Security Architect Contracts in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 235 252
Rank change year-on-year +31 +17 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 203 291 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.07% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.13% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 214 276
10th Percentile £550 £541 £538
25th Percentile £650 £636 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £685
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +2.19% +4.78%
75th Percentile £780 £800 £783
90th Percentile £825 £838 £871
England median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +34 22 £650 -10.34% 3
East London -6 10 £770 +2.67% 1
West London +12 5 £661 -13.28% 1
South London +13 1 - -
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 117 (57.64%) Security Architecture
2 70 (34.48%) Finance
3 64 (31.53%) NIST
3 64 (31.53%) Cloud Security
4 62 (30.54%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (28.57%) CISSP
6 47 (23.15%) Security Cleared
7 45 (22.17%) SC Cleared
8 39 (19.21%) AWS
9 37 (18.23%) CISM
9 37 (18.23%) Information Security
10 35 (17.24%) Azure
11 34 (16.75%) Risk Management
12 32 (15.76%) SABSA
13 31 (15.27%) SaaS
14 30 (14.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 30 (14.78%) CISA
15 29 (14.29%) TOGAF
16 27 (13.30%) DevSecOps
17 26 (12.81%) Data Loss Prevention
17 26 (12.81%) Architectural Patterns
17 26 (12.81%) Firewall
17 26 (12.81%) Network Security
17 26 (12.81%) IaaS
18 25 (12.32%) Social Skills
19 24 (11.82%) Microsoft
20 23 (11.33%) NCSC
21 22 (10.84%) Application Security
21 22 (10.84%) Enterprise Architecture
22 21 (10.34%) Risk Assessment

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.99%) Confluence
2 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) nginx
3 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (19.21%) AWS
2 35 (17.24%) Azure
3 31 (15.27%) SaaS
4 26 (12.81%) IaaS
5 19 (9.36%) GCP
6 14 (6.90%) Serverless
7 13 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.40%) PaaS
8 5 (2.46%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.48%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.48%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.99%) Akamai
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.99%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.99%) GitHub
10 2 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.99%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.81%) Firewall
1 26 (12.81%) Network Security
2 8 (3.94%) SAN
3 7 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.96%) SSL
5 4 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.48%) LAN
6 3 (1.48%) WAN
6 3 (1.48%) Wireless
7 2 (0.99%) DNS
7 2 (0.99%) HTTP
8 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.49%) Internet
8 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.49%) Modbus
8 1 (0.49%) SCCP
8 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.99%) Apache Hive
2 2 (0.99%) Big Data
2 2 (0.99%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.99%) Bigtable
2 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.99%) Hadoop
2 2 (0.99%) HBase
2 2 (0.99%) IBM BigInsights
2 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.99%) Parquet
2 2 (0.99%) PolyBase
2 2 (0.99%) Sqoop
3 1 (0.49%) MySQL
3 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.97%) GitLab
3 2 (0.99%) JIRA
3 2 (0.99%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
General
1 70 (34.48%) Finance
2 25 (12.32%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.37%) Banking
5 9 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.94%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.46%) Local Government
8 4 (1.97%) Legal
9 3 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Retail
10 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.90%) OpenID
2 12 (5.91%) SAML
2 12 (5.91%) XACML
3 4 (1.97%) OAuth
4 3 (1.48%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.99%) Kafka
5 2 (0.99%) SPML
6 1 (0.49%) FIDO
6 1 (0.49%) gRPC
6 1 (0.49%) JSON
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.49%) RESTful
6 1 (0.49%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.85%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.90%) IoT
3 13 (6.40%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.40%) PKI
4 11 (5.42%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.94%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.46%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.97%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.48%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.48%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Windows
2 5 (2.46%) Linux
3 4 (1.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (57.64%) Security Architecture
2 64 (31.53%) Cloud Security
3 62 (30.54%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (18.23%) Information Security
5 34 (16.75%) Risk Management
6 32 (15.76%) SABSA
7 29 (14.29%) TOGAF
8 27 (13.30%) DevSecOps
9 26 (12.81%) Architectural Patterns
9 26 (12.81%) Data Loss Prevention
10 22 (10.84%) Application Security
10 22 (10.84%) Enterprise Architecture
11 21 (10.34%) Risk Assessment
12 20 (9.85%) Threat Modelling
13 19 (9.36%) SIEM
14 18 (8.87%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (8.37%) Business Strategy
15 17 (8.37%) DevOps
15 17 (8.37%) SDLC
16 16 (7.88%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.42%) Python
2 2 (0.99%) C++
2 2 (0.99%) Java
2 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
2 2 (0.99%) SQL
2 2 (0.99%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (28.57%) CISSP
2 47 (23.15%) Security Cleared
3 45 (22.17%) SC Cleared
4 37 (18.23%) CISM
5 30 (14.78%) CISA
6 20 (9.85%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (9.85%) SANS
7 18 (8.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 16 (7.88%) CRISC
9 15 (7.39%) CCSK
10 12 (5.91%) GIAC
11 11 (5.42%) Degree
12 9 (4.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (3.94%) CREST Certified
14 7 (3.45%) DV Cleared
15 5 (2.46%) CEH
15 5 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
16 4 (1.97%) FFIEC
17 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
17 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (31.53%) NIST
2 30 (14.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (11.33%) NCSC
4 13 (6.40%) GDPR
5 9 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 9 (4.43%) NIST 800
6 7 (3.45%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.97%) COBIT
8 3 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.48%) GPG13
8 3 (1.48%) ISO 22301
8 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.99%) QA
9 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.49%) ISA99
System Software
1 4 (1.97%) RACF
2 3 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (7.88%) Terraform
2 11 (5.42%) Ansible
2 11 (5.42%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.97%) zSecure
4 2 (0.99%) Ambari
4 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.99%) Oozie
5 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.40%) IBM
3 11 (5.42%) Okta
4 10 (4.93%) Google
5 4 (1.97%) CyberArk
5 4 (1.97%) LogRhythm
6 2 (0.99%) CA
6 2 (0.99%) Databricks
6 2 (0.99%) ForeScout
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle
6 2 (0.99%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.99%) SAP
6 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.49%) AlienVault
7 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.49%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.49%) Sparx
7 1 (0.49%) Tanium
7 1 (0.49%) Thales