Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 227 209
Rank change year-on-year -13 -18 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 426 281 415
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.17% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.26% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 188 253
10th Percentile £463 £533 £519
25th Percentile £524 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £763 £741 £780
90th Percentile £838 £800 £849
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -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 38,745 22,260 34,144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.43% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,913 14,671 22,450
10th Percentile £325 £289 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,729 951 2,581
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.27 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.64% -22.46% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.02
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.04% -25.33% -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 5 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 5 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 -40 212 £642 -4.89% 73
South East -14 78 £630 +2.86% 31
North of England -41 57 £701 +5.06% 37
Midlands -21 45 £575 -11.61% 16
North West -9 44 £710 +5.75% 18
West Midlands -27 43 £613 -5.84% 15
South West -45 14 £604 -8.00% 23
Yorkshire -42 11 £650 +18.18% 9
East of England -27 2 £750 - 8
East Midlands - 2 £438 - 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 201 (47.18%) Security Architecture
2 187 (43.90%) Security Cleared
3 150 (35.21%) Cybersecurity
4 115 (27.00%) Threat Modelling
5 113 (26.53%) SC Cleared
6 109 (25.59%) Azure
7 98 (23.00%) Cloud Security
8 95 (22.30%) AWS
9 85 (19.95%) NIST
10 74 (17.37%) Zero Trust
11 73 (17.14%) CISSP
11 73 (17.14%) Network Security
12 62 (14.55%) Architectural Patterns
13 56 (13.15%) DV Cleared
14 54 (12.68%) GCP
14 54 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 54 (12.68%) Risk Management
15 47 (11.03%) Application Security
15 47 (11.03%) TOGAF
16 45 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 43 (10.09%) DevSecOps
18 42 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
19 41 (9.62%) DevOps
19 41 (9.62%) SABSA
20 40 (9.39%) Microsoft
20 40 (9.39%) SIEM
20 40 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 38 (8.92%) CISM
22 37 (8.69%) AI
22 37 (8.69%) Data Protection

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 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.70%) Confluence
3 2 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 109 (25.59%) Azure
2 95 (22.30%) AWS
3 54 (12.68%) GCP
4 26 (6.10%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (2.82%) SaaS
7 8 (1.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 7 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.17%) AWS KMS
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.70%) Apigee
12 3 (0.70%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (0.70%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.70%) GitHub
12 3 (0.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (17.14%) Network Security
2 27 (6.34%) Firewall
3 12 (2.82%) VPN
4 10 (2.35%) WAN
5 9 (2.11%) LAN
6 8 (1.88%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.64%) IPsec
8 5 (1.17%) BGP
8 5 (1.17%) OSPF
9 4 (0.94%) MPLS
9 4 (0.94%) MQTT
9 4 (0.94%) NGFW
10 3 (0.70%) Internet
10 3 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.70%) VLAN
11 2 (0.47%) 4G
11 2 (0.47%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
11 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.47%) Big Data
1 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.23%) Metadata
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Snyk
2 3 (0.70%) JIRA
3 2 (0.47%) GitLab
3 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) AppScan
4 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
General
1 72 (16.90%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.38%) Public Sector
3 49 (11.50%) Finance
4 26 (6.10%) Banking
5 18 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.35%) Legal
9 7 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.94%) Law
12 4 (0.94%) Military
13 3 (0.70%) Retail
14 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.23%) Aviation
15 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.58%) OAuth
2 9 (2.11%) OAuth2
2 9 (2.11%) OpenID
3 7 (1.64%) SAML
4 5 (1.17%) J2EE
4 5 (1.17%) JSP
4 5 (1.17%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.94%) ADO
5 4 (0.94%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (0.94%) JWT
5 4 (0.94%) LDAP
5 4 (0.94%) REST
6 3 (0.70%) Middleware
7 2 (0.47%) .NET
7 2 (0.47%) HTML
7 2 (0.47%) RESTful
8 1 (0.23%) Flask
8 1 (0.23%) JAAS
8 1 (0.23%) JSSE
8 1 (0.23%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.45%) Security Posture
2 33 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 29 (6.81%) Operational Technology
4 20 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.82%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.41%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.94%) CMDB
10 4 (0.94%) Genomics
10 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.94%) SCADA
10 4 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.05%) Windows
2 9 (2.11%) Linux
3 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.94%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.47%) Android
5 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (47.18%) Security Architecture
2 150 (35.21%) Cybersecurity
3 115 (27.00%) Threat Modelling
4 98 (23.00%) Cloud Security
5 74 (17.37%) Zero Trust
6 62 (14.55%) Architectural Patterns
7 54 (12.68%) Risk Management
8 47 (11.03%) Application Security
8 47 (11.03%) TOGAF
9 45 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (10.09%) DevSecOps
11 42 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
12 41 (9.62%) DevOps
12 41 (9.62%) SABSA
13 40 (9.39%) SIEM
13 40 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 37 (8.69%) AI
14 37 (8.69%) Data Protection
15 35 (8.22%) Information Security
15 35 (8.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.82%) Java
2 7 (1.64%) Bicep
3 6 (1.41%) Python
4 5 (1.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.70%) SQL
6 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.47%) Swift
7 1 (0.23%) C
7 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.23%) Lisp
7 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.23%) RPG
7 1 (0.23%) VB
7 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (43.90%) Security Cleared
2 113 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 73 (17.14%) CISSP
4 56 (13.15%) DV Cleared
5 38 (8.92%) CISM
6 30 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (5.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 19 (4.46%) Degree
9 15 (3.52%) CCSP
10 14 (3.29%) AWS Certification
11 13 (3.05%) GIAC
12 9 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (2.11%) CEH
12 9 (2.11%) SANS
13 8 (1.88%) CISA
14 7 (1.64%) OSCP
15 6 (1.41%) Azure Certification
15 6 (1.41%) CCNP
16 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.94%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (19.95%) NIST
2 54 (12.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (8.45%) NCSC
4 24 (5.63%) GDPR
5 16 (3.76%) NIST 800
5 16 (3.76%) PCI DSS
6 11 (2.58%) GRC
7 8 (1.88%) COBIT
8 5 (1.17%) ISO 19650
8 5 (1.17%) JSP 440
8 5 (1.17%) QA
8 5 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.94%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.70%) IFRS
10 3 (0.70%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.70%) RMADS
11 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.23%) KVM
3 1 (0.23%) Varnish
3 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.69%) Terraform
2 14 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.35%) Ansible
4 5 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.70%) QRadar
6 2 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) Nessus
7 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.23%) SCCM
7 1 (0.23%) SELinux
7 1 (0.23%) Suricata
Vendors
1 40 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.69%) Splunk
3 14 (3.29%) Okta
4 10 (2.35%) Cisco
4 10 (2.35%) Google
4 10 (2.35%) Tenable
5 9 (2.11%) Palo Alto
5 9 (2.11%) Zscaler
6 8 (1.88%) Qualys
7 7 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (1.64%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.41%) BiZZdesign
8 6 (1.41%) SAP
9 4 (0.94%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.94%) Rapid7
9 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.70%) LogRhythm
10 3 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.70%) Sparx