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 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 247 238
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 340 256 363
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 0.99% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.07% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 190 221
10th Percentile £461 £550 £519
25th Percentile £513 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £738 £750 £788
90th Percentile £788 £826 £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 32,499 23,947 34,620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.94% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,614 15,190 23,219
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £411 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £640
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 2,088 723 2,142
10th Percentile £15.06 £16.25 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.89 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £34.38 £36.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +6.18% -14.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.20 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% - -10.26%

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 26 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 26 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 -7 158 £648 -4.07% 53
South East -13 60 £650 +4.00% 35
North of England -22 58 £600 -10.28% 15
Midlands -32 37 £650 -7.14% 16
West Midlands -34 33 £675 -3.57% 12
Yorkshire -37 32 £525 -21.05% 1
North West -17 24 £700 +4.71% 12
South West -39 11 £588 -9.62% 9
East of England -14 6 £520 -
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 4
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 26 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.

1 146 (42.94%) Security Architecture
2 137 (40.29%) Security Cleared
3 107 (31.47%) Cybersecurity
4 93 (27.35%) Azure
5 90 (26.47%) SC Cleared
6 85 (25.00%) AWS
7 74 (21.76%) Cloud Security
8 71 (20.88%) Threat Modelling
9 69 (20.29%) CISSP
9 69 (20.29%) Network Security
10 66 (19.41%) NIST
11 65 (19.12%) Zero Trust
12 54 (15.88%) Identity Access Management
12 54 (15.88%) TOGAF
13 49 (14.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 46 (13.53%) Firewall
14 46 (13.53%) SIEM
15 45 (13.24%) Incident Response
15 45 (13.24%) Microsoft
15 45 (13.24%) Risk Management
16 42 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
17 39 (11.47%) DevSecOps
17 39 (11.47%) GCP
18 38 (11.18%) CISM
19 37 (10.88%) SABSA
20 35 (10.29%) DV Cleared
21 34 (10.00%) CI/CD
22 31 (9.12%) Network Segmentation
23 30 (8.82%) Application Security
23 30 (8.82%) Architectural Patterns

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 (4.71%) Confluence
2 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 93 (27.35%) Azure
2 85 (25.00%) AWS
3 39 (11.47%) GCP
4 26 (7.65%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 11 (3.24%) SaaS
7 9 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.35%) AWS KMS
8 8 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.06%) GitHub
10 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.76%) PaaS
10 6 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.18%) Akamai
12 4 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.18%) IaaS
13 3 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 69 (20.29%) Network Security
2 46 (13.53%) Firewall
3 19 (5.59%) VPN
4 15 (4.41%) WAN
5 12 (3.53%) LAN
6 11 (3.24%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.35%) NGFW
8 7 (2.06%) DNS
9 6 (1.76%) BGP
9 6 (1.76%) IPsec
9 6 (1.76%) OSPF
10 4 (1.18%) DHCP
10 4 (1.18%) MQTT
11 3 (0.88%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.88%) MPLS
11 3 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.88%) SSL
11 3 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (4.12%) JIRA
2 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.88%) GitLab
3 3 (0.88%) Snyk
4 1 (0.29%) AppScan
4 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.29%) Git
4 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
General
1 61 (17.94%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.71%) Finance
3 48 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.00%) Banking
5 13 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.35%) Legal
7 7 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.06%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.88%) Law
10 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.24%) SAML
2 9 (2.65%) OAuth
3 8 (2.35%) OpenID
4 6 (1.76%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.76%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.18%) ADO
5 4 (1.18%) Middleware
6 3 (0.88%) REST
7 2 (0.59%) .NET
7 2 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.59%) JWT
7 2 (0.59%) Kafka
7 2 (0.59%) LDAP
8 1 (0.29%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.29%) Flask
8 1 (0.29%) J2EE
8 1 (0.29%) JSP
8 1 (0.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.29%) React
8 1 (0.29%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.18%) Operational Technology
3 18 (5.29%) Security Posture
4 15 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.94%) PKI
7 9 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.35%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.47%) NHS
10 5 (1.47%) SCADA
10 5 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.47%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.82%) Windows
2 8 (2.35%) Linux
3 2 (0.59%) Android
3 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.59%) Unix
3 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (42.94%) Security Architecture
2 107 (31.47%) Cybersecurity
3 74 (21.76%) Cloud Security
4 71 (20.88%) Threat Modelling
5 65 (19.12%) Zero Trust
6 54 (15.88%) Identity Access Management
6 54 (15.88%) TOGAF
7 46 (13.53%) SIEM
8 45 (13.24%) Incident Response
8 45 (13.24%) Risk Management
9 42 (12.35%) Vulnerability Management
10 39 (11.47%) DevSecOps
11 37 (10.88%) SABSA
12 34 (10.00%) CI/CD
13 31 (9.12%) Network Segmentation
14 30 (8.82%) Application Security
14 30 (8.82%) Architectural Patterns
15 29 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (8.24%) Information Security
17 26 (7.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.35%) Java
1 8 (2.35%) Python
2 3 (0.88%) Bicep
2 3 (0.88%) PowerShell
2 3 (0.88%) SQL
3 2 (0.59%) C
3 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
3 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.59%) Swift
4 1 (0.29%) Bash
4 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.29%) Lisp
4 1 (0.29%) ProC
4 1 (0.29%) R
4 1 (0.29%) RPG
4 1 (0.29%) VB
4 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 137 (40.29%) Security Cleared
2 90 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 69 (20.29%) CISSP
4 38 (11.18%) CISM
5 35 (10.29%) DV Cleared
6 27 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (7.06%) Degree
8 18 (5.29%) AWS Certification
9 16 (4.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (4.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (4.12%) CCSP
12 10 (2.94%) CCNP
13 8 (2.35%) CCIE
14 7 (2.06%) Azure Certification
14 7 (2.06%) GIAC
14 7 (2.06%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.47%) PhD
17 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (19.41%) NIST
2 49 (14.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (8.24%) GDPR
4 27 (7.94%) NCSC
5 19 (5.59%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.06%) EU AI Act
7 7 (2.06%) GRC
8 5 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.18%) JSP 440
9 4 (1.18%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.88%) COBIT
10 3 (0.88%) PSD2
10 3 (0.88%) RMADS
10 3 (0.88%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.59%) QA
12 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.18%) Docker
3 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (7.35%) Terraform
2 15 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.35%) Ansible
4 7 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.88%) SCCM
6 2 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.29%) Kibana
7 1 (0.29%) logstash
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) Nessus
7 1 (0.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.29%) SELinux
Vendors
1 45 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.18%) CyberArk
3 19 (5.59%) Splunk
4 16 (4.71%) BiZZdesign
5 14 (4.12%) Cisco
6 13 (3.82%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.24%) Centrify
7 11 (3.24%) Zscaler
8 10 (2.94%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.06%) F5
9 7 (2.06%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.06%) Google
9 7 (2.06%) Okta
9 7 (2.06%) Tenable
9 7 (2.06%) Virgin Media
10 6 (1.76%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.76%) Sparx
11 4 (1.18%) Darktrace
11 4 (1.18%) Juniper
11 4 (1.18%) Thycotic