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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 185 217
Rank change year-on-year -25 +32 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 242 192 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.42% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.52% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 131 142
10th Percentile £476 £513 £502
25th Percentile £515 £605 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £780
90th Percentile £900 £800 £849
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 18,298 12,595 16,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.29% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,030 8,505 11,864
10th Percentile £358 £331 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 194 304
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.83 £16.07
25th Percentile £24.74 £23.00 £20.44
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.17% -25.68%
75th Percentile £62.84 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £80.13 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%

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 9 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 9 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 +3 38 £600 -11.11% 10
East London - 3 £750 - 2
South London -10 2 £810 +8.00%
West London -20 1 £1,000 +107.25% 8
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 122 (50.41%) Security Architecture
2 92 (38.02%) Security Cleared
3 80 (33.06%) Azure
4 76 (31.40%) Cloud Security
5 72 (29.75%) AWS
5 72 (29.75%) Cybersecurity
5 72 (29.75%) SC Cleared
6 71 (29.34%) Threat Modelling
7 54 (22.31%) CISSP
8 47 (19.42%) Network Security
9 44 (18.18%) GCP
10 39 (16.12%) Architectural Patterns
11 36 (14.88%) NIST
11 36 (14.88%) TOGAF
12 35 (14.46%) Risk Management
13 32 (13.22%) Application Security
14 31 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (12.40%) Roadmaps
16 29 (11.98%) Identity Access Management
16 29 (11.98%) Information Security
16 29 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (11.98%) Zero Trust
17 28 (11.57%) AI
18 27 (11.16%) CISM
18 27 (11.16%) Data Protection
18 27 (11.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 26 (10.74%) DevOps
19 26 (10.74%) DevSecOps
19 26 (10.74%) SABSA
20 25 (10.33%) Vulnerability Management

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 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.83%) SAS
3 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (33.06%) Azure
2 72 (29.75%) AWS
3 44 (18.18%) GCP
4 15 (6.20%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.89%) SaaS
8 5 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (1.65%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (1.65%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.24%) GitHub
10 3 (1.24%) OCI
11 2 (0.83%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.83%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (19.42%) Network Security
2 20 (8.26%) Firewall
3 8 (3.31%) VPN
4 5 (2.07%) 4G
4 5 (2.07%) NGFW
5 4 (1.65%) 5G
5 4 (1.65%) Intranet
5 4 (1.65%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (1.65%) WAN
6 3 (1.24%) IPsec
6 3 (1.24%) LAN
6 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.83%) BGP
7 2 (0.83%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.83%) Internet
7 2 (0.83%) OSPF
8 1 (0.41%) 3G
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.41%) DMZ
8 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.83%) Big Data
2 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Snyk
2 3 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 44 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.94%) Finance
3 39 (16.12%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.33%) Banking
5 16 (6.61%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.72%) Legal
7 8 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.65%) Retail
8 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.83%) Law
10 1 (0.41%) Aviation
10 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.07%) J2EE
1 5 (2.07%) JSP
2 4 (1.65%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (1.65%) OAuth
3 3 (1.24%) HTML
3 3 (1.24%) REST
4 1 (0.41%) JWT
4 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.41%) React
4 1 (0.41%) SAML
4 1 (0.41%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.98%) Security Posture
2 26 (10.74%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.20%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.13%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.48%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.65%) CMDB
6 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.65%) Genomics
6 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.24%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.89%) Linux
2 5 (2.07%) Windows
3 4 (1.65%) Alpine Linux
3 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.65%) Ubuntu
3 4 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (50.41%) Security Architecture
2 76 (31.40%) Cloud Security
3 72 (29.75%) Cybersecurity
4 71 (29.34%) Threat Modelling
5 39 (16.12%) Architectural Patterns
6 36 (14.88%) TOGAF
7 35 (14.46%) Risk Management
8 32 (13.22%) Application Security
9 31 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (12.40%) Roadmaps
11 29 (11.98%) Identity Access Management
11 29 (11.98%) Information Security
11 29 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (11.98%) Zero Trust
12 28 (11.57%) AI
13 27 (11.16%) Data Protection
14 26 (10.74%) DevOps
14 26 (10.74%) DevSecOps
14 26 (10.74%) SABSA
15 25 (10.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.72%) Java
2 8 (3.31%) Python
3 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.65%) Bicep
5 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.83%) SQL
7 1 (0.41%) R
7 1 (0.41%) RPG
Qualifications
1 92 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 72 (29.75%) SC Cleared
3 54 (22.31%) CISSP
4 27 (11.16%) CISM
5 23 (9.50%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (7.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 12 (4.96%) CCSP
8 11 (4.55%) AWS Certification
9 10 (4.13%) GIAC
10 8 (3.31%) CISA
11 7 (2.89%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.89%) SANS
12 6 (2.48%) ISSAP
13 5 (2.07%) CCNP
13 5 (2.07%) CEH
13 5 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.07%) OSCP
14 4 (1.65%) CRISC
14 4 (1.65%) Degree
14 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.88%) NIST
2 27 (11.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (7.85%) NCSC
4 13 (5.37%) GDPR
5 10 (4.13%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.31%) NIST 800
7 7 (2.89%) GRC
8 4 (1.65%) COBIT
8 4 (1.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.24%) EU AI Act
9 3 (1.24%) IFRS
9 3 (1.24%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) Varnish
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.96%) Kubernetes
1 12 (4.96%) Terraform
2 7 (2.89%) Ansible
3 2 (0.83%) QRadar
3 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 21 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.79%) Splunk
3 11 (4.55%) Google
4 10 (4.13%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.72%) Okta
5 9 (3.72%) Tenable
6 8 (3.31%) Cisco
6 8 (3.31%) Qualys
7 7 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.48%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.07%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.65%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.65%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.24%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.83%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.83%) Cribl.io
12 2 (0.83%) F5
12 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.41%) Netlify