Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £644, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 235 217
Rank change year-on-year -12 -18 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 135 128 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.93% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.00% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 86 145
10th Percentile £474 £539 £519
25th Percentile £555 £600 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £686 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.96% -0.04%
75th Percentile £738 £797 £775
90th Percentile £776 £906 £825
England median daily rate £631 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.52% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £86.25 £73.31 £83.77
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.48% +19.66%

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 13,562 12,834 17,231
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 93.59% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,999 8,227 12,447
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 140 307
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +18.64% -12.77%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.50 £50.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £66.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -8 24 £700 +3.70% 6
West London -18 1 £662 - 1
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 January 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 80 (59.26%) Security Architecture
2 47 (34.81%) Azure
3 45 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 44 (32.59%) AWS
5 41 (30.37%) Cloud Security
6 40 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
6 40 (29.63%) SC Cleared
7 30 (22.22%) Network Security
8 29 (21.48%) Threat Modelling
9 26 (19.26%) Firewall
10 25 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 24 (17.78%) Incident Response
11 24 (17.78%) NIST
12 22 (16.30%) TOGAF
13 21 (15.56%) DevSecOps
13 21 (15.56%) Zero Trust
14 19 (14.07%) Identity Access Management
14 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
14 19 (14.07%) Risk Management
14 19 (14.07%) Vulnerability Management
15 18 (13.33%) CISSP
15 18 (13.33%) SABSA
16 17 (12.59%) IT Strategy
17 16 (11.85%) GCP
17 16 (11.85%) SIEM
17 16 (11.85%) Technology Strategy
18 15 (11.11%) CI/CD
18 15 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 14 (10.37%) GDPR
19 14 (10.37%) Information Security

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 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.81%) Azure
2 44 (32.59%) AWS
3 16 (11.85%) GCP
4 6 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 6 (4.44%) AWS KMS
5 5 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.22%) PaaS
7 3 (2.22%) SaaS
8 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.74%) Akamai
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.74%) GitHub
9 1 (0.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (22.22%) Network Security
2 26 (19.26%) Firewall
3 8 (5.93%) WAN
4 7 (5.19%) VPN
5 6 (4.44%) LAN
5 6 (4.44%) NGFW
6 4 (2.96%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.22%) BGP
7 3 (2.22%) BIG-IP
7 3 (2.22%) OSPF
7 3 (2.22%) SSL
8 2 (1.48%) DMZ
8 2 (1.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.48%) S/MIME
8 2 (1.48%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.74%) DHCP
9 1 (0.74%) DNS
9 1 (0.74%) HSRP
9 1 (0.74%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 34 (25.19%) Finance
2 23 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.37%) Banking
5 8 (5.93%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.70%) Legal
8 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Law
11 1 (0.74%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.70%) OpenID
1 5 (3.70%) SAML
2 2 (1.48%) .NET
2 2 (1.48%) OAuth
2 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.74%) J2EE
3 1 (0.74%) JAAS
3 1 (0.74%) JSP
3 1 (0.74%) JSSE
3 1 (0.74%) Middleware
3 1 (0.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 8 (5.93%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.19%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.19%) PKI
4 6 (4.44%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.70%) NHS
5 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.70%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.22%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.74%) Clustering
9 1 (0.74%) Robotics
9 1 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Linux
1 6 (4.44%) Windows
2 3 (2.22%) Unix
2 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (59.26%) Security Architecture
2 41 (30.37%) Cloud Security
3 40 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (21.48%) Threat Modelling
5 24 (17.78%) Incident Response
6 22 (16.30%) TOGAF
7 21 (15.56%) DevSecOps
7 21 (15.56%) Zero Trust
8 19 (14.07%) Identity Access Management
8 19 (14.07%) Risk Management
8 19 (14.07%) Vulnerability Management
9 18 (13.33%) SABSA
10 17 (12.59%) IT Strategy
11 16 (11.85%) SIEM
11 16 (11.85%) Technology Strategy
12 15 (11.11%) CI/CD
12 15 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (10.37%) Information Security
13 14 (10.37%) Migration
14 13 (9.63%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.44%) Python
2 5 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (0.74%) Bash
3 1 (0.74%) C
3 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.74%) ProC
3 1 (0.74%) R
3 1 (0.74%) RPG
Qualifications
1 45 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 40 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.33%) CISSP
4 11 (8.15%) Degree
5 9 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (5.19%) CISM
7 5 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (2.96%) CCSP
8 4 (2.96%) GIAC
9 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.48%) CCIE
10 2 (1.48%) CCNP
10 2 (1.48%) CCSE
10 2 (1.48%) CSSLP
10 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.48%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.48%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (17.78%) NIST
3 14 (10.37%) GDPR
4 13 (9.63%) NCSC
5 8 (5.93%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.70%) EU AI Act
7 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.74%) GRC
10 1 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (9.63%) Terraform
2 5 (3.70%) Ansible
3 2 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.74%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.37%) Splunk
3 10 (7.41%) CyberArk
4 9 (6.67%) Cisco
5 8 (5.93%) Darktrace
6 6 (4.44%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.44%) Zscaler
7 5 (3.70%) F5
8 4 (2.96%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.22%) Google
9 3 (2.22%) Juniper
10 2 (1.48%) Arista
10 2 (1.48%) Aruba
10 2 (1.48%) Cribl.io
10 2 (1.48%) LogRhythm
10 2 (1.48%) Remedy
10 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.74%) Sparx