Cybersecurity Architect Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 470 598
Rank change year-on-year +9 +128 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 24 72 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 40
10th Percentile £550 £484 £614
25th Percentile £579 £589 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £738 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +5.36% -9.68%
75th Percentile £713 £844 £838
90th Percentile £758 £930 £876
UK median daily rate £625 £673 £700
% change year-on-year -7.06% -3.93% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 0
10th Percentile - £81.86 -
25th Percentile £82.50 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £87.46 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £87.53 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £87.46 -
% change year-on-year -2.81% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the England 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
London +22 9 £600 -14.29% 9
South East +20 7 £625 +671.60% 7
North of England +15 3 £638 -16.12% 4
Midlands +22 2 £725 -17.14% 4
West Midlands +14 2 £725 -17.14% 2
North West +12 2 £650 -14.47% 4
North East - 1 £625 -
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cybersecurity 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (45.83%) Risk Management
2 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) Security Architecture
4 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (33.33%) NIST
4 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) GDPR
6 5 (20.83%) Azure
6 5 (20.83%) Information Security
6 5 (20.83%) CISSP
7 4 (16.67%) CISM
7 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) AWS
7 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (16.67%) Degree
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (16.67%) GCP
7 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (16.67%) NCSC
7 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (16.67%) Operational Technology
8 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 3 (12.50%) Application Security
8 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 3 (12.50%) GRC

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP ERP
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Military
4 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (4.17%) Life Science
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) SCADA
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (45.83%) Risk Management
3 9 (37.50%) Security Architecture
4 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Information Security
6 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (12.50%) Application Security
7 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.50%) Data Integration
7 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 2 (8.33%) Data Extraction
8 2 (8.33%) OWASP
8 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) CISSP
4 4 (16.67%) CISM
4 4 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.17%) ISACA
7 1 (4.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) NIST
2 5 (20.83%) GDPR
3 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (16.67%) NCSC
4 3 (12.50%) GRC
5 2 (8.33%) COBIT
5 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) CASB
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Google
1 2 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Tufin
2 1 (4.17%) Zscaler