Security Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Security Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Security Architect daily rate in the City of London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 112 131
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 18 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.02% 0.72% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.77% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 22
10th Percentile £525 £691 £523
25th Percentile £592 £730 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £825 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +26.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £770 £844 £769
90th Percentile £808 £875 £800
Central London median daily rate £675 £813 £650
% change year-on-year -16.92% +25.00% -8.77%

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 1,651 1,950 2,878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.25% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,232 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £423 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 13
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £14.67
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -22.86% -16.17%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -19.57% +14.75% -26.51%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 9 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
3 7 (38.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) NIST
4 6 (33.33%) Finance
5 5 (27.78%) CISSP
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) SABSA
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) GCP
6 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
6 4 (22.22%) CISM
6 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
6 4 (22.22%) Azure
6 4 (22.22%) SIEM
7 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 3 (16.67%) Splunk
7 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
7 3 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (16.67%) GDPR
7 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) CSOC
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) VMS
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) SABSA
4 4 (22.22%) Security Operations
4 4 (22.22%) SIEM
4 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) SOAR
5 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) CISSP
3 4 (22.22%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (38.89%) NIST
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Okta
3 1 (5.56%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Trend Micro
3 1 (5.56%) Tufin
3 1 (5.56%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Zscaler