Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Security Architecture
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 2 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 3.70% - 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% - 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £679 - £735
25th Percentile £685 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 - £770
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £705 - -
90th Percentile £711 - -
East London median daily rate £675 £750 £770
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.60% +2.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53 50 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 98.15% 87.72% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 123
10th Percentile £431 £424 £427
25th Percentile £450 £495 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £578 £594
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% -2.78% +13.14%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £708 £638 £770
East London median daily rate £525 £528 £563
% change year-on-year -0.47% -6.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.13
25th Percentile - - £16.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +111.30% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median hourly rate £44.75 £28.60 £23.32
% change year-on-year +56.46% +22.64% +3.71%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Security Architecture job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 28 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
Canary Wharf - 2 £695 - 1
Security Architecture
East London

Security Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (50.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithmics
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Temenos
1 1 (50.00%) Wolters Kluwer