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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 225 201
Rank change year-on-year -18 -24 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 445 299 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 1.22% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.32% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 202 256
10th Percentile £463 £529 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £775 £750 £780
90th Percentile £844 £800 £846
UK median daily rate £630 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile - £84.25 £81.86
25th Percentile - £86.88 £81.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £92.50 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +5.76% +24.94%
75th Percentile £83.25 £96.88 £87.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £98.75 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £92.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year -10.27% +5.76% +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 39,391 22,646 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.37% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,290 14,886 22,782
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,775 990 2,657
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -24.58% -13.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.64 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.57% -26.29% -16.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -34 216 £634 -6.07% 33
South East -17 85 £645 +7.50% 21
North of England -41 55 £701 +4.40% 22
Midlands -31 49 £625 -3.92% 8
West Midlands -29 46 £625 -3.92% 7
North West -10 43 £712 +5.48% 11
South West -38 17 £620 -4.62% 10
Yorkshire -44 10 £575 +4.55% 4
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 1
East of England -21 2 £750 - 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 207 (46.52%) Security Architecture
2 204 (45.84%) Security Cleared
3 159 (35.73%) Cybersecurity
4 129 (28.99%) SC Cleared
5 122 (27.42%) Threat Modelling
6 111 (24.94%) Azure
7 104 (23.37%) Cloud Security
8 97 (21.80%) AWS
9 90 (20.22%) NIST
10 77 (17.30%) Zero Trust
11 76 (17.08%) Network Security
12 73 (16.40%) CISSP
13 63 (14.16%) Architectural Patterns
14 58 (13.03%) DV Cleared
14 58 (13.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 56 (12.58%) GCP
16 55 (12.36%) Risk Management
17 50 (11.24%) Application Security
18 48 (10.79%) TOGAF
19 47 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
20 46 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
21 45 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 44 (9.89%) DevSecOps
23 43 (9.66%) SABSA
24 42 (9.44%) DevOps
25 39 (8.76%) Data Protection
25 39 (8.76%) SIEM
26 38 (8.54%) AI
26 38 (8.54%) CISM
26 38 (8.54%) NCSC

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 5 (1.12%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.67%) Confluence
3 2 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.22%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (24.94%) Azure
2 97 (21.80%) AWS
3 56 (12.58%) GCP
4 24 (5.39%) Entra ID
5 14 (3.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (2.25%) SaaS
7 7 (1.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 7 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (0.90%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (0.90%) AWS KMS
9 4 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.67%) Apigee
10 3 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (0.67%) Azure API Management
10 3 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.67%) GitHub
10 3 (0.67%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 76 (17.08%) Network Security
2 28 (6.29%) Firewall
3 12 (2.70%) VPN
4 10 (2.25%) WAN
5 8 (1.80%) LAN
5 8 (1.80%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.57%) IPsec
7 5 (1.12%) BGP
7 5 (1.12%) MPLS
7 5 (1.12%) NGFW
7 5 (1.12%) OSPF
8 4 (0.90%) VLAN
9 3 (0.67%) Internet
9 3 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.67%) MQTT
9 3 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.45%) 5G
10 2 (0.45%) DMZ
10 2 (0.45%) DNS
10 2 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.45%) Big Data
1 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Snyk
2 3 (0.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.45%) GitLab
3 2 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) AppScan
4 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.22%) Metasploit
General
1 78 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.71%) Public Sector
3 50 (11.24%) Finance
4 27 (6.07%) Banking
5 20 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.25%) Legal
9 8 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.12%) Military
12 4 (0.90%) Law
12 4 (0.90%) Retail
13 2 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.22%) Aviation
14 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.47%) OAuth
2 9 (2.02%) OAuth2
2 9 (2.02%) OpenID
3 7 (1.57%) SAML
4 5 (1.12%) J2EE
4 5 (1.12%) JSP
4 5 (1.12%) REST
4 5 (1.12%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.90%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (0.90%) JWT
5 4 (0.90%) LDAP
6 3 (0.67%) ADO
6 3 (0.67%) HTML
7 2 (0.45%) .NET
7 2 (0.45%) Middleware
7 2 (0.45%) RESTful
8 1 (0.22%) Flask
8 1 (0.22%) JAAS
8 1 (0.22%) JSSE
8 1 (0.22%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.87%) Security Posture
2 34 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 30 (6.74%) Operational Technology
4 20 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.70%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.12%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.90%) CMDB
11 4 (0.90%) Genomics
11 4 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.90%) SCADA
11 4 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.70%) Windows
2 9 (2.02%) Linux
3 5 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (46.52%) Security Architecture
2 159 (35.73%) Cybersecurity
3 122 (27.42%) Threat Modelling
4 104 (23.37%) Cloud Security
5 77 (17.30%) Zero Trust
6 63 (14.16%) Architectural Patterns
7 55 (12.36%) Risk Management
8 50 (11.24%) Application Security
9 48 (10.79%) TOGAF
10 47 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
11 46 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 45 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 44 (9.89%) DevSecOps
14 43 (9.66%) SABSA
15 42 (9.44%) DevOps
16 39 (8.76%) Data Protection
16 39 (8.76%) SIEM
17 38 (8.54%) AI
18 36 (8.09%) Vulnerability Management
19 35 (7.87%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.70%) Java
2 7 (1.57%) Bicep
3 6 (1.35%) Python
4 5 (1.12%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.45%) SQL
6 2 (0.45%) Swift
7 1 (0.22%) Lisp
7 1 (0.22%) RPG
7 1 (0.22%) VB
7 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 204 (45.84%) Security Cleared
2 129 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.40%) CISSP
4 58 (13.03%) DV Cleared
5 38 (8.54%) CISM
6 32 (7.19%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (5.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 17 (3.82%) Degree
9 15 (3.37%) CCSP
10 14 (3.15%) AWS Certification
11 13 (2.92%) GIAC
12 9 (2.02%) CEH
12 9 (2.02%) SANS
13 8 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.80%) CISA
14 7 (1.57%) OSCP
15 5 (1.12%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.12%) CCNP
16 4 (0.90%) CCSK
16 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (20.22%) NIST
2 58 (13.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (8.54%) NCSC
4 24 (5.39%) GDPR
5 17 (3.82%) PCI DSS
6 15 (3.37%) NIST 800
7 11 (2.47%) GRC
8 8 (1.80%) COBIT
9 6 (1.35%) ISO 19650
9 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (1.12%) JSP 440
10 5 (1.12%) QA
10 5 (1.12%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.90%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.67%) IFRS
12 3 (0.67%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.67%) RMADS
13 2 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 15 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.22%) KVM
3 1 (0.22%) Varnish
3 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.72%) Terraform
2 15 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.25%) Ansible
4 5 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.67%) QRadar
6 2 (0.45%) Istio
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.22%) Nessus
7 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) SCCM
7 1 (0.22%) SELinux
7 1 (0.22%) Suricata
Vendors
1 37 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.49%) Splunk
3 14 (3.15%) Okta
4 11 (2.47%) Cisco
5 10 (2.25%) Google
6 9 (2.02%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.02%) Tenable
6 9 (2.02%) Zscaler
7 8 (1.80%) Qualys
8 7 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.35%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.35%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.35%) SAP
10 5 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
10 5 (1.12%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.90%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.90%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.67%) Juniper
12 3 (0.67%) TOWER Software