Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Security Architecture
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 61 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.57% 0.84% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £619 -
25th Percentile £525 £647 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £738 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% - -
75th Percentile £575 £825 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £738 -
% change year-on-year -25.42% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 905 531 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.54% 89.54% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 350 408
10th Percentile £381 £305 £350
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £575
90th Percentile £644 £639 £657
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -0.41% -1.60% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 25
10th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 -
25th Percentile £31.58 £25.38 £12.15
Median hourly rate £39.48 £29.56 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +33.58% +113.09% -27.00%
75th Percentile £43.96 £50.48 £28.75
90th Percentile - £79.33 £38.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.50 £23.57 £15.00
% change year-on-year +3.95% +57.13% -15.82%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Leeds

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber-Physical System
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Architect
3 2 (33.33%) SAP Architect
3 2 (33.33%) SAP Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Basis
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (33.33%) SAP PI
1 2 (33.33%) SAPUI5
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) CCTV
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft