Senior Security Architect Contracts

Senior Security Architect
UK

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in the UK is £778 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 666 813
Rank change year-on-year +132 +147 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 48 37 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.064% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.068% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 11
10th Percentile £736 £568 £513
25th Percentile £775 £713 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £778 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% - -
75th Percentile £780 £788 £775
90th Percentile £782 £800 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate - £763 £760
% change year-on-year - +0.33% +29.36%

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
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% +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 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in the UK

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Architect in the UK

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Architect over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Architect in the UK

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Architect in the UK

Senior Security Architect
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +106 43 £780 +4.00% 7
London +90 26 £780 +4.00% 4
UK excluding London +72 17 - - 3
South East - 17 - - 1
Work from Home +100 8 £750 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 39 (81.25%) Security Architecture
2 21 (43.75%) Cloud Security
3 18 (37.50%) IaaS
3 18 (37.50%) SaaS
3 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 16 (33.33%) NIST
5 12 (25.00%) Firewall
6 11 (22.92%) Application Security
7 10 (20.83%) Serverless
7 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (20.83%) PaaS
7 10 (20.83%) Mobile App
7 10 (20.83%) IoT
8 9 (18.75%) Security Testing
8 9 (18.75%) Finance
8 9 (18.75%) DevSecOps
8 9 (18.75%) SDLC
8 9 (18.75%) Presales
8 9 (18.75%) Design Patterns
8 9 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (16.67%) Terraform
9 8 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
9 8 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
10 7 (14.58%) Banking
10 7 (14.58%) CISSP
10 7 (14.58%) Azure
10 7 (14.58%) SIEM
11 6 (12.50%) SABSA

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) IaaS
1 18 (37.50%) SaaS
2 10 (20.83%) PaaS
2 10 (20.83%) Serverless
3 8 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (14.58%) Azure
5 3 (6.25%) AWS
5 3 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) LAN
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.08%) WAN
3 1 (2.08%) WLAN
General
1 9 (18.75%) Finance
2 7 (14.58%) Banking
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.08%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) IoT
1 10 (20.83%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
1 2 (4.17%) Unix
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) Security Architecture
2 21 (43.75%) Cloud Security
3 11 (22.92%) Application Security
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (18.75%) Design Patterns
5 9 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 9 (18.75%) Presales
5 9 (18.75%) SDLC
5 9 (18.75%) Security Testing
6 8 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (14.58%) SIEM
8 6 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 6 (12.50%) SABSA
9 5 (10.42%) Information Security
10 3 (6.25%) Security Operations
10 3 (6.25%) Threat Modelling
11 2 (4.17%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) CISSP
3 6 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (12.50%) GIAC
4 5 (10.42%) CCSK
4 5 (10.42%) CISA
4 5 (10.42%) CRISC
4 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) SANS
6 2 (4.17%) CISM
6 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) CCSP
7 1 (2.08%) Degree
7 1 (2.08%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (33.33%) NIST
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
1 1 (2.08%) SAP