Principal Security Architect Contracts in London

Principal Security Architect
England > London

The median Principal Security Architect daily rate in London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 497 590
Rank change year-on-year +103 +93 -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Security Architect 1 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.006% 0.019% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.019% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £778
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £800
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £750 £800 £800
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Principal Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Security Architect in London

Principal Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal Security Architect in London

Principal Security Architect Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Principal 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 London region featuring Principal Security Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Principal Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared