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 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 243 236
Rank change year-on-year -45 -7 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 284 256 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.98% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.06% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 183 239
10th Percentile £461 £550 £519
25th Percentile £523 £613 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £716 £750 £775
90th Percentile £788 £810 £861
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 - £76.16
25th Percentile £84.06 £68.26 £81.87
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 30,503 24,211 35,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.07% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,396 14,990 23,931
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 719 2,136
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.91 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.36 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.61 £60.61
90th Percentile £72.45 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -

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 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 9 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 -39 132 £636 -5.74% 45
South East -13 52 £650 +4.00% 26
North of England -28 51 £600 -11.76% 7
Yorkshire -34 32 £525 -21.05% 2
Midlands -39 22 £675 -3.57% 11
West Midlands -44 18 £675 -3.57% 10
North West -22 17 £701 +0.79% 2
South West -26 13 £638 +3.03% 12
East of England -15 5 £520 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 1
North East - 2 £545 - 3
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 129 (45.42%) Security Architecture
2 111 (39.08%) Security Cleared
3 102 (35.92%) Cybersecurity
4 80 (28.17%) Azure
5 75 (26.41%) SC Cleared
6 71 (25.00%) AWS
7 64 (22.54%) NIST
7 64 (22.54%) Threat Modelling
8 58 (20.42%) Cloud Security
9 55 (19.37%) CISSP
10 54 (19.01%) Network Security
11 52 (18.31%) Zero Trust
12 47 (16.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 45 (15.85%) TOGAF
14 43 (15.14%) Incident Response
15 42 (14.79%) Firewall
15 42 (14.79%) Identity Access Management
16 41 (14.44%) Microsoft
17 39 (13.73%) Vulnerability Management
18 37 (13.03%) Risk Management
19 34 (11.97%) GCP
19 34 (11.97%) SIEM
20 33 (11.62%) DevSecOps
20 33 (11.62%) SABSA
21 31 (10.92%) CISM
22 30 (10.56%) DV Cleared
23 29 (10.21%) CI/CD
23 29 (10.21%) GDPR
24 26 (9.15%) NCSC
25 25 (8.80%) Network Segmentation

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 14 (4.93%) Confluence
2 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (28.17%) Azure
2 71 (25.00%) AWS
3 34 (11.97%) GCP
4 18 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 9 (3.17%) SaaS
7 8 (2.82%) AWS KMS
7 8 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.11%) GitHub
9 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.11%) PaaS
10 5 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.41%) Akamai
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.41%) IaaS
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 54 (19.01%) Network Security
2 42 (14.79%) Firewall
3 17 (5.99%) VPN
4 14 (4.93%) WAN
5 11 (3.87%) LAN
6 9 (3.17%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.46%) DNS
7 7 (2.46%) NGFW
8 6 (2.11%) BGP
8 6 (2.11%) IPsec
9 5 (1.76%) OSPF
10 4 (1.41%) DHCP
10 4 (1.41%) SSL
11 3 (1.06%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.06%) Kerberos
11 3 (1.06%) MPLS
11 3 (1.06%) MQTT
11 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.23%) JIRA
2 3 (1.06%) GitLab
2 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.35%) AppScan
3 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.35%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
General
1 53 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.79%) Finance
3 35 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.58%) Banking
5 12 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.82%) Legal
9 6 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Law
13 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Military
14 1 (0.35%) Police
14 1 (0.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.87%) SAML
2 9 (3.17%) OAuth
3 8 (2.82%) OpenID
4 6 (2.11%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.06%) ADO
6 2 (0.70%) .NET
6 2 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.70%) JWT
6 2 (0.70%) Kafka
6 2 (0.70%) LDAP
6 2 (0.70%) Middleware
6 2 (0.70%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.35%) J2EE
7 1 (0.35%) JAAS
7 1 (0.35%) JSP
7 1 (0.35%) JSSE
7 1 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.35%) React
7 1 (0.35%) REST
7 1 (0.35%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.63%) Operational Technology
2 16 (5.63%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.93%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.58%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.23%) PKI
5 12 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.17%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.76%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.76%) NHS
10 5 (1.76%) SCADA
10 5 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.76%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.58%) Windows
2 9 (3.17%) Linux
3 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.06%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (45.42%) Security Architecture
2 102 (35.92%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (22.54%) Threat Modelling
4 58 (20.42%) Cloud Security
5 52 (18.31%) Zero Trust
6 45 (15.85%) TOGAF
7 43 (15.14%) Incident Response
8 42 (14.79%) Identity Access Management
9 39 (13.73%) Vulnerability Management
10 37 (13.03%) Risk Management
11 34 (11.97%) SIEM
12 33 (11.62%) DevSecOps
12 33 (11.62%) SABSA
13 29 (10.21%) CI/CD
14 25 (8.80%) Network Segmentation
14 25 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (8.10%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (8.10%) Migration
16 22 (7.75%) Information Security
16 22 (7.75%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.82%) Java
2 7 (2.46%) Python
3 4 (1.41%) SQL
4 3 (1.06%) Bicep
4 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.70%) C
5 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
5 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.70%) Swift
6 1 (0.35%) Bash
6 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.35%) Lisp
6 1 (0.35%) ProC
6 1 (0.35%) R
6 1 (0.35%) RPG
6 1 (0.35%) VB
6 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (39.08%) Security Cleared
2 75 (26.41%) SC Cleared
3 55 (19.37%) CISSP
4 31 (10.92%) CISM
5 30 (10.56%) DV Cleared
6 22 (7.75%) Degree
7 18 (6.34%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (4.93%) AWS Certification
8 14 (4.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (3.17%) CCNP
10 8 (2.82%) GIAC
11 7 (2.46%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.46%) CCIE
11 7 (2.46%) CCSP
11 7 (2.46%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.76%) PhD
14 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (22.54%) NIST
2 47 (16.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.21%) GDPR
4 26 (9.15%) NCSC
5 18 (6.34%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (2.46%) EU AI Act
7 7 (2.46%) GRC
8 5 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.06%) JSP 440
9 3 (1.06%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.06%) PSD2
9 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.70%) COBIT
10 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.70%) QA
10 2 (0.70%) RMADS
11 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 9 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (8.10%) Terraform
2 9 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.82%) Ansible
4 7 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.06%) SCCM
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.35%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) logstash
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) Nessus
7 1 (0.35%) OPNET
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) SELinux
7 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.10%) CyberArk
3 18 (6.34%) Splunk
4 13 (4.58%) BiZZdesign
4 13 (4.58%) Palo Alto
5 12 (4.23%) Cisco
6 11 (3.87%) Centrify
7 9 (3.17%) CheckPoint
7 9 (3.17%) Zscaler
8 7 (2.46%) F5
8 7 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.46%) Google
8 7 (2.46%) Virgin Media
9 6 (2.11%) Darktrace
9 6 (2.11%) Sparx
10 4 (1.41%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.41%) Juniper
10 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.41%) Thycotic
10 4 (1.41%) VMware