Security Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Security Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Technical Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 362 412
Rank change year-on-year -33 +50 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Security Technical Architect 4 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.036% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.039% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £513 £512 £609
25th Percentile £523 £544 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £680
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -15.44% +36.00%
75th Percentile £611 £588 £702
90th Percentile £619 - £713
UK median daily rate £519 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -28.45% +7.41% +5.88%

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 15,294 15,420 19,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.19% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,471 8,872 12,986
10th Percentile £206 £220 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,488 1,063 1,273
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.55 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% -20.79% +85.42%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £73.71 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +53.98%

Security Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Security Technical Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Security Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Security Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Security Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Security Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Security Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Security Technical 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 Technical Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 November 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 +4 3 £600 +21.21% 3
Yorkshire - 1 £538 -
North of England - 1 £538 -
Security Technical Architect
UK

Security Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, Security Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Security Technical Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management

Security Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft