Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 225 215
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 162 159 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.22% 0.99% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.05% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 100 209
10th Percentile £513 £500 £548
25th Percentile £600 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £775 £801 £775
90th Percentile £800 £875 £828
England median daily rate £675 £700 £681
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.87% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £78.50
England median hourly rate £100.00 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.34% +24.94% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,265 15,131 21,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.07% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 10,167 15,334
10th Percentile £325 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £671 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 181 235
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -6.67% +15.03%
75th Percentile £50.25 £56.00 £63.88
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 +8 21 £675 -16.92% 4
South London - 4 £750 -
West London -3 2 £483 -28.25%
Security Architect
England

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 81 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 62 (38.27%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (32.72%) AWS
4 52 (32.10%) Azure
5 49 (30.25%) NIST
6 47 (29.01%) Cloud Security
7 43 (26.54%) Security Cleared
8 40 (24.69%) SIEM
8 40 (24.69%) Finance
9 38 (23.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 37 (22.84%) SC Cleared
11 33 (20.37%) Firewall
12 30 (18.52%) Splunk
13 28 (17.28%) SaaS
13 28 (17.28%) GCP
13 28 (17.28%) CISSP
14 26 (16.05%) Social Skills
15 25 (15.43%) Public Sector
16 24 (14.81%) Use Case
16 24 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
16 24 (14.81%) Security Operations
17 23 (14.20%) Network Security
17 23 (14.20%) Microsoft
17 23 (14.20%) SOAR
18 22 (13.58%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (13.58%) Identity Access Management
19 21 (12.96%) Vulnerability Management
19 21 (12.96%) Information Security
19 21 (12.96%) GDPR
20 20 (12.35%) Onboarding

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) IBM Transformation Extender
2 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.72%) AWS
2 52 (32.10%) Azure
3 28 (17.28%) GCP
3 28 (17.28%) SaaS
4 19 (11.73%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (11.73%) Amazon S3
4 19 (11.73%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (3.70%) IaaS
6 5 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.09%) OCI
7 4 (2.47%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.85%) GitHub
8 3 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (20.37%) Firewall
2 23 (14.20%) Network Security
3 5 (3.09%) DNS
3 5 (3.09%) NGFW
3 5 (3.09%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.47%) VPN
5 3 (1.85%) HTTP
5 3 (1.85%) WAN
6 2 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.23%) DMZ
6 2 (1.23%) LAN
6 2 (1.23%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (1.23%) SAN
6 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.23%) Wireless
7 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.62%) VLAN
7 1 (0.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.70%) GIS
2 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.62%) Metadata
2 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) JIRA
2 3 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.23%) Git
3 2 (1.23%) GitLab
General
1 40 (24.69%) Finance
2 26 (16.05%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.43%) Public Sector
4 22 (13.58%) Documentation Skills
5 20 (12.35%) Banking
6 8 (4.94%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.47%) Military
7 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.09%) OAuth
1 5 (3.09%) SAML
2 4 (2.47%) OpenID
3 3 (1.85%) .NET
3 3 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.85%) React
4 2 (1.23%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.23%) Web Services
5 1 (0.62%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.35%) Onboarding
2 19 (11.73%) CSOC
2 19 (11.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 15 (9.26%) Security Posture
4 11 (6.79%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.32%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.70%) PKI
7 4 (2.47%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.85%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.85%) NHS
8 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.23%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.62%) IoT
10 1 (0.62%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.02%) Windows
2 8 (4.94%) Linux
2 8 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.85%) Unix
4 2 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 62 (38.27%) Cybersecurity
3 47 (29.01%) Cloud Security
4 40 (24.69%) SIEM
5 24 (14.81%) Security Operations
5 24 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
5 24 (14.81%) Use Case
6 23 (14.20%) SOAR
7 22 (13.58%) Identity Access Management
8 21 (12.96%) Information Security
8 21 (12.96%) Vulnerability Management
9 20 (12.35%) Risk Management
10 18 (11.11%) DevOps
10 18 (11.11%) SABSA
11 17 (10.49%) Application Security
11 17 (10.49%) Incident Response
12 16 (9.88%) Data Loss Prevention
13 15 (9.26%) Network Segmentation
13 15 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (8.64%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.56%) Python
2 6 (3.70%) Java
3 5 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.47%) Bash
5 3 (1.85%) PHP
5 3 (1.85%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.62%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.84%) SC Cleared
3 28 (17.28%) CISSP
4 17 (10.49%) CISM
5 9 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (4.32%) Degree
7 6 (3.70%) CISA
7 6 (3.70%) GIAC
8 4 (2.47%) SANS
9 3 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.85%) CEH
9 3 (1.85%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.85%) OCP
9 3 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.85%) PMP
10 2 (1.23%) CASP
10 2 (1.23%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (1.23%) CRISC
10 2 (1.23%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (30.25%) NIST
2 38 (23.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (12.96%) GDPR
4 16 (9.88%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.94%) HIPAA
6 5 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (3.09%) NCSC
7 3 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.85%) GRC
7 3 (1.85%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (1.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.62%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 12 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (4.32%) Terraform
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.23%) SCCM
3 2 (1.23%) SELinux
4 1 (0.62%) Ansible
4 1 (0.62%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 30 (18.52%) Splunk
2 23 (14.20%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.79%) CyberArk
4 10 (6.17%) Fortinet
4 10 (6.17%) Google
5 8 (4.94%) Cisco
6 7 (4.32%) Darktrace
7 6 (3.70%) ESRI
7 6 (3.70%) Oracle
8 5 (3.09%) Tufin
9 4 (2.47%) AlgoSec
10 3 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.23%) Ericsson
11 2 (1.23%) IBM
11 2 (1.23%) Okta
11 2 (1.23%) Ping Identity
11 2 (1.23%) Saba
11 2 (1.23%) SAP