Security Architect Contracts

Security Architect
UK

The median Security Architect daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 245 278
Rank change year-on-year +23 +33 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 451 605 835
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.07% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.13% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 425 574
10th Percentile £519 £530 £538
25th Percentile £625 £625 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £780 £775 £775
90th Percentile £842 £838 £854
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £680 £647
% change year-on-year -2.57% +5.11% +5.20%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

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 39,539 53,460 83,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.63% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,741 37,320 58,759
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,737 1,489 2,014
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +43 403 £715 +2.14% 81
London +15 207 £750 +7.14% 36
UK excluding London +37 184 £663 -2.57% 53
Work from Home -19 147 £700 +2.94% 37
South East +67 103 £650 -7.14% 22
North of England +46 48 £666 +6.56% 9
North West +31 33 £669 +7.04% 7
South West +8 19 £663 -5.36% 5
Yorkshire +29 16 £600 -14.29% 2
Scotland +16 6 £693 -1.07% 2
Midlands -2 6 £750 +14.24% 7
West Midlands -10 5 £813 +19.49% 5
East of England -3 2 £675 -18.18% 8
East Midlands +18 1 £567 -6.44% 2
North East +11 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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 featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 223 (49.45%) Security Architecture
2 166 (36.81%) Security Cleared
3 147 (32.59%) Cybersecurity
4 98 (21.73%) Finance
5 95 (21.06%) NIST
5 95 (21.06%) Cloud Security
6 89 (19.73%) Azure
7 86 (19.07%) Information Security
8 84 (18.63%) Firewall
9 83 (18.40%) AWS
10 79 (17.52%) Network Security
10 79 (17.52%) SC Cleared
10 79 (17.52%) CISSP
11 73 (16.19%) DV Cleared
12 63 (13.97%) Application Security
13 60 (13.30%) Risk Management
13 60 (13.30%) DevOps
14 59 (13.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 56 (12.42%) CISM
16 55 (12.20%) Microsoft
17 51 (11.31%) Threat Modelling
18 50 (11.09%) Agile
19 49 (10.86%) Public Sector
20 45 (9.98%) PKI
21 41 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
22 40 (8.87%) Social Skills
23 39 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
23 39 (8.65%) DevSecOps
24 38 (8.43%) Identity Access Management
24 38 (8.43%) Roadmaps

