Senior Security Architect Contracts in London

Senior Security Architect
England > London

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in London is £780 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 458 583
Rank change year-on-year +90 +125 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 26 31 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.12% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 8
10th Percentile £773 £574 £513
25th Percentile £775 £722 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £750 £693
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.30% -13.44%
75th Percentile - £781 £763
90th Percentile £786 £800 £774
England median daily rate £780 £750 £755
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.66% +0.67%

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 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in London

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Architect in London

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Architect in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Architect in London

Senior 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 Senior Security Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
East London -8 1 £625 -16.67%
Senior Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 21 (80.77%) Security Architecture
2 19 (73.08%) Cloud Security
3 17 (65.38%) SaaS
3 17 (65.38%) IaaS
4 14 (53.85%) NIST
5 10 (38.46%) Application Security
5 10 (38.46%) Firewall
6 9 (34.62%) Finance
6 9 (34.62%) Mobile App
6 9 (34.62%) IoT
6 9 (34.62%) PaaS
6 9 (34.62%) Design Patterns
6 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (34.62%) Serverless
7 8 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (30.77%) DevSecOps
7 8 (30.77%) SDLC
7 8 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
7 8 (30.77%) Security Testing
8 7 (26.92%) Banking
8 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (26.92%) Terraform
8 7 (26.92%) SIEM
9 6 (23.08%) SABSA
9 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
9 6 (23.08%) GIAC
9 6 (23.08%) CISSP
10 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (19.23%) CISA

Senior 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 17 (65.38%) IaaS
1 17 (65.38%) SaaS
2 9 (34.62%) PaaS
2 9 (34.62%) Serverless
3 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (19.23%) Azure
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) IoT
1 9 (34.62%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Security Architecture
2 19 (73.08%) Cloud Security
3 10 (38.46%) Application Security
4 9 (34.62%) Design Patterns
4 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
5 8 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (30.77%) DevSecOps
5 8 (30.77%) SDLC
5 8 (30.77%) Security Testing
6 7 (26.92%) SIEM
7 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 6 (23.08%) SABSA
8 4 (15.38%) Information Security
9 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
10 2 (7.69%) Cyber Resilience
10 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
10 2 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) CISSP
1 6 (23.08%) GIAC
2 5 (19.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (19.23%) CCSK
2 5 (19.23%) CISA
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (19.23%) CRISC
3 3 (11.54%) SANS
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) CCSP
4 1 (3.85%) CISM
4 1 (3.85%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (53.85%) NIST
2 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.54%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto