Security Architect Contract Job Trends in the South West

Security Architect
England > South West

The median Security Architect daily rate in the South West is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 115 128
Rank change year-on-year +34 +13 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 36 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.88% 1.00% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% 1.09% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 15
10th Percentile £525 £522 £605
25th Percentile £583 £600 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -8.93% -3.45%
75th Percentile £702 £775 £750
90th Percentile £716 £806 £783
England median daily rate £675 £700 £681
% change year-on-year -3.57% +2.87% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £100.00 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.34% +24.94% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 1,709 2,488 3,160
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.06% 92.46% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 1,564 2,184
10th Percentile £223 £222 £300
25th Percentile £363 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +1.16%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 286 277
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £18.05
25th Percentile £18.13 £33.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +10.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.66
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +66.10%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the South West

Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in the South West

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the South West

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in the South West

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wiltshire +21 21 £650 +8.33% 2
Bristol +7 8 £625 -5.66% 2
Devon - 3 - -
Gloucestershire - 3 £650 - 3
Somerset +1 1 £750 -11.76% 1
Security Architect
England

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 3 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 South West region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 20 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) DV Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Cloud Security
3 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 10 (27.78%) NCSC
3 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
6 7 (19.44%) Azure
7 6 (16.67%) AWS
7 6 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 6 (16.67%) Cryptography
7 6 (16.67%) Network Security
7 6 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (16.67%) Security Posture
8 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
8 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.89%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (13.89%) NIST
8 5 (13.89%) PKI
8 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.89%) CISM
8 5 (13.89%) CISSP
8 5 (13.89%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (13.89%) Data Protection

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) Akamai
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) IaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Network Security
2 4 (11.11%) VSAN
3 3 (8.33%) Firewall
3 3 (8.33%) Skype
4 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Marketing
3 4 (11.11%) Military
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Electronics
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.78%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) ModSecurity
1 3 (8.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
1 6 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (13.89%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (13.89%) PKI
3 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.56%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
1 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Cloud Security
2 10 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (16.67%) Cryptography
4 6 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 5 (13.89%) Data Protection
5 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (13.89%) SIEM
5 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 4 (11.11%) Security Architecture
6 4 (11.11%) Security Operations
6 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) DV Cleared
3 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) CISM
4 5 (13.89%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CCSP
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) GIAC
5 1 (2.78%) ISSAP
5 1 (2.78%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) NCSC
2 5 (13.89%) NIST
3 4 (11.11%) JSP 440
4 3 (8.33%) GDPR
4 3 (8.33%) GRC
4 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 3 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
5 1 (2.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (11.11%) OPNET
2 3 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) F5
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Google
3 3 (8.33%) SAP
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle