Security Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £642, according to job vacancies posted in the 3 months leading up to 13 March 2026.

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

3 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 157 167
Rank change year-on-year -40 +10 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 93 78 121
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.07% 1.38% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.47% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 62 90
10th Percentile £463 £576 £524
25th Percentile £513 £631 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £642 £675 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £784 £786
90th Percentile £775 £838 £827
England median daily rate £650 £675 £713
% change year-on-year -3.70% -5.26% +1.79%

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 8,115 5,308 8,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 94.15% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,511 3,634 6,393
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 65 220
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.18 £15.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £18.95
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £25.61
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +36.69% -26.84%
75th Percentile £59.99 £51.18 £40.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.30 £57.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £28.42
% change year-on-year +28.57% +23.15% -36.84%

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 3 months to 13 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 3 months to 13 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -4 18 £663 -5.36% 17
South London - 2 £810 -
West London -15 1 £1,000 - 2
East London - 1 £775 - 3
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 79 (49.38%) Security Architecture
2 70 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 59 (36.88%) Azure
4 58 (36.25%) SC Cleared
5 56 (35.00%) AWS
6 55 (34.38%) Cloud Security
7 41 (25.63%) Network Security
8 39 (24.38%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (23.13%) Threat Modelling
10 32 (20.00%) CISSP
11 27 (16.88%) DevSecOps
11 27 (16.88%) TOGAF
11 27 (16.88%) Zero Trust
12 25 (15.63%) Risk Management
13 24 (15.00%) GCP
13 24 (15.00%) Incident Response
14 23 (14.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 23 (14.38%) Vulnerability Management
15 22 (13.75%) Identity Access Management
15 22 (13.75%) SIEM
16 20 (12.50%) CI/CD
16 20 (12.50%) Firewall
16 20 (12.50%) Microsoft
17 19 (11.88%) SABSA
18 17 (10.63%) Application Security
18 17 (10.63%) Cisco Certification
18 17 (10.63%) CISM
18 17 (10.63%) GDPR
18 17 (10.63%) NIST
19 16 (10.00%) Information Security

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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (36.88%) Azure
2 56 (35.00%) AWS
3 24 (15.00%) GCP
4 8 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 8 (5.00%) AWS KMS
4 8 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (3.13%) SaaS
5 5 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.88%) PaaS
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.25%) Serverless
9 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.63%) Network Security
2 20 (12.50%) Firewall
3 9 (5.63%) VPN
3 9 (5.63%) WAN
4 7 (4.38%) LAN
5 5 (3.13%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.50%) BGP
6 4 (2.50%) OSPF
7 3 (1.88%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.88%) SSL
8 2 (1.25%) DMZ
8 2 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.25%) NGFW
8 2 (1.25%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.63%) 3G
9 1 (0.63%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.63%) Internet
9 1 (0.63%) VRRP
9 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Snyk
2 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.63%) GitLab
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (21.88%) Finance
2 33 (20.63%) Public Sector
3 29 (18.13%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.13%) Banking
5 6 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.75%) Financial Institution
5 6 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.13%) Legal
7 4 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Police
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.13%) OpenID
1 5 (3.13%) SAML
2 3 (1.88%) OAuth
2 3 (1.88%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (0.63%) J2EE
4 1 (0.63%) JAAS
4 1 (0.63%) JSP
4 1 (0.63%) JSSE
4 1 (0.63%) JWT
4 1 (0.63%) Middleware
4 1 (0.63%) React
4 1 (0.63%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Security Posture
2 11 (6.88%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.75%) PKI
4 6 (3.75%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.13%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.88%) NHS
7 3 (1.88%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.63%) Robotics
9 1 (0.63%) SCADA
9 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Linux
1 3 (1.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (49.38%) Security Architecture
2 55 (34.38%) Cloud Security
3 39 (24.38%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (23.13%) Threat Modelling
5 27 (16.88%) DevSecOps
5 27 (16.88%) TOGAF
5 27 (16.88%) Zero Trust
6 25 (15.63%) Risk Management
7 24 (15.00%) Incident Response
8 23 (14.38%) Vulnerability Management
9 22 (13.75%) Identity Access Management
9 22 (13.75%) SIEM
10 20 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 19 (11.88%) SABSA
12 17 (10.63%) Application Security
13 16 (10.00%) Information Security
13 16 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (9.38%) Migration
14 15 (9.38%) Regulatory Compliance
14 15 (9.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.75%) Java
1 6 (3.75%) Python
2 2 (1.25%) SQL
3 1 (0.63%) Bash
3 1 (0.63%) C
3 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.63%) ProC
3 1 (0.63%) R
3 1 (0.63%) RPG
Qualifications
1 70 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 58 (36.25%) SC Cleared
3 32 (20.00%) CISSP
4 17 (10.63%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (10.63%) CISM
5 13 (8.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 13 (8.13%) Degree
6 11 (6.88%) CCSP
7 10 (6.25%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.13%) GIAC
10 3 (1.88%) CCIE
10 3 (1.88%) CCNP
11 2 (1.25%) CCSE
11 2 (1.25%) CSSLP
11 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.25%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.25%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (10.63%) GDPR
2 17 (10.63%) NIST
3 14 (8.75%) NCSC
4 11 (6.88%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.75%) EU AI Act
6 5 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.63%) GRC
9 1 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (0.63%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (7.50%) Terraform
2 8 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.50%) Ansible
4 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.63%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.13%) Splunk
3 10 (6.25%) Cisco
4 9 (5.63%) Zscaler
5 5 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 5 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.50%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.50%) F5
6 4 (2.50%) Okta
6 4 (2.50%) Qualys
6 4 (2.50%) Tenable
7 3 (1.88%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.88%) Google
7 3 (1.88%) Juniper
8 2 (1.25%) Arista
8 2 (1.25%) Aruba
8 2 (1.25%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.25%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow