Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 242 212
Rank change year-on-year +6 -30 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 330 327 499
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.19% 0.99% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.07% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 192 351
10th Percentile £508 £500 £513
25th Percentile £600 £613 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £680
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -1.09%
75th Percentile £773 £775 £750
90th Percentile £800 £836 £823
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 17
10th Percentile £86.00 £81.83 £65.00
25th Percentile £91.25 £84.67 -
Median hourly rate £100.00 £87.46 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% +24.94% -
75th Percentile £102.75 - £75.67
90th Percentile £104.40 - £81.24
UK median hourly rate £100.00 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.34% +24.94% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,406 30,639 39,817
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 92.99% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,389 19,101 27,778
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,479 1,365
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.81 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect 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 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architect 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 September 2025. 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 +10 167 £675 -6.90% 20
South East +7 48 £600 -7.69% 18
North of England -25 48 £717 +3.95% 11
South West +22 31 £650 +4.00% 12
North West -17 29 £717 +4.33% 5
Midlands -1 21 £663 -15.61% 2
West Midlands +7 20 £675 -10.00% 2
North East - 11 £750 -
Yorkshire -16 9 £600 -13.04% 6
East of England 0 3 £500 +11.11% 3
East Midlands -6 1 £500 -39.21%
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 155 (46.97%) Security Architecture
2 117 (35.45%) Cybersecurity
3 111 (33.64%) AWS
4 101 (30.61%) Security Cleared
5 96 (29.09%) Azure
6 89 (26.97%) NIST
7 84 (25.45%) Cloud Security
8 73 (22.12%) Social Skills
9 70 (21.21%) SIEM
9 70 (21.21%) SC Cleared
10 69 (20.91%) Threat Modelling
11 67 (20.30%) Finance
12 66 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 65 (19.70%) CISSP
14 56 (16.97%) GCP
15 54 (16.36%) Microsoft
15 54 (16.36%) Firewall
15 54 (16.36%) Network Security
16 48 (14.55%) Public Sector
17 42 (12.73%) Vulnerability Management
17 42 (12.73%) GDPR
18 41 (12.42%) Identity Access Management
19 40 (12.12%) Application Security
20 39 (11.82%) Security Operations
20 39 (11.82%) Roadmaps
21 38 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
21 38 (11.52%) Risk Management
22 37 (11.21%) Incident Response
23 35 (10.61%) Splunk
24 34 (10.30%) Information Security

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.03%) Confluence
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.30%) SAS
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (33.64%) AWS
2 96 (29.09%) Azure
3 56 (16.97%) GCP
4 33 (10.00%) SaaS
5 20 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 19 (5.76%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (4.24%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (2.12%) IaaS
9 7 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.52%) Akamai
11 5 (1.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.52%) GitHub
12 4 (1.21%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (1.21%) AWS KMS
12 4 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 54 (16.36%) Firewall
1 54 (16.36%) Network Security
2 11 (3.33%) VPN
3 8 (2.42%) DNS
3 8 (2.42%) SD-WAN
4 7 (2.12%) NGFW
5 5 (1.52%) WAN
6 4 (1.21%) HTTP
6 4 (1.21%) LAN
6 4 (1.21%) VSAN
7 3 (0.91%) IPsec
7 3 (0.91%) Skype
7 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.61%) DMZ
8 2 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.61%) SAN
8 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.64%) MongoDB
2 11 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.82%) GIS
4 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.30%) Metadata
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (3.33%) JIRA
2 6 (1.82%) Git
3 4 (1.21%) GitLab
3 4 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) MLflow
General
1 73 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 67 (20.30%) Finance
3 48 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.79%) Banking
5 24 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.33%) Military
8 10 (3.03%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.73%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.73%) Legal
10 7 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.82%) Marketing
