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 15 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
15 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 248 250
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +127
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 333 308 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 0.99% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.06% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 186 276
10th Percentile £500 £500 £525
25th Percentile £566 £600 £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £681 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% -3.57%
75th Percentile £774 £784 £750
90th Percentile £800 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £675
% change year-on-year - - -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 27,551 28,997 37,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 93.01% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,686 17,732 25,798
10th Percentile £281 £300 £295
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
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 1,652 1,090 1,422
10th Percentile £14.21 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.23 £19.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +4 148 £688 -1.79% 46
North of England -9 65 £675 -10.00% 13
South East +7 59 £675 +3.85% 24
Yorkshire -10 31 £538 -22.66% 4
South West -7 29 £650 +4.00% 13
North West -20 24 £734 -2.10% 8
Midlands -25 18 £675 -3.57% 5
West Midlands -23 16 £675 -3.57% 5
North East - 11 £750 - 1
East of England -16 8 £510 +13.33% 1
East Midlands -12 2 £450 -45.29%
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 151 (45.35%) Security Architecture
2 123 (36.94%) Cybersecurity
3 115 (34.53%) AWS
4 111 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 94 (28.23%) Azure
6 81 (24.32%) Cloud Security
7 79 (23.72%) SC Cleared
8 75 (22.52%) CISSP
8 75 (22.52%) NIST
9 71 (21.32%) SIEM
10 65 (19.52%) Threat Modelling
11 60 (18.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 57 (17.12%) Microsoft
13 54 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
14 53 (15.92%) Network Security
15 51 (15.32%) Incident Response
16 50 (15.02%) Security Operations
17 48 (14.41%) Firewall
18 46 (13.81%) Vulnerability Management
19 45 (13.51%) GCP
20 42 (12.61%) GDPR
21 41 (12.31%) CI/CD
21 41 (12.31%) Risk Management
21 41 (12.31%) TOGAF
22 38 (11.41%) DevSecOps
23 37 (11.11%) Splunk
23 37 (11.11%) Zero Trust
24 33 (9.91%) CISM
24 33 (9.91%) Roadmaps
24 33 (9.91%) SaaS

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 (4.50%) Confluence
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.30%) SAS
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (34.53%) AWS
2 94 (28.23%) Azure
3 45 (13.51%) GCP
4 33 (9.91%) SaaS
5 20 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (6.01%) Amazon S3
6 19 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (3.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.10%) GitHub
10 7 (2.10%) PaaS
11 6 (1.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (1.80%) IaaS
11 6 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.50%) AWS KMS
13 3 (0.90%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.92%) Network Security
2 48 (14.41%) Firewall
3 9 (2.70%) VPN
4 8 (2.40%) NGFW
4 8 (2.40%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.80%) DNS
5 6 (1.80%) WAN
6 5 (1.50%) LAN
7 4 (1.20%) DHCP
7 4 (1.20%) IPsec
7 4 (1.20%) SSL
7 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.90%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.90%) Skype
8 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.90%) VSAN
9 2 (0.60%) BGP
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.60%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.60%) MongoDB
2 11 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.50%) JIRA
2 7 (2.10%) Git
3 5 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.90%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) MLflow
General
1 72 (21.62%) Finance
1 72 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.11%) Public Sector
3 24 (7.21%) Banking
4 21 (6.31%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.30%) Military
7 10 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.00%) Legal
8 9 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Electronics
11 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Marketing
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
13 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.40%) SAML
2 6 (1.80%) OAuth
3 5 (1.50%) OpenID
3 5 (1.50%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.50%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.20%) .NET
4 4 (1.20%) Google JAX
4 4 (1.20%) JAX
4 4 (1.20%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.90%) Kafka
5 3 (0.90%) OAuth2
5 3 (0.90%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.60%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.60%) React
6 2 (0.60%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) JWT
7 1 (0.30%) LDAP
7 1 (0.30%) Node.js
7 1 (0.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.31%) Security Posture
2 30 (9.01%) Security Operations Centre
3 29 (8.71%) Onboarding
4 23 (6.91%) Cloud Native
5 22 (6.61%) CSOC
6 19 (5.71%) Management Information System
7 17 (5.11%) PKI
7 17 (5.11%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.60%) Operational Technology
9 10 (3.00%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (2.70%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.40%) Private Cloud
11 8 (2.40%) SCADA
12 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (1.50%) Cyberattack
14 5 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.80%) Windows
2 9 (2.70%) Linux
3 7 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.60%) Unix
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (45.35%) Security Architecture
2 123 (36.94%) Cybersecurity
3 81 (24.32%) Cloud Security
4 71 (21.32%) SIEM
5 65 (19.52%) Threat Modelling
6 54 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
7 51 (15.32%) Incident Response
8 50 (15.02%) Security Operations
9 46 (13.81%) Vulnerability Management
10 41 (12.31%) CI/CD
10 41 (12.31%) Risk Management
10 41 (12.31%) TOGAF
11 38 (11.41%) DevSecOps
12 37 (11.11%) Zero Trust
13 33 (9.91%) Roadmaps
13 33 (9.91%) SABSA
13 33 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (9.31%) Information Security
15 30 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (8.71%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.20%) Python
2 9 (2.70%) Java
3 6 (1.80%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.50%) R
5 4 (1.20%) C++
6 3 (0.90%) Bash
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) C
6 3 (0.90%) SQL
7 2 (0.60%) PHP
7 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 111 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 79 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 75 (22.52%) CISSP
4 33 (9.91%) CISM
5 27 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (6.91%) Degree
7 19 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 19 (5.71%) DV Cleared
8 17 (5.11%) AWS Certification
9 14 (4.20%) CCSP
10 12 (3.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (2.70%) Azure Certification
12 8 (2.40%) CCNP
12 8 (2.40%) GIAC
13 6 (1.80%) Master's Degree
14 5 (1.50%) CCIE
14 5 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (1.20%) PhD
16 3 (0.90%) CCSA
16 3 (0.90%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (22.52%) NIST
2 60 (18.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (12.61%) GDPR
4 28 (8.41%) PCI DSS
5 23 (6.91%) NCSC
6 10 (3.00%) EU AI Act
7 9 (2.70%) QA
8 8 (2.40%) GRC
8 8 (2.40%) PSD2
9 7 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (2.10%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.50%) NIST 800
11 4 (1.20%) JSP 440
11 4 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.60%) SOC 1
System Software
1 11 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.40%) Docker
3 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (4.80%) Kubernetes
1 16 (4.80%) Terraform
2 6 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.20%) Ansible
4 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.90%) OPNET
4 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.60%) SCCM
5 2 (0.60%) SELinux
6 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 57 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.11%) Splunk
3 23 (6.91%) CyberArk
4 14 (4.20%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.30%) BiZZdesign
6 10 (3.00%) Centrify
6 10 (3.00%) Google
7 9 (2.70%) Cisco
8 8 (2.40%) Darktrace
8 8 (2.40%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.40%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.10%) Sparx
9 7 (2.10%) Virgin Media
10 6 (1.80%) F5
10 6 (1.80%) Thycotic
11 5 (1.50%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.50%) Oracle
12 4 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.20%) SAP
12 4 (1.20%) VMware
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