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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 228 206
Rank change year-on-year -19 -22 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 407 277 399
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.14% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.23% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 190 244
10th Percentile £467 £550 £519
25th Percentile £525 £600 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £664 £725
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -8.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £782
90th Percentile £838 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £634 £664 £700
% change year-on-year -4.48% -5.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile - £69.68 £81.86
25th Percentile - £71.82 £81.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £79.16 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -9.50% +24.94%
75th Percentile £83.25 £85.22 £87.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £86.59 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £79.16 £87.46
% change year-on-year +4.86% -9.50% +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 37,905 22,467 33,793
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.36% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,551 14,942 22,422
10th Percentile £319 £300 £284
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,597 915 2,440
10th Percentile £15.63 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.73% -17.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.45% -23.29% -18.89%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -35 203 £650 -3.70% 40
South East -21 73 £630 +0.80% 31
North of England -27 59 £700 +5.70% 25
North West -8 45 £707 +6.06% 16
Midlands -39 40 £700 - 13
West Midlands -35 38 £725 +3.57% 8
South West -42 12 £591 -11.09% 19
Yorkshire -44 12 £650 +5.69% 4
East Midlands - 2 £438 - 5
East of England - 2 £750 - 10
North East -21 1 - - 5
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 188 (46.19%) Security Architecture
2 174 (42.75%) Security Cleared
3 134 (32.92%) Cybersecurity
4 105 (25.80%) SC Cleared
5 103 (25.31%) Threat Modelling
6 100 (24.57%) Azure
7 84 (20.64%) Cloud Security
8 83 (20.39%) AWS
9 81 (19.90%) NIST
10 70 (17.20%) Network Security
11 68 (16.71%) Zero Trust
12 67 (16.46%) CISSP
13 55 (13.51%) DV Cleared
14 51 (12.53%) GCP
14 51 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 50 (12.29%) Architectural Patterns
16 45 (11.06%) Risk Management
16 45 (11.06%) TOGAF
17 44 (10.81%) Application Security
18 39 (9.58%) SABSA
19 38 (9.34%) DevSecOps
20 36 (8.85%) Data Protection
20 36 (8.85%) Microsoft
20 36 (8.85%) SIEM
21 35 (8.60%) Identity Access Management
21 35 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 35 (8.60%) Vulnerability Management
22 34 (8.35%) Information Security
22 34 (8.35%) Network Segmentation
22 34 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management

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 6 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.23%) Confluence
3 2 (0.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 100 (24.57%) Azure
2 83 (20.39%) AWS
3 51 (12.53%) GCP
4 24 (5.90%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (2.70%) SaaS
6 9 (2.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 7 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.47%) AWS KMS
8 6 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.98%) GitHub
10 4 (0.98%) IaaS
10 4 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.74%) Akamai
11 3 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.74%) Apigee
11 3 (0.74%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.20%) Network Security
2 26 (6.39%) Firewall
3 12 (2.95%) VPN
4 10 (2.46%) LAN
4 10 (2.46%) WAN
5 8 (1.97%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.23%) BGP
6 5 (1.23%) IPsec
6 5 (1.23%) OSPF
7 4 (0.98%) MQTT
8 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.74%) MPLS
8 3 (0.74%) NGFW
8 3 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.49%) DMZ
9 2 (0.49%) DNS
9 2 (0.49%) Intranet
9 2 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.49%) VLAN
9 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.49%) Big Data
1 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.25%) Metadata
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.98%) JIRA
1 4 (0.98%) Snyk
2 3 (0.74%) GitLab
3 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) AppScan
4 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
General
1 64 (15.72%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 47 (11.55%) Finance
4 23 (5.65%) Banking
5 17 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.21%) Legal
10 7 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.98%) Military
14 3 (0.74%) Law
15 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.49%) Retail
16 1 (0.25%) Aviation
16 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.97%) OAuth
2 6 (1.47%) OAuth2
2 6 (1.47%) OpenID
3 5 (1.23%) J2EE
3 5 (1.23%) JSP
3 5 (1.23%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.98%) ADO
4 4 (0.98%) JWT
4 4 (0.98%) Middleware
4 4 (0.98%) SAML
5 3 (0.74%) REST
6 2 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.25%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.25%) Flask
7 1 (0.25%) HTML
7 1 (0.25%) JSSE
7 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.25%) React
7 1 (0.25%) RESTful
7 1 (0.25%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.13%) Cloud Native
1 29 (7.13%) Operational Technology
1 29 (7.13%) Security Posture
2 18 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.95%) AI Agents
3 12 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.23%) Private Cloud
7 4 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (0.98%) SCADA
7 4 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (0.98%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.74%) Genomics
8 3 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.46%) Windows
2 5 (1.23%) Linux
3 2 (0.49%) Android
3 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (46.19%) Security Architecture
2 134 (32.92%) Cybersecurity
3 103 (25.31%) Threat Modelling
4 84 (20.64%) Cloud Security
5 68 (16.71%) Zero Trust
6 50 (12.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 45 (11.06%) Risk Management
7 45 (11.06%) TOGAF
8 44 (10.81%) Application Security
9 39 (9.58%) SABSA
10 38 (9.34%) DevSecOps
11 36 (8.85%) Data Protection
11 36 (8.85%) SIEM
12 35 (8.60%) Identity Access Management
12 35 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 35 (8.60%) Vulnerability Management
13 34 (8.35%) Information Security
13 34 (8.35%) Network Segmentation
13 34 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (8.11%) AI
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.46%) Java
2 3 (0.74%) Bicep
2 3 (0.74%) Python
2 3 (0.74%) SQL
3 2 (0.49%) C
3 2 (0.49%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
3 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.49%) Swift
4 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.25%) Lisp
4 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.25%) ProC
4 1 (0.25%) RPG
4 1 (0.25%) VB
4 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 174 (42.75%) Security Cleared
2 105 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 67 (16.46%) CISSP
4 55 (13.51%) DV Cleared
5 32 (7.86%) CISM
6 29 (7.13%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (5.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 18 (4.42%) Degree
9 13 (3.19%) CCSP
10 12 (2.95%) GIAC
11 11 (2.70%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (2.21%) SANS
13 7 (1.72%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.72%) CCNP
13 7 (1.72%) CEH
14 6 (1.47%) CISA
14 6 (1.47%) OSCP
14 6 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (19.90%) NIST
2 51 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (7.37%) NCSC
4 19 (4.67%) GDPR
5 13 (3.19%) NIST 800
5 13 (3.19%) PCI DSS
6 11 (2.70%) GRC
7 7 (1.72%) COBIT
8 5 (1.23%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.98%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.98%) QA
10 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.74%) IFRS
10 3 (0.74%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.74%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.74%) RMADS
10 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.25%) Varnish
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (4.18%) Terraform
2 14 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.23%) Ansible
4 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) QRadar
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) logstash
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Nessus
6 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 36 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.44%) Splunk
3 10 (2.46%) Cisco
3 10 (2.46%) Okta
3 10 (2.46%) Zscaler
4 8 (1.97%) CyberArk
4 8 (1.97%) Palo Alto
5 7 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
6 6 (1.47%) Google
6 6 (1.47%) SAP
6 6 (1.47%) Tenable
7 5 (1.23%) CheckPoint
7 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.98%) F5
8 4 (0.98%) Qualys
9 3 (0.74%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.74%) Juniper
9 3 (0.74%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.74%) VMware