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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 210 214
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 495 336 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.28% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.38% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 221 257
10th Percentile £466 £513 £500
25th Percentile £539 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £775 £750 £775
90th Percentile £850 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £630 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile - £86.00 £81.86
25th Percentile - £91.25 £81.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £100.00 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +14.34% +24.94%
75th Percentile £83.25 £102.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £104.40 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £100.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year -17.00% +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 40,631 24,276 34,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.17% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,859 15,839 22,711
10th Percentile £325 £292 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,929 1,140 2,561
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.99 £12.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.98 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.08 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.28% -29.81% -8.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +62.26% -29.80% -12.21%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -17 241 £650 -3.70% 65
South East -4 96 £650 +8.33% 41
North of England -47 63 £675 -3.57% 16
Midlands -24 52 £600 -21.31% 7
North West -15 49 £704 +2.34% 10
West Midlands -35 49 £625 -18.03% 6
South West -46 21 £614 -5.58% 16
Yorkshire -45 12 £675 +22.73% 6
East of England -26 6 £625 +25.00% 5
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 230 (46.46%) Security Architecture
2 222 (44.85%) Security Cleared
3 173 (34.95%) Cybersecurity
4 138 (27.88%) SC Cleared
5 131 (26.46%) Azure
6 128 (25.86%) Threat Modelling
7 116 (23.43%) AWS
7 116 (23.43%) Cloud Security
8 95 (19.19%) NIST
9 87 (17.58%) CISSP
10 81 (16.36%) Network Security
11 77 (15.56%) Zero Trust
12 73 (14.75%) Architectural Patterns
13 67 (13.54%) DV Cleared
14 65 (13.13%) GCP
15 62 (12.53%) Risk Management
16 60 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 57 (11.52%) TOGAF
18 52 (10.51%) SABSA
18 52 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
19 51 (10.30%) Identity Access Management
20 50 (10.10%) DevOps
21 49 (9.90%) Application Security
21 49 (9.90%) DevSecOps
22 48 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 47 (9.49%) AI
24 44 (8.89%) Data Protection
24 44 (8.89%) SIEM
25 43 (8.69%) CISM
25 43 (8.69%) NCSC

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 5 (1.01%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.61%) Confluence
3 2 (0.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.20%) nginx
4 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 131 (26.46%) Azure
2 116 (23.43%) AWS
3 65 (13.13%) GCP
4 26 (5.25%) Entra ID
5 15 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (2.63%) SaaS
7 11 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.81%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (0.81%) AWS KMS
11 4 (0.81%) GitHub
11 4 (0.81%) Serverless
12 3 (0.61%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.61%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.61%) OCI
12 3 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (16.36%) Network Security
2 38 (7.68%) Firewall
3 15 (3.03%) VPN
4 10 (2.02%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.82%) IPsec
5 9 (1.82%) WAN
6 8 (1.62%) VLAN
7 7 (1.41%) NGFW
8 5 (1.01%) 4G
8 5 (1.01%) BGP
8 5 (1.01%) OSPF
9 4 (0.81%) 5G
9 4 (0.81%) DNS
9 4 (0.81%) Intranet
9 4 (0.81%) LAN
9 4 (0.81%) MPLS
9 4 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.61%) DHCP
10 3 (0.61%) MQTT
10 3 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.40%) Big Data
1 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (1.21%) JIRA
2 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.81%) Snyk
3 3 (0.61%) GitLab
4 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.20%) AppScan
5 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.20%) Metasploit
General
1 87 (17.58%) Social Skills
2 68 (13.74%) Public Sector
3 60 (12.12%) Finance
4 34 (6.87%) Banking
5 23 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.62%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.62%) Legal
9 7 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.41%) Military
10 5 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.81%) Retail
11 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.61%) Law
13 1 (0.20%) Aviation
13 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.22%) OAuth
2 9 (1.82%) OAuth2
2 9 (1.82%) OpenID
3 7 (1.41%) SAML
4 6 (1.21%) REST
5 5 (1.01%) J2EE
5 5 (1.01%) JSP
5 5 (1.01%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.81%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.81%) JWT
6 4 (0.81%) LDAP
7 3 (0.61%) ADO
7 3 (0.61%) HTML
7 3 (0.61%) LangChain
7 3 (0.61%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.61%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.61%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.40%) .NET
8 2 (0.40%) Middleware
8 2 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.49%) Security Posture
2 38 (7.68%) Cloud Native
3 33 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 23 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (2.22%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.21%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.81%) CMDB
13 4 (0.81%) Genomics
13 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.81%) SCADA
13 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.22%) Windows
2 9 (1.82%) Linux
3 5 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (46.46%) Security Architecture
2 173 (34.95%) Cybersecurity
3 128 (25.86%) Threat Modelling
4 116 (23.43%) Cloud Security
5 77 (15.56%) Zero Trust
6 73 (14.75%) Architectural Patterns
7 62 (12.53%) Risk Management
8 57 (11.52%) TOGAF
9 52 (10.51%) SABSA
9 52 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 51 (10.30%) Identity Access Management
11 50 (10.10%) DevOps
12 49 (9.90%) Application Security
12 49 (9.90%) DevSecOps
13 48 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 47 (9.49%) AI
15 44 (8.89%) Data Protection
15 44 (8.89%) SIEM
16 41 (8.28%) Agile
17 38 (7.68%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 14 (2.83%) Python
2 11 (2.22%) Java
3 8 (1.62%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.41%) Bicep
5 4 (0.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.61%) SQL
7 2 (0.40%) Bash
8 1 (0.20%) Lisp
8 1 (0.20%) R
8 1 (0.20%) RPG
8 1 (0.20%) VB
8 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 222 (44.85%) Security Cleared
2 138 (27.88%) SC Cleared
3 87 (17.58%) CISSP
4 67 (13.54%) DV Cleared
5 43 (8.69%) CISM
6 36 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (5.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 21 (4.24%) Degree
9 19 (3.84%) AWS Certification
10 18 (3.64%) CCSP
11 14 (2.83%) GIAC
12 10 (2.02%) CEH
13 9 (1.82%) CISA
14 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.62%) SANS
15 7 (1.41%) OSCP
16 6 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (1.21%) ISSAP
17 5 (1.01%) CCNP
17 5 (1.01%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (19.19%) NIST
2 60 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (8.69%) NCSC
4 24 (4.85%) GDPR
5 21 (4.24%) NIST 800
6 20 (4.04%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.22%) GRC
8 9 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 9 (1.82%) JSP 440
9 8 (1.62%) COBIT
10 6 (1.21%) ISO 19650
10 6 (1.21%) QA
11 5 (1.01%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.61%) IFRS
13 3 (0.61%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.61%) RMADS
System Software
1 16 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.81%) Docker
3 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.20%) KVM
5 1 (0.20%) Varnish
5 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.44%) Terraform
2 20 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.02%) Ansible
4 5 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.61%) QRadar
6 2 (0.40%) CASB
6 2 (0.40%) Istio
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.20%) Nessus
7 1 (0.20%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) SELinux
7 1 (0.20%) Suricata
Vendors
1 41 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.04%) Splunk
3 15 (3.03%) Google
4 14 (2.83%) Okta
5 13 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 12 (2.42%) Cisco
7 11 (2.22%) Tenable
8 10 (2.02%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.62%) Qualys
9 8 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.21%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.21%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.21%) SAP
11 6 (1.21%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.01%) BiZZdesign
13 4 (0.81%) Juniper
13 4 (0.81%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.81%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.61%) TOWER Software