Security Architect Contracts in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 285 292
Rank change year-on-year +66 +7 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 398 466 673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 0.92% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.97% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 332 456
10th Percentile £519 £563 £538
25th Percentile £625 £628 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £780 £775 £775
90th Percentile £825 £838 £856
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £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 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security 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 Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
London +42 204 £725 +3.57% 30
South East +80 103 £650 -7.14% 10
North of England +51 46 £668 -2.91% 2
North West +25 33 £669 -4.43% 2
South West +8 16 £725 +3.57% 5
Yorkshire +39 14 £663 -5.36%
Midlands -5 6 £750 +10.29% 4
West Midlands +3 5 £813 +19.49% 2
East of England +1 5 £675 -18.18% 7
North East +18 1 - -
East Midlands +17 1 £567 -8.84% 2
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 215 (54.02%) Security Architecture
2 157 (39.45%) Security Cleared
3 127 (31.91%) Cybersecurity
4 92 (23.12%) NIST
5 81 (20.35%) CISSP
6 78 (19.60%) Firewall
7 75 (18.84%) Finance
7 75 (18.84%) Cloud Security
8 74 (18.59%) Azure
9 73 (18.34%) SC Cleared
10 67 (16.83%) Risk Management
11 66 (16.58%) DV Cleared
12 65 (16.33%) Information Security
13 60 (15.08%) AWS
14 59 (14.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 58 (14.57%) Network Security
16 56 (14.07%) DevOps
17 50 (12.56%) Microsoft
18 48 (12.06%) Public Sector
19 47 (11.81%) CISM
20 42 (10.55%) PKI
21 40 (10.05%) Intrusion Detection
22 39 (9.80%) TOGAF
23 37 (9.30%) Application Security
24 36 (9.05%) Social Skills
24 36 (9.05%) SABSA
24 36 (9.05%) SaaS
25 35 (8.79%) Data Loss Prevention
26 34 (8.54%) Agile
27 33 (8.29%) Identity Access Management

Security 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 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) nginx
3 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (18.59%) Azure
2 60 (15.08%) AWS
3 36 (9.05%) SaaS
4 32 (8.04%) IaaS
5 22 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (5.03%) GCP
7 18 (4.52%) PaaS
8 14 (3.52%) Serverless
9 13 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.02%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.26%) Akamai
12 6 (1.51%) Cloudflare
13 5 (1.26%) WhatsApp
14 4 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
15 3 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon EMR
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon Kinesis
16 2 (0.50%) GitHub
16 2 (0.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 78 (19.60%) Firewall
2 58 (14.57%) Network Security
3 40 (10.05%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (2.01%) SAN
4 8 (2.01%) SSL
5 6 (1.51%) LAN
5 6 (1.51%) WAN
6 5 (1.26%) DNS
6 5 (1.26%) VPN
7 4 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (1.01%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.75%) Wireless
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.25%) Internet
9 1 (0.25%) Modbus
9 1 (0.25%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
9 1 (0.25%) SCCP
9 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.50%) Apache Hive
2 2 (0.50%) Big Data
2 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.50%) Bigtable
2 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.50%) HBase
2 2 (0.50%) IBM BigInsights
2 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.50%) Parquet
2 2 (0.50%) PolyBase
2 2 (0.50%) Sqoop
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Robot Framework
1 12 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.01%) GitLab
4 3 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.25%) JIRA
General
1 75 (18.84%) Finance
2 48 (12.06%) Public Sector
3 36 (9.05%) Social Skills
4 20 (5.03%) Banking
5 11 (2.76%) Financial Institution
5 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.01%) Legal
7 7 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.76%) Retail
8 6 (1.51%) Local Government
9 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Law
10 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Marketing
10 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.77%) OpenID
2 13 (3.27%) SAML
3 12 (3.02%) XACML
4 5 (1.26%) OAuth
5 4 (1.01%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.75%) Kafka
6 3 (0.75%) SOAP
6 3 (0.75%) XML
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.50%) SPML
8 1 (0.25%) FIDO
8 1 (0.25%) gRPC
8 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.25%) Node.js
8 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.55%) PKI
2 28 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.27%) Security Posture
4 16 (4.02%) IoT
5 14 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.26%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.26%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.26%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.01%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.75%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.75%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.28%) Windows
2 13 (3.27%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (1.26%) Linux
5 3 (0.75%) Unix
6 2 (0.50%) Android
6 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (54.02%) Security Architecture
2 127 (31.91%) Cybersecurity
3 75 (18.84%) Cloud Security
4 67 (16.83%) Risk Management
5 65 (16.33%) Information Security
6 56 (14.07%) DevOps
7 39 (9.80%) TOGAF
8 37 (9.30%) Application Security
9 36 (9.05%) SABSA
10 35 (8.79%) Data Loss Prevention
11 34 (8.54%) Agile
12 33 (8.29%) Identity Access Management
13 32 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
13 32 (8.04%) Business Strategy
13 32 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (7.54%) DevSecOps
15 29 (7.29%) Risk Assessment
16 28 (7.04%) Threat Modelling
17 27 (6.78%) Enterprise Architecture
17 27 (6.78%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.53%) Python
2 13 (3.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.50%) SQL
3 2 (0.50%) U-SQL
4 1 (0.25%) C++
4 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 157 (39.45%) Security Cleared
2 81 (20.35%) CISSP
3 73 (18.34%) SC Cleared
4 66 (16.58%) DV Cleared
5 47 (11.81%) CISM
6 31 (7.79%) CISA
7 27 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (5.28%) SANS
9 19 (4.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (4.27%) CRISC
11 16 (4.02%) CCSK
11 16 (4.02%) Degree
12 12 (3.02%) GIAC
13 11 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
15 7 (1.76%) CCNP
16 5 (1.26%) Azure Certification
16 5 (1.26%) CEH
16 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (1.01%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (23.12%) NIST
2 59 (14.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (6.53%) GDPR
4 25 (6.28%) NCSC
5 13 (3.27%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.51%) NIST 800
7 9 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 8 (2.01%) COBIT
8 8 (2.01%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.76%) RMADS
10 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.75%) GPG13
10 3 (0.75%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.50%) GRC
11 2 (0.50%) QA
11 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.25%) ISA99
12 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.01%) RACF
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (7.04%) Terraform
2 22 (5.53%) Ansible
3 12 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.01%) zSecure
6 2 (0.50%) Ambari
6 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.50%) Oozie
7 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 50 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.77%) VMware
3 14 (3.52%) IBM
4 11 (2.76%) Google
4 11 (2.76%) Okta
5 7 (1.76%) Cisco
5 7 (1.76%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.76%) F5
6 5 (1.26%) LogRhythm
6 5 (1.26%) Palo Alto
7 3 (0.75%) ForeScout
7 3 (0.75%) NetIQ
7 3 (0.75%) SAP
7 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.50%) BT
8 2 (0.50%) CA
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle
8 2 (0.50%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.50%) Splunk