Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Security Architecture
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 42 61
Rank change year-on-year -24 +19 -5
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.25% 1.35% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.59% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £507
25th Percentile - £763 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -12.90%
75th Percentile - £788 £788
90th Percentile - - £856
East of England median daily rate £575 £775 £650
% change year-on-year -25.81% +19.23% -15.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 634 315 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.25% 85.14% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 151 299
10th Percentile £233 £306 £248
25th Percentile £413 £413 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +21.39% -17.62%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £604
90th Percentile £723 £675 £725
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 98 253
10th Percentile £16.41 £19.73 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £46.61 £38.12
Median hourly rate £22.68 £65.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +18.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £76.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £84.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £53.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.49% +39.03% +43.85%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Security Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Security Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 March 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
Welwyn Garden City -5 1 £750 -3.23% 1
Stevenage - 1 - -
Security Architecture
East of England

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Storyboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) RMADS