Security Architecture Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Security Architecture
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Security Architecture skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 2 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.28% 1.75% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 1.95% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £626 £600 £531
25th Percentile £647 £675 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +16.67% -21.31%
75th Percentile £722 £725 £650
90th Percentile £739 £770 £688
Scotland median daily rate £625 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -5.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 614 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.14% 89.50% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 439 524
10th Percentile £300 £275 £338
25th Percentile £370 £375 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £575
90th Percentile £613 £673 £675
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 25
10th Percentile £15.01 £15.38 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.61% +66.55% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.42 £34.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £29.34 £58.81 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in Glasgow

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Security Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Security Architecture

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in Glasgow

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) SABSA
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk