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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 189 254
Rank change year-on-year -56 +65 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 109 211 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.99% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.07% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 105 140
10th Percentile £524 £490 £572
25th Percentile £600 £600 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £657 £663 £680
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -2.57% +4.62%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £761
90th Percentile £808 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 11
10th Percentile £84.25 £81.86 -
25th Percentile £86.88 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £92.50 £87.46 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.76% +24.94% -
75th Percentile £96.88 £87.50 £74.63
90th Percentile £98.75 £87.53 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.76% +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 12,296 19,717 21,485
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.47% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,714 11,713 14,887
10th Percentile £218 £213 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 941 2,535 1,097
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.57
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 West +37 32 £650 +1.96% 92
South East -30 29 £613 -5.77% 177
North of England -24 26 £671 +0.30% 174
North West -6 22 £675 +0.75% 100
West Midlands +29 20 £763 +1.67% 67
Midlands +25 20 £763 -2.87% 104
Scotland +4 7 £825 +19.13% 32
North East +1 2 £625 - 21
Yorkshire -5 2 £550 -8.33% 53
East of England +28 1 - - 86
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 47 (43.12%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (42.20%) Security Architecture
3 41 (37.61%) Security Cleared
4 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
5 36 (33.03%) Azure
5 36 (33.03%) AWS
6 35 (32.11%) Cloud Security
7 33 (30.28%) Threat Modelling
8 26 (23.85%) DV Cleared
9 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (22.02%) SC Cleared
11 22 (20.18%) Risk Management
11 22 (20.18%) CISSP
11 22 (20.18%) NIST
12 18 (16.51%) Finance
12 18 (16.51%) Network Security
12 18 (16.51%) GCP
13 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
13 17 (15.60%) Security Posture
14 16 (14.68%) Security Operations
15 15 (13.76%) Identity Access Management
15 15 (13.76%) SIEM
15 15 (13.76%) CISM
15 15 (13.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
15 15 (13.76%) Application Security
16 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
16 14 (12.84%) Data Security
17 13 (11.93%) DevSecOps
18 11 (10.09%) Technical Leadership

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 (0.92%) Confluence
1 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.03%) AWS
1 36 (33.03%) Azure
2 18 (16.51%) GCP
3 5 (4.59%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (3.67%) Akamai
4 4 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.83%) SaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.51%) Network Security
2 8 (7.34%) Firewall
3 4 (3.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.92%) BGP
4 1 (0.92%) DNS
4 1 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.92%) LAN
4 1 (0.92%) Modbus
4 1 (0.92%) MQTT
4 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.92%) VSAN
4 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.83%) JIRA
General
1 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Finance
3 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Banking
5 5 (4.59%) Legal
5 5 (4.59%) Military
6 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
6 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.75%) Electronics
8 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.92%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.92%) Police
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.59%) SailPoint
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Axis
3 2 (1.83%) OAuth
3 2 (1.83%) OpenID
3 2 (1.83%) SAML
4 1 (0.92%) .NET
4 1 (0.92%) LDAP
4 1 (0.92%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.92%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.60%) Security Posture
2 11 (10.09%) Operational Technology
3 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.26%) SCADA
4 8 (7.34%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.59%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.59%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.59%) Cyberattack
6 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.75%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.75%) IoT
7 3 (2.75%) PKI
7 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.83%) CESG
8 2 (1.83%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.83%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.92%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.92%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.12%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (42.20%) Security Architecture
3 35 (32.11%) Cloud Security
4 33 (30.28%) Threat Modelling
5 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (20.18%) Risk Management
7 16 (14.68%) Security Operations
8 15 (13.76%) Application Security
8 15 (13.76%) Identity Access Management
8 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
8 15 (13.76%) SIEM
9 14 (12.84%) Data Security
10 13 (11.93%) DevSecOps
11 11 (10.09%) Risk Assessment
11 11 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (9.17%) Data Protection
12 10 (9.17%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.17%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 9 (8.26%) Information Security
13 9 (8.26%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.67%) Java
1 4 (3.67%) Python
2 3 (2.75%) C#
3 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.83%) Ruby
3 2 (1.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (37.61%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.85%) DV Cleared
3 24 (22.02%) SC Cleared
4 22 (20.18%) CISSP
5 15 (13.76%) CISM
6 10 (9.17%) AWS Certification
7 9 (8.26%) Degree
8 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.75%) CEH
10 3 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.83%) CCNA
11 2 (1.83%) CCSP
12 1 (0.92%) CCNP
12 1 (0.92%) GIAC
12 1 (0.92%) OCP
12 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.18%) NIST
2 15 (13.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (10.09%) GRC
4 9 (8.26%) GDPR
5 8 (7.34%) NCSC
6 6 (5.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (4.59%) PCI DSS
8 4 (3.67%) JSP 440
9 3 (2.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (2.75%) PMO
10 2 (1.83%) COBIT
10 2 (1.83%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.92%) GxP
11 1 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.42%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) CASB
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.92%) Ansible
4 1 (0.92%) OPNET
4 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.34%) CyberArk
3 7 (6.42%) Google
4 5 (4.59%) F5
4 5 (4.59%) Qualys
4 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.67%) SAP
6 2 (1.83%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.83%) Splunk
6 2 (1.83%) VMware
7 1 (0.92%) Ariba
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.92%) Citrix
7 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.92%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle
7 1 (0.92%) Sparx
7 1 (0.92%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.92%) Zscaler