Cybersecurity Architect Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in England is £738 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 598 729
Rank change year-on-year +128 +131 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 72 55 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.11% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.12% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 33
10th Percentile £484 £614 £540
25th Percentile £589 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £700 £775
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% -9.68% +26.53%
75th Percentile £844 £838 £865
90th Percentile £930 £876 £900
UK median daily rate £673 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -3.93% -3.45% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,483 47,741 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,890 33,903 48,246
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,409 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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 +34 33 £81 -88.83% 2
London +87 25 £700 -0.71% 4
North of England +41 7 £760 +8.57% 2
North West +26 7 £760 +8.57% 2
Midlands +31 2 £875 +34.62% 1
West Midlands +25 2 £875 +34.62% 1
South West +8 2 £543 -18.88%
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Cybersecurity 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (56.94%) Security Architecture
3 33 (45.83%) Security Cleared
4 32 (44.44%) DevOps
4 32 (44.44%) Firewall
5 29 (40.28%) DV Cleared
6 24 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
7 23 (31.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (23.61%) Network Security
9 14 (19.44%) Risk Management
9 14 (19.44%) AWS
10 13 (18.06%) Identity Access Management
10 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
10 13 (18.06%) NIST
11 12 (16.67%) CISM
11 12 (16.67%) CISSP
12 10 (13.89%) Information Security
12 10 (13.89%) Azure
13 9 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
14 8 (11.11%) GDPR
15 7 (9.72%) Business Strategy
15 7 (9.72%) Security Posture
15 7 (9.72%) Data Protection
16 6 (8.33%) TOGAF
16 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
16 6 (8.33%) ITIL
16 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
16 6 (8.33%) Roadmaps
17 5 (6.94%) Operational Technology

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.39%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) AWS
2 10 (13.89%) Azure
3 5 (6.94%) GCP
4 4 (5.56%) IaaS
4 4 (5.56%) PaaS
4 4 (5.56%) SaaS
5 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.39%) Akamai
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (44.44%) Firewall
2 24 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 17 (23.61%) Network Security
4 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.78%) DNS
5 2 (2.78%) SSL
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.39%) HTTP
6 1 (1.39%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
General
1 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Automotive
5 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) OAuth
1 2 (2.78%) OpenID
1 2 (2.78%) SAML
1 2 (2.78%) SPML
2 1 (1.39%) gRPC
2 1 (1.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Security Posture
2 5 (6.94%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.94%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.17%) IoT
5 2 (2.78%) CSOC
5 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.78%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.39%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.39%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.39%) iPad
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (56.94%) Security Architecture
3 32 (44.44%) DevOps
4 23 (31.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (19.44%) Risk Management
6 13 (18.06%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (13.89%) Information Security
8 7 (9.72%) Business Strategy
8 7 (9.72%) Data Protection
9 6 (8.33%) ITIL
9 6 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.33%) TOGAF
10 5 (6.94%) Agile
10 5 (6.94%) Business Continuity
10 5 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (6.94%) Information Security Management
10 5 (6.94%) OWASP
10 5 (6.94%) Project Planning
10 5 (6.94%) Security Management
10 5 (6.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 29 (40.28%) DV Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) CISM
3 12 (16.67%) CISSP
4 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.56%) CISA
5 4 (5.56%) ISACA
6 1 (1.39%) CCNA
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) Degree
6 1 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) NIST
2 8 (11.11%) GDPR
3 5 (6.94%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.56%) COBIT
4 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.39%) ISA99
6 1 (1.39%) NCSC
6 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.78%) CA
2 2 (2.78%) NetIQ
2 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.39%) Cisco
3 1 (1.39%) Darktrace
3 1 (1.39%) F5
3 1 (1.39%) ForeScout
3 1 (1.39%) Google
3 1 (1.39%) Imperva
3 1 (1.39%) Qualys
3 1 (1.39%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.39%) Zscaler
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