Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 242 227
Rank change year-on-year -12 -15 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 385 256 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.03% 1.05% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.13% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 208 236
10th Percentile £459 £550 £525
25th Percentile £513 £606 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £739 £750 £780
90th Percentile £788 £828 £868
UK median daily rate £625 £665 £700
% change year-on-year -6.02% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 16
10th Percentile £82.13 - £81.82
25th Percentile £83.25 £68.26 £81.88
Median hourly rate £85.00 £73.31 £85.38
Median % change year-on-year +15.95% -14.14% +21.98%
75th Percentile £91.56 £78.36 £87.53
90th Percentile £94.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £73.31 £85.38
% change year-on-year +15.95% -14.14% +21.98%

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 34,605 22,569 34,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 93.01% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,827 15,098 23,383
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 812 2,294
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.62 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.06 £32.70
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% +4.15% -23.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.20 £32.50 £32.95
% change year-on-year +14.46% -1.36% -24.26%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -11 170 £645 -4.44% 46
North of England -9 74 £613 -6.67% 25
South East -18 74 £634 +1.36% 22
North West -10 40 £704 +6.24% 17
Midlands -45 36 £675 -3.57% 10
West Midlands -47 34 £675 -3.57% 10
Yorkshire -27 32 £531 -20.15% 5
South West -42 13 £575 -13.21% 14
East of England - 7 £560 - 2
North East -11 2 £545 -12.80% 3
East Midlands - 2 £438 -
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 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.

1 175 (45.45%) Security Architecture
2 159 (41.30%) Security Cleared
3 122 (31.69%) Cybersecurity
4 101 (26.23%) Azure
4 101 (26.23%) SC Cleared
5 90 (23.38%) Cloud Security
6 88 (22.86%) Threat Modelling
7 87 (22.60%) AWS
8 81 (21.04%) CISSP
9 74 (19.22%) Network Security
9 74 (19.22%) NIST
10 71 (18.44%) Zero Trust
11 57 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 55 (14.29%) GCP
12 55 (14.29%) TOGAF
13 51 (13.25%) Identity Access Management
13 51 (13.25%) Risk Management
14 49 (12.73%) SABSA
15 47 (12.21%) SIEM
16 43 (11.17%) Architectural Patterns
16 43 (11.17%) CISM
16 43 (11.17%) DevSecOps
17 42 (10.91%) DV Cleared
18 41 (10.65%) Microsoft
19 39 (10.13%) Vulnerability Management
20 38 (9.87%) Application Security
20 38 (9.87%) CI/CD
20 38 (9.87%) Incident Response
21 35 (9.09%) Information Security
22 34 (8.83%) Cisco Certification

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 (3.90%) Confluence
2 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.52%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.26%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 101 (26.23%) Azure
2 87 (22.60%) AWS
3 55 (14.29%) GCP
4 25 (6.49%) Entra ID
5 14 (3.64%) SaaS
6 11 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 11 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.08%) AWS KMS
7 8 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.56%) GitHub
8 6 (1.56%) PaaS
8 6 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.30%) IaaS
10 4 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.78%) Azure API Management
11 3 (0.78%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 74 (19.22%) Network Security
2 33 (8.57%) Firewall
3 15 (3.90%) VPN
4 14 (3.64%) WAN
5 11 (2.86%) LAN
5 11 (2.86%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.56%) BGP
6 6 (1.56%) IPsec
6 6 (1.56%) OSPF
7 5 (1.30%) DNS
8 4 (1.04%) DHCP
8 4 (1.04%) MQTT
9 3 (0.78%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.78%) MPLS
9 3 (0.78%) NGFW
9 3 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.78%) SSL
9 3 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.52%) Big Data
2 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.26%) Metadata
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (3.64%) JIRA
2 4 (1.04%) Snyk
3 3 (0.78%) GitLab
3 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.26%) AppScan
4 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 70 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.32%) Finance
3 49 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.45%) Banking
5 15 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.08%) Legal
8 7 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.78%) Law
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Retail
12 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Military
12 1 (0.26%) Police
12 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.86%) OAuth
1 11 (2.86%) OpenID
2 10 (2.60%) SAML
3 9 (2.34%) OAuth2
4 5 (1.30%) JWT
4 5 (1.30%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.04%) ADO
5 4 (1.04%) Middleware
6 3 (0.78%) J2EE
6 3 (0.78%) JSP
7 2 (0.52%) .NET
7 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.52%) REST
8 1 (0.26%) Flask
8 1 (0.26%) JAAS
8 1 (0.26%) JSSE
8 1 (0.26%) LDAP
8 1 (0.26%) React
8 1 (0.26%) RESTful
8 1 (0.26%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.75%) Security Posture
3 22 (5.71%) Operational Technology
4 18 (4.68%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.08%) PKI
10 7 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.30%) Taxonomies
12 4 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.86%) Windows
2 6 (1.56%) Linux
3 2 (0.52%) Android
3 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (45.45%) Security Architecture
2 122 (31.69%) Cybersecurity
3 90 (23.38%) Cloud Security
4 88 (22.86%) Threat Modelling
5 71 (18.44%) Zero Trust
6 55 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 51 (13.25%) Identity Access Management
7 51 (13.25%) Risk Management
8 49 (12.73%) SABSA
9 47 (12.21%) SIEM
10 43 (11.17%) Architectural Patterns
10 43 (11.17%) DevSecOps
11 39 (10.13%) Vulnerability Management
12 38 (9.87%) Application Security
12 38 (9.87%) CI/CD
12 38 (9.87%) Incident Response
13 35 (9.09%) Information Security
14 34 (8.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (8.57%) Security Operations
16 31 (8.05%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.60%) Java
2 7 (1.82%) Python
3 4 (1.04%) Bicep
4 3 (0.78%) SQL
5 2 (0.52%) C
5 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
5 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.52%) Swift
6 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.26%) Lisp
6 1 (0.26%) ProC
6 1 (0.26%) RPG
6 1 (0.26%) VB
6 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 101 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 81 (21.04%) CISSP
4 43 (11.17%) CISM
5 42 (10.91%) DV Cleared
6 34 (8.83%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (6.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 26 (6.75%) Degree
8 17 (4.42%) CCSP
9 16 (4.16%) AWS Certification
10 14 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (2.34%) GIAC
12 8 (2.08%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.82%) CCNP
13 7 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.82%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.56%) CCIE
15 5 (1.30%) CEH
15 5 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (19.22%) NIST
2 57 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (8.57%) GDPR
4 27 (7.01%) NCSC
5 23 (5.97%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.34%) EU AI Act
7 7 (1.82%) GRC
8 6 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.56%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.56%) QA
9 5 (1.30%) COBIT
10 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.78%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.78%) PSD2
11 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.52%) RMADS
13 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 13 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.04%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.26%) Varnish
3 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (5.97%) Terraform
2 17 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.56%) Ansible
5 3 (0.78%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) Kibana
6 1 (0.26%) logstash
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) Nessus
6 1 (0.26%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 41 (10.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.68%) CyberArk
3 16 (4.16%) BiZZdesign
4 15 (3.90%) Splunk
5 14 (3.64%) Cisco
6 11 (2.86%) Centrify
6 11 (2.86%) Zscaler
7 10 (2.60%) Okta
8 9 (2.34%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.08%) CheckPoint
9 8 (2.08%) Tenable
10 7 (1.82%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.56%) F5
11 6 (1.56%) Google
11 6 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.56%) Sparx
12 5 (1.30%) SAP
12 5 (1.30%) Virgin Media
13 4 (1.04%) Juniper
13 4 (1.04%) Qualys