Cybersecurity Architect Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Architect
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 366 452
Rank change year-on-year +22 +86 +112
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 9 25 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 29
10th Percentile £510 £500 £625
25th Percentile £550 £563 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £705
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -0.71% -11.88%
75th Percentile £725 £825 £838
90th Percentile £772 - £888
England median daily rate £625 £738 £700
% change year-on-year -15.25% +5.36% -9.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in London

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London - 3 £600 - 1
West London +10 1 - -
Cybersecurity Architect
England

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cybersecurity 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (22.22%) NIST
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Degree
5 2 (22.22%) Google
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
5 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 1 (11.11%) Big Data
6 1 (11.11%) Big Data Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP ERP
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Data Extraction
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Data Security
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (11.11%) SAP Implementation
5 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CISM
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Tufin
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler