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 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 246 239
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 343 257 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.01% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.08% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 190 223
10th Percentile £461 £550 £519
25th Percentile £513 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £738 £750 £788
90th Percentile £775 £835 £888
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 - £78.88
25th Percentile £84.06 £68.26 £81.88
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 32,550 23,727 35,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.93% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,634 15,162 23,595
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
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 2,105 745 2,215
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.13 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year - +2.19% -14.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.95 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.06 £34.53
% change year-on-year -1.63% -1.38% -13.68%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -24 158 £645 -4.44% 50
South East -14 61 £650 +4.00% 30
North of England -17 59 £600 -10.28% 18
Midlands -29 38 £675 -3.57% 16
West Midlands -31 34 £675 -3.57% 11
Yorkshire -39 32 £525 -21.05% 2
North West -25 25 £701 +4.75% 16
South West -39 11 £588 -9.62% 8
East of England -24 6 £520 -
East Midlands - 4 £438 - 5
North East - 2 £545 -
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 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.

1 148 (43.15%) Security Architecture
2 140 (40.82%) Security Cleared
3 110 (32.07%) Cybersecurity
4 95 (27.70%) Azure
5 93 (27.11%) SC Cleared
6 86 (25.07%) AWS
7 73 (21.28%) Cloud Security
8 72 (20.99%) Threat Modelling
9 69 (20.12%) CISSP
10 66 (19.24%) Zero Trust
11 65 (18.95%) Network Security
12 64 (18.66%) NIST
13 54 (15.74%) TOGAF
14 52 (15.16%) Identity Access Management
15 49 (14.29%) SIEM
16 47 (13.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 46 (13.41%) Risk Management
18 45 (13.12%) Firewall
18 45 (13.12%) Microsoft
19 44 (12.83%) Incident Response
20 42 (12.24%) GCP
20 42 (12.24%) Vulnerability Management
21 40 (11.66%) DevSecOps
22 39 (11.37%) SABSA
23 36 (10.50%) CISM
24 35 (10.20%) CI/CD
24 35 (10.20%) DV Cleared
25 31 (9.04%) Network Segmentation
26 30 (8.75%) Application Security
26 30 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 15 (4.37%) Confluence
2 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (27.70%) Azure
2 86 (25.07%) AWS
3 42 (12.24%) GCP
4 26 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.50%) SaaS
6 11 (3.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 9 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.04%) AWS KMS
9 7 (2.04%) GitHub
10 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (1.75%) PaaS
10 6 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.17%) Akamai
12 4 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.17%) IaaS
13 3 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 65 (18.95%) Network Security
2 45 (13.12%) Firewall
3 19 (5.54%) VPN
4 15 (4.37%) WAN
5 12 (3.50%) LAN
6 11 (3.21%) SD-WAN
7 8 (2.33%) NGFW
8 7 (2.04%) DNS
9 6 (1.75%) BGP
9 6 (1.75%) IPsec
9 6 (1.75%) OSPF
10 4 (1.17%) DHCP
10 4 (1.17%) MQTT
11 3 (0.87%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.87%) MPLS
11 3 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.87%) SSL
11 3 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (3.79%) JIRA
2 4 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.87%) GitLab
3 3 (0.87%) Snyk
4 1 (0.29%) AppScan
4 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.29%) Git
4 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
General
1 62 (18.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.58%) Finance
3 47 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 17 (4.96%) Banking
5 13 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (2.33%) Legal
7 7 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Law
10 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.58%) Retail
11 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.21%) OAuth
1 11 (3.21%) SAML
2 10 (2.92%) OpenID
3 8 (2.33%) OAuth2
4 6 (1.75%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.17%) ADO
5 4 (1.17%) JWT
5 4 (1.17%) Middleware
6 3 (0.87%) REST
7 2 (0.58%) .NET
7 2 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.58%) Kafka
7 2 (0.58%) LDAP
8 1 (0.29%) Flask
8 1 (0.29%) J2EE
8 1 (0.29%) JAAS
8 1 (0.29%) JSP
8 1 (0.29%) JSSE
8 1 (0.29%) React
8 1 (0.29%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.12%) Operational Technology
3 16 (4.66%) Security Posture
4 15 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.92%) PKI
7 9 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.33%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.46%) SCADA
10 5 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.46%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.87%) NHS
12 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.79%) Windows
2 8 (2.33%) Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Android
3 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.58%) Unix
3 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.15%) Security Architecture
2 110 (32.07%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (21.28%) Cloud Security
4 72 (20.99%) Threat Modelling
5 66 (19.24%) Zero Trust
6 54 (15.74%) TOGAF
7 52 (15.16%) Identity Access Management
8 49 (14.29%) SIEM
9 46 (13.41%) Risk Management
10 44 (12.83%) Incident Response
11 42 (12.24%) Vulnerability Management
12 40 (11.66%) DevSecOps
13 39 (11.37%) SABSA
14 35 (10.20%) CI/CD
15 31 (9.04%) Network Segmentation
16 30 (8.75%) Application Security
16 30 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 29 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
18 28 (8.16%) Information Security
18 28 (8.16%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.33%) Java
1 8 (2.33%) Python
2 3 (0.87%) Bicep
2 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
2 3 (0.87%) SQL
3 2 (0.58%) C
3 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
3 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.58%) Swift
4 1 (0.29%) Bash
4 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.29%) Lisp
4 1 (0.29%) ProC
4 1 (0.29%) R
4 1 (0.29%) RPG
4 1 (0.29%) VB
4 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 140 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 93 (27.11%) SC Cleared
3 69 (20.12%) CISSP
4 36 (10.50%) CISM
5 35 (10.20%) DV Cleared
6 28 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (7.00%) Degree
8 18 (5.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (4.96%) AWS Certification
10 15 (4.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (4.08%) CCSP
12 9 (2.62%) CCNP
12 9 (2.62%) GIAC
13 8 (2.33%) CCIE
14 7 (2.04%) Azure Certification
14 7 (2.04%) Master's Degree
15 6 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.46%) PhD
17 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (18.66%) NIST
2 47 (13.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (7.58%) GDPR
3 26 (7.58%) NCSC
4 19 (5.54%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.04%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.04%) GRC
6 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.17%) JSP 440
6 4 (1.17%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.87%) COBIT
7 3 (0.87%) PSD2
7 3 (0.87%) RMADS
7 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.58%) QA
9 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (7.00%) Terraform
2 16 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.33%) Ansible
4 7 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.87%) SCCM
6 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.29%) Kibana
7 1 (0.29%) logstash
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) Nessus
7 1 (0.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.29%) SELinux
Vendors
1 45 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.12%) CyberArk
3 19 (5.54%) Splunk
4 16 (4.66%) BiZZdesign
5 14 (4.08%) Cisco
6 11 (3.21%) Centrify
6 11 (3.21%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.92%) CheckPoint
7 10 (2.92%) Zscaler
8 7 (2.04%) F5
8 7 (2.04%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.04%) Google
8 7 (2.04%) Okta
8 7 (2.04%) Tenable
8 7 (2.04%) Virgin Media
9 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.75%) Sparx
10 4 (1.17%) Darktrace
10 4 (1.17%) Juniper
10 4 (1.17%) Thycotic