Cybersecurity Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £670 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 427 491
Rank change year-on-year +81 +64 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 43 27 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.12% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.12% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 11
10th Percentile £78 £596 £525
25th Percentile £460 £681 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £869 £838 £788
90th Percentile £888 - -
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,803 21,973 29,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.37% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,462 15,346 20,547
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,127 1,467
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.28
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +36 33 £81 -90.18% 3
North West +33 6 £670 -4.29% 2
North of England +30 6 £670 -4.29% 2
Midlands +23 2 £875 +34.62% 2
West Midlands +20 2 £875 +34.62% 2
South West +8 2 £543 -18.88%
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Cybersecurity 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (67.44%) DV Cleared
2 29 (67.44%) Security Cleared
3 28 (65.12%) Firewall
4 27 (62.79%) DevOps
5 24 (55.81%) Security Architecture
5 24 (55.81%) Intrusion Detection
6 17 (39.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (23.26%) Network Security
7 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
8 8 (18.60%) Risk Management
9 7 (16.28%) Information Security
9 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (13.95%) ITIL
11 5 (11.63%) NIST
11 5 (11.63%) Application Security
12 4 (9.30%) Conflict Resolution
12 4 (9.30%) GDPR
12 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
12 4 (9.30%) Budget Management
12 4 (9.30%) Budgeting
12 4 (9.30%) Information Security Management
12 4 (9.30%) Security Management
12 4 (9.30%) Project Planning
12 4 (9.30%) COBIT
12 4 (9.30%) OWASP
12 4 (9.30%) AWS
12 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
12 4 (9.30%) ISACA
12 4 (9.30%) Vulnerability Management

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (9.30%) AWS
2 3 (6.98%) IaaS
2 3 (6.98%) PaaS
2 3 (6.98%) SaaS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (65.12%) Firewall
2 24 (55.81%) Intrusion Detection
3 10 (23.26%) Network Security
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
General
1 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Automotive
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.65%) CSOC
2 2 (4.65%) IoT
2 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.33%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (62.79%) DevOps
3 24 (55.81%) Security Architecture
4 17 (39.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (18.60%) Risk Management
6 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (16.28%) Information Security
7 6 (13.95%) ITIL
8 5 (11.63%) Application Security
9 4 (9.30%) Budget Management
9 4 (9.30%) Budgeting
9 4 (9.30%) Capacity Management
9 4 (9.30%) Conflict Resolution
9 4 (9.30%) Information Security Management
9 4 (9.30%) OWASP
9 4 (9.30%) Project Planning
9 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
9 4 (9.30%) Security Management
9 4 (9.30%) Vulnerability Management
10 3 (6.98%) Identity Management
Qualifications
1 29 (67.44%) DV Cleared
1 29 (67.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) ISACA
3 3 (6.98%) CISM
3 3 (6.98%) CISSP
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) NIST
2 4 (9.30%) COBIT
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (2.33%) Cisco
1 1 (2.33%) Darktrace
1 1 (2.33%) Rapid7