Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £628, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 205 238
Rank change year-on-year -15 +33 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 269 169 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.32% 1.25% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.35% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 108 98
10th Percentile £513 £513 £500
25th Percentile £556 £608 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £803
90th Percentile £900 £800 £875
England median daily rate £625 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +2.87%

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 18,955 12,495 15,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.75% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,258 8,366 10,136
10th Percentile £360 £331 £342
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £670 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 205 181
10th Percentile £17.13 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -18.57% -3.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%

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 25 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 25 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 -12 33 £625 -7.41% 30
South London -6 7 £650 -13.33%
West London -21 4 £750 +55.44% 8
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 25 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.

1 142 (52.79%) Security Architecture
2 114 (42.38%) Security Cleared
3 87 (32.34%) SC Cleared
4 79 (29.37%) Cybersecurity
5 78 (29.00%) Azure
6 73 (27.14%) Cloud Security
6 73 (27.14%) Threat Modelling
7 66 (24.54%) AWS
8 51 (18.96%) CISSP
9 47 (17.47%) NIST
10 42 (15.61%) GCP
10 42 (15.61%) Network Security
11 40 (14.87%) Roadmaps
12 39 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (14.50%) TOGAF
13 37 (13.75%) Information Security
13 37 (13.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 37 (13.75%) Risk Management
14 36 (13.38%) Identity Access Management
15 34 (12.64%) AI
15 34 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
16 33 (12.27%) Zero Trust
17 32 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 30 (11.15%) CISM
19 29 (10.78%) Data Protection
20 28 (10.41%) DevOps
20 28 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
20 28 (10.41%) NCSC
21 27 (10.04%) Risk Assessment
22 26 (9.67%) 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 (0.74%) SAS
2 1 (0.37%) Confluence
2 1 (0.37%) IIS
2 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.37%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 78 (29.00%) Azure
2 66 (24.54%) AWS
3 42 (15.61%) GCP
4 15 (5.58%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.23%) SaaS
8 4 (1.49%) AWS Control Tower
8 4 (1.49%) GitHub
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.12%) OCI
10 2 (0.74%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.74%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.74%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (15.61%) Network Security
2 21 (7.81%) Firewall
3 7 (2.60%) WAN
4 6 (2.23%) 4G
4 6 (2.23%) VPN
5 4 (1.49%) 5G
5 4 (1.49%) LAN
5 4 (1.49%) NGFW
5 4 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.12%) IPsec
7 2 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.74%) Internet
7 2 (0.74%) Intranet
8 1 (0.37%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.37%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.37%) SNMP
8 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (0.37%) Metadata
1 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.74%) GitLab
2 2 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 48 (17.84%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.01%) Finance
2 35 (13.01%) Public Sector
3 24 (8.92%) Influencing Skills
4 20 (7.43%) Banking
5 15 (5.58%) Legal
6 9 (3.35%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.60%) Police
8 6 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.23%) Law
9 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.49%) Local Government
10 4 (1.49%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Aviation
12 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.20%) Terraform
2 8 (2.97%) OAuth
3 6 (2.23%) REST
4 4 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.49%) OpenID
4 4 (1.49%) SAML
5 3 (1.12%) HTML
6 2 (0.74%) Jakarta EE
6 2 (0.74%) JSP
6 2 (0.74%) JWT
6 2 (0.74%) LDAP
6 2 (0.74%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.37%) Kafka
7 1 (0.37%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.67%) Security Posture
3 13 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.35%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.23%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.86%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.49%) CMDB
8 4 (1.49%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.49%) Genomics
8 4 (1.49%) PKI
9 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.97%) Linux
2 6 (2.23%) Windows
3 5 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.49%) Alpine Linux
4 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.49%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (52.79%) Security Architecture
2 79 (29.37%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (27.14%) Cloud Security
3 73 (27.14%) Threat Modelling
4 40 (14.87%) Roadmaps
5 39 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (14.50%) TOGAF
6 37 (13.75%) Information Security
6 37 (13.75%) Risk Management
7 36 (13.38%) Identity Access Management
8 34 (12.64%) AI
8 34 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
9 33 (12.27%) Zero Trust
10 32 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 29 (10.78%) Data Protection
12 28 (10.41%) DevOps
12 28 (10.41%) Enterprise Architecture
13 27 (10.04%) Risk Assessment
14 26 (9.67%) SABSA
15 24 (8.92%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.72%) Python
2 7 (2.60%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.86%) Bicep
3 5 (1.86%) Java
4 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.37%) Bash
5 1 (0.37%) R
5 1 (0.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (42.38%) Security Cleared
2 87 (32.34%) SC Cleared
3 51 (18.96%) CISSP
4 30 (11.15%) CISM
5 22 (8.18%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.72%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (3.35%) SANS
9 8 (2.97%) CCSP
9 8 (2.97%) CRISC
9 8 (2.97%) ISSAP
9 8 (2.97%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (2.60%) CISA
10 7 (2.60%) GIAC
11 5 (1.86%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.49%) Degree
12 4 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.47%) NIST
2 37 (13.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (10.41%) NCSC
4 11 (4.09%) NIST 800
5 10 (3.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (3.35%) GRC
7 8 (2.97%) Government Security Classifications
8 7 (2.60%) GDPR
9 6 (2.23%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (1.49%) COBIT
12 3 (1.12%) IFRS
12 3 (1.12%) IFRS 9
12 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
14 1 (0.37%) QA
14 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.97%) Ansible
3 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.74%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.74%) QRadar
5 1 (0.37%) CASB
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.95%) Google
3 12 (4.46%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.35%) CrowdStrike
4 9 (3.35%) Splunk
5 8 (2.97%) Cisco
5 8 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.23%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.23%) Tenable
6 6 (2.23%) VMware
7 5 (1.86%) Okta
7 5 (1.86%) Qualys
8 4 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.49%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.12%) IFS
9 3 (1.12%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.74%) Dell
10 2 (0.74%) FireEye
10 2 (0.74%) OpenAI