Cybersecurity Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Architect
England > Midlands

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 115 133
Rank change year-on-year -56 +18 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.058% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - £673 -
25th Percentile - £680 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £697 £875
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% -20.34% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £720 £888
90th Percentile - £731 -
England median daily rate £520 £638 £750
% change year-on-year -18.47% -15.00% +4.90%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 3,122 1,947 2,544
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.79% 91.71% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 1,221 1,698
10th Percentile £220 £200 £200
25th Percentile £394 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £451
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +6.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £575
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 79 196
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.95 £11.87
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.74
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.82 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +25.37% +7.83%
75th Percentile £26.91 £30.68 £29.25
90th Percentile £34.00 £44.08 £58.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.78%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cybersecurity Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cybersecurity Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cybersecurity Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
East Midlands - 2 £438 -
Cybersecurity Architect
England

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Cybersecurity Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (100.00%) SABSA
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk