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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 202 221
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 258 164 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.23% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.32% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 107 112
10th Percentile £500 £513 £502
25th Percentile £563 £584 £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £738
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -8.47% +5.36%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £782
90th Percentile £900 £800 £850
England median daily rate £630 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% +1.82%

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 18,810 12,420 15,268
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 92.91% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,163 8,366 10,558
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 206 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.04 £17.69
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.87% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.84% +0.32%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -6 39 £600 -10.45% 7
West London -18 4 £750 +55.44% 6
East London - 4 £750 - 2
South London -12 3 £650 -13.33% 3
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 140 (54.26%) Security Architecture
2 92 (35.66%) Security Cleared
3 83 (32.17%) Azure
3 83 (32.17%) Cloud Security
4 78 (30.23%) Threat Modelling
5 76 (29.46%) Cybersecurity
6 70 (27.13%) AWS
7 65 (25.19%) SC Cleared
8 56 (21.71%) CISSP
9 51 (19.77%) GCP
10 50 (19.38%) NIST
11 44 (17.05%) Network Security
12 40 (15.50%) Information Security
12 40 (15.50%) Roadmaps
13 39 (15.12%) Architectural Patterns
14 38 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (14.34%) Risk Management
16 36 (13.95%) AI
16 36 (13.95%) TOGAF
17 35 (13.57%) Identity Access Management
18 34 (13.18%) Data Protection
19 33 (12.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 33 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 33 (12.79%) Zero Trust
20 30 (11.63%) CISM
20 30 (11.63%) SABSA
21 28 (10.85%) Risk Assessment
22 27 (10.47%) DevOps
23 25 (9.69%) Microsoft
24 24 (9.30%) DevSecOps

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 (0.78%) SAS
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.17%) Azure
2 70 (27.13%) AWS
3 51 (19.77%) GCP
4 15 (5.81%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.49%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.10%) SaaS
7 4 (1.55%) AWS Control Tower
7 4 (1.55%) GitHub
8 3 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.16%) AWS KMS
8 3 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.16%) OCI
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.78%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (17.05%) Network Security
2 19 (7.36%) Firewall
3 6 (2.33%) 4G
3 6 (2.33%) VPN
4 5 (1.94%) WAN
5 4 (1.55%) 5G
5 4 (1.55%) Intranet
5 4 (1.55%) LAN
5 4 (1.55%) NGFW
5 4 (1.55%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.16%) IPsec
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.78%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.78%) Big Data
1 2 (0.78%) Metadata
2 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.78%) GitLab
2 2 (0.78%) JIRA
3 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 52 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.89%) Finance
3 31 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.47%) Influencing Skills
5 23 (8.91%) Banking
6 14 (5.43%) Legal
7 9 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.49%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.71%) Police
9 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.55%) Law
10 4 (1.55%) Local Government
10 4 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Aviation
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.04%) Terraform
2 8 (3.10%) OAuth
3 4 (1.55%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (1.55%) Jakarta EE
3 4 (1.55%) JSP
3 4 (1.55%) REST
4 3 (1.16%) HTML
4 3 (1.16%) OpenID
4 3 (1.16%) SAML
5 2 (0.78%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.39%) JWT
6 1 (0.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.40%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.63%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.65%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.33%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.55%) CMDB
8 4 (1.55%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.55%) Genomics
8 4 (1.55%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) Linux
2 4 (1.55%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.55%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.55%) Windows
2 4 (1.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (54.26%) Security Architecture
2 83 (32.17%) Cloud Security
3 78 (30.23%) Threat Modelling
4 76 (29.46%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (15.50%) Information Security
5 40 (15.50%) Roadmaps
6 39 (15.12%) Architectural Patterns
7 38 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (14.34%) Risk Management
9 36 (13.95%) AI
9 36 (13.95%) TOGAF
10 35 (13.57%) Identity Access Management
11 34 (13.18%) Data Protection
12 33 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (12.79%) Zero Trust
13 30 (11.63%) SABSA
14 28 (10.85%) Risk Assessment
15 27 (10.47%) DevOps
16 24 (9.30%) DevSecOps
16 24 (9.30%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.10%) Python
2 7 (2.71%) Java
3 6 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.94%) Bicep
5 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.39%) Bash
6 1 (0.39%) R
6 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (35.66%) Security Cleared
2 65 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 56 (21.71%) CISSP
4 30 (11.63%) CISM
5 21 (8.14%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (3.88%) SANS
9 9 (3.49%) CISA
10 8 (3.10%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.10%) ISSAP
11 7 (2.71%) GIAC
12 6 (2.33%) CCSP
12 6 (2.33%) CRISC
13 5 (1.94%) CEH
13 5 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.94%) OSCP
14 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (19.38%) NIST
2 33 (12.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (7.36%) NCSC
4 14 (5.43%) GDPR
5 10 (3.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (3.49%) GRC
6 9 (3.49%) NIST 800
6 9 (3.49%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.10%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (1.55%) COBIT
10 3 (1.16%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.16%) IFRS
10 3 (1.16%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.39%) QA
12 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (1.94%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Varnish
3 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.33%) Ansible
3 4 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.78%) QRadar
5 1 (0.39%) CASB
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (9.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.59%) Google
3 11 (4.26%) Palo Alto
4 10 (3.88%) Splunk
5 9 (3.49%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.71%) Cisco
7 7 (2.71%) Tenable
8 6 (2.33%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.33%) Okta
8 6 (2.33%) Qualys
9 5 (1.94%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.55%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.55%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.55%) VMware
11 3 (1.16%) IFS
11 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.16%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.78%) Dell
12 2 (0.78%) FireEye