Security Solutions Architect Contracts

Security Solution Architect
UK

The median Security Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £688 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 682 769
Rank change year-on-year +111 +87 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Security Solutions Architect 20 36 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.061% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.064% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 49
10th Percentile - £514 £520
25th Percentile £500 £594 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £788
90th Percentile £758 £860 £865
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +39.13%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Security Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +101 15 £738 +5.36% 3
UK excluding London +61 9 £725 +11.54% 3
Work from Home +118 7 £725 +16.00%
London +93 6 £750 +6.38%
Yorkshire - 4 £700 -
South West - 4 £725 - 1
North of England - 4 £700 -
Midlands +26 1 £750 +20.00%
West Midlands +23 1 £750 +20.00%
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Security Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Data Security
3 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (25.00%) GDPR
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) CISSP
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (15.00%) Teamcenter
5 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) HIPAA
5 3 (15.00%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (15.00%) Kafka
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.00%) SAP
5 3 (15.00%) SOAP
5 3 (15.00%) XML
5 3 (15.00%) Legal
5 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (15.00%) Data Virtualisation
5 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (10.00%) PolyBase

Security Solutions 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 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Teamcenter
2 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
1 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (10.00%) Bigtable
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.00%) HBase
1 2 (10.00%) IBM BigInsights
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Parquet
1 2 (10.00%) PolyBase
1 2 (10.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (15.00%) Legal
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
1 3 (15.00%) SOAP
1 3 (15.00%) XML
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Data Security
2 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Information Assurance
3 4 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Data Virtualisation
4 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Data Encryption
5 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (10.00%) Data Privacy
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.00%) SAP Security
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
1 2 (10.00%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ambari
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Zscaler