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 16 February 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 255 237
Rank change year-on-year -29 -18 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 307 256 375
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 0.99% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.07% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 183 231
10th Percentile £461 £550 £519
25th Percentile £513 £608 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £725 £750 £784
90th Percentile £788 £810 £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 31,201 23,999 35,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 93.03% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,793 14,993 23,712
10th Percentile £300 £296 £275
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 697 2,128
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.23 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.53
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -5.74%

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 16 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 16 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 -26 148 £644 -4.63% 44
South East -16 54 £650 +4.00% 31
North of England -29 53 £600 -11.76% 12
Yorkshire -32 33 £531 -20.15% 2
Midlands -38 28 £675 -3.57% 13
West Midlands -37 24 £675 -3.57% 12
North West -25 18 £700 +2.98% 8
South West -34 10 £575 -7.07% 9
East of England -18 5 £520 - 2
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 1
North East - 2 £545 - 2
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 133 (43.32%) Security Architecture
2 123 (40.07%) Security Cleared
3 105 (34.20%) Cybersecurity
4 87 (28.34%) Azure
5 86 (28.01%) SC Cleared
6 76 (24.76%) AWS
7 70 (22.80%) Threat Modelling
8 67 (21.82%) Cloud Security
9 65 (21.17%) NIST
10 62 (20.20%) CISSP
10 62 (20.20%) Network Security
10 62 (20.20%) Zero Trust
11 51 (16.61%) TOGAF
12 47 (15.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 46 (14.98%) Identity Access Management
14 45 (14.66%) Incident Response
15 44 (14.33%) Firewall
16 41 (13.36%) Microsoft
17 40 (13.03%) Vulnerability Management
18 39 (12.70%) Risk Management
19 37 (12.05%) GCP
19 37 (12.05%) SABSA
20 36 (11.73%) SIEM
21 34 (11.07%) DevSecOps
22 33 (10.75%) CISM
23 30 (9.77%) CI/CD
23 30 (9.77%) DV Cleared
23 30 (9.77%) Network Segmentation
24 29 (9.45%) Architectural Patterns
25 28 (9.12%) 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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.65%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (28.34%) Azure
2 76 (24.76%) AWS
3 37 (12.05%) GCP
4 20 (6.51%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 9 (2.93%) SaaS
7 8 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.28%) AWS KMS
8 7 (2.28%) GitHub
8 7 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.95%) PaaS
10 5 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.30%) Akamai
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.30%) IaaS
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (20.20%) Network Security
2 44 (14.33%) Firewall
3 19 (6.19%) VPN
4 15 (4.89%) WAN
5 12 (3.91%) LAN
6 10 (3.26%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.61%) NGFW
8 7 (2.28%) DNS
9 6 (1.95%) BGP
9 6 (1.95%) OSPF
10 5 (1.63%) IPsec
11 4 (1.30%) DHCP
12 3 (0.98%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.98%) MPLS
12 3 (0.98%) MQTT
12 3 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.98%) SSL
12 3 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 2 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.56%) JIRA
2 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.98%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) AppScan
4 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Metasploit
General
1 55 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 44 (14.33%) Finance
3 40 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.56%) Banking
5 13 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Legal
8 5 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Law
11 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.58%) SAML
2 9 (2.93%) OAuth
3 8 (2.61%) OpenID
4 6 (1.95%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.30%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.98%) ADO
7 2 (0.65%) .NET
7 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.65%) JWT
7 2 (0.65%) Kafka
7 2 (0.65%) LDAP
7 2 (0.65%) Middleware
8 1 (0.33%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.33%) Flask
8 1 (0.33%) J2EE
8 1 (0.33%) JAAS
8 1 (0.33%) JSP
8 1 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.33%) React
8 1 (0.33%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.54%) Operational Technology
3 15 (4.89%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.56%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.58%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.26%) PKI
8 9 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.61%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.63%) NHS
11 5 (1.63%) SCADA
11 5 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.63%) Taxonomies
12 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.91%) Windows
2 8 (2.61%) Linux
3 2 (0.65%) Android
3 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.65%) Unix
3 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (43.32%) Security Architecture
2 105 (34.20%) Cybersecurity
3 70 (22.80%) Threat Modelling
4 67 (21.82%) Cloud Security
5 62 (20.20%) Zero Trust
6 51 (16.61%) TOGAF
7 46 (14.98%) Identity Access Management
8 45 (14.66%) Incident Response
9 40 (13.03%) Vulnerability Management
10 39 (12.70%) Risk Management
11 37 (12.05%) SABSA
12 36 (11.73%) SIEM
13 34 (11.07%) DevSecOps
14 30 (9.77%) CI/CD
14 30 (9.77%) Network Segmentation
15 29 (9.45%) Architectural Patterns
16 26 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 24 (7.82%) Information Security
17 24 (7.82%) Migration
18 23 (7.49%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.61%) Java
1 8 (2.61%) Python
2 3 (0.98%) Bicep
2 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
2 3 (0.98%) SQL
3 2 (0.65%) C
3 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
3 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.65%) Swift
4 1 (0.33%) Bash
4 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.33%) Lisp
4 1 (0.33%) ProC
4 1 (0.33%) R
4 1 (0.33%) RPG
4 1 (0.33%) VB
4 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 123 (40.07%) Security Cleared
2 86 (28.01%) SC Cleared
3 62 (20.20%) CISSP
4 33 (10.75%) CISM
5 30 (9.77%) DV Cleared
6 24 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (7.82%) Degree
7 16 (5.21%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 13 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 11 (3.58%) CCSP
11 10 (3.26%) CCNP
12 8 (2.61%) CCIE
13 7 (2.28%) Azure Certification
13 7 (2.28%) GIAC
13 7 (2.28%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.63%) PhD
16 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (21.17%) NIST
2 47 (15.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (9.12%) GDPR
4 24 (7.82%) NCSC
5 18 (5.86%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.28%) EU AI Act
7 7 (2.28%) GRC
8 5 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.98%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.98%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.98%) PSD2
9 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.65%) COBIT
10 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.65%) QA
10 2 (0.65%) RMADS
11 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 11 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.30%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (7.82%) Terraform
2 12 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.61%) Ansible
4 7 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.98%) SCCM
6 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) logstash
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) Nessus
7 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 41 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.17%) CyberArk
3 17 (5.54%) Splunk
4 15 (4.89%) BiZZdesign
5 14 (4.56%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.23%) Cisco
7 11 (3.58%) Centrify
7 11 (3.58%) Zscaler
8 10 (3.26%) CheckPoint
9 8 (2.61%) Fortinet
10 7 (2.28%) F5
10 7 (2.28%) Google
10 7 (2.28%) Virgin Media
11 6 (1.95%) Sparx
12 5 (1.63%) Darktrace
13 4 (1.30%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.30%) Juniper
13 4 (1.30%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.30%) Tenable
13 4 (1.30%) Thycotic