Network Security Architect Contracts

Network Security Architect
UK

The median Network Security Architect daily rate in the UK is £745 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 662 812
Rank change year-on-year +96 +150 -161
Contract jobs requiring a Network Security Architect 13 38 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.063% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.067% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 26
10th Percentile £474 £560 £515
25th Percentile £613 £613 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £648
90th Percentile - £725 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £588 £546
% change year-on-year +27.66% +7.60% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Network Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Architect in the UK

Network Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Network Security Architect in the UK

Network Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Security Architect over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Network Security Architect in the UK

Network Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Network Security Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Network Security Architect in the UK

Network Security Architect
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +94 10 £748 +19.60%
UK excluding London +58 7 £750 +27.66%
North of England +28 7 £750 +36.36%
North West +22 7 £750 -
London +102 3 £745 +16.86%
Work from Home +95 3 £735 +13.08%

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Network 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 Network Security Architect in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Network Security
2 9 (69.23%) Firewall
3 6 (46.15%) CISSP
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (38.46%) Cisco
4 5 (38.46%) Security Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) CCIE
5 4 (30.77%) CCNP
5 4 (30.77%) CCIE Security
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
6 3 (23.08%) LAN
6 3 (23.08%) WAN
6 3 (23.08%) Business Strategy
7 2 (15.38%) VPN
7 2 (15.38%) CCSP
7 2 (15.38%) AWS
7 2 (15.38%) SaaS
7 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
7 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
7 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (15.38%) SABSA
8 1 (7.69%) DevOps
8 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 1 (7.69%) GCP
8 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
8 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (7.69%) SANS

Network 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) Network Security
2 9 (69.23%) Firewall
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (23.08%) LAN
4 3 (23.08%) WAN
5 2 (15.38%) VPN
6 1 (7.69%) DNS
6 1 (7.69%) NGFW
6 1 (7.69%) Wireless
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Security Architecture
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 3 (23.08%) Business Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) SABSA
4 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Information Security
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Statistics
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (46.15%) CISSP
2 4 (30.77%) CCIE
2 4 (30.77%) CCIE Security
2 4 (30.77%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (15.38%) CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) CCSK
4 1 (7.69%) CISA
4 1 (7.69%) CRISC
4 1 (7.69%) FFIEC
4 1 (7.69%) GIAC
4 1 (7.69%) SANS
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto