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 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 264 262
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 296 263 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.92% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.00% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 170 220
10th Percentile £480 £525 £533
25th Percentile £537 £602 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £843
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £679
% change year-on-year -3.70% -0.55% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £82.38 - £74.63
25th Percentile £84.06 £68.26 £75.02
Median hourly rate £86.25 £73.31 £78.74
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -6.90% +12.49%
75th Percentile £94.06 £78.36 £84.36
90th Percentile £94.63 - £85.11
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £73.31 £78.74
% change year-on-year +15.95% -6.90% +12.49%

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 28,855 26,419 34,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.90% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,399 16,416 23,451
10th Percentile £295 £300 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,769 832 1,438
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.75
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £74.40 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +44.81%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 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 -12 126 £650 -5.45% 43
South East +5 64 £650 +4.00% 32
North of England -9 60 £625 -16.67% 59
Yorkshire -21 33 £544 -22.32% 17
South West -2 22 £650 - 20
North West -27 16 £701 -6.60% 34
Midlands -40 13 £675 -3.57% 27
North East - 12 £738 - 8
West Midlands -28 11 £675 -3.57% 14
East of England -20 5 £520 +15.56% 15
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 11
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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.

1 143 (48.31%) Security Architecture
2 101 (34.12%) Security Cleared
3 89 (30.07%) AWS
3 89 (30.07%) Cybersecurity
4 88 (29.73%) Azure
5 72 (24.32%) NIST
6 71 (23.99%) Cloud Security
7 67 (22.64%) SC Cleared
8 63 (21.28%) CISSP
9 57 (19.26%) Threat Modelling
10 55 (18.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 53 (17.91%) Network Security
12 50 (16.89%) Zero Trust
13 49 (16.55%) Firewall
13 49 (16.55%) Incident Response
14 48 (16.22%) Microsoft
15 45 (15.20%) TOGAF
16 43 (14.53%) Identity Access Management
17 41 (13.85%) Vulnerability Management
18 40 (13.51%) SIEM
19 36 (12.16%) Roadmaps
20 35 (11.82%) GCP
20 35 (11.82%) GDPR
21 34 (11.49%) DevSecOps
22 33 (11.15%) CI/CD
23 32 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 31 (10.47%) Risk Management
25 30 (10.14%) SABSA
26 28 (9.46%) CISM
27 27 (9.12%) Architectural Patterns

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 (4.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.34%) nginx
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 89 (30.07%) AWS
2 88 (29.73%) Azure
3 35 (11.82%) GCP
4 21 (7.09%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.04%) SaaS
6 8 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 8 (2.70%) AWS KMS
6 8 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (2.70%) PaaS
7 7 (2.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.36%) GitHub
7 7 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.03%) IaaS
9 3 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.68%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 53 (17.91%) Network Security
2 49 (16.55%) Firewall
3 13 (4.39%) VPN
4 12 (4.05%) WAN
5 11 (3.72%) LAN
6 10 (3.38%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.70%) NGFW
8 5 (1.69%) DNS
8 5 (1.69%) IPsec
9 4 (1.35%) BGP
9 4 (1.35%) SSL
9 4 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.01%) DHCP
10 3 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.01%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.01%) OSPF
10 3 (1.01%) Skype
10 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.01%) VSAN
11 2 (0.68%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.04%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (4.39%) JIRA
2 5 (1.69%) Git
3 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 67 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.91%) Finance
3 36 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.74%) Banking
6 8 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.70%) Legal
7 7 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.01%) Electronics
10 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.01%) Marketing
10 3 (1.01%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Police
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.70%) SAML
2 6 (2.03%) OAuth
3 5 (1.69%) OpenID
3 5 (1.69%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.69%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.35%) Google JAX
4 4 (1.35%) JAX
4 4 (1.35%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.01%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.68%) .NET
6 2 (0.68%) Kafka
6 2 (0.68%) Middleware
6 2 (0.68%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.34%) ADO
7 1 (0.34%) JAAS
7 1 (0.34%) JSSE
7 1 (0.34%) JWT
7 1 (0.34%) LDAP
7 1 (0.34%) REST
7 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.45%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.07%) PKI
4 14 (4.73%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.73%) Operational Technology
5 11 (3.72%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.04%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.36%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.69%) SCADA
10 5 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.69%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.72%) Windows
2 7 (2.36%) Linux
3 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.68%) Unix
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (48.31%) Security Architecture
2 89 (30.07%) Cybersecurity
3 71 (23.99%) Cloud Security
4 57 (19.26%) Threat Modelling
5 50 (16.89%) Zero Trust
6 49 (16.55%) Incident Response
7 45 (15.20%) TOGAF
8 43 (14.53%) Identity Access Management
9 41 (13.85%) Vulnerability Management
10 40 (13.51%) SIEM
11 36 (12.16%) Roadmaps
12 34 (11.49%) DevSecOps
13 33 (11.15%) CI/CD
14 32 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (10.47%) Risk Management
16 30 (10.14%) SABSA
17 27 (9.12%) Architectural Patterns
17 27 (9.12%) Regulatory Compliance
18 26 (8.78%) Information Security
19 24 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.72%) Python
2 10 (3.38%) Java
3 5 (1.69%) C
3 5 (1.69%) R
4 4 (1.35%) C++
4 4 (1.35%) SQL
5 3 (1.01%) Bicep
6 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) Bash
7 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.34%) ProC
7 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 101 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 63 (21.28%) CISSP
4 28 (9.46%) CISM
5 24 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 21 (7.09%) Degree
7 20 (6.76%) AWS Certification
8 14 (4.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (4.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (3.72%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.72%) CCSP
10 10 (3.38%) CCNP
11 7 (2.36%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.03%) CCIE
13 5 (1.69%) GIAC
13 5 (1.69%) PhD
14 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (1.01%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (24.32%) NIST
2 55 (18.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (11.82%) GDPR
4 23 (7.77%) PCI DSS
5 22 (7.43%) NCSC
6 11 (3.72%) EU AI Act
7 8 (2.70%) PSD2
8 7 (2.36%) QA
9 6 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.35%) GRC
10 4 (1.35%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.35%) JSP 440
11 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (1.01%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.68%) RMADS
12 2 (0.68%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.34%) COBIT
13 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 8 (2.70%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (7.09%) Terraform
2 16 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.03%) Ansible
3 6 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.01%) OPNET
4 3 (1.01%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.68%) SCCM
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.34%) logstash
Vendors
1 48 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.77%) CyberArk
3 14 (4.73%) Cisco
3 14 (4.73%) Palo Alto
3 14 (4.73%) Splunk
4 11 (3.72%) BiZZdesign
4 11 (3.72%) Centrify
5 10 (3.38%) Zscaler
6 9 (3.04%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.70%) Darktrace
8 7 (2.36%) CheckPoint
8 7 (2.36%) Google
8 7 (2.36%) Sparx
8 7 (2.36%) Virgin Media
9 6 (2.03%) VMware
10 5 (1.69%) F5
11 4 (1.35%) Oracle
11 4 (1.35%) SAP
11 4 (1.35%) Thycotic
12 3 (1.01%) LogRhythm