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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.75% - 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £619 - £590
25th Percentile £647 - £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - £763
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.96%
75th Percentile £825 - £823
90th Percentile - - £863
West Yorkshire median daily rate £738 - £763
% change year-on-year - - +12.96%

All Process and 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 594 578 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.92% 85.38% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 370 676
10th Percentile £305 £337 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 11
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.38 £16.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +50.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £27.63 £38.75 £22.53
90th Percentile £28.30 £51.00 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in Leeds

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) IPsec
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Line Management
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft