Security Architect Contracts in the North of England

Security Architect
England > North of England

The median Security Architect daily rate in the North of England is £671, 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 144 139 193
Rank change year-on-year -5 +54 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 22 46 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.96% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.04% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 16
10th Percentile £550 £483 £575
25th Percentile £603 £594 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £668 £694
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -3.78% +11.00%
75th Percentile £697 £693 £764
90th Percentile £758 £775 £825
England median daily rate £673 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.86% - +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £79.16 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.50% +24.94% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West 0 16 £671 +0.30% 72
Yorkshire -1 5 £680 +2.64% 45
North East 0 1 £625 - 21
Security Architect
England

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 12 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (45.45%) Security Architecture
3 8 (36.36%) Threat Modelling
3 8 (36.36%) DevSecOps
3 8 (36.36%) NIST
4 7 (31.82%) Cloud Security
4 7 (31.82%) CISSP
4 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (27.27%) CISM
5 6 (27.27%) Banking
5 6 (27.27%) Network Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Azure
5 6 (27.27%) PCI DSS
5 6 (27.27%) OWASP
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (22.73%) GCP
6 5 (22.73%) DevOps
6 5 (22.73%) Private Cloud
6 5 (22.73%) COBIT
6 5 (22.73%) Security Management
7 4 (18.18%) CEH
7 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (18.18%) CCSP
7 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) AWS
7 4 (18.18%) OSCP
7 4 (18.18%) GDPR

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.55%) Akamai
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VLAN
General
1 6 (27.27%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
1 1 (4.55%) OAuth
1 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.55%) OpenID
1 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
1 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Private Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) CESG
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (45.45%) Security Architecture
3 8 (36.36%) DevSecOps
3 8 (36.36%) Threat Modelling
4 7 (31.82%) Cloud Security
5 6 (27.27%) Network Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) OWASP
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) DevOps
6 5 (22.73%) Security Management
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (18.18%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (13.64%) Data Privacy
8 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
8 3 (13.64%) Generative AI
8 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
8 3 (13.64%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (31.82%) CISSP
2 6 (27.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (27.27%) CISM
3 4 (18.18%) CCSP
3 4 (18.18%) CEH
3 4 (18.18%) OSCP
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) CCNA
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) NIST
2 6 (27.27%) PCI DSS
3 5 (22.73%) COBIT
4 4 (18.18%) GDPR
4 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (13.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (13.64%) NCSC
6 2 (9.09%) GRC
7 1 (4.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (4.55%) JSP 440
7 1 (4.55%) NIST 800
7 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Google
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Aruba
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco
2 1 (4.55%) F5
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.55%) Virgin Media
2 1 (4.55%) Zscaler