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.22%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) nginx
3 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 3 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 89 (19.73%) Azure
2 83 (18.40%) AWS
3 37 (8.20%) SaaS
4 33 (7.32%) IaaS
5 30 (6.65%) GCP
6 21 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.21%) PaaS
8 14 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (3.10%) Entra ID
8 14 (3.10%) Serverless
9 10 (2.22%) Akamai
9 10 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.55%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.55%) Cloudflare
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.11%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.67%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.44%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 84 (18.63%) Firewall
2 79 (17.52%) Network Security
3 41 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (2.22%) SSL
5 8 (1.77%) LAN
5 8 (1.77%) WAN
6 7 (1.55%) DNS
7 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.11%) VPN
8 4 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 4 (0.89%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.67%) SAN
10 2 (0.44%) HTTP
10 2 (0.44%) Internet
11 1 (0.22%) DHCP
11 1 (0.22%) DSL
11 1 (0.22%) FTP
11 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.44%) Big Data
4 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.44%) Bigtable
4 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.44%) HBase
4 2 (0.44%) IBM BigInsights
4 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Parquet
4 2 (0.44%) PolyBase
4 2 (0.44%) Sqoop
5 1 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (2.88%) Robot Framework
1 13 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.89%) GitLab
4 3 (0.67%) JIRA
4 3 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.22%) Git
General
1 98 (21.73%) Finance
2 49 (10.86%) Public Sector
3 40 (8.87%) Social Skills
4 30 (6.65%) Banking
5 19 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.33%) Front Office
8 6 (1.33%) Legal
8 6 (1.33%) Retail
8 6 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.44%) Automotive
9 2 (0.44%) Electronics
9 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.44%) Marketing
9 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Law
10 1 (0.22%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.21%) OpenID
1 19 (4.21%) SAML
2 11 (2.44%) XACML
3 10 (2.22%) OAuth
4 7 (1.55%) Kafka
5 6 (1.33%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.89%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.89%) scikit-learn
6 4 (0.89%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.67%) SOAP
7 3 (0.67%) XML
8 2 (0.44%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.44%) REST
8 2 (0.44%) SPML
9 1 (0.22%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.22%) gRPC
9 1 (0.22%) ModSecurity
9 1 (0.22%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.98%) PKI
2 27 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 23 (5.10%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.99%) IoT
5 16 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.88%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.33%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.33%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.67%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.54%) Windows
2 17 (3.77%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.89%) Linux
4 4 (0.89%) Unix
5 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (49.45%) Security Architecture
2 147 (32.59%) Cybersecurity
3 95 (21.06%) Cloud Security
4 86 (19.07%) Information Security
5 63 (13.97%) Application Security
6 60 (13.30%) DevOps
6 60 (13.30%) Risk Management
7 51 (11.31%) Threat Modelling
8 50 (11.09%) Agile
9 39 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
9 39 (8.65%) DevSecOps
10 38 (8.43%) Identity Access Management
10 38 (8.43%) Roadmaps
11 36 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (7.54%) Business Strategy
13 33 (7.32%) Penetration Testing
14 31 (6.87%) TOGAF
15 30 (6.65%) Data Loss Prevention
16 29 (6.43%) Cryptography
16 29 (6.43%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.21%) Python
2 17 (3.77%) PowerShell
3 8 (1.77%) C++
3 8 (1.77%) Java
4 5 (1.11%) SQL
5 2 (0.44%) C
5 2 (0.44%) U-SQL
6 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 166 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 79 (17.52%) CISSP
2 79 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.19%) DV Cleared
4 56 (12.42%) CISM
5 37 (8.20%) CISA
6 24 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (5.10%) Degree
8 15 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 12 (2.66%) SANS
10 11 (2.44%) CRISC
11 10 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (2.00%) CCSK
12 9 (2.00%) GIAC
13 8 (1.77%) CCNP
13 8 (1.77%) CREST Certified
14 6 (1.33%) CEH
14 6 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.11%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (21.06%) NIST
2 59 (13.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (6.21%) GDPR
4 22 (4.88%) NCSC
5 14 (3.10%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.00%) QA
7 8 (1.77%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (1.55%) COBIT
8 7 (1.55%) NIST 800
8 7 (1.55%) RMADS
9 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.89%) GRC
10 3 (0.67%) GPG13
11 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.22%) ISA99
12 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.33%) RACF
4 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.22%) Docker
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (6.65%) Terraform
2 24 (5.32%) Ansible
3 14 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.33%) zSecure
5 5 (1.11%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.67%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.44%) Ambari
7 2 (0.44%) Oozie
7 2 (0.44%) QRadar
7 2 (0.44%) SCCM
7 2 (0.44%) SCDPM
7 2 (0.44%) SCVMM
7 2 (0.44%) WSUS
8 1 (0.22%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.22%) HP SIM
8 1 (0.22%) logstash
8 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.22%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 55 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.77%) IBM
3 16 (3.55%) VMware
4 13 (2.88%) Okta
5 11 (2.44%) Google
6 8 (1.77%) F5
7 7 (1.55%) Cisco
7 7 (1.55%) CyberArk
7 7 (1.55%) Oracle
7 7 (1.55%) SAP
8 4 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.89%) Ping Identity
8 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.89%) Unisys
9 3 (0.67%) ForeScout
9 3 (0.67%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.67%) Sparx
9 3 (0.67%) Splunk
9 3 (0.67%) Zscaler