Security Architect Contracts in Birmingham

Security Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Architect daily rate in Birmingham is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 5 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% - 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% - 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £622 - £563
25th Percentile £650 - £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile - - £619
90th Percentile - - £625
West Midlands median daily rate £700 £813 £680
% change year-on-year -13.85% +19.49% +0.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Birmingham

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Qualys
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) OCP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Ariba
3 1 (20.00%) SAML
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) OCP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ariba
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Qualys
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow