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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 215 206
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 182 140 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 1.11% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.18% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 110 147
10th Percentile £463 £550 £550
25th Percentile £513 £613 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £766 £799 £780
90th Percentile £820 £864 £825
England median daily rate £634 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.07% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.00 £73.31 £87.23
% change year-on-year +14.58% -15.96% +24.61%

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 16,083 11,836 16,755
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,748 8,114 12,085
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 143 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.97 £46.49
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £63.91
England median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.23
% change year-on-year +35.38% -5.05% -21.54%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +14 41 £625 -10.71% 15
South London -14 2 £810 -
West London -22 2 £831 - 3
East London -3 1 £775 - 2
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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 95 (52.20%) Security Architecture
2 76 (41.76%) Security Cleared
3 62 (34.07%) Cloud Security
4 60 (32.97%) SC Cleared
5 59 (32.42%) Azure
6 52 (28.57%) AWS
7 49 (26.92%) Threat Modelling
8 47 (25.82%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (22.53%) Network Security
10 40 (21.98%) CISSP
11 33 (18.13%) GCP
12 29 (15.93%) Risk Management
12 29 (15.93%) Zero Trust
13 28 (15.38%) Information Security
14 26 (14.29%) TOGAF
15 24 (13.19%) Architectural Patterns
15 24 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 23 (12.64%) Application Security
16 23 (12.64%) CI/CD
16 23 (12.64%) DevSecOps
17 22 (12.09%) NIST
18 19 (10.44%) Cisco Certification
18 19 (10.44%) CISM
19 18 (9.89%) Identity Access Management
19 18 (9.89%) SABSA
20 17 (9.34%) AI
20 17 (9.34%) Data Protection
20 17 (9.34%) Incident Response
20 17 (9.34%) NCSC
20 17 (9.34%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 4 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.42%) Azure
2 52 (28.57%) AWS
3 33 (18.13%) GCP
4 9 (4.95%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (4.95%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 8 (4.40%) AWS KMS
6 7 (3.85%) SaaS
7 5 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.65%) PaaS
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.10%) Serverless
11 1 (0.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (22.53%) Network Security
2 15 (8.24%) Firewall
3 9 (4.95%) WAN
4 7 (3.85%) LAN
4 7 (3.85%) VPN
5 5 (2.75%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.20%) BGP
6 4 (2.20%) OSPF
7 3 (1.65%) BIG-IP
8 2 (1.10%) DMZ
8 2 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.10%) Intranet
8 2 (1.10%) NGFW
9 1 (0.55%) 3G
9 1 (0.55%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.55%) DNS
9 1 (0.55%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.55%) Internet
9 1 (0.55%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.65%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.10%) Big Data
3 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Snyk
2 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.55%) GitLab
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 38 (20.88%) Finance
2 36 (19.78%) Public Sector
3 31 (17.03%) Social Skills
4 17 (9.34%) Banking
5 8 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.40%) Legal
6 7 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.10%) Law
10 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Police
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.75%) J2EE
1 5 (2.75%) JSP
2 3 (1.65%) OpenID
2 3 (1.65%) SAML
3 2 (1.10%) OAuth
4 1 (0.55%) JAAS
4 1 (0.55%) JSSE
4 1 (0.55%) JWT
4 1 (0.55%) Middleware
4 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.55%) React
4 1 (0.55%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.44%) Security Posture
2 13 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.75%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.75%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.20%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.20%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.65%) PKI
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.55%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.55%) SCADA
9 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.65%) Linux
1 3 (1.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (52.20%) Security Architecture
2 62 (34.07%) Cloud Security
3 49 (26.92%) Threat Modelling
4 47 (25.82%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (15.93%) Risk Management
5 29 (15.93%) Zero Trust
6 28 (15.38%) Information Security
7 26 (14.29%) TOGAF
8 24 (13.19%) Architectural Patterns
9 23 (12.64%) Application Security
9 23 (12.64%) CI/CD
9 23 (12.64%) DevSecOps
10 18 (9.89%) Identity Access Management
10 18 (9.89%) SABSA
11 17 (9.34%) AI
11 17 (9.34%) Data Protection
11 17 (9.34%) Incident Response
11 17 (9.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (9.34%) Vulnerability Management
12 15 (8.24%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.40%) Java
2 2 (1.10%) Python
2 2 (1.10%) SQL
3 1 (0.55%) C
3 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.55%) ProC
3 1 (0.55%) RPG
Qualifications
1 76 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 60 (32.97%) SC Cleared
3 40 (21.98%) CISSP
4 19 (10.44%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (10.44%) CISM
5 15 (8.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 11 (6.04%) CCSP
7 10 (5.49%) Degree
8 9 (4.95%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.30%) GIAC
10 4 (2.20%) CISA
10 4 (2.20%) SANS
11 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.65%) CCIE
11 3 (1.65%) CCNP
11 3 (1.65%) CEH
11 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.65%) OSCP
12 2 (1.10%) CCSE
12 2 (1.10%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (12.09%) NIST
3 17 (9.34%) NCSC
4 16 (8.79%) GDPR
5 10 (5.49%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.85%) EU AI Act
7 5 (2.75%) GRC
8 3 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.10%) COBIT
9 2 (1.10%) IFRS
9 2 (1.10%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 10 (5.49%) Terraform
2 7 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) SELinux
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.95%) Cisco
2 9 (4.95%) Splunk
2 9 (4.95%) Zscaler
3 8 (4.40%) Palo Alto
4 5 (2.75%) Google
5 4 (2.20%) CheckPoint
5 4 (2.20%) F5
5 4 (2.20%) Okta
5 4 (2.20%) Qualys
5 4 (2.20%) Tenable
6 3 (1.65%) Juniper
7 2 (1.10%) Arista
7 2 (1.10%) Aruba
7 2 (1.10%) Cribl.io
7 2 (1.10%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.10%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.10%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.10%) Remedy
7 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow