Security Architect Contracts in the South West

Security Architect
England > South West

The median Security Architect daily rate in the South West is £670, 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 82 141 139
Rank change year-on-year +59 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 29 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.73% 0.50% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 0.54% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 23
10th Percentile £593 £511 £600
25th Percentile £606 £663 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £703 £763 £725
90th Percentile £900 £775 £780
England median daily rate £673 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.86% - +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
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
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the South West

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the South West

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the South West

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the South West

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire +40 18 £650 -10.34% 10
Bristol +20 7 £671 -7.41% 16
Gloucestershire - 3 £900 - 20
Devon - 1 - - 12
Security Architect
England

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 15 (51.72%) DV Cleared
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) AWS
3 11 (37.93%) Threat Modelling
3 11 (37.93%) Cloud Security
4 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
4 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
5 9 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (27.59%) AWS Certification
7 6 (20.69%) PCI DSS
8 5 (17.24%) OWASP
8 5 (17.24%) Security Architecture
8 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
8 5 (17.24%) CISM
8 5 (17.24%) CISSP
8 5 (17.24%) Finance
8 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
8 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (17.24%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (17.24%) Security Operations
9 4 (13.79%) DevOps
9 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
9 4 (13.79%) NIST
9 4 (13.79%) Banking
9 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
10 3 (10.34%) Security Management
10 3 (10.34%) Cryptography
10 3 (10.34%) CEH

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (48.28%) AWS
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Akamai
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Police
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) LDAP
1 1 (3.45%) ModSecurity
1 1 (3.45%) OAuth
1 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.45%) OpenID
1 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Cloud Security
1 11 (37.93%) Threat Modelling
2 9 (31.03%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
3 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
3 5 (17.24%) OWASP
3 5 (17.24%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (17.24%) Security Architecture
3 5 (17.24%) Security Operations
4 4 (13.79%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (10.34%) Cryptography
5 3 (10.34%) Network Architecture
5 3 (10.34%) Security Management
5 3 (10.34%) Zero Trust
6 2 (6.90%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (6.90%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (6.90%) Key Management
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) DV Cleared
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) AWS Certification
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (17.24%) CISM
4 5 (17.24%) CISSP
5 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (10.34%) CCSP
5 3 (10.34%) CEH
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (10.34%) OSCP
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.45%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) PCI DSS
2 4 (13.79%) NIST
3 3 (10.34%) COBIT
3 3 (10.34%) GDPR
3 3 (10.34%) PMO
4 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.90%) NCSC
5 1 (3.45%) GRC
5 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) OPNET
2 1 (3.45%) Puppet
2 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.45%) F5
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) VMware