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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 212 228
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 257 163 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.22% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.31% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 107 109
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £563 £584 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £788
90th Percentile £900 £800 £855
England median daily rate £634 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -6.07% -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 18,712 12,462 15,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 92.97% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,149 8,386 10,664
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -13.22% -10.28%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 40 £625 -6.72% 4
West London -19 4 £750 +55.44% 4
East London - 4 £750 - 2
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 135 (52.53%) Security Architecture
2 89 (34.63%) Security Cleared
3 84 (32.68%) Azure
3 84 (32.68%) Cloud Security
4 75 (29.18%) Threat Modelling
5 74 (28.79%) Cybersecurity
6 71 (27.63%) AWS
7 64 (24.90%) SC Cleared
8 55 (21.40%) CISSP
9 51 (19.84%) GCP
10 47 (18.29%) NIST
11 44 (17.12%) Network Security
12 40 (15.56%) Information Security
13 39 (15.18%) Roadmaps
13 39 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (14.79%) Architectural Patterns
15 37 (14.40%) TOGAF
16 36 (14.01%) AI
17 35 (13.62%) Risk Management
18 33 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
19 32 (12.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 32 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 32 (12.45%) Zero Trust
20 31 (12.06%) Data Protection
21 30 (11.67%) CISM
21 30 (11.67%) SABSA
22 28 (10.89%) Risk Assessment
23 26 (10.12%) DevSecOps
24 25 (9.73%) DevOps
24 25 (9.73%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (0.78%) SAS
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (32.68%) Azure
2 71 (27.63%) AWS
3 51 (19.84%) GCP
4 15 (5.84%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.89%) SaaS
6 9 (3.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.17%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.17%) AWS KMS
8 3 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.17%) GitHub
8 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.17%) OCI
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.78%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (17.12%) Network Security
2 19 (7.39%) Firewall
3 6 (2.33%) 4G
3 6 (2.33%) VPN
4 5 (1.95%) WAN
5 4 (1.56%) 5G
5 4 (1.56%) Intranet
5 4 (1.56%) LAN
5 4 (1.56%) NGFW
5 4 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.17%) IPsec
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.78%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.78%) Big Data
1 2 (0.78%) Metadata
2 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.78%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Snyk
3 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
General
1 50 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.34%) Finance
3 31 (12.06%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.34%) Influencing Skills
5 23 (8.95%) Banking
6 14 (5.45%) Legal
7 9 (3.50%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.72%) Police
10 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.56%) Law
11 4 (1.56%) Local Government
11 4 (1.56%) Retail
12 2 (0.78%) Aviation
12 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.67%) Terraform
2 7 (2.72%) OAuth
3 4 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
3 4 (1.56%) JSP
3 4 (1.56%) REST
4 3 (1.17%) HTML
4 3 (1.17%) SAML
5 2 (0.78%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.78%) OpenID
6 1 (0.39%) JWT
6 1 (0.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.67%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.67%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.33%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.56%) CMDB
8 4 (1.56%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.56%) Genomics
8 4 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) 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
1 135 (52.53%) Security Architecture
2 84 (32.68%) Cloud Security
3 75 (29.18%) Threat Modelling
4 74 (28.79%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (15.56%) Information Security
6 39 (15.18%) Roadmaps
6 39 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (14.79%) Architectural Patterns
8 37 (14.40%) TOGAF
9 36 (14.01%) AI
10 35 (13.62%) Risk Management
11 33 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
12 32 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (12.45%) Zero Trust
13 31 (12.06%) Data Protection
14 30 (11.67%) SABSA
15 28 (10.89%) Risk Assessment
16 26 (10.12%) DevSecOps
17 25 (9.73%) DevOps
17 25 (9.73%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.72%) Java
1 7 (2.72%) Python
2 5 (1.95%) Bicep
2 5 (1.95%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.39%) R
4 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 55 (21.40%) CISSP
4 30 (11.67%) CISM
5 20 (7.78%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (3.50%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.50%) CISA
8 9 (3.50%) SANS
9 7 (2.72%) CCSP
9 7 (2.72%) GIAC
9 7 (2.72%) ISSAP
10 5 (1.95%) CEH
10 5 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.95%) CRISC
10 5 (1.95%) OSCP
11 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.17%) CCNP
12 3 (1.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (18.29%) NIST
2 32 (12.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (7.39%) NCSC
4 14 (5.45%) GDPR
5 10 (3.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (3.50%) GRC
6 9 (3.50%) NIST 800
6 9 (3.50%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.11%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (1.56%) COBIT
10 3 (1.17%) EU AI Act
10 3 (1.17%) IFRS
10 3 (1.17%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.39%) QA
12 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.56%) Docker
3 3 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Varnish
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.33%) Ansible
3 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.78%) QRadar
5 1 (0.39%) CASB
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.23%) Google
3 11 (4.28%) Palo Alto
4 10 (3.89%) Splunk
5 8 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.72%) Cisco
6 7 (2.72%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (2.72%) Okta
6 7 (2.72%) Tenable
7 6 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.33%) Qualys
8 4 (1.56%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.56%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.56%) VMware
8 4 (1.56%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.17%) IFS
9 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.17%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.78%) Dell
10 2 (0.78%) FireEye