Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 225 215
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 168 162 246
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.01% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.07% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 93 189
10th Percentile £513 £500 £560
25th Percentile £613 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £715 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +2.14% -
75th Percentile £775 £823 £775
90th Percentile £800 £885 £838
England median daily rate £675 £700 £680
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £88.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £94.69 - £72.50
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - £73.92
% change year-on-year - - +5.60%

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 12,372 15,124 19,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.07% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,262 9,866 14,212
10th Percentile £335 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 173 212
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.15 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.89 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.17% -13.58% +22.73%
75th Percentile £49.00 £58.75 £61.59
90th Percentile £67.75 £78.75 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +66.53%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Security Architect job vacancy trend in London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in London

Security 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 Security Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 +13 26 £675 -15.63% 4
South London - 3 £750 -
West London - 3 £515 - 1
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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 London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 90 (53.57%) Security Architecture
2 69 (41.07%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (39.29%) AWS
4 63 (37.50%) Azure
5 51 (30.36%) Cloud Security
6 50 (29.76%) Finance
7 45 (26.79%) SIEM
8 43 (25.60%) Security Cleared
9 41 (24.40%) SC Cleared
9 41 (24.40%) NIST
10 37 (22.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 34 (20.24%) Splunk
12 32 (19.05%) CISSP
13 30 (17.86%) Firewall
13 30 (17.86%) Threat Modelling
14 28 (16.67%) SaaS
15 27 (16.07%) GCP
15 27 (16.07%) Security Operations
16 26 (15.48%) GDPR
16 26 (15.48%) Social Skills
16 26 (15.48%) Incident Response
16 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
17 25 (14.88%) SABSA
17 25 (14.88%) Vulnerability Management
18 24 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
18 24 (14.29%) Risk Management
18 24 (14.29%) TOGAF
19 23 (13.69%) Use Case
19 23 (13.69%) Network Security
20 21 (12.50%) Onboarding

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) IBM Transformation Extender
2 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.29%) AWS
2 63 (37.50%) Azure
3 28 (16.67%) SaaS
4 27 (16.07%) GCP
5 19 (11.31%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (11.31%) Amazon S3
5 19 (11.31%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.57%) IaaS
8 4 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.79%) GitHub
9 3 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.19%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.19%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.86%) Firewall
2 23 (13.69%) Network Security
3 6 (3.57%) NGFW
4 4 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.38%) VPN
5 3 (1.79%) DNS
5 3 (1.79%) SSL
5 3 (1.79%) WAN
6 2 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.19%) LAN
6 2 (1.19%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.19%) SAN
6 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.60%) BGP
7 1 (0.60%) DMZ
7 1 (0.60%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.60%) Internet
7 1 (0.60%) OSPF
7 1 (0.60%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.79%) GIS
2 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
3 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.38%) JIRA
2 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.19%) Git
3 2 (1.19%) GitLab
General
1 50 (29.76%) Finance
2 26 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.31%) Banking
3 19 (11.31%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.36%) Financial Institution
5 8 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.17%) Legal
7 5 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.38%) Military
8 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.60%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.79%) .NET
1 3 (1.79%) OAuth
1 3 (1.79%) SAML
2 2 (1.19%) OAuth2
2 2 (1.19%) OpenID
2 2 (1.19%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.19%) Web Services
3 1 (0.60%) React
3 1 (0.60%) REST
3 1 (0.60%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 19 (11.31%) CSOC
2 19 (11.31%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (8.93%) Security Posture
4 11 (6.55%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.17%) PKI
5 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.98%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.98%) NHS
6 5 (2.98%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.79%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.14%) Windows
2 8 (4.76%) Linux
3 7 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.79%) Unix
5 2 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (53.57%) Security Architecture
2 69 (41.07%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (30.36%) Cloud Security
4 45 (26.79%) SIEM
5 30 (17.86%) Threat Modelling
6 27 (16.07%) Security Operations
7 26 (15.48%) Incident Response
8 25 (14.88%) SABSA
8 25 (14.88%) Vulnerability Management
9 24 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 24 (14.29%) Risk Management
9 24 (14.29%) TOGAF
10 23 (13.69%) Use Case
11 21 (12.50%) DevSecOps
11 21 (12.50%) SOAR
12 19 (11.31%) Data Loss Prevention
12 19 (11.31%) IT Strategy
13 18 (10.71%) Technology Strategy
14 17 (10.12%) Information Security
15 16 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.57%) Python
2 3 (1.79%) Java
3 2 (1.19%) Bash
3 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.60%) PHP
4 1 (0.60%) R
4 1 (0.60%) SQL
4 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.40%) SC Cleared
3 32 (19.05%) CISSP
4 18 (10.71%) CISM
5 9 (5.36%) Degree
6 7 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.57%) GIAC
8 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.38%) CCSP
8 4 (2.38%) CISA
9 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.79%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.79%) PMP
9 3 (1.79%) SANS
9 3 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (1.19%) ISSAP
10 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (24.40%) NIST
2 37 (22.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (15.48%) GDPR
4 15 (8.93%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.76%) HIPAA
5 8 (4.76%) NCSC
6 6 (3.57%) EU AI Act
7 5 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
9 2 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (1.19%) GRC
9 2 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 13 (7.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.17%) Terraform
2 2 (1.19%) Ansible
2 2 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.19%) SELinux
2 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 34 (20.24%) Splunk
2 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.74%) CyberArk
4 8 (4.76%) Darktrace
5 7 (4.17%) Cisco
6 6 (3.57%) Google
7 5 (2.98%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.98%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.79%) ESRI
9 2 (1.19%) F5
9 2 (1.19%) IBM
9 2 (1.19%) Okta
9 2 (1.19%) Oracle
9 2 (1.19%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.19%) Saba
9 2 (1.19%) SAP
9 2 (1.19%) Tufin
9 2 (1.19%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.60%) Sparx