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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 208 222
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 505 346 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 1.27% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.38% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 228 238
10th Percentile £476 £513 £500
25th Percentile £550 £588 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £775 £750 £779
90th Percentile £848 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £638 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.56% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile - £86.00 £81.86
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 £83.25 £102.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £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 41,608 25,011 33,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.87% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,417 16,274 22,046
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,980 1,235 2,309
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.64 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +64.82% -31.46% -6.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.37 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.69% -36.75% -5.88%

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 18 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 18 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 -16 247 £656 -2.78% 43
South East -7 102 £653 +8.83% 33
North of England -59 60 £664 -5.14% 12
Midlands -24 51 £613 -19.67% 5
West Midlands -31 49 £625 -18.03% 4
North West -30 46 £700 - 9
South West -51 20 £614 -5.58% 6
Yorkshire -34 12 £475 -13.64% 3
East of England -15 7 £625 +25.00% 4
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 18 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.

1 239 (47.33%) Security Architecture
2 229 (45.35%) Security Cleared
3 181 (35.84%) Cybersecurity
4 145 (28.71%) SC Cleared
5 134 (26.53%) Azure
6 129 (25.54%) Threat Modelling
7 119 (23.56%) Cloud Security
8 116 (22.97%) AWS
9 102 (20.20%) CISSP
10 93 (18.42%) NIST
11 78 (15.45%) Network Security
12 73 (14.46%) Architectural Patterns
13 72 (14.26%) DV Cleared
13 72 (14.26%) Zero Trust
14 69 (13.66%) Risk Management
15 68 (13.47%) TOGAF
16 62 (12.28%) GCP
17 61 (12.08%) AI
18 59 (11.68%) DevSecOps
19 57 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
20 55 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 55 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
21 53 (10.50%) Identity Access Management
21 53 (10.50%) SABSA
22 52 (10.30%) Roadmaps
23 50 (9.90%) CI/CD
24 49 (9.70%) DevOps
25 47 (9.31%) CISM
26 45 (8.91%) Application Security
27 43 (8.51%) 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 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.40%) Confluence
2 2 (0.40%) SAS
3 1 (0.20%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.20%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (26.53%) Azure
2 116 (22.97%) AWS
3 62 (12.28%) GCP
4 27 (5.35%) Entra ID
5 16 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (2.57%) SaaS
7 11 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (0.79%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (0.79%) AWS KMS
9 4 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.79%) GitHub
9 4 (0.79%) Serverless
10 3 (0.59%) Akamai
10 3 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.59%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (0.59%) IaaS
10 3 (0.59%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 78 (15.45%) Network Security
2 36 (7.13%) Firewall
3 13 (2.57%) VPN
4 8 (1.58%) IPsec
4 8 (1.58%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.39%) NGFW
5 7 (1.39%) VLAN
5 7 (1.39%) WAN
6 5 (0.99%) 4G
7 4 (0.79%) 5G
7 4 (0.79%) BGP
7 4 (0.79%) Intranet
7 4 (0.79%) MPLS
7 4 (0.79%) OSPF
7 4 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.59%) DNS
9 2 (0.40%) DHCP
9 2 (0.40%) LAN
9 2 (0.40%) MQTT
9 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.40%) Big Data
2 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.20%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (1.19%) Jenkins
1 6 (1.19%) JIRA
2 4 (0.79%) Snyk
3 3 (0.59%) GitLab
4 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.20%) AppScan
5 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.20%) Metasploit
General
1 88 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 60 (11.88%) Finance
4 33 (6.53%) Banking
5 21 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (1.98%) Legal
8 9 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.58%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.58%) Military
10 6 (1.19%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.99%) Retail
12 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.40%) Law
13 2 (0.40%) Police
14 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.20%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.38%) OAuth
2 9 (1.78%) OAuth2
2 9 (1.78%) OpenID
3 7 (1.39%) SAML
4 6 (1.19%) REST
4 6 (1.19%) SLSA
5 5 (0.99%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.79%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (0.79%) J2EE
6 4 (0.79%) JSP
6 4 (0.79%) JWT
6 4 (0.79%) LDAP
7 3 (0.59%) HTML
7 3 (0.59%) LangChain
7 3 (0.59%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.59%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.59%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.40%) .NET
8 2 (0.40%) ADO
8 2 (0.40%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.31%) Security Posture
2 39 (7.72%) Cloud Native
3 33 (6.53%) Operational Technology
4 24 (4.75%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.79%) Genomics
13 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.79%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.79%) SCADA
13 4 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.78%) Linux
2 8 (1.58%) Windows
3 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.79%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (47.33%) Security Architecture
2 181 (35.84%) Cybersecurity
3 129 (25.54%) Threat Modelling
4 119 (23.56%) Cloud Security
5 73 (14.46%) Architectural Patterns
6 72 (14.26%) Zero Trust
7 69 (13.66%) Risk Management
8 68 (13.47%) TOGAF
9 61 (12.08%) AI
10 59 (11.68%) DevSecOps
11 55 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 55 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (10.50%) Identity Access Management
12 53 (10.50%) SABSA
13 52 (10.30%) Roadmaps
14 50 (9.90%) CI/CD
15 49 (9.70%) DevOps
16 45 (8.91%) Application Security
17 43 (8.51%) Data Protection
17 43 (8.51%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.57%) Python
2 10 (1.98%) Java
3 7 (1.39%) Bicep
3 7 (1.39%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.59%) SQL
6 2 (0.40%) Bash
6 2 (0.40%) Groovy
6 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.20%) Lisp
7 1 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 229 (45.35%) Security Cleared
2 145 (28.71%) SC Cleared
3 102 (20.20%) CISSP
4 72 (14.26%) DV Cleared
5 47 (9.31%) CISM
6 36 (7.13%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (5.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (4.36%) Degree
9 19 (3.76%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.76%) CCSP
10 16 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (2.77%) GIAC
12 10 (1.98%) CEH
13 9 (1.78%) CISA
14 8 (1.58%) SANS
15 7 (1.39%) OSCP
16 6 (1.19%) Azure Certification
16 6 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (1.19%) ISSAP
17 5 (0.99%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (18.42%) NIST
2 57 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (8.12%) NCSC
4 23 (4.55%) GDPR
5 21 (4.16%) NIST 800
6 19 (3.76%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.18%) GRC
8 8 (1.58%) COBIT
8 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (1.39%) JSP 440
10 6 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 6 (1.19%) ISO 19650
10 6 (1.19%) QA
11 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.59%) IFRS
13 3 (0.59%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 17 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.39%) Docker
3 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) KVM
5 1 (0.20%) Varnish
5 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.16%) Terraform
3 9 (1.78%) Ansible
4 4 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.59%) QRadar
6 2 (0.40%) CASB
6 2 (0.40%) Istio
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.20%) Nessus
7 1 (0.20%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) SELinux
7 1 (0.20%) Suricata
Vendors
1 42 (8.32%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.76%) Splunk
3 16 (3.17%) Google
4 15 (2.97%) Okta
5 13 (2.57%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.18%) Cisco
6 11 (2.18%) Tenable
7 10 (1.98%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.58%) Qualys
8 8 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.19%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.19%) SAP
10 6 (1.19%) Zscaler
11 5 (0.99%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (0.79%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.59%) BeyondTrust
13 3 (0.59%) Cribl.io
13 3 (0.59%) TOWER Software