Senior Security Architect Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Senior Security Architect
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in Derbyshire is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 254 117 164
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.39% 87.31% 98.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 66 70
10th Percentile £250 £149 £250
25th Percentile £431 £348 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +12.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £647 £629 £588
90th Percentile £675 £725 £631
East Midlands median daily rate £488 £415 £442
% change year-on-year +17.47% -6.00% -8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 12 19
10th Percentile £8.00 £18.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £12.76 £25.04 £18.65
Median hourly rate £21.25 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -15.51% +4.01% +28.21%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £50.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - £51.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.31 £21.25 £24.00
% change year-on-year -13.84% -11.46% +32.14%

Senior Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Derby - 1 £575 -
Senior Security Architect
East Midlands

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire

For the 6 months to 7 October 2026, Senior Security Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Derbyshire region featuring Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware