Cybersecurity Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 353 438
Rank change year-on-year +31 +85 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 14 46 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.22% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.24% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 22
10th Percentile £591 £155 £577
25th Percentile £613 £601 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +0.90%
75th Percentile £666 £878 £816
90th Percentile £706 £917 £838
UK median daily rate £625 £673 £700
% change year-on-year -7.06% -3.93% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 0
10th Percentile - £81.86 -
25th Percentile £82.50 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £87.46 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £87.53 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £87.46 -
% change year-on-year -2.81% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the UK excluding 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
South East +20 7 £625 +671.60% 7
North of England +15 3 £638 -16.12% 4
Midlands +22 2 £725 -17.14% 4
West Midlands +14 2 £725 -17.14% 2
Scotland +13 2 - - 4
North West +12 2 £650 -14.47% 4
North East - 1 £625 -
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cybersecurity 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (71.43%) Risk Management
3 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 5 (35.71%) Information Security
4 5 (35.71%) NIST
4 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
5 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 4 (28.57%) CISSP
5 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (28.57%) GDPR
6 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
6 3 (21.43%) CISM
6 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (21.43%) Network Security
6 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
6 3 (21.43%) NCSC
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (14.29%) GRC
7 2 (14.29%) Application Security

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Network Security
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (71.43%) Risk Management
3 7 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 5 (35.71%) Information Security
5 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Application Security
7 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
7 2 (14.29%) Budgeting
7 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
7 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) OWASP
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) CISSP
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CISM
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) NIST
2 4 (28.57%) GDPR
3 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (21.43%) NCSC
4 2 (14.29%) COBIT
4 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (14.29%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) SAP