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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 214 207
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 471 312 429
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 1.24% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.34% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 209 256
10th Percentile £465 £528 £500
25th Percentile £525 £600 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £775 £765 £776
90th Percentile £850 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £634 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.07% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile - £84.25 £81.86
25th Percentile - £86.88 £81.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £92.50 £87.46
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +5.76% +24.94%
75th Percentile £83.25 £96.88 £87.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £98.75 £87.53
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £92.50 £87.46
% change year-on-year -10.27% +5.76% +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 40,088 23,260 34,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.28% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,631 15,261 22,669
10th Percentile £325 £293 £293
25th Percentile £418 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,855 1,061 2,606
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.85 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.67
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.86% -29.47% -12.79%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -22 233 £650 -3.70% 44
South East -3 89 £650 +6.12% 28
North of England -31 61 £675 +0.30% 5
Midlands -34 50 £613 -19.67% 8
North West -18 47 £707 +4.76% 5
West Midlands -32 47 £625 -18.03% 7
South West -49 18 £614 -5.58% 13
Yorkshire -37 12 £675 +22.73%
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 1
East of England -28 2 £750 - 3
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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.

1 217 (46.07%) Security Architecture
2 208 (44.16%) Security Cleared
3 170 (36.09%) Cybersecurity
4 130 (27.60%) SC Cleared
5 129 (27.39%) Threat Modelling
6 120 (25.48%) Azure
7 107 (22.72%) AWS
7 107 (22.72%) Cloud Security
8 86 (18.26%) NIST
9 79 (16.77%) CISSP
10 75 (15.92%) Zero Trust
11 73 (15.50%) Network Security
12 71 (15.07%) Architectural Patterns
13 61 (12.95%) DV Cleared
13 61 (12.95%) GCP
14 57 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 57 (12.10%) Risk Management
15 53 (11.25%) TOGAF
16 50 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (10.40%) Application Security
17 49 (10.40%) Identity Access Management
18 48 (10.19%) SABSA
18 48 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 47 (9.98%) DevOps
20 46 (9.77%) DevSecOps
21 45 (9.55%) AI
22 42 (8.92%) SIEM
23 41 (8.70%) Data Protection
23 41 (8.70%) NCSC
24 39 (8.28%) Agile

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 5 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.42%) SAS
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.21%) nginx
4 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (25.48%) Azure
2 107 (22.72%) AWS
3 61 (12.95%) GCP
4 24 (5.10%) Entra ID
5 14 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
6 11 (2.34%) SaaS
7 8 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 6 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.85%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (0.85%) AWS KMS
10 4 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.85%) GitHub
11 3 (0.64%) Akamai
11 3 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (0.64%) Apigee
11 3 (0.64%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (0.64%) Azure API Management
11 3 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (15.50%) Network Security
2 30 (6.37%) Firewall
3 10 (2.12%) VPN
4 8 (1.70%) IPsec
4 8 (1.70%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.27%) NGFW
5 6 (1.27%) WAN
6 5 (1.06%) BGP
6 5 (1.06%) OSPF
6 5 (1.06%) VLAN
7 4 (0.85%) 4G
7 4 (0.85%) Intranet
7 4 (0.85%) MPLS
8 3 (0.64%) 5G
8 3 (0.64%) LAN
8 3 (0.64%) MQTT
8 3 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.42%) DNS
9 2 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.42%) Big Data
1 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (1.06%) JIRA
2 4 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.85%) Snyk
3 3 (0.64%) GitLab
4 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.21%) AppScan
5 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 82 (17.41%) Social Skills
2 66 (14.01%) Public Sector
3 57 (12.10%) Finance
4 31 (6.58%) Banking
