Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 226 243
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 514 327 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 1.18% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.29% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 204 197
10th Percentile £500 £508 £500
25th Percentile £537 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.87%
75th Percentile £750 £773 £780
90th Percentile £850 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile - £86.00 £81.83
25th Percentile £60.00 £91.25 £84.67
Median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +14.34% +24.94%
75th Percentile £83.00 £102.75 -
90th Percentile - £104.40 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £100.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year -30.00% +14.34% +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 42,792 25,414 30,698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 91.34% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,591 16,383 19,325
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,397 1,362 1,531
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.75 £14.56
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +6.15%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.99 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 0 263 £645 -4.44% 163
South East +4 116 £635 +5.83% 37
North of England -63 56 £600 -16.35% 28
North West -30 44 £600 -16.35% 26
Midlands -38 31 £638 +0.99% 16
West Midlands -37 30 £638 -1.92% 11
South West -50 26 £604 -7.08% 12
Yorkshire -44 9 £350 -41.67% 1
East of England -17 7 £625 +25.00% 5
East Midlands -17 1 - - 5
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 273 (53.11%) Security Architecture
2 230 (44.75%) Security Cleared
3 194 (37.74%) Cybersecurity
4 150 (29.18%) Azure
5 149 (28.99%) SC Cleared
6 142 (27.63%) Cloud Security
7 135 (26.26%) Threat Modelling
8 120 (23.35%) AWS
9 112 (21.79%) NIST
10 106 (20.62%) CISSP
11 83 (16.15%) DV Cleared
12 80 (15.56%) Risk Management
13 77 (14.98%) AI
14 76 (14.79%) Architectural Patterns
15 73 (14.20%) Network Security
15 73 (14.20%) Zero Trust
16 72 (14.01%) TOGAF
17 68 (13.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 68 (13.23%) Stakeholder Management
18 66 (12.84%) GCP
18 66 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
19 60 (11.67%) Microsoft
19 60 (11.67%) Roadmaps
20 58 (11.28%) SABSA
21 57 (11.09%) DevSecOps
22 55 (10.70%) Information Security
22 55 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 52 (10.12%) Data Protection
24 50 (9.73%) CI/CD
24 50 (9.73%) 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 3 (0.58%) IIS
2 2 (0.39%) SAS
2 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 150 (29.18%) Azure
2 120 (23.35%) AWS
3 66 (12.84%) GCP
4 23 (4.47%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.31%) SaaS
6 12 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (0.97%) Azure AI
7 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (0.78%) GitHub
8 4 (0.78%) OCI
8 4 (0.78%) Vertex AI
9 3 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.58%) AWS KMS
9 3 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (14.20%) Network Security
2 35 (6.81%) Firewall
3 11 (2.14%) VPN
4 10 (1.95%) WAN
5 8 (1.56%) VLAN
6 6 (1.17%) 4G
6 6 (1.17%) IPsec
6 6 (1.17%) NGFW
6 6 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.78%) 5G
7 4 (0.78%) BGP
7 4 (0.78%) Intranet
7 4 (0.78%) LAN
7 4 (0.78%) OSPF
7 4 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.58%) EIGRP
8 3 (0.58%) SSL
9 2 (0.39%) DNS
9 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.39%) Big Data
1 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.97%) JIRA
3 3 (0.58%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.39%) GitLab
General
1 92 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.89%) Public Sector
3 50 (9.73%) Finance
4 26 (5.06%) Banking
4 26 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.92%) Legal
7 11 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.95%) Military
9 9 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.36%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.36%) Police
11 6 (1.17%) Law
12 4 (0.78%) Local Government
12 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Retail
13 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.89%) Terraform
2 13 (2.53%) OAuth
3 8 (1.56%) OpenID
4 7 (1.36%) OAuth2
4 7 (1.36%) SAML
5 6 (1.17%) REST
5 6 (1.17%) SLSA
6 5 (0.97%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.78%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (0.78%) Jakarta EE
7 4 (0.78%) JSP
7 4 (0.78%) LDAP
8 3 (0.58%) HTML
8 3 (0.58%) LangChain
8 3 (0.58%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.58%) scikit-learn
9 2 (0.39%) .NET
9 2 (0.39%) EDI
9 2 (0.39%) JWT
10 1 (0.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.51%) Security Posture
2 49 (9.53%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.86%) Operational Technology
4 24 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (2.14%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.56%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.56%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.97%) PKI
13 5 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.78%) CMDB
14 4 (0.78%) Cyberattack
14 4 (0.78%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.95%) Linux
2 8 (1.56%) Windows
2 8 (1.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (53.11%) Security Architecture
2 194 (37.74%) Cybersecurity
3 142 (27.63%) Cloud Security
4 135 (26.26%) Threat Modelling
5 80 (15.56%) Risk Management
6 77 (14.98%) AI
7 76 (14.79%) Architectural Patterns
8 73 (14.20%) Zero Trust
9 72 (14.01%) TOGAF
10 68 (13.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 66 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
12 60 (11.67%) Roadmaps
13 58 (11.28%) SABSA
14 57 (11.09%) DevSecOps
15 55 (10.70%) Information Security
15 55 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 52 (10.12%) Data Protection
17 50 (9.73%) CI/CD
18 46 (8.95%) Enterprise Architecture
18 46 (8.95%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 15 (2.92%) Python
2 9 (1.75%) Java
3 8 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.36%) Bicep
5 5 (0.97%) Groovy
5 5 (0.97%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.58%) Bash
6 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.39%) SQL
8 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 230 (44.75%) Security Cleared
2 149 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 106 (20.62%) CISSP
4 83 (16.15%) DV Cleared
5 50 (9.73%) CISM
6 34 (6.61%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (5.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (3.89%) AWS Certification
8 20 (3.89%) Degree
9 18 (3.50%) CCSP
10 15 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (2.53%) CISA
12 10 (1.95%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.95%) SANS
13 9 (1.75%) CEH
13 9 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (1.75%) GIAC
14 8 (1.56%) ISSAP
15 7 (1.36%) CRISC
16 6 (1.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (21.79%) NIST
2 68 (13.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (8.75%) NCSC
4 29 (5.64%) GDPR
5 24 (4.67%) GRC
6 21 (4.09%) NIST 800
7 18 (3.50%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 10 (1.95%) JSP 440
9 9 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
10 8 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (1.17%) COBIT
11 6 (1.17%) ISO 19650
11 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 6 (1.17%) QA
12 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (2.53%) Docker
2 10 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
5 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.39%) vSphere
6 1 (0.19%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.14%) Ansible
3 6 (1.17%) CASB
3 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.78%) QRadar
5 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.39%) Istio
7 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Suricata
Vendors
1 60 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.67%) Google
3 19 (3.70%) Cisco
4 15 (2.92%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.72%) Splunk
6 12 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (2.14%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.56%) Qualys
8 8 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.56%) Tenable
9 7 (1.36%) Okta
9 7 (1.36%) VMware
10 6 (1.17%) F5
10 6 (1.17%) IFS
10 6 (1.17%) Zscaler
11 5 (0.97%) Juniper
12 4 (0.78%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.78%) SAP
13 3 (0.58%) Centrify
13 3 (0.58%) CyberArk