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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 210 220
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 261 167 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.24% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.34% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 106 102
10th Percentile £513 £513 £500
25th Percentile £561 £603 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £797
90th Percentile £900 £800 £873
England median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.94%

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 18,843 12,491 15,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.75% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,159 8,370 10,243
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
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 £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 206 181
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.23% -13.57% -5.25%
75th Percentile £63.43 £51.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
% change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%

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 18 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 18 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 -9 34 £625 -7.41% 21
South London -5 7 £650 -13.33%
West London -19 4 £750 +55.44% 4
East London - 3 £750 - 2
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 (55.56%) Security Architecture
2 104 (39.85%) Security Cleared
3 79 (30.27%) Azure
4 78 (29.89%) Cybersecurity
5 77 (29.50%) Cloud Security
5 77 (29.50%) SC Cleared
6 76 (29.12%) Threat Modelling
7 65 (24.90%) AWS
8 53 (20.31%) CISSP
9 49 (18.77%) NIST
10 44 (16.86%) GCP
11 41 (15.71%) TOGAF
12 40 (15.33%) Network Security
13 39 (14.94%) Roadmaps
14 38 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (14.18%) Identity Access Management
15 37 (14.18%) Information Security
15 37 (14.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 36 (13.79%) Risk Management
17 35 (13.41%) AI
18 33 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
19 32 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 32 (12.26%) Zero Trust
20 30 (11.49%) Data Protection
21 29 (11.11%) CISM
22 28 (10.73%) SABSA
23 27 (10.34%) DevOps
23 27 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
23 27 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
24 25 (9.58%) Microsoft

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 (0.77%) SAS
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.27%) Azure
2 65 (24.90%) AWS
3 44 (16.86%) GCP
4 15 (5.75%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.07%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.68%) SaaS
7 4 (1.53%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (1.53%) GitHub
8 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.15%) OCI
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.77%) AWS KMS
9 2 (0.77%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.77%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.33%) Network Security
2 21 (8.05%) Firewall
3 6 (2.30%) 4G
3 6 (2.30%) VPN
3 6 (2.30%) WAN
4 4 (1.53%) 5G
4 4 (1.53%) LAN
4 4 (1.53%) NGFW
4 4 (1.53%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (1.15%) IPsec
6 2 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.77%) Internet
6 2 (0.77%) Intranet
7 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.38%) IPFIX
7 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.38%) Big Data
1 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.77%) GitLab
2 2 (0.77%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
General
1 48 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.79%) Finance
3 30 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.58%) Influencing Skills
5 21 (8.05%) Banking
6 15 (5.75%) Legal
7 9 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.68%) Police
9 6 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.92%) Law
11 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.53%) Local Government
11 4 (1.53%) Retail
12 2 (0.77%) Aviation
12 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.98%) Terraform
2 8 (3.07%) 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 (0.77%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.38%) JWT
6 1 (0.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.73%) Security Posture
3 13 (4.98%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.83%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
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 Centre
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%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.68%) Linux
2 5 (1.92%) Windows
2 5 (1.92%) 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 (55.56%) Security Architecture
2 78 (29.89%) Cybersecurity
3 77 (29.50%) Cloud Security
4 76 (29.12%) Threat Modelling
5 41 (15.71%) TOGAF
6 39 (14.94%) Roadmaps
7 38 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (14.18%) Identity Access Management
8 37 (14.18%) Information Security
9 36 (13.79%) Risk Management
10 35 (13.41%) AI
11 33 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
12 32 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (12.26%) Zero Trust
13 30 (11.49%) Data Protection
14 28 (10.73%) SABSA
15 27 (10.34%) DevOps
15 27 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
15 27 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
16 23 (8.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.45%) Python
2 7 (2.68%) Java
3 6 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.92%) Bicep
5 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.38%) Bash
6 1 (0.38%) R
6 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (39.85%) Security Cleared
2 77 (29.50%) SC Cleared
3 53 (20.31%) CISSP
4 29 (11.11%) CISM
5 22 (8.43%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.45%) SANS
9 8 (3.07%) CCSP
9 8 (3.07%) CRISC
9 8 (3.07%) ISSAP
10 7 (2.68%) CISA
10 7 (2.68%) GIAC
10 7 (2.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.53%) CEH
12 4 (1.53%) Degree
12 4 (1.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (18.77%) NIST
2 37 (14.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (9.58%) NCSC
4 11 (4.21%) NIST 800
5 10 (3.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (3.45%) GDPR
6 9 (3.45%) GRC
7 8 (3.07%) Government Security Classifications
8 7 (2.68%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (1.53%) COBIT
11 3 (1.15%) IFRS
11 3 (1.15%) IFRS 9
11 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.77%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.38%) QA
13 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.92%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.68%) Ansible
3 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.77%) QRadar
5 1 (0.38%) CASB
5 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.13%) Google
3 11 (4.21%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (3.07%) Cisco
5 8 (3.07%) Splunk
6 7 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.30%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.30%) Tenable
7 6 (2.30%) VMware
8 5 (1.92%) Okta
8 5 (1.92%) Qualys
9 4 (1.53%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.53%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.15%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.15%) IFS
10 3 (1.15%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.77%) Dell
11 2 (0.77%) FireEye
11 2 (0.77%) OpenAI