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 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 257 259
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 296 265 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.94% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.01% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 172 213
10th Percentile £480 £526 £536
25th Percentile £537 £607 £625
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 £849
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -1.82%
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 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 28,943 26,290 33,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 92.90% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,488 16,329 23,123
10th Percentile £300 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
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 1,752 823 1,420
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.78 £14.69
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% -23.71% +39.03%
75th Percentile £61.19 £64.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.35 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -27.78% +38.46%

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 31 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 31 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 -17 127 £650 -5.45% 60
South East +3 64 £650 +4.00% 126
North of England -17 60 £625 -16.67% 152
Yorkshire -22 33 £544 -22.32% 62
South West -3 21 £650 - 77
North West -22 16 £701 -6.60% 78
Midlands -34 13 £675 -3.57% 116
North East - 12 £738 - 12
West Midlands -32 11 £675 -3.57% 59
East of England -17 5 £520 +15.56% 94
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 49
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 144 (48.65%) Security Architecture
2 101 (34.12%) Security Cleared
3 90 (30.41%) Cybersecurity
4 89 (30.07%) AWS
5 88 (29.73%) Azure
6 72 (24.32%) NIST
7 71 (23.99%) Cloud Security
8 67 (22.64%) SC Cleared
9 63 (21.28%) CISSP
10 58 (19.59%) Threat Modelling
11 55 (18.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 53 (17.91%) Network Security
13 50 (16.89%) Zero Trust
14 49 (16.55%) Firewall
14 49 (16.55%) Incident Response
15 48 (16.22%) Microsoft
16 45 (15.20%) TOGAF
17 44 (14.86%) Identity Access Management
18 42 (14.19%) Vulnerability Management
19 41 (13.85%) SIEM
20 36 (12.16%) Roadmaps
21 35 (11.82%) GCP
21 35 (11.82%) GDPR
22 34 (11.49%) DevSecOps
23 33 (11.15%) CI/CD
24 32 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 31 (10.47%) Risk Management
26 30 (10.14%) SABSA
27 28 (9.46%) CISM
28 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%) Wireshark
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 54 (18.24%) Finance
3 36 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.08%) Banking
5 8 (2.70%) Financial Institution
5 8 (2.70%) Legal
6 7 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.01%) Electronics
9 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.01%) Marketing
9 3 (1.01%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 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%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.34%) JAAS
7 1 (0.34%) JSSE
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%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.05%) Windows
2 8 (2.70%) Linux
3 4 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Unix
4 3 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (48.65%) Security Architecture
2 90 (30.41%) Cybersecurity
3 71 (23.99%) Cloud Security
4 58 (19.59%) Threat Modelling
5 50 (16.89%) Zero Trust
6 49 (16.55%) Incident Response
7 45 (15.20%) TOGAF
8 44 (14.86%) Identity Access Management
9 42 (14.19%) Vulnerability Management
10 41 (13.85%) 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%) GAMP
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%) Juniper