Security Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Security Architect
England > Midlands

The median Security Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £750 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 131 126 175
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 6 37 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.22% 1.07% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 1.13% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 19
10th Percentile £640 £572 £545
25th Percentile - £625 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £680 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £888 £724 £744
90th Percentile - £750 £815
England median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,522 3,270 4,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.54% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 2,299 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £224 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +3.66% +14.56%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 130 179
10th Percentile £11.84 £11.98 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.13 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.38 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.80 £60.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the Midlands

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the Midlands

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the Midlands

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +3 5 £813 +19.49% 2
East Midlands +17 1 £567 -8.84% 3
Security Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) IoT
3 2 (33.33%) People Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (33.33%) IoT
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) People Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree