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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 176 199
Rank change year-on-year -32 +23 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 237 189 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.46% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.56% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 128 145
10th Percentile £485 £528 £519
25th Percentile £521 £612 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £788
90th Percentile £900 £800 £850
England median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -

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 17,928 12,127 16,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.39% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,194 11,863
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 185 316
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £23.45 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.89 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% +18.93% -26.25%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.49
90th Percentile £80.38 £64.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +57.89% -28.75% -8.95%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -12 36 £575 -14.81% 10
East London - 3 £750 - 2
South London -7 2 £810 +8.00%
West London -20 1 £1,000 - 3
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 119 (50.21%) Security Architecture
2 92 (38.82%) Security Cleared
3 77 (32.49%) Azure
4 75 (31.65%) Cloud Security
5 72 (30.38%) Cybersecurity
5 72 (30.38%) SC Cleared
6 70 (29.54%) AWS
7 69 (29.11%) Threat Modelling
8 54 (22.78%) CISSP
9 47 (19.83%) Network Security
10 42 (17.72%) GCP
11 40 (16.88%) Architectural Patterns
12 34 (14.35%) NIST
12 34 (14.35%) Risk Management
12 34 (14.35%) TOGAF
13 32 (13.50%) Application Security
14 31 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (12.66%) Zero Trust
16 29 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
16 29 (12.24%) Roadmaps
16 29 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 28 (11.81%) Information Security
18 27 (11.39%) AI
18 27 (11.39%) CISM
18 27 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 26 (10.97%) Data Protection
19 26 (10.97%) DevOps
19 26 (10.97%) DevSecOps
20 25 (10.55%) Vulnerability Management
21 24 (10.13%) SABSA

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 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.84%) SAS
3 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.49%) Azure
2 70 (29.54%) AWS
3 42 (17.72%) GCP
4 14 (5.91%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.49%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.95%) SaaS
7 5 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (1.69%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.69%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.27%) GitHub
9 3 (1.27%) OCI
10 2 (0.84%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.84%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.84%) Serverless
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (19.83%) Network Security
2 19 (8.02%) Firewall
3 8 (3.38%) VPN
4 5 (2.11%) NGFW
5 4 (1.69%) 4G
5 4 (1.69%) Intranet
5 4 (1.69%) WAN
6 3 (1.27%) 5G
6 3 (1.27%) IPsec
6 3 (1.27%) LAN
6 3 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.84%) BGP
7 2 (0.84%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.84%) Internet
7 2 (0.84%) OSPF
8 1 (0.42%) 3G
8 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.42%) DMZ
8 1 (0.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.84%) Big Data
2 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Snyk
2 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 43 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.72%) Public Sector
3 39 (16.46%) Finance
4 24 (10.13%) Banking
5 16 (6.75%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.38%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Retail
9 3 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.84%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.11%) J2EE
1 5 (2.11%) JSP
2 4 (1.69%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (1.27%) HTML
3 3 (1.27%) OAuth
3 3 (1.27%) REST
4 1 (0.42%) JWT
4 1 (0.42%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.42%) React
4 1 (0.42%) SAML
4 1 (0.42%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.24%) Security Posture
2 25 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.33%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.22%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.69%) CMDB
6 4 (1.69%) Genomics
6 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.95%) Linux
2 5 (2.11%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.21%) Security Architecture
2 75 (31.65%) Cloud Security
3 72 (30.38%) Cybersecurity
4 69 (29.11%) Threat Modelling
5 40 (16.88%) Architectural Patterns
6 34 (14.35%) Risk Management
6 34 (14.35%) TOGAF
7 32 (13.50%) Application Security
8 31 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (12.66%) Zero Trust
10 29 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
10 29 (12.24%) Roadmaps
10 29 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 28 (11.81%) Information Security
12 27 (11.39%) AI
13 26 (10.97%) Data Protection
13 26 (10.97%) DevOps
13 26 (10.97%) DevSecOps
14 25 (10.55%) Vulnerability Management
15 24 (10.13%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.80%) Java
2 8 (3.38%) Python
3 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.69%) Bicep
5 3 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.84%) SQL
7 1 (0.42%) R
7 1 (0.42%) RPG
Qualifications
1 92 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 72 (30.38%) SC Cleared
3 54 (22.78%) CISSP
4 27 (11.39%) CISM
5 23 (9.70%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (7.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 12 (5.06%) CCSP
8 11 (4.64%) AWS Certification
9 10 (4.22%) GIAC
10 8 (3.38%) CISA
11 7 (2.95%) SANS
12 6 (2.53%) DV Cleared
12 6 (2.53%) ISSAP
13 5 (2.11%) CCNP
13 5 (2.11%) CEH
13 5 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.11%) OSCP
14 4 (1.69%) CRISC
14 4 (1.69%) Degree
14 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.35%) NIST
2 27 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (8.44%) NCSC
4 14 (5.91%) GDPR
5 10 (4.22%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.95%) GRC
6 7 (2.95%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.69%) COBIT
7 4 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.27%) IFRS
8 3 (1.27%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.84%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.42%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.84%) Docker
3 1 (0.42%) Varnish
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.06%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.06%) Terraform
2 7 (2.95%) Ansible
3 2 (0.84%) QRadar
3 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.42%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.91%) Splunk
3 10 (4.22%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.80%) Google
4 9 (3.80%) Tenable
5 8 (3.38%) Okta
5 8 (3.38%) Qualys
6 7 (2.95%) Cisco
6 7 (2.95%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.11%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.69%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.69%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.27%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.84%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.84%) Cribl.io
11 2 (0.84%) F5
12 1 (0.42%) Sonatype
12 1 (0.42%) Workday