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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 206 217
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 259 175 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.29% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.38% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 118 116
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £550 £591 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £809
90th Percentile £900 £800 £881
England median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,676 12,645 15,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.96% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,225 8,575 10,996
10th Percentile £363 £326 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £785 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 200 217
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -14.48%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.50 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +71.10% -38.84% -

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 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 2026. 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 -2 38 £600 -10.45% 5
East London - 4 £750 - 1
West London -15 2 £925 +91.71% 7
South London -17 2 £810 +8.00%
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 2026, 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.

1 127 (49.03%) Security Architecture
2 100 (38.61%) Security Cleared
3 85 (32.82%) Azure
4 77 (29.73%) Cloud Security
5 76 (29.34%) AWS
6 75 (28.96%) SC Cleared
6 75 (28.96%) Threat Modelling
7 72 (27.80%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (21.62%) CISSP
9 50 (19.31%) GCP
10 49 (18.92%) Network Security
11 42 (16.22%) Architectural Patterns
12 41 (15.83%) TOGAF
13 38 (14.67%) NIST
14 37 (14.29%) Information Security
14 37 (14.29%) Roadmaps
15 35 (13.51%) AI
16 34 (13.13%) Risk Management
17 33 (12.74%) Identity Access Management
17 33 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (12.36%) Data Protection
18 32 (12.36%) Zero Trust
19 31 (11.97%) CISM
19 31 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 29 (11.20%) Application Security
21 28 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
22 27 (10.42%) Risk Assessment
22 27 (10.42%) SABSA
23 26 (10.04%) DevOps
24 25 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001

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 3 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.82%) Azure
2 76 (29.34%) AWS
3 50 (19.31%) GCP
4 16 (6.18%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.02%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.09%) SaaS
7 4 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.16%) AWS KMS
8 3 (1.16%) GitHub
8 3 (1.16%) OCI
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (18.92%) Network Security
2 21 (8.11%) Firewall
3 7 (2.70%) 4G
3 7 (2.70%) VPN
4 6 (2.32%) WAN
5 5 (1.93%) 5G
5 5 (1.93%) LAN
5 5 (1.93%) NGFW
5 5 (1.93%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (1.54%) Intranet
7 3 (1.16%) IPsec
8 2 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.77%) Internet
8 2 (0.77%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.39%) 3G
9 1 (0.39%) BGP
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.39%) OSPF
9 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.77%) Big Data
1 2 (0.77%) Metadata
2 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.54%) Snyk
2 2 (0.77%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 48 (18.53%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.60%) Finance
3 41 (15.83%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.27%) Banking
5 22 (8.49%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (4.63%) Legal
7 9 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.93%) Police
10 5 (1.93%) Retail
11 4 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.54%) Law
11 4 (1.54%) Local Government
12 3 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.39%) Aviation
14 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.32%) OAuth
2 4 (1.54%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (1.54%) Jakarta EE
2 4 (1.54%) JSP
3 3 (1.16%) HTML
3 3 (1.16%) REST
4 2 (0.77%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.77%) SAML
5 1 (0.39%) JWT
5 1 (0.39%) OpenID
5 1 (0.39%) React
5 1 (0.39%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.97%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.20%) Security Posture
3 16 (6.18%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.25%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.54%) CMDB
7 4 (1.54%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.54%) Genomics
7 4 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.32%) Linux
2 4 (1.54%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.54%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.54%) Windows
2 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (49.03%) Security Architecture
2 77 (29.73%) Cloud Security
3 75 (28.96%) Threat Modelling
4 72 (27.80%) Cybersecurity
5 42 (16.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 41 (15.83%) TOGAF
7 37 (14.29%) Information Security
7 37 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 35 (13.51%) AI
9 34 (13.13%) Risk Management
10 33 (12.74%) Identity Access Management
10 33 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (12.36%) Data Protection
11 32 (12.36%) Zero Trust
12 31 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (11.20%) Application Security
14 28 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
15 27 (10.42%) Risk Assessment
15 27 (10.42%) SABSA
16 26 (10.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.09%) Java
2 7 (2.70%) Python
3 5 (1.93%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.54%) Bicep
5 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.77%) SQL
7 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 100 (38.61%) Security Cleared
2 75 (28.96%) SC Cleared
3 56 (21.62%) CISSP
4 31 (11.97%) CISM
5 21 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (6.56%) DV Cleared
7 16 (6.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 11 (4.25%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.25%) CCSP
9 8 (3.09%) CISA
10 7 (2.70%) GIAC
10 7 (2.70%) SANS
11 6 (2.32%) ISSAP
12 5 (1.93%) CEH
12 5 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.93%) Degree
12 5 (1.93%) OSCP
13 4 (1.54%) CCNP
13 4 (1.54%) CRISC
13 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.67%) NIST
2 25 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.95%) NCSC
4 13 (5.02%) GDPR
5 10 (3.86%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 8 (3.09%) NIST 800
7 7 (2.70%) GRC
8 6 (2.32%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (1.54%) COBIT
10 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.16%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.16%) IFRS
10 3 (1.16%) IFRS 9
10 3 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.63%) Terraform
3 6 (2.32%) Ansible
4 2 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.77%) QRadar
4 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (9.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.02%) Google
3 12 (4.63%) Splunk
4 11 (4.25%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.47%) Okta
5 9 (3.47%) Tenable
6 8 (3.09%) Cisco
6 8 (3.09%) Qualys
7 7 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.32%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.93%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.54%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.54%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.16%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.77%) FireEye
12 2 (0.77%) VMware
13 1 (0.39%) Netlify
13 1 (0.39%) PagerDuty