Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 215 203
Rank change year-on-year -40 -12 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 152 143 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.06% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.13% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 100 153
10th Percentile £463 £550 £519
25th Percentile £538 £613 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £750 £799 £775
90th Percentile £789 £900 £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 £86.25 £73.31 £83.77
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.48% +19.66%

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 14,488 12,681 17,113
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 93.61% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,661 8,214 12,339
10th Percentile £350 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £785
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 144 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.54 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.75 £24.62 £19.04
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +27.27% -17.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £49.28
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £66.50
England median hourly rate £33.09 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.47% - -12.50%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -5 28 £700 +3.70% 11
West London -20 2 £831 - 1
South London - 2 £810 - 1
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 February 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 80 (52.63%) Security Architecture
2 64 (42.11%) Security Cleared
3 56 (36.84%) SC Cleared
4 54 (35.53%) Azure
5 52 (34.21%) AWS
6 46 (30.26%) Cloud Security
7 42 (27.63%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (23.68%) Network Security
8 36 (23.68%) Threat Modelling
9 28 (18.42%) TOGAF
10 26 (17.11%) CISSP
10 26 (17.11%) Firewall
10 26 (17.11%) Zero Trust
11 25 (16.45%) Incident Response
12 24 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 23 (15.13%) Identity Access Management
13 23 (15.13%) Risk Management
14 22 (14.47%) NIST
14 22 (14.47%) Vulnerability Management
15 21 (13.82%) DevSecOps
15 21 (13.82%) GCP
16 20 (13.16%) Microsoft
17 19 (12.50%) SIEM
18 17 (11.18%) CI/CD
18 17 (11.18%) SABSA
19 16 (10.53%) GDPR
19 16 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 15 (9.87%) Migration
20 15 (9.87%) Roadmaps
21 14 (9.21%) Architectural Patterns

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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (35.53%) Azure
2 52 (34.21%) AWS
3 21 (13.82%) GCP
4 8 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 7 (4.61%) AWS KMS
6 5 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.63%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.97%) PaaS
8 3 (1.97%) SaaS
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.32%) Serverless
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.66%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (23.68%) Network Security
2 26 (17.11%) Firewall
3 9 (5.92%) VPN
3 9 (5.92%) WAN
4 7 (4.61%) LAN
5 5 (3.29%) NGFW
5 5 (3.29%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.63%) BGP
6 4 (2.63%) OSPF
7 3 (1.97%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.97%) SSL
8 2 (1.32%) DMZ
8 2 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.32%) S/MIME
8 2 (1.32%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.66%) 4G
9 1 (0.66%) HSRP
9 1 (0.66%) LTE
9 1 (0.66%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.97%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.66%) GitLab
2 1 (0.66%) JIRA
General
1 31 (20.39%) Public Sector
2 28 (18.42%) Finance
3 24 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.58%) Banking
5 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.29%) Legal
7 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.66%) Police
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.29%) OpenID
1 5 (3.29%) SAML
2 3 (1.97%) OAuth
2 3 (1.97%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.32%) .NET
4 1 (0.66%) J2EE
4 1 (0.66%) JAAS
4 1 (0.66%) JSP
4 1 (0.66%) JSSE
4 1 (0.66%) JWT
4 1 (0.66%) Middleware
4 1 (0.66%) React
4 1 (0.66%) REST
4 1 (0.66%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.58%) Management Information System
1 10 (6.58%) Security Posture
2 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.61%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.61%) PKI
3 6 (3.95%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) NHS
4 5 (3.29%) Taxonomies
5 4 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.63%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.66%) IoT
8 1 (0.66%) SCADA
8 1 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Linux
1 5 (3.29%) Windows
2 2 (1.32%) Unix
2 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (52.63%) Security Architecture
2 46 (30.26%) Cloud Security
3 42 (27.63%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (23.68%) Threat Modelling
5 28 (18.42%) TOGAF
6 26 (17.11%) Zero Trust
7 25 (16.45%) Incident Response
8 23 (15.13%) Identity Access Management
8 23 (15.13%) Risk Management
9 22 (14.47%) Vulnerability Management
10 21 (13.82%) DevSecOps
11 19 (12.50%) SIEM
12 17 (11.18%) CI/CD
12 17 (11.18%) SABSA
13 16 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (9.87%) Migration
14 15 (9.87%) Roadmaps
15 14 (9.21%) Architectural Patterns
15 14 (9.21%) Data Protection
15 14 (9.21%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.95%) Java
1 6 (3.95%) Python
2 2 (1.32%) SQL
3 1 (0.66%) Bash
3 1 (0.66%) C
3 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.66%) ProC
3 1 (0.66%) R
3 1 (0.66%) RPG
Qualifications
1 64 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 56 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 26 (17.11%) CISSP
4 13 (8.55%) Degree
5 12 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (7.24%) AWS Certification
6 11 (7.24%) CISM
7 8 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (4.61%) CCSP
9 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.29%) GIAC
10 3 (1.97%) CCIE
10 3 (1.97%) CCNP
10 3 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.32%) CCSE
11 2 (1.32%) CSSLP
11 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.32%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.32%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (14.47%) NIST
3 16 (10.53%) GDPR
4 13 (8.55%) NCSC
5 10 (6.58%) PCI DSS
6 6 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (3.29%) EU AI Act
8 2 (1.32%) GRC
8 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.55%) Terraform
2 5 (3.29%) Ansible
2 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.66%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.89%) Splunk
3 10 (6.58%) Cisco
4 8 (5.26%) Zscaler
5 7 (4.61%) CyberArk
6 6 (3.95%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.29%) Darktrace
7 5 (3.29%) F5
8 4 (2.63%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.97%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.97%) Google
9 3 (1.97%) Juniper
10 2 (1.32%) Arista
10 2 (1.32%) Aruba
10 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.32%) LogRhythm
10 2 (1.32%) Remedy
10 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.66%) WSO2