Senior Security Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Security Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in England is £671, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 478 511
Rank change year-on-year -34 +33 +226
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 25 18 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.079% 0.062% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.067% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 24
10th Percentile £622 - £600
25th Percentile £630 £663 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £788 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +12.50% -6.67%
75th Percentile £750 £819 £775
90th Percentile £772 £834 £793
UK median daily rate £671 £788 £673
% change year-on-year -14.79% +17.10% -10.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75.12
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £81.24
75th Percentile - - £84.99
90th Percentile - - £85.36
UK median hourly rate - - £81.24

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 28,730 26,847 34,730
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.95% 93.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,314 16,727 23,863
10th Percentile £293 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -1.50% -3.09%
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 1,773 846 1,347
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.83 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.22% +40.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Security Architect job vacancy trend in England

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Security Architect job vacancies in England

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Security Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Security Architect job vacancies in England

Senior 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 Senior Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England - 12 £725 - 3
London +1 10 £662 -17.25% 2
North East - 5 £725 -
North West - 5 £722 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - - 2
South West - 1 - - 1
Senior Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 14 (56.00%) Security Architecture
3 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) CISSP
3 10 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 7 (28.00%) Microservices
4 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
5 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (24.00%) QA
5 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (24.00%) Use Case
6 5 (20.00%) Application Security
6 5 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (20.00%) GCP
6 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (20.00%) SIEM
7 4 (16.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (16.00%) Attestation
7 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (16.00%) Data Security
7 4 (16.00%) DevOps
7 4 (16.00%) IT Strategy
7 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) HTTP
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Legal
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (12.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Security Architecture
2 10 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 7 (28.00%) Microservices
4 6 (24.00%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (24.00%) Use Case
5 5 (20.00%) Application Security
5 5 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (20.00%) SIEM
6 4 (16.00%) Attestation
6 4 (16.00%) Data Security
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) IT Strategy
6 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (12.00%) Database Security
7 3 (12.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Bash
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) PHP
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) CISSP
2 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (12.00%) CEH
6 2 (8.00%) GIAC
7 1 (4.00%) CISM
7 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (4.00%) ISEB
7 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (12.00%) EU AI Act
3 3 (12.00%) NIST
4 2 (8.00%) GDPR
4 2 (8.00%) GRC
4 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (8.00%) SOC 1
5 1 (4.00%) COBIT
5 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Cribl.io
3 1 (4.00%) F5
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto