Security Architect Contracts in Bristol

Security Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Security Architect daily rate in Bristol is £671, 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 48 68 88
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 7 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.30% 0.57% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.60% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £563 £683 £595
25th Percentile £623 £694 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £733 £738 £788
90th Percentile £750 - -
South West median daily rate £670 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -7.59% +3.57% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South West median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 512 1,004 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.99% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 541 805
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 142
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £30.97
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +55.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £86.23
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Bristol

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in Bristol

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in Bristol

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in Bristol

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

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 Bristol region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) OWASP
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
1 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) OSCP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) COBIT
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
2 3 (42.86%) CEH
2 3 (42.86%) Security Management
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) CISM
2 3 (42.86%) CCSP
2 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
1 4 (57.14%) OWASP
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Security Management
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Artefact Management
4 1 (14.29%) Boundary Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (42.86%) CCSP
1 3 (42.86%) CEH
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) OSCP
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) COBIT
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) F5
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
71 Security Architect jobs in the South West