Security Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Security Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Security Solution Architect daily rate in England is £738 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 622 713
Rank change year-on-year +95 +91 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Security Solutions Architect 15 23 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.047% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.049% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 39
10th Percentile £669 £509 £545
25th Percentile £697 £588 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £756 £778 £801
90th Percentile £768 £886 £867
UK median daily rate £700 £650 £638
% change year-on-year +7.69% +1.96% +10.87%

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 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Security Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +81 6 £750 +3.45%
Yorkshire - 4 £700 -
South West - 4 £725 - 1
North of England - 4 £700 -
Midlands +30 1 £750 +20.00%
West Midlands +23 1 £750 +20.00%
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Security Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Security Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Data Security
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (26.67%) Information Assurance
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) Data Virtualisation
3 3 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 3 (20.00%) CISSP
3 3 (20.00%) SOAP
3 3 (20.00%) XML
3 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Legal
3 3 (20.00%) Teamcenter
3 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
4 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (13.33%) Liquibase
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud

Security Solutions 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 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
1 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
1 2 (13.33%) Bigtable
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (13.33%) HBase
1 2 (13.33%) IBM BigInsights
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Parquet
1 2 (13.33%) PolyBase
1 2 (13.33%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
1 3 (20.00%) SOAP
1 3 (20.00%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
2 2 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Data Security
2 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Information Assurance
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Data Virtualisation
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Data Encryption
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
1 2 (13.33%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ambari
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Confluent
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk