Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 214 233
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 262 166 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.23% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.33% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 106 106
10th Percentile £506 £513 £500
25th Percentile £562 £601 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £740
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -8.78% +5.71%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £797
90th Percentile £900 £800 £863
England median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.90%

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 18,954 12,522 15,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 92.73% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,221 8,378 10,359
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £673 £675
90th Percentile £772 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 209 184
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.61
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.96 £74.06
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -11 36 £625 -7.06% 9
South London -5 4 £650 -13.33%
West London -17 4 £750 +55.44% 2
East London - 4 £750 - 3
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 145 (55.34%) Security Architecture
2 94 (35.88%) Security Cleared
3 84 (32.06%) Azure
4 82 (31.30%) Cloud Security
5 81 (30.92%) Cybersecurity
6 80 (30.53%) Threat Modelling
7 69 (26.34%) AWS
7 69 (26.34%) SC Cleared
8 58 (22.14%) CISSP
9 50 (19.08%) GCP
9 50 (19.08%) NIST
10 44 (16.79%) Network Security
11 39 (14.89%) Architectural Patterns
11 39 (14.89%) Information Security
11 39 (14.89%) Roadmaps
12 38 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (14.12%) AI
13 37 (14.12%) TOGAF
14 36 (13.74%) Identity Access Management
14 36 (13.74%) Risk Management
15 35 (13.36%) Data Protection
16 33 (12.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 33 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 32 (12.21%) Zero Trust
18 31 (11.83%) CISM
18 31 (11.83%) SABSA
19 29 (11.07%) Risk Assessment
20 28 (10.69%) DevOps
21 26 (9.92%) Microsoft
22 24 (9.16%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (0.76%) SAS
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (32.06%) Azure
2 69 (26.34%) AWS
3 50 (19.08%) GCP
4 15 (5.73%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.05%) SaaS
7 4 (1.53%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (1.53%) GitHub
8 3 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.15%) OCI
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.76%) AWS KMS
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.76%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.76%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.79%) Network Security
2 20 (7.63%) Firewall
3 6 (2.29%) 4G
3 6 (2.29%) VPN
4 5 (1.91%) WAN
5 4 (1.53%) 5G
5 4 (1.53%) Intranet
5 4 (1.53%) LAN
5 4 (1.53%) NGFW
5 4 (1.53%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.15%) IPsec
7 2 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.76%) Internet
8 1 (0.38%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.76%) Big Data
2 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.76%) GitLab
2 2 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 51 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.27%) Finance
3 30 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.92%) Influencing Skills
5 22 (8.40%) Banking
6 15 (5.73%) Legal
7 9 (3.44%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.67%) Police
10 6 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.53%) Law
11 4 (1.53%) Local Government
11 4 (1.53%) Retail
12 2 (0.76%) Aviation
12 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.96%) Terraform
2 8 (3.05%) OAuth
3 4 (1.53%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (1.53%) Jakarta EE
3 4 (1.53%) JSP
3 4 (1.53%) REST
4 3 (1.15%) HTML
4 3 (1.15%) OpenID
4 3 (1.15%) SAML
5 2 (0.76%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.38%) JWT
6 1 (0.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.21%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.83%) Security Posture
3 13 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.29%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.53%) CMDB
8 4 (1.53%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.53%) Genomics
8 4 (1.53%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.67%) Linux
2 5 (1.91%) Windows
2 5 (1.91%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.53%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.53%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (55.34%) Security Architecture
2 82 (31.30%) Cloud Security
3 81 (30.92%) Cybersecurity
4 80 (30.53%) Threat Modelling
5 39 (14.89%) Architectural Patterns
5 39 (14.89%) Information Security
5 39 (14.89%) Roadmaps
6 38 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (14.12%) AI
7 37 (14.12%) TOGAF
8 36 (13.74%) Identity Access Management
8 36 (13.74%) Risk Management
9 35 (13.36%) Data Protection
10 33 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 32 (12.21%) Zero Trust
12 31 (11.83%) SABSA
13 29 (11.07%) Risk Assessment
14 28 (10.69%) DevOps
15 24 (9.16%) Enterprise Architecture
16 23 (8.78%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.05%) Python
2 7 (2.67%) Java
3 6 (2.29%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.91%) Bicep
5 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.38%) Bash
6 1 (0.38%) R
6 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (35.88%) Security Cleared
2 69 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 58 (22.14%) CISSP
4 31 (11.83%) CISM
5 21 (8.02%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (3.82%) SANS
9 8 (3.05%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.05%) CISA
9 8 (3.05%) GIAC
9 8 (3.05%) ISSAP
10 7 (2.67%) CCSP
10 7 (2.67%) CRISC
11 6 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.91%) CEH
12 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.91%) OSCP
13 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.15%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (19.08%) NIST
2 33 (12.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (8.02%) NCSC
4 13 (4.96%) GDPR
5 10 (3.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 10 (3.82%) NIST 800
6 9 (3.44%) GRC
7 8 (3.05%) Government Security Classifications
7 8 (3.05%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.91%) COBIT
8 5 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (1.15%) IFRS
9 3 (1.15%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.76%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.38%) QA
11 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.91%) Docker
3 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.29%) Ansible
3 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.76%) QRadar
5 1 (0.38%) CASB
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.11%) Google
3 11 (4.20%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.44%) CrowdStrike
4 9 (3.44%) Splunk
5 7 (2.67%) Cisco
5 7 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.67%) Tenable
6 6 (2.29%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.29%) Okta
6 6 (2.29%) Qualys
7 5 (1.91%) VMware
8 4 (1.53%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.53%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.15%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.15%) IFS
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.15%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.76%) Dell
10 2 (0.76%) FireEye