Enterprise Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Enterprise Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £705, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 383 425
Rank change year-on-year +31 +42 +93
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Security Architect 10 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.029% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.032% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £650 - £620
25th Percentile £663 £483 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 £515 £650
Median % change year-on-year +36.89% -20.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £736 £548 £706
90th Percentile £738 - £740
UK median daily rate £675 £770 £656
% change year-on-year -12.34% +17.33% -6.25%

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 13,470 18,782 21,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.25% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,291 11,391 14,922
10th Percentile £220 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,137 2,202 1,192
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.88 £13.76
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.72 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +4.34% +85.83%
75th Percentile £56.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £25.28 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.81% -5.88% +65.50%

Enterprise Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Security 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 Enterprise Security Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 - 5 £720 -
South West +38 2 - -
North of England +5 1 £675 +31.07% 1
Yorkshire -5 1 £675 +31.07% 1
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Enterprise Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Enterprise 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 UK excluding London region featuring Enterprise Security Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) NIST
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) SABSA
4 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) IoT
4 2 (20.00%) SCADA
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (20.00%) Sparx
4 2 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Edge Computing
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Enterprise Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Modbus
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Edge Computing
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) SABSA
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Measurement
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Workload Management
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) Sparx
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (10.00%) VMware