Enterprise Security Architect Contracts

Enterprise Security Architect
UK

The median Enterprise Security Architect daily rate in the UK is £735 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 680 817
Rank change year-on-year +108 +137 -161
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Security Architect 19 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.045% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.047% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 20
10th Percentile £483 £650 £466
25th Percentile £599 £656 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £735 £725 £619
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +17.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £770 £750 £763
90th Percentile £812 £762 £853
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £613 £675
% change year-on-year +8.16% -9.26% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Enterprise Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK

Enterprise Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK

Enterprise Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Security Architect over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK

Enterprise Security Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Security Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +109 18 £770 +6.21% 2
London +91 10 £770 +6.21%
UK excluding London +63 8 £663 +8.16% 2
Work from Home +113 7 £669 -7.76% 1
North of England - 6 £601 -
Yorkshire - 6 £601 -
West Midlands +38 2 £875 +52.17% 1
Midlands +37 2 £875 +52.17% 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Enterprise 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 featuring Enterprise Security Architect in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Security Architecture
2 9 (47.37%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (42.11%) Management Information System
4 7 (36.84%) RAD
4 7 (36.84%) Akamai
4 7 (36.84%) F5
4 7 (36.84%) Cloudflare
5 6 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (31.58%) CISSP
5 6 (31.58%) SAN
5 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
5 6 (31.58%) Finance
5 6 (31.58%) CISA
5 6 (31.58%) CISM
5 6 (31.58%) Windows
5 6 (31.58%) SANS
5 6 (31.58%) Architectural Design
6 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (26.32%) Azure
6 5 (26.32%) Retail
7 4 (21.05%) Wireshark
7 4 (21.05%) Firewall
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.79%) IoT
9 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
9 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
9 2 (10.53%) People Management

Enterprise Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (36.84%) Akamai
1 7 (36.84%) Cloudflare
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) SAN
2 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) Wireshark
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 1 (5.26%) SCCP
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) IoT
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Security Architecture
2 9 (47.37%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (36.84%) RAD
4 6 (31.58%) Architectural Design
4 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
4 6 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.53%) Data Management
6 2 (10.53%) Information Security
6 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
6 2 (10.53%) OWASP
6 2 (10.53%) People Management
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) CISA
1 6 (31.58%) CISM
1 6 (31.58%) CISSP
1 6 (31.58%) SANS
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) F5
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity