Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £657, 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 222 220 297
Rank change year-on-year -2 +77 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 114 187 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.90% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.97% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 93 120
10th Percentile £550 £500 £572
25th Percentile £600 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £657 £669 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -4.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £732 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £665 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 12
10th Percentile £69.68 £81.86 -
25th Percentile £71.82 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +24.94% -
75th Percentile £85.22 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £86.59 £87.53 -
UK median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.50% +24.94% -

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%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Security 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 -21 34 £625 -3.85% 141
South West +59 29 £670 -7.59% 75
North of England -5 22 £671 +0.52% 143
Midlands +37 21 £700 -6.67% 104
West Midlands +30 21 £700 -13.85% 58
North West 0 16 £671 +0.30% 74
Scotland +16 14 £600 -14.29% 26
Yorkshire -1 5 £680 +2.64% 46
North East 0 1 £625 - 23
Security Architect
UK

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

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

1 46 (40.35%) Security Architecture
2 45 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (35.09%) Azure
3 40 (35.09%) Security Cleared
4 38 (33.33%) AWS
5 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
5 35 (30.70%) Cloud Security
6 32 (28.07%) CISSP
7 26 (22.81%) Threat Modelling
7 26 (22.81%) NIST
8 25 (21.93%) Risk Management
9 24 (21.05%) SC Cleared
9 24 (21.05%) DV Cleared
10 23 (20.18%) DevSecOps
11 21 (18.42%) CISM
12 19 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (15.79%) Finance
14 17 (14.91%) GCP
14 17 (14.91%) Roadmaps
15 16 (14.04%) SIEM
15 16 (14.04%) Microsoft
16 15 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (13.16%) OWASP
16 15 (13.16%) Network Security
16 15 (13.16%) Information Security
17 14 (12.28%) PCI DSS
17 14 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 14 (12.28%) Security Posture
18 13 (11.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 13 (11.40%) Security Operations

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:

Cloud Services
1 40 (35.09%) Azure
2 38 (33.33%) AWS
3 17 (14.91%) GCP
4 7 (6.14%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.26%) SaaS
6 5 (4.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.75%) Akamai
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.88%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.88%) OCI
9 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.16%) Network Security
2 11 (9.65%) Firewall
3 4 (3.51%) VPN
4 3 (2.63%) NGFW
4 3 (2.63%) SSL
5 2 (1.75%) DNS
5 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.88%) BGP
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.88%) DHCP
6 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.88%) LAN
6 1 (0.88%) Modbus
6 1 (0.88%) MQTT
6 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.88%) VLAN
6 1 (0.88%) VSAN
6 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Finance
3 12 (10.53%) Banking
3 12 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Legal
6 4 (3.51%) Games
6 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.63%) Electronics
7 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.63%) Marketing
7 3 (2.63%) Military
8 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.88%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Police
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.39%) SAML
2 3 (2.63%) Apache Axis
2 3 (2.63%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.75%) OAuth
3 2 (1.75%) OpenID
4 1 (0.88%) .NET
4 1 (0.88%) LDAP
4 1 (0.88%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.28%) Security Posture
2 10 (8.77%) Operational Technology
3 9 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.89%) Private Cloud
4 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.26%) SCADA
6 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.63%) IoT
6 3 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.63%) PKI
6 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.75%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.65%) Windows
2 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.51%) Linux
4 2 (1.75%) Unix
4 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.88%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.35%) Security Architecture
2 45 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (30.70%) Cloud Security
4 26 (22.81%) Threat Modelling
5 25 (21.93%) Risk Management
6 23 (20.18%) DevSecOps
7 19 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.91%) Roadmaps
9 16 (14.04%) SIEM
10 15 (13.16%) Information Security
10 15 (13.16%) OWASP
11 13 (11.40%) Security Operations
11 13 (11.40%) TOGAF
12 12 (10.53%) DevOps
12 12 (10.53%) Security Management
13 11 (9.65%) Application Security
13 11 (9.65%) Data Security
13 11 (9.65%) Incident Response
13 11 (9.65%) Network Architecture
14 10 (8.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.51%) Java
1 4 (3.51%) Python
2 3 (2.63%) C#
3 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.75%) Ruby
3 2 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.07%) CISSP
3 24 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 24 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 21 (18.42%) CISM
5 15 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (11.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 11 (9.65%) CCSP
7 11 (9.65%) CEH
8 9 (7.89%) AWS Certification
9 8 (7.02%) Degree
9 8 (7.02%) OSCP
10 6 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.26%) Azure Certification
11 3 (2.63%) CCNA
11 3 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.75%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.81%) NIST
2 14 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (12.28%) PCI DSS
3 12 (10.53%) GDPR
4 11 (9.65%) COBIT
5 8 (7.02%) GRC
5 8 (7.02%) NCSC
6 4 (3.51%) JSP 440
7 3 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (2.63%) PMO
7 3 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.75%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 13 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (6.14%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (3.51%) CASB
3 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.88%) OPNET
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
4 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) CyberArk
3 5 (4.39%) Google
3 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.39%) VMware
4 4 (3.51%) Qualys
4 4 (3.51%) SAP
5 3 (2.63%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) F5
6 2 (1.75%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.88%) Ariba
7 1 (0.88%) Aruba
7 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) Citrix
7 1 (0.88%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk
7 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.88%) Zscaler