Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Security Architecture
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 102 123
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +76
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 19 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.61% 0.91% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.06% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 12
10th Percentile £444 £550 £530
25th Percentile £483 £600 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -26.43% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £731 £784
90th Percentile £583 £825 £888
England median daily rate £625 £651 £650
% change year-on-year -3.92% +0.08% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,693 1,983 2,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.51% 85.88% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,246 1,518
10th Percentile £250 £250 £262
25th Percentile £375 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 71 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.31 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -2.17% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.78 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in the Midlands

Security Architecture
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 Security Architecture within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -28 18 £525 -25.00% 30
East Midlands -21 1 £400 -8.15% 17
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) SD-WAN
2 5 (26.32%) WAN
3 4 (21.05%) BGP
3 4 (21.05%) IPv4
3 4 (21.05%) IPv6
3 4 (21.05%) LAN
3 4 (21.05%) MPLS
3 4 (21.05%) OSPF
3 4 (21.05%) VXLAN
3 4 (21.05%) WLAN
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (15.79%) DHCP
4 3 (15.79%) DNS
4 3 (15.79%) EIGRP
4 3 (15.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (15.79%) VLAN
4 3 (15.79%) VPN
4 3 (15.79%) Wireless
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) CircleCI
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Network Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Security Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Workday Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Build Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Data Governance Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.53%) OAuth
2 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Onboarding
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
3 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.26%) CCTV
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Zero Trust
2 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
2 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) Network Architecture
3 5 (26.32%) Network Design
3 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (26.32%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Coaching
4 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) SIEM
4 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Go
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) CISSP
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Certification
3 4 (21.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (21.05%) CCIE
3 4 (21.05%) CCNP
3 4 (21.05%) CCSP
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
4 3 (15.79%) CCIE Security
4 3 (15.79%) Degree
5 2 (10.53%) JNCIE
5 2 (10.53%) JNCIP
5 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) CISM
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (26.32%) GDPR
3 4 (21.05%) NIST
3 4 (21.05%) PCI DSS
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.79%) VMware NSX
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Ansible
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Argo
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) F5
2 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
2 4 (21.05%) Meraki
2 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.79%) SolarWinds
3 3 (15.79%) Virgin Media
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Forcepoint
4 2 (10.53%) Juniper
5 1 (5.26%) Cribl.io
5 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.26%) Darktrace
5 1 (5.26%) Qualys
5 1 (5.26%) Workday