Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £634, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 213 204
Rank change year-on-year -24 -9 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 170 135 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 1.07% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.14% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 105 146
10th Percentile £463 £550 £550
25th Percentile £513 £613 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £788
90th Percentile £800 £870 £825
England median daily rate £630 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81.63 - -
25th Percentile £82.19 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - -
75th Percentile £94.69 - -
90th Percentile £94.88 - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £73.31 £85.38
% change year-on-year +15.95% -14.14% +21.98%

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 15,374 11,878 16,878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.73% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,298 8,100 12,185
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 144 339
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.06 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.36 £35.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +26.59% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £52.44 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £69.95 £65.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.57% +7.69% -23.53%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 35 £650 -0.76% 14
West London -15 2 £831 - 3
South London - 2 £810 -
East London -4 1 £775 - 3
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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 87 (51.18%) Security Architecture
2 74 (43.53%) Security Cleared
3 60 (35.29%) SC Cleared
4 59 (34.71%) Azure
4 59 (34.71%) Cloud Security
5 54 (31.76%) AWS
6 45 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (24.12%) Network Security
7 41 (24.12%) Threat Modelling
8 36 (21.18%) CISSP
9 29 (17.06%) Zero Trust
10 28 (16.47%) GCP
11 27 (15.88%) Risk Management
11 27 (15.88%) TOGAF
12 26 (15.29%) DevSecOps
12 26 (15.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 23 (13.53%) CI/CD
14 21 (12.35%) Identity Access Management
14 21 (12.35%) NIST
14 21 (12.35%) SABSA
15 20 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (11.76%) GDPR
15 20 (11.76%) Incident Response
15 20 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
16 19 (11.18%) Application Security
16 19 (11.18%) Architectural Patterns
16 19 (11.18%) CISM
16 19 (11.18%) Information Security
17 18 (10.59%) Microsoft
17 18 (10.59%) SIEM

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 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.18%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (34.71%) Azure
2 54 (31.76%) AWS
3 28 (16.47%) GCP
4 9 (5.29%) Entra ID
5 8 (4.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 8 (4.71%) AWS KMS
5 8 (4.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (4.12%) SaaS
7 5 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.76%) PaaS
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.18%) Serverless
11 1 (0.59%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (24.12%) Network Security
2 16 (9.41%) Firewall
3 9 (5.29%) WAN
4 7 (4.12%) LAN
4 7 (4.12%) VPN
5 5 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.35%) BGP
6 4 (2.35%) OSPF
7 3 (1.76%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.76%) SSL
8 2 (1.18%) DMZ
8 2 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.18%) Intranet
8 2 (1.18%) NGFW
8 2 (1.18%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.59%) 5G
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.59%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.59%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.59%) Big Data
2 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Snyk
2 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.59%) Claude Code
2 1 (0.59%) GitLab
2 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.59%) JIRA
General
1 38 (22.35%) Finance
2 35 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 32 (18.82%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.24%) Banking
5 7 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.94%) Legal
8 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Police
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.94%) OpenID
1 5 (2.94%) SAML
2 3 (1.76%) J2EE
2 3 (1.76%) JSP
2 3 (1.76%) OAuth
2 3 (1.76%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.59%) JAAS
4 1 (0.59%) JSSE
4 1 (0.59%) JWT
4 1 (0.59%) Middleware
4 1 (0.59%) React
4 1 (0.59%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.41%) Security Posture
2 12 (7.06%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.53%) PKI
4 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.35%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.76%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.76%) Linux
1 3 (1.76%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Unix
2 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (51.18%) Security Architecture
2 59 (34.71%) Cloud Security
3 45 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (24.12%) Threat Modelling
5 29 (17.06%) Zero Trust
6 27 (15.88%) Risk Management
6 27 (15.88%) TOGAF
7 26 (15.29%) DevSecOps
8 23 (13.53%) CI/CD
9 21 (12.35%) Identity Access Management
9 21 (12.35%) SABSA
10 20 (11.76%) Incident Response
10 20 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (11.18%) Application Security
11 19 (11.18%) Architectural Patterns
11 19 (11.18%) Information Security
12 18 (10.59%) SIEM
12 18 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
14 16 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.71%) Java
2 5 (2.94%) Python
3 2 (1.18%) SQL
4 1 (0.59%) C
4 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.59%) ProC
4 1 (0.59%) RPG
Qualifications
1 74 (43.53%) Security Cleared
2 60 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 36 (21.18%) CISSP
4 20 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (11.18%) CISM
6 16 (9.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 13 (7.65%) Degree
8 12 (7.06%) CCSP
9 10 (5.88%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.35%) GIAC
12 3 (1.76%) CCIE
12 3 (1.76%) CCNP
13 2 (1.18%) CCSE
13 2 (1.18%) CEH
13 2 (1.18%) CISA
13 2 (1.18%) CSSLP
13 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
13 2 (1.18%) JNCIE
13 2 (1.18%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (12.35%) NIST
3 20 (11.76%) GDPR
4 15 (8.82%) NCSC
5 12 (7.06%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.12%) EU AI Act
7 5 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.18%) GRC
9 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.59%) COBIT
10 1 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Docker
3 1 (0.59%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (7.06%) Terraform
2 8 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.76%) Ansible
3 3 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.59%) SELinux
Vendors
1 18 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.47%) Splunk
3 10 (5.88%) Cisco
4 9 (5.29%) Zscaler
5 6 (3.53%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.35%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.35%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.35%) F5
6 4 (2.35%) Okta
6 4 (2.35%) Qualys
6 4 (2.35%) Tenable
7 3 (1.76%) Google
7 3 (1.76%) Juniper
8 2 (1.18%) Arista
8 2 (1.18%) Aruba
8 2 (1.18%) Cribl.io
8 2 (1.18%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.18%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.18%) Remedy
8 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow