Security Architect Contracts in the City of London

Security Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Security Architect daily rate in the City of London is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 104 145
Rank change year-on-year +9 +41 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 24 22 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.37% 1.00% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.05% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £529 £563 £588
25th Percentile £613 £631 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £728 £719 £825
90th Percentile £799 £839 £975
Central London median daily rate £655 £650 £725
% change year-on-year +0.77% -10.34% +16.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 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 City of London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 12 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) Cloud Security
3 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (33.33%) CISSP
4 8 (33.33%) Azure
4 8 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (33.33%) NIST
5 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
5 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (25.00%) DevOps
6 6 (25.00%) AWS
6 6 (25.00%) CISM
6 6 (25.00%) Firewall
7 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
7 5 (20.83%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (20.83%) GCP
7 5 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
8 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (16.67%) GDPR
8 4 (16.67%) SIEM
8 4 (16.67%) Oracle
8 4 (16.67%) Python
8 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (16.67%) TOGAF

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (12.50%) OCI
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (8.33%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) DNS
4 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.17%) IPsec
4 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth
1 3 (12.50%) OpenID
1 3 (12.50%) SAML
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Basis
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 11 (45.83%) Cloud Security
3 8 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
6 5 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
6 5 (20.83%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) SIEM
7 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 3 (12.50%) Key Management
8 3 (12.50%) Migration
8 3 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (12.50%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) CISSP
4 6 (25.00%) CISM
5 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (16.67%) Degree
6 3 (12.50%) OCP
6 3 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (33.33%) NIST
2 4 (16.67%) GDPR
3 3 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (8.33%) GRC
4 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) IAG
2 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.17%) Okta
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys
4 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Tufin
4 1 (4.17%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Zscaler