Security Architect Contracts in Central London

Security Architect
London > Central London

The median Security Architect daily rate in Central London is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 109 147
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 30 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.59% 0.96% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.01% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 21
10th Percentile £544 £591 £600
25th Percentile £613 £650 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -6.90% +16.00%
75th Percentile £720 £800 £800
90th Percentile £783 £870 £888
London median daily rate £675 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +1.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,760 2,286 3,563
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.09% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,619 2,432
10th Percentile £335 £340 £319
25th Percentile £450 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 28 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.13 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.25 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -24.56% -2.78%
75th Percentile £39.21 £27.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £40.00 £86.65
London median hourly rate £31.17 £27.25 £36.00
% change year-on-year +14.39% -24.31% +2.86%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 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
City of London +16 27 £673 -0.37% 5
West End of London - 3 £650 -
City of Westminster - 2 £650 -
Security Architect
London

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) Security Architecture
3 12 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 11 (36.67%) NIST
4 11 (36.67%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (33.33%) Azure
5 10 (33.33%) CISSP
5 10 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (30.00%) AWS
7 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
7 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (23.33%) SIEM
8 7 (23.33%) DevOps
8 7 (23.33%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (20.00%) GCP
9 6 (20.00%) CISM
9 6 (20.00%) Firewall
9 6 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (16.67%) GDPR
10 5 (16.67%) TOGAF
10 5 (16.67%) Migration
10 5 (16.67%) SABSA
10 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
11 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
11 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (13.33%) Degree

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (10.00%) OCI
4 3 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (6.67%) AWS KMS
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) VPN
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.33%) IPsec
4 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) OAuth
1 3 (10.00%) OpenID
1 3 (10.00%) SAML
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.33%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) CSOC
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Security Architecture
2 12 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 11 (36.67%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) SIEM
5 7 (23.33%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (20.00%) DevSecOps
7 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 5 (16.67%) Migration
7 5 (16.67%) SABSA
7 5 (16.67%) TOGAF
8 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 4 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (13.33%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) SOAR
8 4 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (33.33%) CISSP
4 6 (20.00%) CISM
5 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (13.33%) Degree
6 3 (10.00%) OCP
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (6.67%) GIAC
8 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (3.33%) CASP
8 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (3.33%) CREST Certified
8 1 (3.33%) CSSLP
8 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) NIST
2 10 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (16.67%) GDPR
4 3 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
5 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.33%) GRC
6 1 (3.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) SELinux
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) Ariba
3 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (3.33%) Qualys
3 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Tufin
3 1 (3.33%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Zscaler