 25 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.97%) Python
2 13 (4.85%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.36%) Java
3 9 (3.36%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (1.87%) Bash
5 4 (1.49%) C++
5 4 (1.49%) R
5 4 (1.49%) SQL
6 3 (1.12%) C
7 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.37%) Bicep
8 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.90%) CISSP
3 51 (19.03%) SC Cleared
4 38 (14.18%) DV Cleared
5 30 (11.19%) CISM
6 19 (7.09%) Degree
7 16 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.60%) Azure Certification
9 13 (4.85%) AWS Certification
10 11 (4.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (3.36%) CISA
12 8 (2.99%) CCSP
13 7 (2.61%) CEH
13 7 (2.61%) CRISC
13 7 (2.61%) GIAC
14 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (2.24%) PMP
15 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.87%) CompTIA CySA+
15 5 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (33.21%) NIST
2 69 (25.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (17.16%) GDPR
4 25 (9.33%) PCI DSS
5 20 (7.46%) NCSC
6 12 (4.48%) HIPAA
7 9 (3.36%) NIST 800
7 9 (3.36%) QA
8 8 (2.99%) GRC
9 7 (2.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (2.24%) COBIT
10 6 (2.24%) EU AI Act
11 5 (1.87%) PSD2
11 5 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.75%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.75%) RMADS
15 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (8.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.49%) Docker
3 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.22%) Terraform
3 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.49%) Ansible
6 2 (0.75%) CASB
6 2 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.75%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.37%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.37%) OPNET
7 1 (0.37%) SCCM
7 1 (0.37%) TrustSec
7 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.34%) Darktrace
3 10 (3.73%) Cisco
3 10 (3.73%) CyberArk
4 9 (3.36%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.36%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.36%) Zscaler
5 7 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (2.61%) Oracle
5 7 (2.61%) Palo Alto
5 7 (2.61%) SAP
5 7 (2.61%) Splunk
6 6 (2.24%) ESRI
6 6 (2.24%) Okta
7 5 (1.87%) Google
8 4 (1.49%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.49%) F5
8 4 (1.49%) Juniper
8 4 (1.49%) Remedy
8 4 (1.49%) Workday