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 21 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 111 127
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 17 17 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 0.81% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.87% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 18
10th Percentile £463 £738 £521
25th Percentile £617 £813 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £850 £623
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +36.55% -15.59%
75th Percentile £789 £909 £678
90th Percentile £838 £925 £779
Central London median daily rate £700 £750 £623
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.48% -14.14%

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 1,682 1,963 2,544
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.30% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,199 1,794
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £768 £776 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 14
10th Percentile £17.02 £15.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.25 £67.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +82.43% -13.95%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £51.56
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -2.78% -15.29%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Security Architect job vacancy trend 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 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 (70.59%) Cloud Security
2 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Security Architecture
3 7 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
4 5 (29.41%) PCI DSS
4 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Cyber Resilience
5 4 (23.53%) Data Security
5 4 (23.53%) GCP
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Network Security
5 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 4 (23.53%) Security Operations
5 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) Attestation
6 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
6 3 (17.65%) Azure
6 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (17.65%) GDPR
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 3 (17.65%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (17.65%) NIST
6 3 (17.65%) SABSA
6 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Cloud Security
2 10 (58.82%) Security Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Cyber Resilience
4 4 (23.53%) Data Security
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
4 4 (23.53%) Security Operations
4 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Attestation
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (17.65%) SABSA
5 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (29.41%) PCI DSS
3 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) NIST
4 2 (11.76%) EU AI Act
4 2 (11.76%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Trend Micro