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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 230 211
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 427 275 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.15% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.24% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 184 256
10th Percentile £463 £540 £519
25th Percentile £525 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £673 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -3.86% -
75th Percentile £761 £741 £780
90th Percentile £838 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £628 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.04% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile - £69.68 £81.86
25th Percentile - £71.82 £81.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £79.16 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -9.50% +24.94%
75th Percentile £83.25 £85.22 £87.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £86.59 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £79.16 £87.46
% change year-on-year +4.86% -9.50% +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 38,613 22,095 34,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 14,635 22,555
10th Percentile £322 £294 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,705 913 2,522
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -22.48% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -32 215 £634 -6.07% 31
South East -2 77 £633 +3.27% 27
North of England -31 59 £700 +7.73% 23
North West -2 45 £707 +6.06% 13
Midlands -31 42 £600 -7.76% 7
West Midlands -35 40 £625 -3.92% 7
South West -45 14 £604 -8.00% 7
Yorkshire -44 12 £650 +18.18% 4
East Midlands - 2 £438 -
East of England - 2 £750 - 3
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 (47.07%) Security Architecture
2 187 (43.79%) Security Cleared
3 148 (34.66%) Cybersecurity
4 114 (26.70%) SC Cleared
5 113 (26.46%) Threat Modelling
6 111 (26.00%) Azure
7 97 (22.72%) Cloud Security
8 95 (22.25%) AWS
9 84 (19.67%) NIST
10 75 (17.56%) Zero Trust
11 73 (17.10%) CISSP
12 72 (16.86%) Network Security
13 61 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
14 57 (13.35%) DV Cleared
15 55 (12.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 54 (12.65%) GCP
16 54 (12.65%) Risk Management
17 50 (11.71%) TOGAF
18 46 (10.77%) Application Security
19 45 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
20 43 (10.07%) DevSecOps
20 43 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
20 43 (10.07%) SABSA
21 41 (9.60%) Microsoft
21 41 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 40 (9.37%) SIEM
23 39 (9.13%) DevOps
24 38 (8.90%) CISM
25 37 (8.67%) Data Protection
25 37 (8.67%) Information Security

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 6 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.17%) 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 6 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.23%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (26.00%) Azure
2 95 (22.25%) AWS
3 54 (12.65%) GCP
4 28 (6.56%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (2.81%) SaaS
7 9 (2.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 8 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.41%) AWS KMS
9 6 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.17%) 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 72 (16.86%) Network Security
2 28 (6.56%) Firewall
3 13 (3.04%) VPN
4 11 (2.58%) WAN
5 10 (2.34%) LAN
6 9 (2.11%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.64%) IPsec
8 6 (1.41%) BGP
8 6 (1.41%) OSPF
9 4 (0.94%) MPLS
9 4 (0.94%) MQTT
9 4 (0.94%) NGFW
10 3 (0.70%) BIG-IP
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%) 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%) JIRA
1 4 (0.94%) Snyk
2 2 (0.47%) GitLab
2 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) AppScan
3 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.23%) Metasploit
General
1 69 (16.16%) Social Skills
2 58 (13.58%) Public Sector
3 49 (11.48%) Finance
4 26 (6.09%) Banking
5 18 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.34%) 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 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.47%) Retail
13 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.23%) Aviation
14 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
14 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
6 3 (0.70%) Middleware
6 3 (0.70%) REST
7 2 (0.47%) .NET
8 1 (0.23%) Flask
8 1 (0.23%) HTML
8 1 (0.23%) JAAS
8 1 (0.23%) JSSE
8 1 (0.23%) RESTful
8 1 (0.23%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.96%) Security Posture
3 28 (6.56%) Operational Technology
4 20 (4.68%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.81%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.17%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.94%) CMDB
12 4 (0.94%) Genomics
12 4 (0.94%) SCADA
12 4 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.28%) 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 (47.07%) Security Architecture
2 148 (34.66%) Cybersecurity
3 113 (26.46%) Threat Modelling
4 97 (22.72%) Cloud Security
5 75 (17.56%) Zero Trust
6 61 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 54 (12.65%) Risk Management
8 50 (11.71%) TOGAF
9 46 (10.77%) Application Security
10 45 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (10.07%) DevSecOps
11 43 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
11 43 (10.07%) SABSA
12 41 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (9.37%) SIEM
14 39 (9.13%) DevOps
15 37 (8.67%) Data Protection
15 37 (8.67%) Information Security
15 37 (8.67%) Vulnerability Management
16 36 (8.43%) AI
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.58%) Java
2 7 (1.64%) Bicep
2 7 (1.64%) Python
3 5 (1.17%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.70%) SQL
5 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
5 2 (0.47%) Swift
6 1 (0.23%) C
6 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.23%) Lisp
6 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.23%) RPG
6 1 (0.23%) VB
6 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (43.79%) Security Cleared
2 114 (26.70%) SC Cleared
3 73 (17.10%) CISSP
4 57 (13.35%) DV Cleared
5 38 (8.90%) CISM
6 30 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (5.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (4.68%) Degree
9 14 (3.28%) AWS Certification
9 14 (3.28%) CCSP
10 13 (3.04%) GIAC
11 9 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.11%) SANS
12 8 (1.87%) CEH
12 8 (1.87%) CISA
13 7 (1.64%) CCNP
14 6 (1.41%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.41%) OSCP
15 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (19.67%) NIST
2 55 (12.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (8.43%) NCSC
4 24 (5.62%) GDPR
5 15 (3.51%) NIST 800
6 14 (3.28%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.58%) GRC
8 7 (1.64%) COBIT
9 5 (1.17%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.17%) QA
9 5 (1.17%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.94%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.70%) IFRS
11 3 (0.70%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.70%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.70%) RMADS
12 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (3.75%) 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 22 (5.15%) Terraform
2 14 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.58%) 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 41 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.68%) Splunk
3 14 (3.28%) Okta
4 11 (2.58%) Cisco
5 10 (2.34%) Google
5 10 (2.34%) Tenable
5 10 (2.34%) Zscaler
6 9 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.87%) CyberArk
7 8 (1.87%) Qualys
8 7 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
8 7 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.41%) SAP
10 5 (1.17%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.94%) F5
11 4 (0.94%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.94%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.70%) Juniper
12 3 (0.70%) Salesforce