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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 183 208
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 209 173 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.43% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.53% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 119 149
10th Percentile £484 £550 £596
25th Percentile £513 £613 £668
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £800
90th Percentile £900 £800 £863
England median daily rate £650 £671 £700
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.21% -

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 17,037 11,286 16,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 93.40% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,279 7,675 11,822
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £428 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 148 318
10th Percentile £18.84 £20.00 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.92% +10.55% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.00 £46.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £62.30 £65.32
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%

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 May 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 May 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 -7 38 £600 -9.43% 5
South London -15 2 £810 +8.00%
East London - 2 £763 -
West London -25 1 £1,000 - 5
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 105 (50.24%) Security Architecture
2 86 (41.15%) Security Cleared
3 70 (33.49%) SC Cleared
4 61 (29.19%) Azure
4 61 (29.19%) Cloud Security
5 58 (27.75%) Threat Modelling
6 57 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (26.79%) AWS
8 46 (22.01%) CISSP
9 40 (19.14%) Network Security
10 33 (15.79%) GCP
11 32 (15.31%) TOGAF
12 30 (14.35%) Architectural Patterns
12 30 (14.35%) NIST
13 29 (13.88%) Information Security
13 29 (13.88%) Zero Trust
14 27 (12.92%) Application Security
14 27 (12.92%) Risk Management
15 25 (11.96%) DevSecOps
15 25 (11.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 24 (11.48%) Roadmaps
16 24 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (11.00%) CISM
18 22 (10.53%) AI
18 22 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (10.53%) Data Protection
18 22 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
18 22 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 22 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
19 21 (10.05%) CI/CD

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 5 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.19%) Azure
2 56 (26.79%) AWS
3 33 (15.79%) GCP
4 13 (6.22%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 6 (2.87%) AWS KMS
7 6 (2.87%) SaaS
8 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.44%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.96%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.96%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (0.96%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.96%) Serverless
11 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 40 (19.14%) Network Security
2 15 (7.18%) Firewall
3 7 (3.35%) LAN
3 7 (3.35%) WAN
4 6 (2.87%) VPN
5 4 (1.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.44%) BGP
6 3 (1.44%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.44%) OSPF
7 2 (0.96%) 4G
7 2 (0.96%) 5G
7 2 (0.96%) DMZ
7 2 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.96%) Internet
7 2 (0.96%) Intranet
7 2 (0.96%) NGFW
7 2 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.48%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.96%) Big Data
2 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.48%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Snyk
2 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.48%) GitLab
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 40 (19.14%) Public Sector
2 34 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.31%) Finance
4 19 (9.09%) Banking
5 12 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.83%) Legal
7 5 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Aviation
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.39%) J2EE
1 5 (2.39%) JSP
2 3 (1.44%) OAuth
3 2 (0.96%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.48%) HTML
4 1 (0.48%) JAAS
4 1 (0.48%) JSSE
4 1 (0.48%) JWT
4 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.48%) React
4 1 (0.48%) REST
4 1 (0.48%) SAML
4 1 (0.48%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.05%) Security Posture
2 19 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.18%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.78%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.91%) Genomics
8 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) CMDB
9 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.96%) NHS
9 2 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.48%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.48%) FMCG
10 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.39%) Linux
1 5 (2.39%) Windows
2 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.96%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (50.24%) Security Architecture
2 61 (29.19%) Cloud Security
3 58 (27.75%) Threat Modelling
4 57 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (15.31%) TOGAF
6 30 (14.35%) Architectural Patterns
7 29 (13.88%) Information Security
7 29 (13.88%) Zero Trust
8 27 (12.92%) Application Security
8 27 (12.92%) Risk Management
9 25 (11.96%) DevSecOps
10 24 (11.48%) Roadmaps
10 24 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.53%) AI
11 22 (10.53%) Data Protection
11 22 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
11 22 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
12 21 (10.05%) CI/CD
12 21 (10.05%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.83%) Java
2 4 (1.91%) Python
3 2 (0.96%) Bicep
3 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.96%) SQL
4 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.48%) RPG
Qualifications
1 86 (41.15%) Security Cleared
2 70 (33.49%) SC Cleared
3 46 (22.01%) CISSP
4 23 (11.00%) CISM
5 22 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (7.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 11 (5.26%) CCSP
8 10 (4.78%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.31%) GIAC
10 7 (3.35%) CISA
11 6 (2.87%) Degree
11 6 (2.87%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.87%) SANS
12 5 (2.39%) CCNP
12 5 (2.39%) CEH
12 5 (2.39%) OSCP
13 4 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.44%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.35%) NIST
2 25 (11.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (9.09%) NCSC
4 13 (6.22%) GDPR
5 7 (3.35%) GRC
5 7 (3.35%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.91%) COBIT
7 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.44%) IFRS
7 3 (1.44%) IFRS 9
7 3 (1.44%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.96%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.48%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.48%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (4.31%) Terraform
2 8 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.39%) Ansible
4 2 (0.96%) QRadar
4 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.48%) SELinux
Vendors
1 16 (7.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.74%) Splunk
3 9 (4.31%) Zscaler
4 8 (3.83%) Cisco
5 7 (3.35%) Google
6 6 (2.87%) Okta
6 6 (2.87%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.87%) Qualys
6 6 (2.87%) Tenable
7 5 (2.39%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (2.39%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.44%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.44%) F5
8 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.96%) Cribl.io
9 2 (0.96%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.96%) Juniper
9 2 (0.96%) LogRhythm
9 2 (0.96%) Remedy
9 2 (0.96%) TOWER Software