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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 227 251
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 508 331 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.18% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.30% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 207 179
10th Percentile £506 £511 £500
25th Percentile £530 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.87%
75th Percentile £750 £769 £780
90th Percentile £850 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile - £86.00 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +14.34% +24.94%
75th Percentile £82.25 £102.75 -
90th Percentile £83.00 £104.40 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year -30.00% +14.34% +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 42,924 25,502 30,456
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.27% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,454 16,440 18,762
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,577 1,399 1,408
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.46 £21.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 September 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 September 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 -9 269 £625 -7.41% 235
South East -9 110 £630 +5.00% 71
North of England -69 51 £600 -16.20% 28
North West -35 38 £600 -16.35% 23
Midlands -35 29 £638 -5.56% 34
South West -41 29 £600 -7.69% 40
West Midlands -34 28 £638 -13.56% 29
Yorkshire -41 10 £350 -44.00% 3
East of England -31 6 £625 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -16 1 - - 5
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 260 (51.18%) Security Architecture
2 249 (49.02%) Security Cleared
3 191 (37.60%) Cybersecurity
4 162 (31.89%) SC Cleared
5 139 (27.36%) Azure
6 129 (25.39%) Cloud Security
7 121 (23.82%) Threat Modelling
8 115 (22.64%) AWS
9 107 (21.06%) NIST
10 96 (18.90%) CISSP
11 87 (17.13%) DV Cleared
12 84 (16.54%) Risk Management
13 74 (14.57%) TOGAF
14 72 (14.17%) AI
14 72 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 71 (13.98%) Zero Trust
16 70 (13.78%) Architectural Patterns
17 68 (13.39%) Identity Access Management
17 68 (13.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 67 (13.19%) Network Security
19 61 (12.01%) Roadmaps
20 59 (11.61%) Microsoft
21 57 (11.22%) NCSC
22 55 (10.83%) DevSecOps
22 55 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 54 (10.63%) GCP
24 51 (10.04%) Information Security
25 50 (9.84%) CI/CD
26 49 (9.65%) CISM
27 48 (9.45%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (0.98%) IIS
2 2 (0.39%) SAS
2 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.20%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (27.36%) Azure
2 115 (22.64%) AWS
3 54 (10.63%) GCP
4 24 (4.72%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.15%) SaaS
6 12 (2.36%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.98%) AWS KMS
8 5 (0.98%) Azure AI
8 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (0.98%) OCI
9 4 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.79%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (0.79%) GitHub
9 4 (0.79%) Vertex AI
10 3 (0.59%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 67 (13.19%) Network Security
2 37 (7.28%) Firewall
3 12 (2.36%) WAN
4 11 (2.17%) VPN
5 8 (1.57%) VLAN
6 6 (1.18%) 4G
6 6 (1.18%) IPsec
6 6 (1.18%) NGFW
6 6 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.79%) 5G
7 4 (0.79%) BGP
7 4 (0.79%) LAN
7 4 (0.79%) OSPF
7 4 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.59%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.59%) EIGRP
8 3 (0.59%) SSL
9 2 (0.39%) DHCP
9 2 (0.39%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.20%) Metadata
2 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (1.77%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.98%) JIRA
3 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 88 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 63 (12.40%) Public Sector
3 44 (8.66%) Finance
4 25 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
5 24 (4.72%) Banking
6 18 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.15%) Legal
8 15 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.97%) Military
11 8 (1.57%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.57%) Law
11 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.38%) Police
13 5 (0.98%) Retail
14 4 (0.79%) Local Government
14 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.94%) Terraform
2 12 (2.36%) OAuth
3 8 (1.57%) OpenID
3 8 (1.57%) REST
3 8 (1.57%) SAML
4 7 (1.38%) ModSecurity
5 6 (1.18%) LDAP
5 6 (1.18%) OAuth2
5 6 (1.18%) SLSA
6 4 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
7 3 (0.59%) HTML
7 3 (0.59%) LangChain
7 3 (0.59%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.59%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.39%) .NET
8 2 (0.39%) EDI
8 2 (0.39%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (0.39%) JSP
8 2 (0.39%) JWT
9 1 (0.20%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.86%) Security Posture
3 24 (4.72%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.33%) Operational Technology
5 18 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
6 16 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.97%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.57%) PKI
11 7 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.79%) CMDB
14 4 (0.79%) Cyberattack
14 4 (0.79%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.36%) Linux
2 10 (1.97%) Windows
3 9 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.79%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (51.18%) Security Architecture
2 191 (37.60%) Cybersecurity
3 129 (25.39%) Cloud Security
4 121 (23.82%) Threat Modelling
5 84 (16.54%) Risk Management
6 74 (14.57%) TOGAF
7 72 (14.17%) AI
7 72 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 71 (13.98%) Zero Trust
9 70 (13.78%) Architectural Patterns
10 68 (13.39%) Identity Access Management
11 61 (12.01%) Roadmaps
12 55 (10.83%) DevSecOps
12 55 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 51 (10.04%) Information Security
14 50 (9.84%) CI/CD
15 48 (9.45%) Enterprise Architecture
15 48 (9.45%) Vulnerability Management
16 47 (9.25%) SABSA
17 44 (8.66%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (3.35%) Python
2 9 (1.77%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.38%) Java
4 6 (1.18%) Bicep
5 5 (0.98%) Groovy
5 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.59%) Bash
6 3 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.39%) SQL
8 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 249 (49.02%) Security Cleared
2 162 (31.89%) SC Cleared
3 96 (18.90%) CISSP
4 87 (17.13%) DV Cleared
5 49 (9.65%) CISM
6 33 (6.50%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (5.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (4.33%) AWS Certification
8 22 (4.33%) Degree
9 21 (4.13%) CCSP
10 20 (3.94%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (2.36%) CISA
12 10 (1.97%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.57%) CEH
13 8 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (1.57%) CRISC
13 8 (1.57%) ISSAP
13 8 (1.57%) SANS
14 7 (1.38%) GIAC
15 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (21.06%) NIST
2 68 (13.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (11.22%) NCSC
4 25 (4.92%) GRC
5 22 (4.33%) GDPR
6 21 (4.13%) NIST 800
7 17 (3.35%) PCI DSS
8 12 (2.36%) JSP 440
9 10 (1.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (1.77%) Government Security Classifications
10 9 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 6 (1.18%) ISO 19650
13 5 (0.98%) COBIT
13 5 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.79%) ISO 31000
14 4 (0.79%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 13 (2.56%) Docker
2 7 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.79%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.56%) Ansible
3 7 (1.38%) CASB
4 6 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.79%) QRadar
6 3 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.39%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.20%) Suricata
Vendors
1 59 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.12%) Google
3 21 (4.13%) Cisco
4 16 (3.15%) Palo Alto
4 16 (3.15%) Splunk
5 13 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
6 11 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 9 (1.77%) Qualys
7 9 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.57%) F5
8 8 (1.57%) Tenable
8 8 (1.57%) VMware
9 6 (1.18%) IFS
9 6 (1.18%) Zscaler
10 5 (0.98%) CyberArk
10 5 (0.98%) Juniper
10 5 (0.98%) Okta
11 4 (0.79%) Centrify
11 4 (0.79%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.79%) Tripwire