Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 196 212
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 257 179 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.32% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.41% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 121 125
10th Percentile £497 £513 £508
25th Percentile £525 £603 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £800
90th Percentile £900 £800 £875
England median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -

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 18,486 12,652 15,766
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 93.10% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,085 8,557 11,239
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 197 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.09% -17.21%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.00 £51.88
90th Percentile £76.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.50 £42.91
% change year-on-year +71.91% -38.24% -2.72%

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 July 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 July 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 40 £600 -10.78% 5
East London - 3 £750 - 1
West London -14 2 £925 +91.71% 6
South London -15 2 £810 +8.00%
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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.

1 126 (49.03%) Security Architecture
2 99 (38.52%) Security Cleared
3 83 (32.30%) Azure
4 76 (29.57%) Cloud Security
4 76 (29.57%) SC Cleared
5 75 (29.18%) AWS
6 73 (28.40%) Cybersecurity
6 73 (28.40%) Threat Modelling
7 56 (21.79%) CISSP
8 49 (19.07%) Network Security
9 47 (18.29%) GCP
10 42 (16.34%) Architectural Patterns
11 41 (15.95%) TOGAF
12 37 (14.40%) Roadmaps
13 35 (13.62%) Information Security
13 35 (13.62%) NIST
14 34 (13.23%) Risk Management
15 33 (12.84%) Zero Trust
16 32 (12.45%) Identity Access Management
17 31 (12.06%) AI
17 31 (12.06%) Application Security
17 31 (12.06%) CISM
17 31 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 31 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 30 (11.67%) Data Protection
19 28 (10.89%) Enterprise Architecture
20 27 (10.51%) DevOps
20 27 (10.51%) SABSA
21 24 (9.34%) DevSecOps
21 24 (9.34%) ISO/IEC 27001

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 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.30%) Azure
2 75 (29.18%) AWS
3 47 (18.29%) GCP
4 16 (6.23%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.72%) SaaS
8 5 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (1.56%) AWS Control Tower
9 4 (1.56%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.17%) GitHub
10 3 (1.17%) OCI
11 2 (0.78%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.78%) Serverless
11 2 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (19.07%) Network Security
2 21 (8.17%) Firewall
3 7 (2.72%) 4G
3 7 (2.72%) VPN
4 6 (2.33%) WAN
5 5 (1.95%) 5G
5 5 (1.95%) LAN
5 5 (1.95%) NGFW
5 5 (1.95%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (1.56%) Intranet
7 3 (1.17%) IPsec
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.78%) Internet
8 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.39%) 3G
9 1 (0.39%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.39%) SNMP
9 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.78%) Big Data
1 2 (0.78%) Metadata
2 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.56%) Snyk
2 2 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 46 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.34%) Finance
3 41 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.34%) Banking
5 22 (8.56%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.89%) Legal
7 8 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.95%) Retail
9 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.56%) Local Government
9 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Law
10 3 (1.17%) Police
11 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.39%) Aviation
12 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.95%) OAuth
2 4 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
2 4 (1.56%) JSP
3 3 (1.17%) HTML
3 3 (1.17%) REST
4 2 (0.78%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.78%) SAML
5 1 (0.39%) JWT
5 1 (0.39%) OpenID
5 1 (0.39%) React
5 1 (0.39%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.28%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.84%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.89%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.56%) CMDB
6 4 (1.56%) Genomics
6 4 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.17%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.17%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.72%) Linux
2 4 (1.56%) Alpine Linux
2 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
2 4 (1.56%) Windows
2 4 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (49.03%) Security Architecture
2 76 (29.57%) Cloud Security
3 73 (28.40%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (28.40%) Threat Modelling
4 42 (16.34%) Architectural Patterns
5 41 (15.95%) TOGAF
6 37 (14.40%) Roadmaps
7 35 (13.62%) Information Security
8 34 (13.23%) Risk Management
9 33 (12.84%) Zero Trust
10 32 (12.45%) Identity Access Management
11 31 (12.06%) AI
11 31 (12.06%) Application Security
11 31 (12.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (11.67%) Data Protection
13 28 (10.89%) Enterprise Architecture
14 27 (10.51%) DevOps
14 27 (10.51%) SABSA
15 24 (9.34%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.11%) Java
2 7 (2.72%) Python
3 5 (1.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.56%) Bicep
5 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.78%) SQL
7 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 99 (38.52%) Security Cleared
2 76 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 56 (21.79%) CISSP
4 31 (12.06%) CISM
5 21 (8.17%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (6.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 15 (5.84%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.28%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.28%) CCSP
9 9 (3.50%) GIAC
10 8 (3.11%) CISA
11 7 (2.72%) SANS
12 6 (2.33%) ISSAP
13 5 (1.95%) CEH
13 5 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.95%) Degree
13 5 (1.95%) OSCP
14 4 (1.56%) CCNP
14 4 (1.56%) CRISC
14 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.62%) NIST
2 24 (9.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.61%) NCSC
4 13 (5.06%) GDPR
5 10 (3.89%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.11%) NIST 800
7 7 (2.72%) GRC
8 6 (2.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (1.56%) COBIT
9 4 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (1.17%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.17%) IFRS
10 3 (1.17%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.56%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.67%) Terraform
3 6 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.78%) QRadar
4 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.45%) Splunk
3 13 (5.06%) Google
4 10 (3.89%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.50%) Okta
5 9 (3.50%) Tenable
6 8 (3.11%) Cisco
6 8 (3.11%) Qualys
7 7 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.95%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.56%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.56%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.17%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.78%) Cribl.io
12 2 (0.78%) FireEye
12 2 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.78%) VMware
13 1 (0.39%) Netlify