Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 212 234
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 266 171 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.27% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.37% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 111 93
10th Percentile £513 £513 £500
25th Percentile £556 £611 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £720
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.18% +2.79%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £823
90th Percentile £900 £800 £875
England median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £95.00 £87.46
% change year-on-year -26.32% +8.62% +24.94%

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 18,961 12,498 15,229
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 92.74% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,247 8,339 10,005
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
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 £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 204 175
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.35
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.69 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -19.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.92 £77.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.20%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -19 31 £625 -7.41% 28
South London -5 7 £650 -13.33% 3
West London -21 4 £750 +55.44% 7
East London - 3 £750 - 1
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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.

1 138 (51.88%) Security Architecture
2 113 (42.48%) Security Cleared
3 88 (33.08%) SC Cleared
4 78 (29.32%) Cybersecurity
5 74 (27.82%) Azure
6 73 (27.44%) Cloud Security
7 67 (25.19%) Threat Modelling
8 65 (24.44%) AWS
9 47 (17.67%) CISSP
9 47 (17.67%) NIST
10 41 (15.41%) Roadmaps
11 40 (15.04%) GCP
11 40 (15.04%) Network Security
12 39 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (13.91%) Identity Access Management
13 37 (13.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 36 (13.53%) Risk Management
14 36 (13.53%) TOGAF
15 35 (13.16%) Information Security
16 33 (12.41%) AI
17 32 (12.03%) Zero Trust
18 31 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 30 (11.28%) Architectural Patterns
20 29 (10.90%) CISM
21 28 (10.53%) Data Protection
22 27 (10.15%) Microsoft
22 27 (10.15%) NCSC
23 26 (9.77%) DevOps
23 26 (9.77%) Enterprise Architecture
24 24 (9.02%) Risk Assessment

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 2 (0.75%) IIS
1 2 (0.75%) SAS
2 1 (0.38%) Confluence
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Shopify
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (27.82%) Azure
2 65 (24.44%) AWS
3 40 (15.04%) GCP
4 16 (6.02%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.01%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.63%) SaaS
7 4 (1.50%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (1.50%) GitHub
7 4 (1.50%) OCI
8 3 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.75%) AWS KMS
9 2 (0.75%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.04%) Network Security
2 21 (7.89%) Firewall
3 8 (3.01%) WAN
4 6 (2.26%) 4G
4 6 (2.26%) VPN
5 4 (1.50%) 5G
5 4 (1.50%) LAN
5 4 (1.50%) NGFW
5 4 (1.50%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.13%) IPsec
7 2 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.75%) Internet
7 2 (0.75%) Intranet
8 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.38%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.38%) SNMP
8 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (0.38%) Metadata
1 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.75%) GitLab
2 2 (0.75%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 48 (18.05%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.91%) Public Sector
3 34 (12.78%) Finance
4 23 (8.65%) Influencing Skills
5 20 (7.52%) Banking
6 13 (4.89%) Legal
7 9 (3.38%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.63%) Police
9 6 (2.26%) Law
10 5 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.88%) Retail
11 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.50%) Local Government
12 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Aviation
13 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.26%) Terraform
2 7 (2.63%) OAuth
3 6 (2.26%) REST
4 4 (1.50%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.50%) OpenID
4 4 (1.50%) SAML
5 3 (1.13%) HTML
5 3 (1.13%) LDAP
6 2 (0.75%) Jakarta EE
6 2 (0.75%) JSP
6 2 (0.75%) JWT
6 2 (0.75%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.38%) Kafka
7 1 (0.38%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.38%) Middleware
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.77%) Security Posture
3 12 (4.51%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.38%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.26%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.26%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.26%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.50%) CMDB
8 4 (1.50%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.50%) Genomics
8 4 (1.50%) PKI
9 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.38%) Linux
2 7 (2.63%) Windows
3 6 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.50%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (51.88%) Security Architecture
2 78 (29.32%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (27.44%) Cloud Security
4 67 (25.19%) Threat Modelling
5 41 (15.41%) Roadmaps
6 39 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (13.91%) Identity Access Management
8 36 (13.53%) Risk Management
8 36 (13.53%) TOGAF
9 35 (13.16%) Information Security
10 33 (12.41%) AI
11 32 (12.03%) Zero Trust
12 31 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 30 (11.28%) Architectural Patterns
14 28 (10.53%) Data Protection
15 26 (9.77%) DevOps
15 26 (9.77%) Enterprise Architecture
16 24 (9.02%) Risk Assessment
16 24 (9.02%) SABSA
17 22 (8.27%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.76%) Python
2 7 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.88%) Bicep
3 5 (1.88%) Java
4 3 (1.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.38%) Bash
5 1 (0.38%) R
5 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (42.48%) Security Cleared
2 88 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 47 (17.67%) CISSP
4 29 (10.90%) CISM
5 22 (8.27%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.76%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (3.01%) CCSP
10 7 (2.63%) CISA
10 7 (2.63%) CRISC
10 7 (2.63%) ISSAP
10 7 (2.63%) SANS
10 7 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.88%) GIAC
11 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.50%) Degree
13 3 (1.13%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.67%) NIST
2 37 (13.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (10.15%) NCSC
4 11 (4.14%) NIST 800
5 10 (3.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (3.38%) GRC
7 8 (3.01%) GDPR
7 8 (3.01%) Government Security Classifications
8 7 (2.63%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (1.13%) COBIT
10 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.38%) IFRS
12 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 9 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.88%) Docker
2 5 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.01%) Ansible
3 4 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.13%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.75%) CASB
5 2 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.75%) QRadar
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.39%) Google
3 13 (4.89%) Palo Alto
4 10 (3.76%) CrowdStrike
4 10 (3.76%) Splunk
5 9 (3.38%) Cisco
6 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.26%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.26%) Qualys
7 6 (2.26%) Tenable
7 6 (2.26%) VMware
8 5 (1.88%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.88%) Okta
9 4 (1.50%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.50%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.13%) IFS
10 3 (1.13%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.75%) Dell
11 2 (0.75%) F5
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle