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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 253 237
Rank change year-on-year -27 -16 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 320 266 371
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 1.03% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.10% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 192 228
10th Percentile £461 £550 £519
25th Percentile £513 £612 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £738 £750 £782
90th Percentile £788 £825 £888
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 - £78.88
25th Percentile £84.06 £68.26 £81.88
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 31,870 24,101 34,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 93.03% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,212 15,168 23,324
10th Percentile £303 £296 £270
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -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 2,043 704 2,142
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.24 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £31.18 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.31% -2.86% -9.09%

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 19 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 19 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 -38 151 £644 -4.63% 50
North of England -38 56 £600 -11.76% 13
South East -13 55 £650 +4.00% 34
Yorkshire -31 33 £531 -20.15% 1
Midlands -49 33 £675 -3.57% 15
West Midlands -46 29 £675 -3.57% 13
North West -20 21 £700 +2.98% 8
South West -31 11 £588 -7.84% 7
East of England -21 5 £520 -
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 2
North East - 2 £545 - 4
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 140 (43.75%) Security Architecture
2 128 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 105 (32.81%) Cybersecurity
4 88 (27.50%) Azure
5 87 (27.19%) SC Cleared
6 78 (24.38%) AWS
7 70 (21.88%) Threat Modelling
8 69 (21.56%) Cloud Security
9 65 (20.31%) Network Security
9 65 (20.31%) NIST
10 64 (20.00%) CISSP
11 62 (19.38%) Zero Trust
12 51 (15.94%) TOGAF
13 48 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 46 (14.38%) Identity Access Management
14 46 (14.38%) Incident Response
15 45 (14.06%) Firewall
16 44 (13.75%) Microsoft
17 42 (13.13%) Risk Management
18 41 (12.81%) SIEM
19 40 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
20 37 (11.56%) GCP
20 37 (11.56%) SABSA
21 34 (10.63%) DevSecOps
22 33 (10.31%) CISM
23 32 (10.00%) DV Cleared
24 30 (9.38%) CI/CD
24 30 (9.38%) Network Segmentation
25 29 (9.06%) Architectural Patterns
26 28 (8.75%) 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 16 (5.00%) Confluence
2 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (27.50%) Azure
2 78 (24.38%) AWS
3 37 (11.56%) GCP
4 20 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 9 (2.81%) SaaS
7 8 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.19%) AWS KMS
8 7 (2.19%) GitHub
8 7 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.88%) PaaS
10 5 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.25%) Akamai
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.25%) IaaS
12 3 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 65 (20.31%) Network Security
2 45 (14.06%) Firewall
3 19 (5.94%) VPN
4 15 (4.69%) WAN
5 12 (3.75%) LAN
6 10 (3.13%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.50%) NGFW
8 7 (2.19%) DNS
9 6 (1.88%) BGP
9 6 (1.88%) OSPF
10 5 (1.56%) IPsec
11 4 (1.25%) DHCP
12 3 (0.94%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.94%) MPLS
12 3 (0.94%) MQTT
12 3 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.94%) SSL
12 3 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.38%) JIRA
2 4 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.94%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) AppScan
4 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.31%) Git
4 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
General
1 57 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 47 (14.69%) Finance
3 43 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.00%) Banking
5 13 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.50%) Legal
8 7 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Law
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.31%) Military
13 1 (0.31%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.44%) SAML
2 9 (2.81%) OAuth
3 8 (2.50%) OpenID
4 6 (1.88%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.25%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.94%) ADO
7 2 (0.63%) .NET
7 2 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.63%) JWT
7 2 (0.63%) Kafka
7 2 (0.63%) LDAP
7 2 (0.63%) Middleware
8 1 (0.31%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.31%) Flask
8 1 (0.31%) J2EE
8 1 (0.31%) JAAS
8 1 (0.31%) JSP
8 1 (0.31%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.31%) React
8 1 (0.31%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.63%) Operational Technology
3 15 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.06%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 12 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.13%) PKI
8 9 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.50%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.56%) NHS
11 5 (1.56%) SCADA
11 5 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.56%) Taxonomies
12 4 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.75%) Windows
2 8 (2.50%) Linux
3 2 (0.63%) Android
3 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.63%) Unix
3 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (43.75%) Security Architecture
2 105 (32.81%) Cybersecurity
3 70 (21.88%) Threat Modelling
4 69 (21.56%) Cloud Security
5 62 (19.38%) Zero Trust
6 51 (15.94%) TOGAF
7 46 (14.38%) Identity Access Management
7 46 (14.38%) Incident Response
8 42 (13.13%) Risk Management
9 41 (12.81%) SIEM
10 40 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
11 37 (11.56%) SABSA
12 34 (10.63%) DevSecOps
13 30 (9.38%) CI/CD
13 30 (9.38%) Network Segmentation
14 29 (9.06%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (8.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (8.13%) Application Security
16 26 (8.13%) Information Security
16 26 (8.13%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.50%) Java
1 8 (2.50%) Python
2 3 (0.94%) Bicep
2 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
2 3 (0.94%) SQL
3 2 (0.63%) C
3 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
3 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.63%) Swift
4 1 (0.31%) Bash
4 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.31%) Lisp
4 1 (0.31%) ProC
4 1 (0.31%) R
4 1 (0.31%) RPG
4 1 (0.31%) VB
4 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 128 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 64 (20.00%) CISSP
4 33 (10.31%) CISM
5 32 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 24 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (7.50%) Degree
7 16 (5.00%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 13 (4.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 11 (3.44%) CCSP
11 10 (3.13%) CCNP
12 8 (2.50%) CCIE
13 7 (2.19%) Azure Certification
13 7 (2.19%) GIAC
13 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.56%) PhD
16 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (20.31%) NIST
2 48 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (8.75%) GDPR
4 25 (7.81%) NCSC
5 19 (5.94%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.19%) EU AI Act
7 7 (2.19%) GRC
8 5 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.25%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.94%) COBIT
10 3 (0.94%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.94%) PSD2
10 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.63%) QA
11 2 (0.63%) RMADS
12 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (3.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (7.50%) Terraform
2 12 (3.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.50%) Ansible
4 7 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.94%) SCCM
6 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Kibana
7 1 (0.31%) logstash
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) Nessus
7 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.31%) SELinux
Vendors
1 44 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.88%) CyberArk
3 17 (5.31%) Splunk
4 15 (4.69%) BiZZdesign
5 13 (4.06%) Cisco
5 13 (4.06%) Palo Alto
6 11 (3.44%) Centrify
6 11 (3.44%) Zscaler
7 10 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 7 (2.19%) F5
8 7 (2.19%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.19%) Google
8 7 (2.19%) Virgin Media
9 6 (1.88%) Sparx
10 5 (1.56%) Darktrace
11 4 (1.25%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.25%) Juniper
11 4 (1.25%) Okta
11 4 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.25%) Thycotic