Senior Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675, 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 326 382 460
Rank change year-on-year +56 +78 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 10 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.082% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.088% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £604 - £689
25th Percentile £648 - £709
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £763
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.33%
75th Percentile £788 - £809
90th Percentile £799 - £826
UK median daily rate £775 £775 £750
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Security Architect within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands - 4 £775 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £775 -
South West - 3 £633 - 3
South East +31 2 £675 - 14
North West - 1 - - 13
North of England - 1 - - 14
Senior Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
4 4 (40.00%) Firewall
5 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (30.00%) CASB
5 3 (30.00%) CISSP
5 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) SIEM
5 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Akamai
6 2 (20.00%) F5
6 2 (20.00%) Google
6 2 (20.00%) Degree
6 2 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Network Security
6 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Akamai
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Contract Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) CCSP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) CISA
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) F5
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) TOWER Software