Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in the North East

Security Architecture
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £559 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 - -
75th Percentile £747 - -
90th Percentile £750 - -
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 331 286 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.50% 92.56% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 130 151
10th Percentile £171 £310 £250
25th Percentile £360 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £539 £593 £575
90th Percentile £599 £702 £710
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 30 14
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.60 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £16.44
Median hourly rate £24.08 £22.75 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +15.19% -12.22%
75th Percentile £53.19 £46.18 £43.07
90th Percentile £54.13 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in the North East

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the North East over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in the North East

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Tyne and Wear - 10 £725 - 4
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (9.09%) SAP GRC
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) MongoDB
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Military
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Architect
1 9 (81.82%) Security Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Architect
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP GRC Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Application Security
3 4 (36.36%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) Database Security
4 3 (27.27%) Technical Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) EAM
6 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) SABSA
6 1 (9.09%) SAP Security
6 1 (9.09%) SDLC
6 1 (9.09%) SIEM
6 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
6 1 (9.09%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CISSP
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISA
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) SAP