12 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.91%) Electronics
14 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.61%) Law
14 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.82%) SailPoint
2 5 (1.52%) .NET
2 5 (1.52%) PyTorch
2 5 (1.52%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.21%) Google JAX
3 4 (1.21%) JAX
3 4 (1.21%) React
3 4 (1.21%) scikit-learn
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Axis
4 3 (0.91%) ModSecurity
4 3 (0.91%) OAuth
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.61%) Kafka
5 2 (0.61%) OpenID
5 2 (0.61%) SAML
5 2 (0.61%) Web Services
6 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.30%) Node.js
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.30%) Security Posture
2 27 (8.18%) Security Operations Centre
3 26 (7.88%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.67%) CSOC
5 17 (5.15%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.55%) Operational Technology
6 15 (4.55%) PKI
7 13 (3.94%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.64%) Data Centre
9 11 (3.33%) SCADA
10 10 (3.03%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (2.42%) Algorithms
13 7 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (2.12%) Cyberattack
14 6 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
14 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.97%) Windows
2 12 (3.64%) Linux
2 12 (3.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.21%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.91%) Unix
4 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.61%) VMS
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (46.97%) Security Architecture
2 117 (35.45%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (25.45%) Cloud Security
4 70 (21.21%) SIEM
5 69 (20.91%) Threat Modelling
6 42 (12.73%) Vulnerability Management
7 41 (12.42%) Identity Access Management
8 40 (12.12%) Application Security
9 39 (11.82%) Roadmaps
9 39 (11.82%) Security Operations
10 38 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (11.52%) Risk Management
11 37 (11.21%) Incident Response
12 34 (10.30%) Information Security
13 32 (9.70%) DevSecOps
14 30 (9.09%) Use Case
14 30 (9.09%) Zero Trust
15 29 (8.79%) DevOps
16 28 (8.48%) SOAR
17 27 (8.18%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.45%) Python
2 13 (3.94%) Java
3 9 (2.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.82%) Bash
4 6 (1.82%) SQL
5 5 (1.52%) R
6 4 (1.21%) C++
6 4 (1.21%) PHP
6 4 (1.21%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.91%) C
7 3 (0.91%) C#
8 2 (0.61%) Bicep
8 2 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 101 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 70 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 65 (19.70%) CISSP
4 28 (8.48%) CISM
5 24 (7.27%) DV Cleared
6 23 (6.97%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (3.64%) Degree
9 11 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.33%) GIAC
10 8 (2.42%) CCSP
11 7 (2.12%) CISA
12 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.82%) CCNP
13 5 (1.52%) CCIE
14 4 (1.21%) CEH
14 4 (1.21%) SANS
15 3 (0.91%) CCSA
15 3 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.91%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (26.97%) NIST
2 66 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (12.73%) GDPR
4 29 (8.79%) PCI DSS
5 20 (6.06%) NCSC
6 10 (3.03%) GRC
6 10 (3.03%) HIPAA
7 8 (2.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 8 (2.42%) NIST 800
8 7 (2.12%) QA
9 6 (1.82%) EU AI Act
9 6 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.52%) PSD2
11 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (1.21%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.61%) SOC 1
System Software
1 17 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.52%) Docker
3 4 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.33%) Terraform
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.21%) OPNET
4 4 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.91%) Ansible
5 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.61%) SCCM
6 2 (0.61%) SELinux
7 1 (0.30%) CASB
7 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.30%) Puppet
7 1 (0.30%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 54 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.61%) Splunk
3 16 (4.85%) Google
4 14 (4.24%) CyberArk
5 11 (3.33%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.03%) Cisco
6 10 (3.03%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.12%) Darktrace
7 7 (2.12%) Oracle
7 7 (2.12%) Zscaler
8 6 (1.82%) ESRI
8 6 (1.82%) F5
9 5 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.52%) SAP
9 5 (1.52%) Tufin
9 5 (1.52%) VMware
10 4 (1.21%) AlgoSec
10 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.91%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.91%) Sparx