AWS Security Architect Contracts

Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect)
UK

The median Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect) daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 702 814
Rank change year-on-year +123 +112 -147
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Security Architect 19 10 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.017% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.018% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 32
10th Percentile - £644 £564
25th Percentile £519 £650 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -1.85% +5.88%
75th Percentile £804 £788 £725
90th Percentile £930 £894 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £920 - £850
% change year-on-year - - +30.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

AWS Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Security Architect in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Security Architect.

Daily rate trend for AWS Security Architect in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Security Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Security Architect in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Security Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +144 19 £700 -5.08%
London +107 13 £538 -32.81%
Work from Home +125 5 £920 +41.54%
UK excluding London +50 4 £920 -
North of England - 4 £920 -
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North West - 1 £920 -

AWS Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, AWS 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 featuring AWS Security Architect in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) Security Architecture
3 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
4 7 (36.84%) SaaS
4 7 (36.84%) Information Security
5 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
5 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
5 6 (31.58%) IaaS
6 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (26.32%) CISSP
7 4 (21.05%) CISM
7 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (21.05%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (21.05%) Application Security
8 3 (15.79%) Thought Leadership
8 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
8 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
8 3 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (15.79%) GDPR
8 3 (15.79%) PaaS
8 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
8 3 (15.79%) Network Security
8 3 (15.79%) Firewall
8 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
9 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
9 2 (10.53%) Finance
9 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
9 2 (10.53%) Microsoft

AWS Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) SaaS
3 6 (31.58%) IaaS
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Slack
6 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Security Architecture
2 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
3 7 (36.84%) Information Security
4 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (21.05%) Application Security
5 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.79%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
7 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
7 2 (10.53%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
7 2 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) CISSP
3 4 (21.05%) CISM
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.26%) CISA
4 1 (5.26%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Sparx