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 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 257 254
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 +76
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 269 250 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 0.93% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.00% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 161 222
10th Percentile £480 £550 £525
25th Percentile £544 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £861
UK median daily rate £648 £675 £683
% change year-on-year -4.07% -1.10% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £82.38 - £74.63
25th Percentile £84.06 £68.26 £75.02
Median hourly rate £86.25 £73.31 £78.74
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -6.90% +12.49%
75th Percentile £94.06 £78.36 £84.36
90th Percentile £94.63 - £85.11
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £73.31 £78.74
% change year-on-year +15.95% -6.90% +12.49%

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 28,488 25,027 33,935
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 92.90% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,175 15,498 23,097
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
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 1,738 757 1,541
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.91 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.45 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -19.22% +23.80%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -7 126 £650 -7.14% 27
South East +3 51 £675 +3.85% 12
North of England -21 47 £600 -20.00% 19
Yorkshire -24 31 £538 -23.21% 5
South West -13 20 £650 +13.04% 10
North West -31 14 £701 -6.60% 7
Midlands -39 13 £675 -3.57% 3
West Midlands -31 11 £675 -3.57% 3
East of England -16 5 £520 +15.56% 1
North East - 2 £545 - 7
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 131 (48.70%) Security Architecture
2 92 (34.20%) Security Cleared
3 89 (33.09%) Cybersecurity
4 84 (31.23%) Azure
5 77 (28.62%) AWS
6 68 (25.28%) NIST
7 65 (24.16%) Cloud Security
8 61 (22.68%) SC Cleared
9 57 (21.19%) CISSP
10 56 (20.82%) Threat Modelling
11 53 (19.70%) Network Security
11 53 (19.70%) Zero Trust
12 49 (18.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 48 (17.84%) Firewall
14 45 (16.73%) Incident Response
14 45 (16.73%) Microsoft
15 44 (16.36%) Identity Access Management
15 44 (16.36%) TOGAF
16 42 (15.61%) Vulnerability Management
17 40 (14.87%) SIEM
18 35 (13.01%) GCP
19 33 (12.27%) GDPR
20 32 (11.90%) DevSecOps
21 31 (11.52%) Roadmaps
22 29 (10.78%) CI/CD
22 29 (10.78%) Risk Management
22 29 (10.78%) SABSA
22 29 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 28 (10.41%) CISM
24 26 (9.67%) Information Security

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 14 (5.20%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (31.23%) Azure
2 77 (28.62%) AWS
3 35 (13.01%) GCP
4 21 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.35%) SaaS
6 8 (2.97%) AWS KMS
6 8 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (2.97%) PaaS
7 7 (2.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 7 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.23%) GitHub
8 6 (2.23%) IaaS
8 6 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 53 (19.70%) Network Security
2 48 (17.84%) Firewall
3 14 (5.20%) VPN
4 13 (4.83%) WAN
5 10 (3.72%) LAN
6 9 (3.35%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.97%) NGFW
8 5 (1.86%) BGP
8 5 (1.86%) DNS
8 5 (1.86%) IPsec
9 4 (1.49%) OSPF
9 4 (1.49%) SSL
10 3 (1.12%) DHCP
10 3 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.12%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.12%) Skype
10 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.12%) VSAN
11 2 (0.74%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.46%) JIRA
2 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.37%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) MLflow
General
1 57 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.22%) Finance
3 35 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.32%) Banking
5 15 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.97%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.97%) Legal
7 7 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.74%) Electronics
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 2 (0.74%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.97%) SAML
2 6 (2.23%) OAuth
3 5 (1.86%) OpenID
4 3 (1.12%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.74%) .NET
5 2 (0.74%) Kafka
5 2 (0.74%) Middleware
5 2 (0.74%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.37%) ADO
6 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.37%) JAAS
6 1 (0.37%) JSSE
6 1 (0.37%) JWT
6 1 (0.37%) LDAP
6 1 (0.37%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.37%) REST
6 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.18%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.58%) PKI
4 14 (5.20%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.20%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.20%) Operational Technology
5 11 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.72%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.72%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.86%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.86%) SCADA
10 5 (1.86%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.49%) NHS
11 4 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.83%) Windows
2 8 (2.97%) Linux
3 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
4 3 (1.12%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (48.70%) Security Architecture
2 89 (33.09%) Cybersecurity
3 65 (24.16%) Cloud Security
4 56 (20.82%) Threat Modelling
5 53 (19.70%) Zero Trust
6 45 (16.73%) Incident Response
7 44 (16.36%) Identity Access Management
7 44 (16.36%) TOGAF
8 42 (15.61%) Vulnerability Management
9 40 (14.87%) SIEM
10 32 (11.90%) DevSecOps
11 31 (11.52%) Roadmaps
12 29 (10.78%) CI/CD
12 29 (10.78%) Risk Management
12 29 (10.78%) SABSA
12 29 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (9.67%) Information Security
14 24 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (8.55%) Regulatory Compliance
16 22 (8.18%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.97%) Python
2 6 (2.23%) Java
3 4 (1.49%) SQL
4 3 (1.12%) Bicep
5 2 (0.74%) C
5 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
5 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.74%) Swift
6 1 (0.37%) Bash
6 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.37%) ProC
6 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (34.20%) Security Cleared
2 61 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 57 (21.19%) CISSP
4 28 (10.41%) CISM
5 25 (9.29%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (8.55%) DV Cleared
7 21 (7.81%) Degree
8 20 (7.43%) AWS Certification
9 14 (5.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 14 (5.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (4.09%) Azure Certification
10 11 (4.09%) CCNP
10 11 (4.09%) CCSP
11 7 (2.60%) CCIE
11 7 (2.60%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.86%) GIAC
12 5 (1.86%) PhD
13 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (25.28%) NIST
2 49 (18.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (12.27%) GDPR
4 24 (8.92%) NCSC
5 22 (8.18%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.97%) EU AI Act
6 8 (2.97%) PSD2
7 6 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.49%) GRC
8 4 (1.49%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.12%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.74%) QA
10 2 (0.74%) RMADS
10 2 (0.74%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 8 (2.97%) Active Directory
1 8 (2.97%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (8.18%) Terraform
2 12 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.60%) Ansible
4 6 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.12%) OPNET
5 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.74%) SCCM
7 1 (0.37%) Kibana
7 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 45 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.55%) CyberArk
3 14 (5.20%) Palo Alto
3 14 (5.20%) Splunk
4 13 (4.83%) Cisco
5 11 (4.09%) BiZZdesign
5 11 (4.09%) Centrify
5 11 (4.09%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.97%) CheckPoint
6 8 (2.97%) Darktrace
7 7 (2.60%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.60%) Google
7 7 (2.60%) Virgin Media
8 6 (2.23%) F5
8 6 (2.23%) Sparx
8 6 (2.23%) VMware
9 4 (1.49%) Juniper
9 4 (1.49%) Oracle
9 4 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.49%) Thycotic