Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £666 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 272 334
Rank change year-on-year +57 +62 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 184 178 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.75% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.79% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 139
10th Percentile £498 £563 £515
25th Percentile £607 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £680 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +8.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £750
90th Percentile £776 £838 £803
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

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 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 +82 105 £650 -7.14% 11
North of England +36 46 £668 +6.80% 2
North West +26 33 £669 +7.04% 2
South West +11 16 £725 +3.57% 6
Yorkshire +33 14 £663 -5.36%
Scotland +24 6 £693 +2.59% 1
Midlands -2 6 £750 +12.23% 4
East of England 0 5 £675 -18.18% 5
West Midlands -5 5 £813 +19.49% 2
North East +16 1 - -
East Midlands +15 1 £567 -6.44% 2
Security Architect
UK

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

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

1 108 (58.70%) Security Cleared
2 95 (51.63%) Security Architecture
3 60 (32.61%) DV Cleared
4 55 (29.89%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (27.72%) Firewall
6 36 (19.57%) DevOps
7 32 (17.39%) Intrusion Detection
8 30 (16.30%) Network Security
8 30 (16.30%) Azure
9 29 (15.76%) Risk Management
9 29 (15.76%) Public Sector
10 28 (15.22%) PKI
11 25 (13.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 24 (13.04%) SC Cleared
12 24 (13.04%) Information Security
13 22 (11.96%) NIST
14 21 (11.41%) Presales
14 21 (11.41%) Agile
15 20 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
16 18 (9.78%) Application Security
17 17 (9.24%) CISSP
17 17 (9.24%) AWS
18 16 (8.70%) Microsoft
18 16 (8.70%) IT Strategy
19 15 (8.15%) Business Strategy
19 15 (8.15%) Windows
20 14 (7.61%) VMware
20 14 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
20 14 (7.61%) Technology Strategy

Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.30%) Azure
2 17 (9.24%) AWS
3 6 (3.26%) Akamai
3 6 (3.26%) Cloudflare
4 5 (2.72%) IaaS
5 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.17%) PaaS
5 4 (2.17%) SaaS
6 3 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.63%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.54%) GCP
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 51 (27.72%) Firewall
2 32 (17.39%) Intrusion Detection
3 30 (16.30%) Network Security
4 5 (2.72%) VPN
5 4 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.17%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.63%) DNS
6 3 (1.63%) LAN
6 3 (1.63%) WAN
7 2 (1.09%) SSL
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.54%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 12 (6.52%) Robot Framework
1 12 (6.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
General
1 29 (15.76%) Public Sector
2 9 (4.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.72%) Finance
4 4 (2.17%) Legal
4 4 (2.17%) Retail
5 2 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.09%) Banking
5 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.54%) Automotive
6 1 (0.54%) Local Government
6 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.63%) SOAP
1 3 (1.63%) XML
2 2 (1.09%) OAuth
2 2 (1.09%) OpenID
2 2 (1.09%) SAML
3 1 (0.54%) Kafka
3 1 (0.54%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.22%) PKI
2 7 (3.80%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.26%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.72%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.63%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.09%) CSOC
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.09%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.09%) IoT
6 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.54%) iPad
7 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.54%) NHS
7 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.15%) Windows
2 13 (7.07%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.54%) Android
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (51.63%) Security Architecture
2 55 (29.89%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (19.57%) DevOps
4 29 (15.76%) Risk Management
5 24 (13.04%) Information Security
6 21 (11.41%) Agile
6 21 (11.41%) Presales
7 20 (10.87%) Identity Access Management
7 20 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (9.78%) Application Security
9 16 (8.70%) IT Strategy
10 15 (8.15%) Business Strategy
11 14 (7.61%) Technology Strategy
12 13 (7.07%) Cryptography
12 13 (7.07%) Test Automation
13 12 (6.52%) Penetration Testing
13 12 (6.52%) Project Delivery
14 10 (5.43%) Service Delivery
14 10 (5.43%) Threat Modelling
15 9 (4.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.07%) PowerShell
1 13 (7.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 108 (58.70%) Security Cleared
2 60 (32.61%) DV Cleared
3 24 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.24%) CISSP
5 9 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.80%) CCNP
6 7 (3.80%) Degree
7 5 (2.72%) CISM
8 4 (2.17%) CCIE
8 4 (2.17%) CCIE Security
8 4 (2.17%) ISACA
9 2 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.09%) CCSP
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (11.96%) NIST
3 10 (5.43%) GDPR
4 7 (3.80%) RMADS
5 5 (2.72%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.17%) COBIT
6 4 (2.17%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.09%) NCSC
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.54%) GRC
8 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (7.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.52%) Ansible
1 12 (6.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.61%) VMware
3 7 (3.80%) Cisco
4 6 (3.26%) F5
5 2 (1.09%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.09%) NetIQ
5 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.09%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.54%) Confluent
6 1 (0.54%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.54%) Google
6 1 (0.54%) Juniper
6 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.54%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.54%) Sophos
6 1 (0.54%) Splunk