Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £632, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 236 217
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 394 257 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.06% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.14% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 204 240
10th Percentile £461 £550 £519
25th Percentile £513 £606 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £632 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £780
90th Percentile £800 £832 £843
UK median daily rate £630 £663 £700
% change year-on-year -4.91% -5.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 18
10th Percentile £82.30 - £81.84
25th Percentile £83.00 £68.26 £81.88
Median hourly rate £84.00 £73.31 £87.23
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -15.96% +24.61%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.36 £87.51
90th Percentile £88.50 - £87.53
UK median hourly rate £83.50 £73.31 £87.23
% change year-on-year +13.90% -15.96% +24.61%

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 36,122 22,602 34,731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.81% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,747 15,141 23,178
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%
75th Percentile £66.38 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.64% -9.26% -21.40%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -15 183 £650 -3.70% 46
South East -12 79 £630 +0.80% 22
North of England -24 64 £664 -0.71% 25
North West 0 42 £707 +5.74% 17
Midlands -49 35 £625 -10.71% 10
West Midlands -47 33 £700 - 10
Yorkshire -40 20 £525 -22.79% 5
South West -40 13 £575 -13.53% 14
East of England - 6 £600 - 2
North East -15 2 £545 -12.80% 3
East Midlands - 2 £438 -
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 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.

1 187 (47.46%) Security Architecture
2 167 (42.39%) Security Cleared
3 118 (29.95%) Cybersecurity
4 101 (25.63%) SC Cleared
5 100 (25.38%) Azure
6 97 (24.62%) Threat Modelling
7 90 (22.84%) Cloud Security
8 84 (21.32%) AWS
9 81 (20.56%) NIST
10 75 (19.04%) CISSP
11 73 (18.53%) Network Security
12 70 (17.77%) Zero Trust
13 57 (14.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 55 (13.96%) GCP
15 52 (13.20%) Risk Management
16 51 (12.94%) TOGAF
17 46 (11.68%) DV Cleared
18 44 (11.17%) Architectural Patterns
19 43 (10.91%) Application Security
19 43 (10.91%) SABSA
20 42 (10.66%) Information Security
20 42 (10.66%) SIEM
21 40 (10.15%) DevSecOps
22 38 (9.64%) CI/CD
22 38 (9.64%) Identity Access Management
22 38 (9.64%) Microsoft
23 37 (9.39%) CISM
24 34 (8.63%) Firewall
24 34 (8.63%) Vulnerability Management
25 33 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 7 (1.78%) Confluence
2 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.51%) nginx
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 100 (25.38%) Azure
2 84 (21.32%) AWS
3 55 (13.96%) GCP
4 23 (5.84%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.81%) SaaS
6 12 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (2.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 8 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.03%) AWS KMS
8 8 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.52%) PaaS
9 6 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.27%) IaaS
11 4 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.02%) GitHub
12 3 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.76%) Apigee
12 3 (0.76%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 73 (18.53%) Network Security
2 34 (8.63%) Firewall
3 14 (3.55%) VPN
4 13 (3.30%) WAN
5 10 (2.54%) LAN
5 10 (2.54%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.52%) BGP
6 6 (1.52%) IPsec
6 6 (1.52%) OSPF
7 4 (1.02%) DNS
7 4 (1.02%) MQTT
8 3 (0.76%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.76%) DHCP
8 3 (0.76%) MPLS
8 3 (0.76%) NGFW
8 3 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.51%) VLAN
9 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.51%) Big Data
2 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.25%) Metadata
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.52%) JIRA
2 4 (1.02%) Snyk
3 3 (0.76%) GitLab
3 3 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) AppScan
4 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.25%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
General
1 68 (17.26%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.23%) Finance
3 51 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.09%) Banking
5 15 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.79%) Legal
7 8 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.76%) Law
12 2 (0.51%) Military
12 2 (0.51%) Retail
13 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Police
13 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.28%) OpenID
2 8 (2.03%) OAuth
3 7 (1.78%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.52%) SAML
5 5 (1.27%) J2EE
5 5 (1.27%) JSP
5 5 (1.27%) JWT
5 5 (1.27%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.02%) ADO
6 4 (1.02%) Middleware
7 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.51%) REST
8 1 (0.25%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.25%) Flask
8 1 (0.25%) JAAS
8 1 (0.25%) JSSE
8 1 (0.25%) LDAP
8 1 (0.25%) React
8 1 (0.25%) RESTful
8 1 (0.25%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.36%) Security Posture
2 27 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.84%) Operational Technology
4 18 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.28%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.52%) PKI
9 6 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.27%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.02%) SCADA
11 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.79%) Windows
2 6 (1.52%) Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Android
3 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (47.46%) Security Architecture
2 118 (29.95%) Cybersecurity
3 97 (24.62%) Threat Modelling
4 90 (22.84%) Cloud Security
5 70 (17.77%) Zero Trust
6 52 (13.20%) Risk Management
7 51 (12.94%) TOGAF
8 44 (11.17%) Architectural Patterns
9 43 (10.91%) Application Security
9 43 (10.91%) SABSA
10 42 (10.66%) Information Security
10 42 (10.66%) SIEM
11 40 (10.15%) DevSecOps
12 38 (9.64%) CI/CD
12 38 (9.64%) Identity Access Management
13 34 (8.63%) Vulnerability Management
14 33 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 32 (8.12%) Data Protection
16 31 (7.87%) Network Segmentation
17 30 (7.61%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.54%) Java
2 4 (1.02%) Bicep
2 4 (1.02%) Python
3 3 (0.76%) SQL
4 2 (0.51%) C
4 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
4 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
4 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.51%) Swift
5 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.25%) Lisp
5 1 (0.25%) ProC
5 1 (0.25%) RPG
5 1 (0.25%) VB
5 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 167 (42.39%) Security Cleared
2 101 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 75 (19.04%) CISSP
4 46 (11.68%) DV Cleared
5 37 (9.39%) CISM
6 31 (7.87%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (6.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 23 (5.84%) Degree
9 16 (4.06%) CCSP
10 15 (3.81%) AWS Certification
11 10 (2.54%) GIAC
12 9 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.78%) SANS
15 6 (1.52%) CCNP
15 6 (1.52%) CEH
16 5 (1.27%) CCIE
16 5 (1.27%) CISA
17 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (20.56%) NIST
2 57 (14.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (7.61%) GDPR
4 29 (7.36%) NCSC
5 20 (5.08%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.54%) NIST 800
7 9 (2.28%) EU AI Act
8 8 (2.03%) GRC
9 6 (1.52%) COBIT
9 6 (1.52%) QA
10 5 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.76%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.76%) PSD2
11 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.51%) IFRS
12 2 (0.51%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.51%) RMADS
13 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.25%) Varnish
3 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (4.82%) Terraform
2 16 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.52%) Ansible
4 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.76%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) logstash
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Nessus
6 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 38 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.55%) Splunk
3 12 (3.05%) Cisco
4 10 (2.54%) Okta
4 10 (2.54%) Palo Alto
4 10 (2.54%) Zscaler
5 9 (2.28%) BiZZdesign
6 8 (2.03%) CheckPoint
6 8 (2.03%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.03%) Tenable
7 6 (1.52%) F5
7 6 (1.52%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.52%) Google
7 6 (1.52%) SAP
7 6 (1.52%) Sparx
8 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.02%) Juniper
9 4 (1.02%) Qualys
10 3 (0.76%) Aruba
10 3 (0.76%) VMware