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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 219 218
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 520 335 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 1.22% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.33% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 219 226
10th Percentile £482 £513 £500
25th Percentile £551 £581 £616
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 £831
UK median daily rate £636 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.74% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £69.20 £86.00 £81.79
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 - £102.75 -
90th Percentile £83.60 £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 41,767 25,148 32,288
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 91.78% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,470 16,339 21,305
10th Percentile £325 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,003 1,263 2,075
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -38.49% -2.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.85 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +70.39% -39.40% -5.26%

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 25 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 25 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 -5 255 £663 -1.85% 79
South East -13 108 £656 +9.33% 46
North of England -60 61 £664 -5.14% 21
Midlands -23 50 £613 -23.44% 5
North West -29 49 £653 -6.71% 14
West Midlands -26 48 £625 -21.88% 4
South West -44 20 £614 -5.58% 7
Yorkshire -45 10 £675 +22.73% 7
East of England -14 7 £625 +25.00% 3
East Midlands - 2 £438 - 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 247 (47.50%) Security Architecture
2 235 (45.19%) Security Cleared
3 182 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
4 152 (29.23%) SC Cleared
5 138 (26.54%) Azure
6 134 (25.77%) Threat Modelling
7 124 (23.85%) Cloud Security
8 122 (23.46%) AWS
9 102 (19.62%) CISSP
10 93 (17.88%) NIST
11 81 (15.58%) Network Security
12 79 (15.19%) Zero Trust
13 76 (14.62%) Architectural Patterns
14 75 (14.42%) DV Cleared
15 74 (14.23%) Risk Management
15 74 (14.23%) TOGAF
16 67 (12.88%) AI
17 64 (12.31%) GCP
18 62 (11.92%) DevSecOps
19 61 (11.73%) Identity Access Management
20 59 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 58 (11.15%) Roadmaps
21 58 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
22 56 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
23 54 (10.38%) SABSA
24 53 (10.19%) CI/CD
25 49 (9.42%) DevOps
26 48 (9.23%) CISM
27 45 (8.65%) Application Security
27 45 (8.65%) Data Protection

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 4 (0.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.38%) Confluence
2 2 (0.38%) SAS
3 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.19%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (26.54%) Azure
2 122 (23.46%) AWS
3 64 (12.31%) GCP
4 28 (5.38%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (2.50%) SaaS
7 11 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (0.77%) AWS KMS
9 4 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.77%) GitHub
9 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (0.77%) Serverless
10 3 (0.58%) Azure API Management
10 3 (0.58%) IaaS
10 3 (0.58%) OCI
10 3 (0.58%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 81 (15.58%) Network Security
2 39 (7.50%) Firewall
3 13 (2.50%) VPN
4 10 (1.92%) WAN
5 7 (1.35%) 4G
5 7 (1.35%) IPsec
5 7 (1.35%) NGFW
5 7 (1.35%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.35%) VLAN
6 5 (0.96%) 5G
6 5 (0.96%) LAN
6 5 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.77%) BGP
7 4 (0.77%) Intranet
7 4 (0.77%) MPLS
7 4 (0.77%) OSPF
8 2 (0.38%) DHCP
8 2 (0.38%) DNS
8 2 (0.38%) Internet
8 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.77%) Data Lake
2 3 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.38%) Big Data
3 2 (0.38%) Metadata
3 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.15%) JIRA
3 4 (0.77%) Snyk
4 3 (0.58%) GitLab
5 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.19%) AppScan
6 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 93 (17.88%) Social Skills
2 70 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 60 (11.54%) Finance
4 33 (6.35%) Banking
5 22 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (1.92%) Legal
9 9 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.73%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.54%) Military
11 5 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.96%) Retail
12 4 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 3 (0.58%) Law
13 3 (0.58%) Police
14 2 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.31%) OAuth
2 9 (1.73%) OAuth2
3 8 (1.54%) OpenID
4 6 (1.15%) REST
4 6 (1.15%) SAML
4 6 (1.15%) SLSA
5 5 (0.96%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.77%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.77%) Jakarta EE
6 4 (0.77%) JSP
6 4 (0.77%) JWT
6 4 (0.77%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.58%) HTML
7 3 (0.58%) LangChain
7 3 (0.58%) LDAP
7 3 (0.58%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.58%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.38%) .NET
8 2 (0.38%) EDI
8 2 (0.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.81%) Security Posture
2 44 (8.46%) Cloud Native
3 32 (6.15%) Operational Technology
4 25 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
12 6 (1.15%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.77%) CMDB
14 4 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (0.77%) Genomics
14 4 (0.77%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.77%) SCADA
14 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.54%) Linux
2 7 (1.35%) Windows
3 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.77%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (47.50%) Security Architecture
2 182 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
3 134 (25.77%) Threat Modelling
4 124 (23.85%) Cloud Security
5 79 (15.19%) Zero Trust
6 76 (14.62%) Architectural Patterns
7 74 (14.23%) Risk Management
7 74 (14.23%) TOGAF
8 67 (12.88%) AI
9 62 (11.92%) DevSecOps
10 61 (11.73%) Identity Access Management
11 59 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 58 (11.15%) Roadmaps
12 58 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 54 (10.38%) SABSA
14 53 (10.19%) CI/CD
15 49 (9.42%) DevOps
16 45 (8.65%) Data Protection
16 45 (8.65%) Enterprise Architecture
16 45 (8.65%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.50%) Python
2 10 (1.92%) Java
3 7 (1.35%) Bicep
3 7 (1.35%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.58%) SQL
6 2 (0.38%) Bash
6 2 (0.38%) Groovy
6 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.19%) Lisp
7 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 235 (45.19%) Security Cleared
2 152 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 102 (19.62%) CISSP
4 75 (14.42%) DV Cleared
5 48 (9.23%) CISM
6 35 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (5.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (4.23%) Degree
9 19 (3.65%) AWS Certification
10 18 (3.46%) CCSP
11 16 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (2.50%) GIAC
13 10 (1.92%) CEH
14 9 (1.73%) CISA
15 8 (1.54%) SANS
16 7 (1.35%) OSCP
17 6 (1.15%) Azure Certification
17 6 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (1.15%) ISSAP
18 5 (0.96%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (17.88%) NIST
2 56 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (7.50%) NCSC
4 24 (4.62%) GDPR
5 20 (3.85%) NIST 800
5 20 (3.85%) PCI DSS
6 14 (2.69%) GRC
7 8 (1.54%) COBIT
7 8 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 8 (1.54%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 6 (1.15%) ISO 19650
8 6 (1.15%) QA
9 5 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.58%) IFRS
10 3 (0.58%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.73%) Docker
3 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) KVM
5 1 (0.19%) Varnish
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.04%) Terraform
3 9 (1.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.77%) QRadar
4 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.38%) CASB
6 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.38%) Istio
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Nessus
7 1 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Suricata
Vendors
1 45 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.85%) Splunk
3 18 (3.46%) Google
4 15 (2.88%) Okta
4 15 (2.88%) Palo Alto
5 12 (2.31%) Cisco
6 11 (2.12%) Tenable
7 10 (1.92%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.54%) Qualys
8 8 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.54%) Zscaler
9 7 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.15%) SAP
11 5 (0.96%) CheckPoint
11 5 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.77%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.77%) VMware
13 3 (0.58%) IBM
13 3 (0.58%) Juniper
13 3 (0.58%) TOWER Software