Cybersecurity Architect Contracts in England

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 611 723
Rank change year-on-year +143 +112 -140
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 75 47 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.092% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.097% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 32
10th Percentile £500 £573 £533
25th Percentile £568 £625 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £775
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +26.53%
75th Percentile £838 £750 £872
90th Percentile £930 £875 £900
UK median daily rate £671 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -4.11% -3.45% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
South East +40 34 £81 -88.43% 1
London +101 27 £725 +3.57% 3
North West - 7 £760 - 1
North of England - 7 £760 - 1
Midlands +32 2 £875 +34.62%
West Midlands +24 2 £875 +34.62%
South West +23 2 £543 -18.88%
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Cybersecurity 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (54.67%) Security Architecture
3 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
4 33 (44.00%) Firewall
5 32 (42.67%) DevOps
6 30 (40.00%) DV Cleared
7 24 (32.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 22 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (24.00%) Network Security
10 16 (21.33%) Risk Management
11 14 (18.67%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (18.67%) NIST
12 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
12 13 (17.33%) AWS
12 13 (17.33%) CISSP
13 12 (16.00%) CISM
13 12 (16.00%) Information Security
14 10 (13.33%) Azure
15 9 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
16 8 (10.67%) GDPR
16 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
16 8 (10.67%) TOGAF
17 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
17 7 (9.33%) Business Strategy
18 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
18 6 (8.00%) Security Posture
18 6 (8.00%) Architectural Design
18 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
18 6 (8.00%) ITIL

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.33%) AWS
2 10 (13.33%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) IaaS
3 5 (6.67%) SaaS
4 4 (5.33%) GCP
4 4 (5.33%) PaaS
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.33%) Akamai
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.33%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (44.00%) Firewall
2 24 (32.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 18 (24.00%) Network Security
4 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.67%) DNS
5 2 (2.67%) SSL
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.33%) HTTP
6 1 (1.33%) Modbus
6 1 (1.33%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) OAuth
1 2 (2.67%) OpenID
1 2 (2.67%) SAML
1 2 (2.67%) SPML
2 1 (1.33%) gRPC
2 1 (1.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.00%) IoT
5 3 (4.00%) PKI
6 2 (2.67%) CSOC
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (1.33%) iPad
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Android
1 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) MVS
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (54.67%) Security Architecture
3 32 (42.67%) DevOps
4 22 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (21.33%) Risk Management
6 14 (18.67%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (16.00%) Information Security
8 8 (10.67%) TOGAF
9 7 (9.33%) Business Strategy
10 6 (8.00%) Architectural Design
10 6 (8.00%) ITIL
10 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
11 5 (6.67%) Business Continuity
11 5 (6.67%) Data Protection
11 5 (6.67%) Decision-Making
11 5 (6.67%) Design Patterns
11 5 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (6.67%) OWASP
11 5 (6.67%) Project Planning
11 5 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 30 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (17.33%) CISSP
4 12 (16.00%) CISM
5 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.33%) CISA
6 4 (5.33%) ISACA
7 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.33%) CCNA
8 1 (1.33%) CCSK
8 1 (1.33%) CRISC
8 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.33%) Degree
8 1 (1.33%) GIAC
8 1 (1.33%) SANS
8 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.67%) NIST
2 8 (10.67%) GDPR
3 5 (6.67%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.33%) COBIT
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.33%) ISA99
6 1 (1.33%) NCSC
6 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (2.67%) CA
3 2 (2.67%) NetIQ
4 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco
4 1 (1.33%) Darktrace
4 1 (1.33%) F5
4 1 (1.33%) ForeScout
4 1 (1.33%) Google
4 1 (1.33%) IBM
4 1 (1.33%) Imperva
4 1 (1.33%) Qualys
4 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.33%) SAP
4 1 (1.33%) VMware
4 1 (1.33%) Zscaler