Senior Security Architect Contracts in Liverpool

Senior Security Architect
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in Liverpool is £734, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 1.35% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £675 - -
25th Percentile £695 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £734 - -
75th Percentile £766 - -
90th Percentile £782 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £734 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 143 147 199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.62% 95.45% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 72 127
10th Percentile £160 £156 £237
25th Percentile £363 £213 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -11.54% +9.55%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £538
90th Percentile £688 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £433 £416 £484
% change year-on-year +4.02% -14.00% +13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 11
10th Percentile - £17.11 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £18.07 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.36% +15.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £17.44 £29.20 £28.15
90th Percentile - £36.15 £50.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £22.44 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.27% +18.09% +8.20%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in Liverpool

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, Senior 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 Liverpool region featuring Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 1
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk