Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Security Architecture
Hampshire > Southampton

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.44% 3.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 3.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £483 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £671 £705 £700
% change year-on-year -4.79% +0.71% +8.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 105 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 80.49% 83.33% 70.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 62 78
10th Percentile £170 £178 £209
25th Percentile £366 £412 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +4.62% -9.30%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £634
90th Percentile £688 £710 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £540 £582
% change year-on-year +1.85% -7.22% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 9
10th Percentile £29.13 £70.95 £13.00
25th Percentile £37.24 £71.63 £72.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £73.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.93% -8.75% +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 £74.13 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £74.65 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +15.85% -28.51% +9.24%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Southampton

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) SABSA
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Management
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft