Security Architect Contracts in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 267 295
Rank change year-on-year +47 +28 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 398 486 668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 0.97% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.03% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 355 449
10th Percentile £519 £555 £538
25th Percentile £631 £625 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £780 £775 £775
90th Percentile £839 £838 £863
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security 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 Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +42 204 £745 +6.43% 25
South East +82 105 £650 -7.14% 11
North of England +36 46 £668 +6.80% 2
North West +26 33 £669 +7.04% 2
South West +11 16 £725 +3.57% 6
Yorkshire +33 14 £663 -5.36%
Midlands -2 6 £750 +12.23% 4
East of England 0 5 £675 -18.18% 5
West Midlands -5 5 £813 +19.49% 2
North East +16 1 - -
East Midlands +15 1 £567 -6.44% 2
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 218 (54.77%) Security Architecture
2 155 (38.94%) Security Cleared
3 125 (31.41%) Cybersecurity
4 88 (22.11%) NIST
5 80 (20.10%) Finance
6 79 (19.85%) CISSP
7 78 (19.60%) Firewall
8 77 (19.35%) Azure
9 75 (18.84%) Cloud Security
10 70 (17.59%) Information Security
11 69 (17.34%) SC Cleared
12 67 (16.83%) AWS
13 66 (16.58%) DV Cleared
14 61 (15.33%) Risk Management
15 58 (14.57%) Network Security
16 55 (13.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 55 (13.82%) DevOps
17 49 (12.31%) Public Sector
17 49 (12.31%) CISM
17 49 (12.31%) Microsoft
18 43 (10.80%) Application Security
19 41 (10.30%) Intrusion Detection
20 40 (10.05%) PKI
21 38 (9.55%) Agile
21 38 (9.55%) TOGAF
21 38 (9.55%) Social Skills
22 35 (8.79%) Threat Modelling
22 35 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
22 35 (8.79%) SaaS
23 34 (8.54%) Business Strategy

Security 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 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) nginx
3 1 (0.25%) SAS
3 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (19.35%) Azure
2 67 (16.83%) AWS
3 35 (8.79%) SaaS
4 32 (8.04%) IaaS
5 23 (5.78%) GCP
6 20 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.52%) PaaS
8 14 (3.52%) Serverless
9 13 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.26%) Akamai
12 6 (1.51%) Cloudflare
13 5 (1.26%) WhatsApp
14 4 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
15 3 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon Cognito
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon EMR
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon Kinesis
16 2 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 78 (19.60%) Firewall
2 58 (14.57%) Network Security
3 41 (10.30%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (2.26%) SSL
5 7 (1.76%) SAN
6 6 (1.51%) LAN
6 6 (1.51%) WAN
7 5 (1.26%) DNS
7 5 (1.26%) VPN
8 4 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.01%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.75%) Wireless
10 2 (0.50%) HTTP
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
11 1 (0.25%) DHCP
11 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.25%) Internet
11 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.25%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.50%) Apache Hive
2 2 (0.50%) Big Data
2 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.50%) Bigtable
2 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.50%) HBase
2 2 (0.50%) IBM BigInsights
2 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.50%) Parquet
2 2 (0.50%) PolyBase
2 2 (0.50%) Sqoop
3 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Robot Framework
1 12 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.01%) GitLab
4 3 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.50%) JIRA
5 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
General
1 80 (20.10%) Finance
2 49 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 38 (9.55%) Social Skills
4 22 (5.53%) Banking
5 11 (2.76%) Financial Institution
5 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.01%) Legal
7 6 (1.51%) Local Government
7 6 (1.51%) Retail
8 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.25%) Automotive
10 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Law
10 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Marketing
10 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.77%) OpenID
2 14 (3.52%) SAML
3 11 (2.76%) XACML
4 5 (1.26%) OAuth
5 4 (1.01%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.75%) Kafka
6 3 (0.75%) SOAP
6 3 (0.75%) XML
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.50%) SPML
8 1 (0.25%) gRPC
8 1 (0.25%) JSON
8 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.25%) Node.js
8 1 (0.25%) RESTful
8 1 (0.25%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.05%) PKI
2 26 (6.53%) Management Information System
3 18 (4.52%) Security Posture
4 16 (4.02%) IoT
5 14 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.26%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.26%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.26%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.26%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.75%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.75%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.03%) Windows
2 13 (3.27%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (1.01%) Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (54.77%) Security Architecture
2 125 (31.41%) Cybersecurity
3 75 (18.84%) Cloud Security
4 70 (17.59%) Information Security
5 61 (15.33%) Risk Management
6 55 (13.82%) DevOps
7 43 (10.80%) Application Security
8 38 (9.55%) Agile
8 38 (9.55%) TOGAF
9 35 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (8.79%) Threat Modelling
10 34 (8.54%) Architectural Patterns
10 34 (8.54%) Business Strategy
11 33 (8.29%) Identity Access Management
11 33 (8.29%) SABSA
12 32 (8.04%) Data Loss Prevention
12 32 (8.04%) DevSecOps
13 28 (7.04%) Roadmaps
13 28 (7.04%) SIEM
14 27 (6.78%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.78%) Python
2 14 (3.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (0.75%) C++
3 3 (0.75%) Java
4 2 (0.50%) SQL
4 2 (0.50%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 155 (38.94%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.85%) CISSP
3 69 (17.34%) SC Cleared
4 66 (16.58%) DV Cleared
5 49 (12.31%) CISM
6 30 (7.54%) CISA
7 25 (6.28%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (4.27%) SANS
9 16 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 15 (3.77%) Degree
11 12 (3.02%) CCSK
11 12 (3.02%) CRISC
12 10 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (2.26%) GIAC
14 8 (2.01%) CCNP
14 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
15 6 (1.51%) CEH
15 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (1.01%) CCIE
16 4 (1.01%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (22.11%) NIST
2 55 (13.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (6.78%) GDPR
4 24 (6.03%) NCSC
5 13 (3.27%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.01%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (1.76%) COBIT
7 7 (1.76%) NIST 800
7 7 (1.76%) RMADS
8 4 (1.01%) QA
9 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.75%) GPG13
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.50%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.25%) ISA99
11 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.26%) RACF
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (7.04%) Terraform
2 23 (5.78%) Ansible
3 12 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.26%) zSecure
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.50%) Ambari
6 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.50%) Oozie
7 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.52%) IBM
2 14 (3.52%) VMware
3 11 (2.76%) Google
3 11 (2.76%) Okta
4 7 (1.76%) Cisco
4 7 (1.76%) CyberArk
4 7 (1.76%) F5
5 4 (1.01%) LogRhythm
5 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
6 3 (0.75%) ForeScout
6 3 (0.75%) NetIQ
6 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.50%) BT
7 2 (0.50%) CA
7 2 (0.50%) Databricks
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle
7 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.50%) Splunk