Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 245 246
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +125
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 322 296 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 0.96% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.03% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 179 270
10th Percentile £500 £500 £525
25th Percentile £556 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £669 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -0.89% -3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £770 £750
90th Percentile £795 £821 £800
UK median daily rate £665 £659 £675
% change year-on-year +0.87% -2.41% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £83.13 - £57.50
25th Percentile £85.00 - £71.42
Median hourly rate £88.75 - £75.67
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile £102.75 - £83.61
UK median hourly rate £86.25 - £75.67
% change year-on-year - - +8.10%

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 27,811 28,713 36,554
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.94% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,793 17,552 25,219
10th Percentile £283 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,690 1,076 1,408
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.17 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +41.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Security Architect job vacancy trend in England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in England

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architect in England

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 Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 25 November 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 +4 136 £675 +1.31% 27
South East +7 65 £675 +3.85% 27
North of England -13 65 £675 -10.00% 10
Yorkshire -10 31 £538 -23.21% 2
South West -7 27 £650 +4.00% 15
North West -20 23 £719 -4.20% 6
Midlands -29 18 £675 -3.57% 5
West Midlands -18 16 £675 -3.57% 4
North East - 12 £738 - 2
East of England -11 8 £510 +13.33% 2
East Midlands -13 2 £450 -45.29% 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 147 (45.65%) Security Architecture
2 109 (33.85%) Cybersecurity
3 104 (32.30%) Security Cleared
4 102 (31.68%) AWS
5 93 (28.88%) Azure
6 80 (24.84%) Cloud Security
7 77 (23.91%) NIST
8 76 (23.60%) CISSP
9 68 (21.12%) SC Cleared
10 63 (19.57%) Threat Modelling
11 59 (18.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 59 (18.32%) Microsoft
12 57 (17.70%) SIEM
13 53 (16.46%) Network Security
14 52 (16.15%) Identity Access Management
15 51 (15.84%) Incident Response
16 48 (14.91%) Firewall
17 43 (13.35%) TOGAF
17 43 (13.35%) Vulnerability Management
18 42 (13.04%) GCP
19 41 (12.73%) CI/CD
19 41 (12.73%) GDPR
20 39 (12.11%) Zero Trust
21 37 (11.49%) DevSecOps
21 37 (11.49%) Risk Management
21 37 (11.49%) Security Operations
22 34 (10.56%) CISM
22 34 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 33 (10.25%) Roadmaps
23 33 (10.25%) SABSA

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 15 (4.66%) Confluence
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.31%) SAS
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (31.68%) AWS
2 93 (28.88%) Azure
3 42 (13.04%) GCP
4 20 (6.21%) SaaS
5 18 (5.59%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (2.80%) Amazon S3
7 9 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (2.17%) GitHub
9 7 (2.17%) PaaS
9 7 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.86%) AWS KMS
10 6 (1.86%) IaaS
11 3 (0.93%) Akamai
11 3 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 53 (16.46%) Network Security
2 48 (14.91%) Firewall
3 9 (2.80%) VPN
4 8 (2.48%) NGFW
4 8 (2.48%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.86%) DNS
5 6 (1.86%) WAN
6 5 (1.55%) LAN
7 4 (1.24%) DHCP
7 4 (1.24%) IPsec
7 4 (1.24%) SSL
7 4 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.93%) Skype
8 3 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.93%) VSAN
9 2 (0.62%) BGP
9 2 (0.62%) HTTP
9 2 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.62%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.73%) MongoDB
2 11 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.66%) JIRA
2 7 (2.17%) Git
3 5 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.31%) MLflow
General
1 75 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.43%) Finance
3 38 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.14%) Banking
5 19 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.11%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.11%) Legal
8 8 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.48%) Military
9 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.93%) Electronics
12 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Retail
14 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.48%) SAML
2 6 (1.86%) OAuth
3 5 (1.55%) OpenID
3 5 (1.55%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.55%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.24%) .NET
4 4 (1.24%) Google JAX
4 4 (1.24%) JAX
4 4 (1.24%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.93%) Kafka
5 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
5 3 (0.93%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.62%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.62%) React
6 2 (0.62%) Web Services
7 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.31%) LDAP
7 1 (0.31%) Node.js
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.01%) Security Posture
2 24 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.59%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.28%) Management Information System
4 17 (5.28%) PKI
4 17 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 11 (3.42%) CSOC
6 11 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Cloud Security Posture
8 8 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.48%) SCADA
9 7 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.86%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.55%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.35%) Windows
2 8 (2.48%) Linux
3 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.62%) Unix
5 2 (0.62%) VMS
5 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.31%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (45.65%) Security Architecture
2 109 (33.85%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (24.84%) Cloud Security
4 63 (19.57%) Threat Modelling
5 57 (17.70%) SIEM
6 52 (16.15%) Identity Access Management
7 51 (15.84%) Incident Response
8 43 (13.35%) TOGAF
8 43 (13.35%) Vulnerability Management
9 41 (12.73%) CI/CD
10 39 (12.11%) Zero Trust
11 37 (11.49%) DevSecOps
11 37 (11.49%) Risk Management
11 37 (11.49%) Security Operations
12 34 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 33 (10.25%) Roadmaps
13 33 (10.25%) SABSA
14 30 (9.32%) Information Security
14 30 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (8.39%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.35%) Python
2 9 (2.80%) Java
3 6 (1.86%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.55%) R
5 4 (1.24%) C++
6 3 (0.93%) Bash
6 3 (0.93%) Bicep
6 3 (0.93%) C
6 3 (0.93%) SQL
7 2 (0.62%) PHP
7 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 104 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 76 (23.60%) CISSP
3 68 (21.12%) SC Cleared
4 34 (10.56%) CISM
5 26 (8.07%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (7.14%) Degree
6 23 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 18 (5.59%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.04%) CCSP
8 13 (4.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (3.11%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.48%) CCNP
11 7 (2.17%) GIAC
12 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.55%) CCIE
13 5 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.24%) PhD
15 3 (0.93%) CEH
15 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (23.91%) NIST
2 59 (18.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (12.73%) GDPR
4 28 (8.70%) PCI DSS
5 22 (6.83%) NCSC
6 10 (3.11%) EU AI Act
7 9 (2.80%) QA
8 8 (2.48%) PSD2
9 7 (2.17%) GRC
10 6 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.86%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.55%) NIST 800
12 4 (1.24%) JSP 440
12 4 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.62%) RMADS
14 2 (0.62%) SOC 1
System Software
1 9 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.48%) Docker
3 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.28%) Kubernetes
1 17 (5.28%) Terraform
2 6 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.24%) Ansible
4 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.93%) OPNET
4 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.62%) SCCM
6 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.31%) SELinux
6 1 (0.31%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 59 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.76%) Splunk
3 23 (7.14%) CyberArk
4 14 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.42%) BiZZdesign
6 10 (3.11%) Centrify
6 10 (3.11%) Google
7 9 (2.80%) Cisco
8 8 (2.48%) Darktrace
8 8 (2.48%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.48%) Sparx
8 8 (2.48%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.17%) Virgin Media
10 6 (1.86%) F5
10 6 (1.86%) Thycotic
11 5 (1.55%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.24%) Oracle
12 4 (1.24%) SAP
12 4 (1.24%) VMware