Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 215 224
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 527 332 364
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.20% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.31% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 214 219
10th Percentile £483 £513 £500
25th Percentile £553 £577 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +0.90%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £775
90th Percentile £850 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £636 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.74% -3.57% +2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £69.20 £86.00 -
25th Percentile - £91.25 £81.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £100.00 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +14.34% +24.94%
75th Percentile - £102.75 -
90th Percentile £83.60 £104.40 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £100.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year -17.00% +14.34% +24.94%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 42,127 25,302 31,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 91.67% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,620 16,428 20,708
10th Percentile £328 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,104 1,296 1,911
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.72 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.85 £20.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £42.91
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.39% +0.96%

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 1 August 2026.

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
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 1 August 2026. 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 +3 260 £669 -0.93% 103
South East -6 113 £650 +8.33% 51
North of England -50 63 £653 -6.71% 26
North West -29 49 £677 -3.36% 13
Midlands -25 47 £625 -21.88% 5
West Midlands -36 46 £625 -21.88% 4
South West -49 22 £614 -5.58% 7
Yorkshire -33 11 £650 +18.18% 13
East of England -13 7 £625 +25.00% 4
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 2026, 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.

1 252 (47.82%) Security Architecture
2 239 (45.35%) Security Cleared
3 180 (34.16%) Cybersecurity
4 153 (29.03%) SC Cleared
5 142 (26.94%) Azure
6 134 (25.43%) Threat Modelling
7 127 (24.10%) Cloud Security
8 121 (22.96%) AWS
9 103 (19.54%) CISSP
10 99 (18.79%) NIST
11 79 (14.99%) Network Security
11 79 (14.99%) Zero Trust
12 78 (14.80%) DV Cleared
13 77 (14.61%) Architectural Patterns
14 76 (14.42%) Risk Management
15 74 (14.04%) TOGAF
16 73 (13.85%) AI
17 66 (12.52%) GCP
18 63 (11.95%) Identity Access Management
19 62 (11.76%) DevSecOps
20 60 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 59 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 59 (11.20%) Roadmaps
22 57 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
23 54 (10.25%) CI/CD
23 54 (10.25%) SABSA
24 48 (9.11%) CISM
24 48 (9.11%) Microsoft
25 47 (8.92%) DevOps
25 47 (8.92%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (0.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.38%) Confluence
2 2 (0.38%) SAS
3 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (26.94%) Azure
2 121 (22.96%) AWS
3 66 (12.52%) GCP
4 28 (5.31%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (2.85%) SaaS
7 10 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.76%) GitHub
9 4 (0.76%) Vertex AI
10 3 (0.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (0.57%) Apigee
10 3 (0.57%) AWS KMS
10 3 (0.57%) IaaS
10 3 (0.57%) Kong
10 3 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 79 (14.99%) Network Security
2 38 (7.21%) Firewall
3 12 (2.28%) VPN
4 10 (1.90%) WAN
5 7 (1.33%) 4G
5 7 (1.33%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.33%) VLAN
6 6 (1.14%) IPsec
6 6 (1.14%) NGFW
7 5 (0.95%) 5G
7 5 (0.95%) LAN
7 5 (0.95%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.76%) Intranet
9 3 (0.57%) BGP
9 3 (0.57%) OSPF
10 2 (0.38%) DHCP
10 2 (0.38%) DNS
10 2 (0.38%) Internet
10 2 (0.38%) MPLS
10 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
2 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.38%) Big Data
3 2 (0.38%) Metadata
3 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.14%) JIRA
3 4 (0.76%) Snyk
4 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
General
1 95 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.28%) Public Sector
3 61 (11.57%) Finance
4 32 (6.07%) Banking
5 23 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.28%) Legal
9 10 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.52%) Military
10 8 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.95%) Police
11 5 (0.95%) Retail
12 4 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.76%) Law
12 4 (0.76%) Local Government
13 2 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.47%) OAuth
2 9 (1.71%) OAuth2
3 8 (1.52%) OpenID
4 6 (1.14%) REST
4 6 (1.14%) SAML
4 6 (1.14%) SLSA
5 5 (0.95%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.76%) Jakarta EE
6 4 (0.76%) JSP
6 4 (0.76%) JWT
6 4 (0.76%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.57%) HTML
7 3 (0.57%) LangChain
7 3 (0.57%) LDAP
7 3 (0.57%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.57%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.38%) .NET
8 2 (0.38%) EDI
8 2 (0.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.87%) Security Posture
2 44 (8.35%) Cloud Native
3 32 (6.07%) Operational Technology
4 26 (4.93%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.28%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.95%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.76%) CMDB
12 4 (0.76%) Cyberattack
12 4 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.76%) SCADA
12 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.33%) Linux
2 6 (1.14%) Windows
3 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (47.82%) Security Architecture
2 180 (34.16%) Cybersecurity
3 134 (25.43%) Threat Modelling
4 127 (24.10%) Cloud Security
5 79 (14.99%) Zero Trust
6 77 (14.61%) Architectural Patterns
7 76 (14.42%) Risk Management
8 74 (14.04%) TOGAF
9 73 (13.85%) AI
10 63 (11.95%) Identity Access Management
11 62 (11.76%) DevSecOps
12 60 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 59 (11.20%) Roadmaps
14 57 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 54 (10.25%) CI/CD
15 54 (10.25%) SABSA
16 47 (8.92%) DevOps
16 47 (8.92%) Enterprise Architecture
16 47 (8.92%) Information Security
17 45 (8.54%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.47%) Python
2 10 (1.90%) Java
3 7 (1.33%) Bicep
3 7 (1.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.57%) Groovy
5 3 (0.57%) Shell Script
5 3 (0.57%) SQL
6 2 (0.38%) Bash
7 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 239 (45.35%) Security Cleared
2 153 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 103 (19.54%) CISSP
4 78 (14.80%) DV Cleared
5 48 (9.11%) CISM
6 35 (6.64%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (5.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (4.17%) Degree
9 19 (3.61%) AWS Certification
10 18 (3.42%) CCSP
11 16 (3.04%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (2.09%) CEH
13 10 (1.90%) CISA
13 10 (1.90%) GIAC
14 8 (1.52%) SANS
15 7 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (1.33%) OSCP
16 6 (1.14%) Azure Certification
16 6 (1.14%) ISSAP
17 5 (0.95%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (18.79%) NIST
2 59 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (7.78%) NCSC
4 25 (4.74%) GDPR
5 21 (3.98%) NIST 800
6 19 (3.61%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.66%) GRC
8 8 (1.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 8 (1.52%) JSP 440
9 7 (1.33%) COBIT
9 7 (1.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.14%) ISO 19650
10 6 (1.14%) QA
11 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.76%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.57%) RMADS
System Software
1 15 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.90%) Docker
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) KVM
5 1 (0.19%) Varnish
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.98%) Terraform
3 8 (1.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.76%) QRadar
5 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.38%) CASB
6 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.38%) Istio
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.19%) Suricata
Vendors
1 48 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.61%) Google
3 16 (3.04%) Palo Alto
4 15 (2.85%) Okta
4 15 (2.85%) Splunk
5 12 (2.28%) Cisco
6 10 (1.90%) Fortinet
6 10 (1.90%) Tenable
7 8 (1.52%) Qualys
7 8 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.52%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.14%) SAP
10 5 (0.95%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.76%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.76%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.76%) VMware
12 3 (0.57%) IFS
12 3 (0.57%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.57%) ServiceNow