Security Architecture Contracts in South London

Security Architecture
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.70% 0.41% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 0.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £675 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70.24 - -
25th Percentile £72.40 - -
Median hourly rate £78.40 - -
75th Percentile £82.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £73.60 - £92.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in South London

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in South London.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in South London

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 - -
Merton - 3 - -
Croydon +7 1 £450 -
Security Architecture
London

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Assurance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
4 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (20.00%) SABSA
4 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CRISC
2 2 (40.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) GIAC
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL
2 1 (20.00%) VMware