Lead Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Lead Security Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Security Architect daily rate in England is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 526 554
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 +200
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Security Architect 11 7 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.022% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.024% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 17
10th Percentile £483 £434 £606
25th Percentile £603 £508 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £630 £723
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -12.80% +11.15%
75th Percentile £750 £709 £743
90th Percentile £758 £756 £1,123
UK median daily rate £663 £565 £723
% change year-on-year +17.26% -21.80% +12.89%

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 25,424 29,760 38,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 93.08% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,368 18,163 26,721
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.14% -1.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,439 1,251 1,400
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +68.69%
75th Percentile £50.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

Lead Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Lead Security Architect job vacancy trend in England

Lead Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Security Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Security Architect job vacancies in England

Lead Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Security Architect in England

Lead Security 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 Lead Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
North of England -17 8 £700 -9.68% 4
Yorkshire - 5 £537 - 4
London +16 2 £688 +9.13% 5
North East - 2 £750 -
North West -10 1 £750 -3.23%
South East - 1 - -
Lead Security Architect
UK

Lead Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Security Architect in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
2 6 (54.55%) CISSP
3 5 (45.45%) CISM
3 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
4 4 (36.36%) BiZZdesign
4 4 (36.36%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (36.36%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
4 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 4 (36.36%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (36.36%) Centrify
4 4 (36.36%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (36.36%) Technical Debt
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
4 4 (36.36%) Secrets Management
4 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 4 (36.36%) Confluence
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Project Governance
4 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (36.36%) Dependency Management
4 4 (36.36%) SABSA
4 4 (36.36%) CyberArk
4 4 (36.36%) PhD
4 4 (36.36%) UML
4 4 (36.36%) Computer Science

Lead Security Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) CSOC
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
3 5 (45.45%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
4 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 4 (36.36%) Dependency Management
4 4 (36.36%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Programme Management
4 4 (36.36%) Project Governance
4 4 (36.36%) SABSA
4 4 (36.36%) Secrets Management
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Technical Debt
4 4 (36.36%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (36.36%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 4 (36.36%) UML
4 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CISSP
2 5 (45.45%) CISM
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
3 4 (36.36%) PhD
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (9.09%) CREST Certified
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (9.09%) ISSAP
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) BiZZdesign
1 4 (36.36%) Centrify
1 4 (36.36%) CyberArk
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk