Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 196 207
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 195 156 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.25% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.34% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 110 147
10th Percentile £463 £549 £565
25th Percentile £513 £600 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £675 £745
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.40% +6.43%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £784
90th Percentile £900 £801 £825
England median daily rate £650 £665 £700
% change year-on-year -2.26% -5.00% -

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 16,488 11,637 16,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.41% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,954 7,971 11,960
10th Percentile £350 £346 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £681
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 145 331
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -22.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
% change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -1 39 £575 -11.88% 5
East London -5 2 £763 - 1
South London -18 2 £810 -
West London -27 1 £1,000 - 3
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 98 (50.26%) Security Architecture
2 77 (39.49%) Security Cleared
3 62 (31.79%) SC Cleared
4 59 (30.26%) Cloud Security
5 57 (29.23%) Azure
6 56 (28.72%) AWS
7 52 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
8 50 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
9 42 (21.54%) Network Security
10 41 (21.03%) CISSP
11 30 (15.38%) Zero Trust
12 28 (14.36%) Architectural Patterns
12 28 (14.36%) GCP
13 26 (13.33%) Application Security
13 26 (13.33%) Information Security
13 26 (13.33%) NIST
13 26 (13.33%) TOGAF
14 25 (12.82%) DevSecOps
15 22 (11.28%) CI/CD
15 22 (11.28%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (11.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 22 (11.28%) Risk Management
16 21 (10.77%) Vulnerability Management
17 20 (10.26%) Data Protection
17 20 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 20 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
18 19 (9.74%) AI
18 19 (9.74%) Roadmaps
19 18 (9.23%) CISM
19 18 (9.23%) Identity Access Management

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 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.23%) Azure
2 56 (28.72%) AWS
3 28 (14.36%) GCP
4 10 (5.13%) Entra ID
5 9 (4.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 9 (4.62%) AWS KMS
6 8 (4.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.08%) SaaS
8 6 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.03%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (1.03%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.03%) IaaS
11 2 (1.03%) PaaS
11 2 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (21.54%) Network Security
2 13 (6.67%) Firewall
3 7 (3.59%) LAN
3 7 (3.59%) WAN
4 6 (3.08%) VPN
5 4 (2.05%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.54%) BGP
6 3 (1.54%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.54%) OSPF
7 2 (1.03%) DMZ
7 2 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.03%) Intranet
8 1 (0.51%) 3G
8 1 (0.51%) 4G
8 1 (0.51%) 5G
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.51%) LTE
8 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.03%) Big Data
2 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Snyk
2 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.51%) GitLab
2 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 38 (19.49%) Public Sector
2 33 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.41%) Finance
4 17 (8.72%) Banking
5 13 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Legal
8 5 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.05%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Law
10 2 (1.03%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Aviation
11 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.56%) J2EE
1 5 (2.56%) JSP
2 2 (1.03%) OAuth
3 1 (0.51%) HTML
3 1 (0.51%) JAAS
3 1 (0.51%) JSSE
3 1 (0.51%) JWT
3 1 (0.51%) Middleware
3 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.51%) OpenID
3 1 (0.51%) React
3 1 (0.51%) REST
3 1 (0.51%) SAML
3 1 (0.51%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.72%) Security Posture
2 14 (7.18%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.13%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.56%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.54%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.03%) Genomics
8 2 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.54%) Linux
1 3 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Unix
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.51%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (50.26%) Security Architecture
2 59 (30.26%) Cloud Security
3 52 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
4 50 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (15.38%) Zero Trust
6 28 (14.36%) Architectural Patterns
7 26 (13.33%) Application Security
7 26 (13.33%) Information Security
7 26 (13.33%) TOGAF
8 25 (12.82%) DevSecOps
9 22 (11.28%) CI/CD
9 22 (11.28%) Risk Management
10 21 (10.77%) Vulnerability Management
11 20 (10.26%) Data Protection
11 20 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (9.74%) AI
12 19 (9.74%) Roadmaps
13 18 (9.23%) Identity Access Management
14 17 (8.72%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.62%) Java
2 2 (1.03%) Python
2 2 (1.03%) SQL
3 1 (0.51%) C
3 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.51%) ProC
3 1 (0.51%) RPG
Qualifications
1 77 (39.49%) Security Cleared
2 62 (31.79%) SC Cleared
3 41 (21.03%) CISSP
4 22 (11.28%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (9.23%) CISM
6 16 (8.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 11 (5.64%) CCSP
8 10 (5.13%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.59%) Degree
10 6 (3.08%) GIAC
11 5 (2.56%) CCNP
11 5 (2.56%) CISA
11 5 (2.56%) SANS
12 4 (2.05%) OSCP
13 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.54%) CCIE
13 3 (1.54%) CEH
13 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.03%) CCSE
14 2 (1.03%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.33%) NIST
2 22 (11.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (7.69%) GDPR
3 15 (7.69%) NCSC
4 10 (5.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.08%) GRC
6 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.54%) IFRS
6 3 (1.54%) IFRS 9
7 2 (1.03%) COBIT
7 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.03%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.03%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.51%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 3 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 10 (5.13%) Terraform
2 8 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) QRadar
5 1 (0.51%) SELinux
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (7.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.10%) Splunk
2 8 (4.10%) Zscaler
3 7 (3.59%) Cisco
4 5 (2.56%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.05%) CyberArk
5 4 (2.05%) Okta
5 4 (2.05%) Qualys
5 4 (2.05%) Tenable
6 3 (1.54%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.54%) F5
6 3 (1.54%) Google
7 2 (1.03%) Cribl.io
7 2 (1.03%) Juniper
7 2 (1.03%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.03%) Remedy
7 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.51%) Netlify
8 1 (0.51%) Sparx
8 1 (0.51%) Workday