Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 267 254
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 +99
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 305 268 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.92% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.99% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 172 234
10th Percentile £481 £519 £522
25th Percentile £537 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £741 £775 £761
90th Percentile £788 £824 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £82.75 - £74.63
25th Percentile £85.00 £68.26 £75.02
Median hourly rate £87.50 £73.31 £78.74
Median % change year-on-year +19.36% -6.90% +12.49%
75th Percentile £95.00 £78.36 £84.36
90th Percentile £101.30 - £85.11
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £73.31 £78.74
% change year-on-year +15.95% -6.90% +12.49%

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 28,658 27,111 34,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.91% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,308 16,895 23,809
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,754 870 1,350
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £15.31
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -14 129 £650 -3.70% 30
South East +5 65 £650 +1.96% 31
North of England -14 62 £650 -10.34% 25
Yorkshire -21 33 £544 -22.32% 6
South West +1 24 £650 - 13
North West -28 18 £750 - 17
Midlands -30 14 £675 -3.57% 19
West Midlands -35 12 £675 -3.57% 14
North East - 12 £738 - 2
East of England -10 7 £510 +13.33% 9
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 4
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, 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.

1 141 (46.23%) Security Architecture
2 104 (34.10%) Security Cleared
3 96 (31.48%) AWS
4 95 (31.15%) Cybersecurity
5 92 (30.16%) Azure
6 73 (23.93%) NIST
7 72 (23.61%) Cloud Security
8 69 (22.62%) SC Cleared
9 68 (22.30%) CISSP
10 60 (19.67%) Threat Modelling
11 57 (18.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 52 (17.05%) Microsoft
13 51 (16.72%) Incident Response
14 49 (16.07%) Firewall
14 49 (16.07%) SIEM
15 48 (15.74%) Network Security
16 45 (14.75%) TOGAF
17 44 (14.43%) Zero Trust
18 43 (14.10%) Vulnerability Management
19 41 (13.44%) Identity Access Management
20 38 (12.46%) GCP
21 36 (11.80%) Roadmaps
22 35 (11.48%) CI/CD
22 35 (11.48%) DevSecOps
22 35 (11.48%) GDPR
23 33 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 31 (10.16%) Risk Management
24 31 (10.16%) Security Operations
25 30 (9.84%) SABSA
26 29 (9.51%) CISM

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 14 (4.59%) Confluence
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (31.48%) AWS
2 92 (30.16%) Azure
3 38 (12.46%) GCP
4 21 (6.89%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.93%) SaaS
6 9 (2.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 8 (2.62%) AWS KMS
7 8 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (2.62%) PaaS
8 7 (2.30%) GitHub
8 7 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (1.97%) IaaS
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 49 (16.07%) Firewall
2 48 (15.74%) Network Security
3 11 (3.61%) VPN
4 10 (3.28%) SD-WAN
5 8 (2.62%) NGFW
5 8 (2.62%) WAN
6 7 (2.30%) LAN
7 6 (1.97%) DNS
8 5 (1.64%) IPsec
9 4 (1.31%) BGP
9 4 (1.31%) DHCP
9 4 (1.31%) SSL
9 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.98%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.98%) OSPF
10 3 (0.98%) Skype
10 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.98%) VSAN
11 2 (0.66%) HTTP
11 2 (0.66%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.61%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.33%) GIS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.26%) JIRA
2 5 (1.64%) Git
3 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.66%) GitLab
5 1 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 72 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.36%) Finance
3 35 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.57%) Banking
6 9 (2.95%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.30%) Legal
8 6 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.31%) Military
9 4 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.98%) Electronics
10 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.98%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Police
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.62%) SAML
2 6 (1.97%) OAuth
3 5 (1.64%) OpenID
3 5 (1.64%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.64%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.31%) .NET
4 4 (1.31%) Google JAX
4 4 (1.31%) JAX
4 4 (1.31%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.98%) Kafka
5 3 (0.98%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.66%) Middleware
6 2 (0.66%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.66%) React
7 1 (0.33%) ADO
7 1 (0.33%) JWT
7 1 (0.33%) LDAP
7 1 (0.33%) Node.js
7 1 (0.33%) REST
7 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.20%) Security Posture
3 15 (4.92%) PKI
4 13 (4.26%) Operational Technology
5 12 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (2.95%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.64%) SCADA
10 5 (1.64%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.31%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.61%) Windows
2 7 (2.30%) Linux
3 3 (0.98%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.98%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.66%) Unix
4 2 (0.66%) VMS
4 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (46.23%) Security Architecture
2 95 (31.15%) Cybersecurity
3 72 (23.61%) Cloud Security
4 60 (19.67%) Threat Modelling
5 51 (16.72%) Incident Response
6 49 (16.07%) SIEM
7 45 (14.75%) TOGAF
8 44 (14.43%) Zero Trust
9 43 (14.10%) Vulnerability Management
10 41 (13.44%) Identity Access Management
11 36 (11.80%) Roadmaps
12 35 (11.48%) CI/CD
12 35 (11.48%) DevSecOps
13 33 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (10.16%) Risk Management
14 31 (10.16%) Security Operations
15 30 (9.84%) SABSA
16 28 (9.18%) Information Security
17 27 (8.85%) Architectural Patterns
18 26 (8.52%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.92%) Python
2 11 (3.61%) Java
3 6 (1.97%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.64%) C
4 5 (1.64%) R
5 4 (1.31%) C++
5 4 (1.31%) SQL
6 3 (0.98%) Bash
6 3 (0.98%) Bicep
7 2 (0.66%) PHP
7 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.33%) ProC
Qualifications
1 104 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 69 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 68 (22.30%) CISSP
4 29 (9.51%) CISM
5 26 (8.52%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (7.87%) DV Cleared
7 21 (6.89%) Degree
8 18 (5.90%) AWS Certification
9 16 (5.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (4.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (3.61%) CCSP
12 10 (3.28%) Azure Certification
12 10 (3.28%) CCNP
13 7 (2.30%) CCIE
13 7 (2.30%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.97%) GIAC
15 5 (1.64%) PhD
16 4 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.98%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (23.93%) NIST
2 57 (18.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (11.48%) GDPR
4 27 (8.85%) PCI DSS
5 21 (6.89%) NCSC
6 10 (3.28%) EU AI Act
7 8 (2.62%) PSD2
7 8 (2.62%) QA
8 6 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.97%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.97%) NIST 800
9 4 (1.31%) GRC
9 4 (1.31%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.66%) RMADS
11 2 (0.66%) SOC 1
12 1 (0.33%) COBIT
12 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.62%) Active Directory
1 8 (2.62%) Docker
2 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (6.56%) Terraform
2 17 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.64%) Ansible
5 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.98%) OPNET
5 3 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.66%) SCCM
7 1 (0.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.33%) logstash
7 1 (0.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 52 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.20%) CyberArk
3 18 (5.90%) Splunk
4 14 (4.59%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.61%) BiZZdesign
5 11 (3.61%) Centrify
6 10 (3.28%) Cisco
7 8 (2.62%) Darktrace
7 8 (2.62%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.62%) Zscaler
8 7 (2.30%) Google
8 7 (2.30%) Virgin Media
9 6 (1.97%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.97%) Sparx
9 6 (1.97%) Thycotic
9 6 (1.97%) VMware
10 5 (1.64%) F5
11 4 (1.31%) Oracle
11 4 (1.31%) SAP
12 3 (0.98%) LogRhythm