Security Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 173 286
Rank change year-on-year -63 +113 +43
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 100 250 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.20% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.42% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 130 136
10th Percentile £521 £512 £538
25th Percentile £564 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £681 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -2.68% +12.00%
75th Percentile £700 £825 £788
90th Percentile £788 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £688
% change year-on-year -3.57% +1.82% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 4
10th Percentile - - £72.04
25th Percentile £60.75 £81.88 £73.30
Median hourly rate £78.26 £87.46 £82.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +6.66% -
75th Percentile £87.84 £87.53 £92.50
90th Percentile £89.96 - £97.00
UK median hourly rate £73.60 £87.46 £74.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +18.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architecture in the UK excluding London

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +8 52 £625 +15.74% 121
Midlands +11 13 £700 -3.45% 67
West Midlands +4 13 £700 -6.67% 37
North of England -34 13 £563 -29.69% 106
South West +19 9 £663 +6.00% 51
Scotland -3 8 £526 -22.15% 19
North West -39 8 £671 -16.13% 59
East of England +27 5 £775 +14.81% 54
Yorkshire +8 3 £550 - 34
North East - 2 £482 - 13
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.00%) Azure
2 31 (31.00%) AWS
3 15 (15.00%) GCP
4 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.00%) Akamai
7 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.00%) Serverless
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.00%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.00%) Network Security
2 14 (14.00%) Firewall
3 7 (7.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (5.00%) VPN
5 3 (3.00%) NGFW
5 3 (3.00%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (3.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.00%) SSL
5 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.00%) WAN
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.00%) DNS
6 2 (2.00%) LAN
7 1 (1.00%) BGP
7 1 (1.00%) DHCP
7 1 (1.00%) VLAN
7 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.00%) Military
5 7 (7.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.00%) Legal
6 6 (6.00%) Retail
7 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Banking
9 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.00%) Automotive
10 1 (1.00%) Electronics
10 1 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (56.00%) Architect
2 46 (46.00%) Security Architect
3 25 (25.00%) Senior
4 12 (12.00%) Lead
5 10 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (9.00%) Security Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Security Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Security Specialist
8 6 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Cloud Security Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Information Security Specialist
8 6 (6.00%) Information Specialist
8 6 (6.00%) Security Advisor
8 6 (6.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 6 (6.00%) Senior Security Specialist
9 5 (5.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
9 5 (5.00%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Consultant
10 4 (4.00%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (6.00%) Web Services
2 5 (5.00%) JBoss Seam
3 4 (4.00%) SAML
4 1 (1.00%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.00%) Node.js
4 1 (1.00%) OAuth
4 1 (1.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.00%) Security Posture
3 9 (9.00%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.00%) SCADA
6 3 (3.00%) CESG
6 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.00%) IoT
7 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.00%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (37.00%) Risk Management
3 26 (26.00%) Information Security
4 25 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 23 (23.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 21 (21.00%) Threat Modelling
7 20 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 20 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
8 19 (19.00%) Security Operations
9 14 (14.00%) Agile
9 14 (14.00%) Information Assurance
10 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (13.00%) Roadmaps
11 12 (12.00%) DevOps
11 12 (12.00%) DevSecOps
11 12 (12.00%) Incident Response
11 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.00%) Application Security
13 10 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.00%) DV Cleared
3 26 (26.00%) SC Cleared
4 24 (24.00%) CISSP
5 20 (20.00%) CISM
6 7 (7.00%) Degree
7 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (3.00%) CCNA
9 3 (3.00%) CEH
9 3 (3.00%) CRISC
10 2 (2.00%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (2.00%) CISA
10 2 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.00%) ISACA
10 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.00%) NIST
2 18 (18.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (14.00%) NCSC
4 11 (11.00%) GDPR
5 6 (6.00%) NIST 800
6 4 (4.00%) COBIT
6 4 (4.00%) GRC
6 4 (4.00%) PCI DSS
7 3 (3.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (3.00%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (2.00%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.00%) CASB
2 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.00%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Darktrace
3 4 (4.00%) VMware
4 3 (3.00%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.00%) Google
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco
5 2 (2.00%) Qualys
5 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.00%) Splunk
6 1 (1.00%) Aruba
6 1 (1.00%) Dell KACE
6 1 (1.00%) FireEye
6 1 (1.00%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.00%) Meraki
6 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.00%) SAP
6 1 (1.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.00%) Tanium
6 1 (1.00%) Ubiquiti