Security Architect Contracts in Manchester

Security Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Security Architect daily rate in Manchester is £678, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 81 99
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 10 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.08% 0.99% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.03% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 10
10th Percentile £591 £590 £613
25th Percentile £648 £613 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £756 £794 £769
90th Percentile £779 £922 £805
North West median daily rate £671 £669 £700
% change year-on-year +0.30% -4.43% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
North West median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Manchester

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in Manchester

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Manchester region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) OWASP
2 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) NIST
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Security Management
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (20.00%) OSCP
4 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 2 (20.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) CCSP
4 2 (20.00%) CISSP
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (20.00%) CISM
4 2 (20.00%) CEH
4 2 (20.00%) COBIT
4 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (10.00%) Akamai
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) OWASP
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Security Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) API Design
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (20.00%) CCSP
1 2 (20.00%) CEH
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) COBIT
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) Zscaler