5 20 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.91%) Legal
9 8 (1.70%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.49%) Military
11 6 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.85%) Law
13 4 (0.85%) Retail
14 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 1 (0.21%) Aviation
16 1 (0.21%) Investment Banking
16 1 (0.21%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.34%) OAuth
2 9 (1.91%) OAuth2
2 9 (1.91%) OpenID
3 7 (1.49%) SAML
4 5 (1.06%) J2EE
4 5 (1.06%) JSP
4 5 (1.06%) REST
4 5 (1.06%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.85%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (0.85%) JWT
5 4 (0.85%) LDAP
6 3 (0.64%) ADO
6 3 (0.64%) HTML
6 3 (0.64%) LangChain
6 3 (0.64%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.64%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.42%) .NET
7 2 (0.42%) Middleware
7 2 (0.42%) RESTful
8 1 (0.21%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.13%) Security Posture
2 37 (7.86%) Cloud Native
3 31 (6.58%) Operational Technology
4 23 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.55%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.85%) CMDB
11 4 (0.85%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (0.85%) Genomics
11 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.85%) SCADA
11 4 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.55%) Windows
2 10 (2.12%) Linux
3 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.85%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (46.07%) Security Architecture
2 170 (36.09%) Cybersecurity
3 129 (27.39%) Threat Modelling
4 107 (22.72%) Cloud Security
5 75 (15.92%) Zero Trust
6 71 (15.07%) Architectural Patterns
7 57 (12.10%) Risk Management
8 53 (11.25%) TOGAF
9 50 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 49 (10.40%) Application Security
10 49 (10.40%) Identity Access Management
11 48 (10.19%) SABSA
11 48 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 47 (9.98%) DevOps
13 46 (9.77%) DevSecOps
14 45 (9.55%) AI
15 42 (8.92%) SIEM
16 41 (8.70%) Data Protection
17 39 (8.28%) Agile
18 38 (8.07%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.55%) Python
2 11 (2.34%) Java
3 7 (1.49%) Bicep
4 6 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.42%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.42%) SQL
6 2 (0.42%) Swift
7 1 (0.21%) Lisp
7 1 (0.21%) R
7 1 (0.21%) RPG
7 1 (0.21%) VB
7 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 208 (44.16%) Security Cleared
2 130 (27.60%) SC Cleared
3 79 (16.77%) CISSP
4 61 (12.95%) DV Cleared
5 39 (8.28%) CISM
6 32 (6.79%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (5.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (4.25%) Degree
9 16 (3.40%) AWS Certification
9 16 (3.40%) CCSP
10 14 (2.97%) GIAC
11 10 (2.12%) SANS
12 9 (1.91%) CEH
13 8 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.70%) CISA
14 7 (1.49%) OSCP
15 6 (1.27%) ISSAP
16 4 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.85%) CRISC
16 4 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (18.26%) NIST
2 57 (12.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (8.70%) NCSC
4 23 (4.88%) GDPR
5 17 (3.61%) PCI DSS
6 16 (3.40%) NIST 800
7 11 (2.34%) GRC
8 9 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (1.70%) COBIT
10 6 (1.27%) ISO 19650
10 6 (1.27%) QA
11 5 (1.06%) JSP 440
11 5 (1.06%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.64%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.64%) IFRS
13 3 (0.64%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (0.64%) RMADS
System Software
1 15 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.85%) Docker
3 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.21%) KVM
5 1 (0.21%) Varnish
5 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.67%) Terraform
2 18 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.12%) Ansible
4 5 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.64%) QRadar
6 2 (0.42%) Istio
7 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.21%) Nessus
7 1 (0.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) SCCM
7 1 (0.21%) SELinux
7 1 (0.21%) Suricata
Vendors
1 39 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.03%) Splunk
3 14 (2.97%) Okta
4 12 (2.55%) Google
5 10 (2.12%) Palo Alto
5 10 (2.12%) Tenable
6 9 (1.91%) Cisco
7 8 (1.70%) Qualys
8 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.27%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.27%) SAP
9 6 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (0.85%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.85%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.85%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.64%) F5
12 3 (0.64%) MuleSoft