Hybrid/Remote Senior Security Architect Contract Job Trends

Senior Security Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 306 320
Rank change year-on-year -58 +14 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 7 11 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.052% 0.11% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.12% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £500 £733 £521
25th Percentile £550 £756 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £788 £648
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +21.62% -19.06%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £725
90th Percentile £800 - £770
UK median daily rate £638 £747 £786
% change year-on-year -14.63% -4.99% +8.41%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 12,533 9,249 11,833
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 93.87% 93.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,842 6,100 7,593
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 684 293 295
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.36 £19.42
25th Percentile £26.78 £20.50 £31.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £38.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.04% -14.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.01%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Security Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Security Architect job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Security Architect job vacancies

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Security Architect over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Senior Security Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Senior Security 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Design
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) CISSP
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (57.14%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Ansible
4 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (42.86%) ISSAP
4 3 (42.86%) Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) NIST
4 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (42.86%) Python
4 3 (42.86%) RBAC

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) CMDB
4 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Design
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) SIEM
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) RBAC
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) SOAR
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) ISSAP
3 2 (28.57%) CISM
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) CCSP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (14.29%) IBM Certification
4 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Rapid7
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Tenable
2 1 (14.29%) TOWER Software