Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 259 241
Rank change year-on-year -33 -18 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 292 248 374
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.94% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.01% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 175 237
10th Percentile £463 £563 £519
25th Percentile £525 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £720 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £812 £861
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 13
10th Percentile £82.38 - £76.16
25th Percentile £84.06 £68.26 £81.87
Median hourly rate £86.25 £73.31 £83.77
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.48% +19.66%
75th Percentile £94.06 £78.36 £87.53
90th Percentile £94.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £73.31 £83.77
% change year-on-year +15.95% -12.48% +19.66%

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 30,608 24,451 35,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 93.04% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,485 15,141 23,660
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 728 2,103
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.77
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -33 133 £644 -5.33% 53
North of England -27 55 £600 -14.29% 5
South East -13 52 £650 +4.00% 27
Yorkshire -27 34 £537 -22.17% 1
Midlands -48 20 £675 -3.57% 13
North West -24 19 £701 +0.07% 3
South West -19 18 £650 +5.05% 10
West Midlands -37 16 £675 -3.57% 12
East of England -17 5 £520 - 3
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 1
North East - 2 £545 - 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 February 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.

1 132 (45.21%) Security Architecture
2 111 (38.01%) Security Cleared
3 104 (35.62%) Cybersecurity
4 79 (27.05%) Azure
5 75 (25.68%) SC Cleared
6 73 (25.00%) AWS
7 67 (22.95%) NIST
8 63 (21.58%) Threat Modelling
9 62 (21.23%) Cloud Security
10 57 (19.52%) Zero Trust
11 56 (19.18%) Network Security
12 54 (18.49%) CISSP
13 50 (17.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 45 (15.41%) Firewall
14 45 (15.41%) Identity Access Management
15 44 (15.07%) Incident Response
15 44 (15.07%) Microsoft
16 43 (14.73%) TOGAF
16 43 (14.73%) Vulnerability Management
17 37 (12.67%) Risk Management
18 36 (12.33%) SIEM
19 34 (11.64%) DevSecOps
19 34 (11.64%) GCP
20 33 (11.30%) SABSA
21 30 (10.27%) DV Cleared
22 29 (9.93%) CI/CD
22 29 (9.93%) CISM
22 29 (9.93%) NCSC
22 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 28 (9.59%) GDPR

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 (4.79%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.05%) Azure
2 73 (25.00%) AWS
3 34 (11.64%) GCP
4 21 (7.19%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 10 (3.42%) SaaS
7 8 (2.74%) AWS KMS
7 8 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) GitHub
9 6 (2.05%) PaaS
10 5 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.37%) Akamai
11 4 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.37%) IaaS
12 3 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (19.18%) Network Security
2 45 (15.41%) Firewall
3 17 (5.82%) VPN
4 14 (4.79%) WAN
5 11 (3.77%) LAN
5 11 (3.77%) SD-WAN
6 8 (2.74%) IPsec
7 7 (2.40%) DNS
7 7 (2.40%) NGFW
8 6 (2.05%) BGP
9 5 (1.71%) OSPF
10 4 (1.37%) DHCP
10 4 (1.37%) Skype
10 4 (1.37%) SSL
11 3 (1.03%) Kerberos
11 3 (1.03%) MPLS
11 3 (1.03%) MQTT
11 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.03%) VSAN
11 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.03%) GitLab
2 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.34%) AppScan
3 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.34%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
General
1 55 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.41%) Finance
3 38 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.48%) Banking
5 12 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.74%) Legal
9 7 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Law
13 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.34%) Marketing
14 1 (0.34%) Military
14 1 (0.34%) Retail
14 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.77%) SAML
2 9 (3.08%) OAuth
3 8 (2.74%) OpenID
4 6 (2.05%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.03%) ADO
6 2 (0.68%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.68%) JWT
6 2 (0.68%) Kafka
6 2 (0.68%) LDAP
6 2 (0.68%) Middleware
6 2 (0.68%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.34%) J2EE
7 1 (0.34%) JAAS
7 1 (0.34%) JSP
7 1 (0.34%) JSSE
7 1 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.34%) React
7 1 (0.34%) REST
7 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.16%) Operational Technology
3 17 (5.82%) Security Posture
4 16 (5.48%) PKI
5 15 (5.14%) Data Centre
6 14 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 12 (4.11%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.77%) Private Cloud
9 10 (3.42%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.40%) SCADA
12 5 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.71%) NHS
12 5 (1.71%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.71%) Taxonomies
13 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
14 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.82%) Windows
2 11 (3.77%) Linux
3 4 (1.37%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.03%) Unix
4 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (45.21%) Security Architecture
2 104 (35.62%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (21.58%) Threat Modelling
4 62 (21.23%) Cloud Security
5 57 (19.52%) Zero Trust
6 45 (15.41%) Identity Access Management
7 44 (15.07%) Incident Response
8 43 (14.73%) TOGAF
8 43 (14.73%) Vulnerability Management
9 37 (12.67%) Risk Management
10 36 (12.33%) SIEM
11 34 (11.64%) DevSecOps
12 33 (11.30%) SABSA
13 29 (9.93%) CI/CD
13 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (9.25%) Network Segmentation
14 27 (9.25%) Roadmaps
15 24 (8.22%) Migration
16 23 (7.88%) Architectural Patterns
16 23 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.74%) Java
2 7 (2.40%) Python
3 4 (1.37%) SQL
4 3 (1.03%) Bicep
4 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.68%) C
5 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
5 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.68%) Swift
6 1 (0.34%) Bash
6 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.34%) Lisp
6 1 (0.34%) ProC
6 1 (0.34%) R
6 1 (0.34%) RPG
6 1 (0.34%) VB
6 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (38.01%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 54 (18.49%) CISSP
4 30 (10.27%) DV Cleared
5 29 (9.93%) CISM
6 21 (7.19%) Degree
7 19 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (4.79%) AWS Certification
8 14 (4.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (3.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (3.08%) CCNP
10 9 (3.08%) GIAC
11 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.40%) CCIE
11 7 (2.40%) CCSP
11 7 (2.40%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.71%) PhD
14 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (22.95%) NIST
2 50 (17.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (9.93%) NCSC
4 28 (9.59%) GDPR
5 19 (6.51%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.40%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.40%) GRC
7 6 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.37%) JSP 440
9 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.03%) PSD2
9 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.68%) COBIT
10 2 (0.68%) QA
10 2 (0.68%) RMADS
10 2 (0.68%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.37%) Docker
3 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (8.22%) Terraform
2 9 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.74%) Ansible
3 8 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.03%) OPNET
4 3 (1.03%) SCCM
4 3 (1.03%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) logstash
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) Nessus
6 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.34%) SELinux
Vendors
1 44 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.22%) CyberArk
3 20 (6.85%) Splunk
4 13 (4.45%) BiZZdesign
4 13 (4.45%) Palo Alto
5 12 (4.11%) Cisco
6 11 (3.77%) Centrify
7 9 (3.08%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.08%) Zscaler
8 7 (2.40%) Darktrace
8 7 (2.40%) F5
8 7 (2.40%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.40%) Google
8 7 (2.40%) Virgin Media
9 6 (2.05%) Sparx
9 6 (2.05%) VMware
10 4 (1.37%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.37%) Juniper
10 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.37%) Thycotic