Security Architect Contracts in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £673, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 221 277
Rank change year-on-year -12 +56 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 273 395 473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.12% 1.06% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.15% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 240 341
10th Percentile £550 £519 £563
25th Percentile £600 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £780 £775
90th Percentile £810 £827 £838
UK median daily rate £665 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 13
10th Percentile £69.68 £81.86 -
25th Percentile £71.82 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +24.94% -
75th Percentile £85.22 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £86.59 £87.53 -
UK median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.50% +24.94% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architect 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 1 May 2025. 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 +1 159 £675 -8.16% 62
South East -21 34 £625 -3.85% 30
South West +59 29 £670 -7.59% 17
North of England -5 22 £671 +0.52% 42
Midlands +37 21 £700 -6.67% 12
West Midlands +30 21 £700 -13.85% 8
North West 0 16 £671 +0.30% 30
Yorkshire -1 5 £680 +2.64% 3
North East 0 1 £625 - 9
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 129 (47.25%) Security Architecture
2 97 (35.53%) Azure
3 93 (34.07%) NIST
4 86 (31.50%) Security Cleared
5 85 (31.14%) Cloud Security
6 79 (28.94%) Cybersecurity
7 72 (26.37%) CISSP
8 71 (26.01%) AWS
9 66 (24.18%) Social Skills
10 65 (23.81%) SC Cleared
11 53 (19.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 52 (19.05%) Risk Management
12 52 (19.05%) Threat Modelling
13 50 (18.32%) Firewall
14 48 (17.58%) Finance
15 47 (17.22%) Identity Access Management
16 45 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
16 45 (16.48%) CISM
16 45 (16.48%) Network Security
17 44 (16.12%) Microsoft
18 39 (14.29%) GCP
19 38 (13.92%) DevSecOps
19 38 (13.92%) Public Sector
20 34 (12.45%) Security Posture
20 34 (12.45%) Information Security
21 33 (12.09%) SIEM
21 33 (12.09%) GDPR
22 32 (11.72%) Roadmaps
23 31 (11.36%) SABSA
24 28 (10.26%) Application Security

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.83%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.10%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.10%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.53%) Azure
2 71 (26.01%) AWS
3 39 (14.29%) GCP
4 17 (6.23%) Entra ID
5 14 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.76%) SaaS
7 10 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (3.66%) OCI
8 7 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.83%) GitHub
9 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.47%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (1.10%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (1.10%) IaaS
11 3 (1.10%) Serverless
12 2 (0.73%) Akamai
12 2 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.32%) Firewall
2 45 (16.48%) Network Security
3 14 (5.13%) VPN
4 13 (4.76%) DNS
5 10 (3.66%) WAN
6 9 (3.30%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.93%) NGFW
8 6 (2.20%) BGP
9 5 (1.83%) OSPF
9 5 (1.83%) SSL
10 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.10%) IPsec
12 2 (0.73%) DHCP
12 2 (0.73%) DMZ
12 2 (0.73%) HTTP
12 2 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.73%) SAN
12 2 (0.73%) VLAN
12 2 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.47%) GIS
2 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.37%) Big Data
3 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.56%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Git
General
1 66 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.58%) Finance
3 38 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.42%) Banking
5 20 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.13%) Legal
7 8 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.83%) Law
8 5 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.83%) Military
9 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Marketing
10 3 (1.10%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.73%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.37%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.86%) SAML
2 11 (4.03%) OAuth
3 10 (3.66%) OpenID
4 8 (2.93%) SailPoint
5 6 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.10%) .NET
6 3 (1.10%) Apache Axis
7 2 (0.73%) LDAP
7 2 (0.73%) React
7 2 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.37%) Kafka
8 1 (0.37%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.45%) Security Posture
2 18 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.86%) Operational Technology
4 15 (5.49%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.66%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.93%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.56%) PKI
7 7 (2.56%) SCADA
8 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.83%) IoT
9 4 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.47%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.10%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.69%) Windows
2 11 (4.03%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.93%) Linux
4 3 (1.10%) Unix
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (47.25%) Security Architecture
2 85 (31.14%) Cloud Security
3 79 (28.94%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (19.05%) Risk Management
4 52 (19.05%) Threat Modelling
5 47 (17.22%) Identity Access Management
6 45 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (13.92%) DevSecOps
8 34 (12.45%) Information Security
9 33 (12.09%) SIEM
10 32 (11.72%) Roadmaps
11 31 (11.36%) SABSA
12 28 (10.26%) Application Security
12 28 (10.26%) DevOps
12 28 (10.26%) Vulnerability Management
13 26 (9.52%) Incident Response
14 25 (9.16%) Risk Assessment
14 25 (9.16%) TOGAF
15 24 (8.79%) OWASP
16 23 (8.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.86%) Python
2 12 (4.40%) Java
3 7 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.83%) Bash
5 3 (1.10%) C#
5 3 (1.10%) SQL
6 2 (0.73%) PHP
6 2 (0.73%) Ruby
6 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 86 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.37%) CISSP
3 65 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 45 (16.48%) CISM
5 26 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (8.42%) DV Cleared
7 20 (7.33%) Degree
8 18 (6.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (5.86%) Azure Certification
10 14 (5.13%) AWS Certification
11 12 (4.40%) CEH
11 12 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (3.66%) CCSP
12 10 (3.66%) CISA
13 9 (3.30%) CRISC
14 8 (2.93%) OSCP
15 7 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (2.56%) OCP
15 7 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (2.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (34.07%) NIST
2 53 (19.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (12.09%) GDPR
4 27 (9.89%) PCI DSS
5 23 (8.42%) GRC
6 12 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 11 (4.03%) NCSC
7 11 (4.03%) NIST 800
8 10 (3.66%) COBIT
9 9 (3.30%) HIPAA
9 9 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (1.47%) JSP 440
12 3 (1.10%) PMO
13 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.37%) FISMA
14 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 22 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.73%) IAG
3 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.37%) Docker
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (2.56%) Terraform
4 6 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.83%) CASB
5 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.47%) SCCM
7 3 (1.10%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.73%) Ansible
8 2 (0.73%) Nagios
9 1 (0.37%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) OPNET
9 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 44 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.23%) Google
3 15 (5.49%) ServiceNow
4 13 (4.76%) Oracle
5 12 (4.40%) Fortinet
6 9 (3.30%) Cisco
6 9 (3.30%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.30%) SAP
7 8 (2.93%) Zscaler
8 6 (2.20%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.20%) Qualys
8 6 (2.20%) VMware
9 5 (1.83%) Tufin
10 4 (1.47%) AlgoSec
10 4 (1.47%) ESRI
10 4 (1.47%) Meraki
10 4 (1.47%) Okta
10 4 (1.47%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.10%) Ariba
11 3 (1.10%) CheckPoint