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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 206 232
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 256 171 165
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.26% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.36% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 112 106
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £560 £588 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £818
90th Percentile £900 £800 £875
England median daily rate £650 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.82%

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 18,708 12,579 15,251
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.98% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,479 10,729
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 204 203
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £29.54 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.12% -13.77% -9.87%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.73 £65.00 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%

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 14 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 14 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 41 £613 -8.92% 9
West London -14 5 £850 +76.17% 5
East London - 4 £750 - 1
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 (52.73%) Security Architecture
2 91 (35.55%) Security Cleared
3 85 (33.20%) Azure
4 82 (32.03%) Cloud Security
5 76 (29.69%) AWS
6 75 (29.30%) Cybersecurity
7 73 (28.52%) Threat Modelling
8 64 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 57 (22.27%) CISSP
10 51 (19.92%) GCP
11 47 (18.36%) Network Security
12 44 (17.19%) NIST
13 40 (15.63%) Roadmaps
14 39 (15.23%) TOGAF
15 38 (14.84%) Architectural Patterns
15 38 (14.84%) Information Security
15 38 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (13.67%) AI
16 35 (13.67%) Identity Access Management
16 35 (13.67%) Risk Management
17 33 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 32 (12.50%) CISM
19 31 (12.11%) Zero Trust
20 30 (11.72%) Data Protection
20 30 (11.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
20 30 (11.72%) SABSA
21 28 (10.94%) Risk Assessment
22 27 (10.55%) Application Security
22 27 (10.55%) DevSecOps
22 27 (10.55%) 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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (33.20%) Azure
2 76 (29.69%) AWS
3 51 (19.92%) GCP
4 16 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.30%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (3.52%) SaaS
7 8 (3.13%) 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 47 (18.36%) Network Security
2 20 (7.81%) Firewall
3 7 (2.73%) VPN
4 6 (2.34%) 4G
4 6 (2.34%) WAN
5 5 (1.95%) LAN
5 5 (1.95%) NGFW
6 4 (1.56%) 5G
6 4 (1.56%) Intranet
6 4 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
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%) BGP
9 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.39%) OSPF
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%) Snyk
2 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.78%) JIRA
4 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
General
1 51 (19.92%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.58%) Finance
3 34 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.38%) Banking
5 22 (8.59%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (5.47%) Legal
7 9 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.73%) Police
10 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.56%) Law
10 4 (1.56%) Local Government
10 4 (1.56%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Aviation
11 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) OAuth
2 4 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
2 4 (1.56%) JSP
2 4 (1.56%) REST
3 3 (1.17%) HTML
4 2 (0.78%) SAML
5 1 (0.39%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.39%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.11%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.72%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.86%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.69%) AI Agents
5 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.34%) 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%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.34%) 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 (52.73%) Security Architecture
2 82 (32.03%) Cloud Security
3 75 (29.30%) Cybersecurity
4 73 (28.52%) Threat Modelling
5 40 (15.63%) Roadmaps
6 39 (15.23%) TOGAF
7 38 (14.84%) Architectural Patterns
7 38 (14.84%) Information Security
7 38 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (13.67%) AI
8 35 (13.67%) Identity Access Management
8 35 (13.67%) Risk Management
9 33 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (12.11%) Zero Trust
11 30 (11.72%) Data Protection
11 30 (11.72%) SABSA
12 28 (10.94%) Risk Assessment
13 27 (10.55%) Application Security
13 27 (10.55%) DevSecOps
13 27 (10.55%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.73%) Java
1 7 (2.73%) 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 91 (35.55%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 57 (22.27%) CISSP
4 32 (12.50%) CISM
5 19 (7.42%) DV Cleared
6 18 (7.03%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (5.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (3.91%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.52%) CCSP
10 8 (3.13%) CISA
10 8 (3.13%) SANS
11 7 (2.73%) GIAC
12 6 (2.34%) ISSAP
13 5 (1.95%) CEH
13 5 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.95%) OSCP
14 4 (1.56%) CRISC
14 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (1.17%) CCNP
15 3 (1.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.19%) NIST
2 30 (11.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (7.42%) NCSC
4 14 (5.47%) GDPR
5 10 (3.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (3.52%) PCI DSS
7 8 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
7 8 (3.13%) NIST 800
8 7 (2.73%) GRC
9 4 (1.56%) COBIT
9 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
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%) Cyber Essentials
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 12 (4.69%) Terraform
2 10 (3.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.34%) 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 23 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.86%) Google
3 12 (4.69%) Splunk
4 10 (3.91%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.52%) Okta
5 9 (3.52%) Tenable
6 8 (3.13%) Qualys
7 7 (2.73%) Cisco
7 7 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.34%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.56%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.56%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.56%) VMware
9 4 (1.56%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.17%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.78%) Dell
11 2 (0.78%) FireEye
12 1 (0.39%) PagerDuty