Security Architect Contracts in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £673, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 208 243
Rank change year-on-year -22 +35 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 276 417 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.15% 1.13% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.22% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 256 358
10th Percentile £531 £519 £550
25th Percentile £600 £629 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £741 £782 £775
90th Percentile £800 £850 £838
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 16
10th Percentile £69.68 £81.86 -
25th Percentile £71.82 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +24.94% -
75th Percentile £85.22 £87.50 £71.06
90th Percentile £86.59 £87.53 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.50% +24.94% -

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 22,187 34,108 44,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.74% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,690 22,536 31,954
10th Percentile £293 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 2,538 1,319
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architect 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 30 May 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 +22 175 £675 -10.00% 62
South West +47 29 £656 +5.00% 54
South East -19 28 £613 -5.77% 104
North of England -18 17 £650 -2.40% 68
West Midlands +26 15 £651 -19.94% 26
Midlands +24 15 £651 -20.67% 49
North West -9 14 £667 -0.34% 33
Yorkshire +6 2 £550 -8.33% 24
North East 0 1 £625 - 11
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 129 (46.74%) Security Architecture
2 104 (37.68%) Security Cleared
3 95 (34.42%) Azure
4 91 (32.97%) Cybersecurity
5 85 (30.80%) NIST
6 83 (30.07%) Cloud Security
7 82 (29.71%) AWS
7 82 (29.71%) SC Cleared
8 59 (21.38%) CISSP
9 57 (20.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 55 (19.93%) Social Skills
10 55 (19.93%) Threat Modelling
11 53 (19.20%) Public Sector
12 52 (18.84%) Risk Management
13 50 (18.12%) Finance
13 50 (18.12%) SIEM
13 50 (18.12%) Identity Access Management
14 48 (17.39%) Firewall
15 43 (15.58%) Microsoft
16 41 (14.86%) Network Security
17 40 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
18 39 (14.13%) GCP
19 36 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
20 34 (12.32%) SABSA
20 34 (12.32%) Roadmaps
20 34 (12.32%) Security Posture
21 33 (11.96%) Information Security
22 32 (11.59%) CISM
22 32 (11.59%) Security Operations
22 32 (11.59%) GDPR

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.42%) Azure
2 82 (29.71%) AWS
3 39 (14.13%) GCP
4 28 (10.14%) SaaS
5 16 (5.80%) Entra ID
6 15 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (5.43%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.62%) OCI
9 8 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.81%) IaaS
12 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.45%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (1.09%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (1.09%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.09%) Serverless
14 2 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.39%) Firewall
2 41 (14.86%) Network Security
3 14 (5.07%) VPN
4 12 (4.35%) DNS
5 10 (3.62%) WAN
6 9 (3.26%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.81%) BGP
8 4 (1.45%) NGFW
8 4 (1.45%) OSPF
9 3 (1.09%) IPsec
9 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.72%) DMZ
10 2 (0.72%) HTTP
10 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (0.72%) SAN
10 2 (0.72%) VSAN
10 2 (0.72%) Wireless
11 1 (0.36%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.81%) GIS
2 1 (0.36%) Big Data
2 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
2 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.90%) JIRA
2 2 (0.72%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 50 (18.12%) Finance
4 18 (6.52%) Banking
4 18 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.99%) Legal
7 9 (3.26%) Military
7 9 (3.26%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.54%) Marketing
9 5 (1.81%) Law
9 5 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Electronics
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.72%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.36%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.36%) Police
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.35%) OAuth
1 12 (4.35%) SAML
2 11 (3.99%) OpenID
3 8 (2.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.90%) SailPoint
4 3 (1.09%) .NET
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Axis
5 2 (0.72%) LDAP
5 2 (0.72%) React
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.32%) Security Posture
2 19 (6.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 18 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.43%) CSOC
5 12 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 9 (3.26%) PKI
7 7 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.54%) SCADA
8 6 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.45%) IoT
10 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.09%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.25%) Windows
2 11 (3.99%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.90%) Linux
4 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (46.74%) Security Architecture
2 91 (32.97%) Cybersecurity
3 83 (30.07%) Cloud Security
4 55 (19.93%) Threat Modelling
5 52 (18.84%) Risk Management
6 50 (18.12%) Identity Access Management
6 50 (18.12%) SIEM
7 40 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
9 34 (12.32%) Roadmaps
9 34 (12.32%) SABSA
10 33 (11.96%) Information Security
11 32 (11.59%) Security Operations
12 28 (10.14%) DevSecOps
13 25 (9.06%) Incident Response
14 22 (7.97%) Application Security
14 22 (7.97%) Data Loss Prevention
14 22 (7.97%) Risk Assessment
14 22 (7.97%) TOGAF
15 21 (7.61%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.80%) Python
2 13 (4.71%) Java
3 7 (2.54%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.81%) Bash
5 4 (1.45%) SQL
6 3 (1.09%) C#
7 2 (0.72%) PHP
7 2 (0.72%) Ruby
7 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 104 (37.68%) Security Cleared
2 82 (29.71%) SC Cleared
3 59 (21.38%) CISSP
4 32 (11.59%) CISM
5 24 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 17 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (5.80%) Degree
8 14 (5.07%) AWS Certification
8 14 (5.07%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.26%) GIAC
12 8 (2.90%) CISA
13 7 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.54%) OCP
13 7 (2.54%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (2.17%) SANS
15 5 (1.81%) CCSK
15 5 (1.81%) CEH
15 5 (1.81%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (30.80%) NIST
2 57 (20.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (11.59%) GDPR
4 22 (7.97%) PCI DSS
5 19 (6.88%) GRC
6 14 (5.07%) NCSC
7 11 (3.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (3.26%) HIPAA
9 9 (3.26%) NIST 800
10 7 (2.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (1.45%) JSP 440
12 3 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (1.09%) PMO
13 2 (0.72%) COBIT
13 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.36%) FISMA
14 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 22 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.72%) Docker
3 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (3.99%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.81%) Terraform
4 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.09%) CASB
5 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.72%) Ansible
6 2 (0.72%) SCCM
6 2 (0.72%) SELinux
7 1 (0.36%) Grafana
7 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.36%) OPNET
7 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Puppet
7 1 (0.36%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 43 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.88%) Splunk
3 16 (5.80%) Google
4 14 (5.07%) Oracle
5 12 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.99%) Fortinet
7 9 (3.26%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.90%) Cisco
8 8 (2.90%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.54%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.54%) Qualys
9 7 (2.54%) SAP
10 5 (1.81%) ESRI
10 5 (1.81%) Tufin
11 4 (1.45%) AlgoSec
11 4 (1.45%) Okta
11 4 (1.45%) Ping Identity
12 3 (1.09%) F5
12 3 (1.09%) Meraki
12 3 (1.09%) VMware