Security Architect Contracts

Security Architect
UK

The median Security Architect daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 273 292
Rank change year-on-year +42 +19 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 450 600 853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.02% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.07% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 424 580
10th Percentile £519 £538 £538
25th Percentile £625 £625 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +5.68%
75th Percentile £775 £761 £770
90th Percentile £825 £838 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £666 £680 £625
% change year-on-year -2.06% +8.80% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 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 excluding London median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the UK

Security Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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 +49 396 £700 - 55
London +39 202 £745 +6.43% 26
UK excluding London +57 184 £666 -2.06% 30
Work from Home +8 156 £700 +2.94% 22
South East +84 105 £650 -7.14% 11
North of England +41 46 £668 +6.80% 2
North West +27 33 £669 +7.04% 2
South West +11 16 £725 +3.57% 6
Yorkshire +32 14 £663 -5.36%
Scotland +26 6 £693 +2.59% 1
Midlands -4 6 £750 +12.23% 4
East of England +8 5 £675 -18.18% 5
West Midlands -2 5 £813 +19.49% 2
North East +16 1 - -
East Midlands +15 1 £567 -6.44% 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 236 (52.44%) Security Architecture
2 180 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 148 (32.89%) Cybersecurity
4 100 (22.22%) NIST
5 93 (20.67%) SC Cleared
6 89 (19.78%) Azure
7 88 (19.56%) Cloud Security
8 87 (19.33%) CISSP
9 83 (18.44%) Firewall
10 80 (17.78%) Finance
11 79 (17.56%) Information Security
12 78 (17.33%) Network Security
13 73 (16.22%) DV Cleared
13 73 (16.22%) AWS
14 67 (14.89%) Risk Management
15 66 (14.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 60 (13.33%) Microsoft
17 56 (12.44%) CISM
17 56 (12.44%) DevOps
18 55 (12.22%) Public Sector
19 46 (10.22%) Social Skills
20 44 (9.78%) PKI
21 43 (9.56%) Application Security
22 41 (9.11%) Agile
22 41 (9.11%) Intrusion Detection
23 39 (8.67%) TOGAF
23 39 (8.67%) Threat Modelling
23 39 (8.67%) Identity Access Management
23 39 (8.67%) Architectural Patterns
24 37 (8.22%) SaaS

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.44%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) nginx
3 1 (0.22%) SAS
3 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.67%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (19.78%) Azure
2 73 (16.22%) AWS
3 37 (8.22%) SaaS
4 33 (7.33%) IaaS
5 24 (5.33%) GCP
6 22 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.22%) PaaS
8 15 (3.33%) Serverless
9 14 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (2.67%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.22%) Akamai
12 7 (1.56%) Cloudflare
13 6 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (1.11%) WhatsApp
15 4 (0.89%) Azure Key Vault
16 3 (0.67%) Amazon S3
16 3 (0.67%) Power Platform
16 3 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 2 (0.44%) Amazon Kinesis
17 2 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 83 (18.44%) Firewall
2 78 (17.33%) Network Security
3 41 (9.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (2.00%) SSL
5 8 (1.78%) LAN
5 8 (1.78%) WAN
6 7 (1.56%) SAN
7 6 (1.33%) DNS
8 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.11%) VPN
9 4 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.89%) Wireless
9 4 (0.89%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.44%) HTTP
11 1 (0.22%) DHCP
11 1 (0.22%) DSL
11 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.22%) Internet
11 1 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.44%) Big Data
4 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.44%) Bigtable
4 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.44%) HBase
4 2 (0.44%) IBM BigInsights
4 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Parquet
4 2 (0.44%) PolyBase
4 2 (0.44%) Sqoop
5 1 (0.22%) MySQL
5 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (2.67%) Robot Framework
1 12 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.89%) GitLab
4 3 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.44%) JIRA
5 2 (0.44%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
General
1 80 (17.78%) Finance
2 55 (12.22%) Public Sector
3 46 (10.22%) Social Skills
4 23 (5.11%) Banking
5 17 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 11 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.78%) Legal
8 6 (1.33%) Local Government
8 6 (1.33%) Retail
9 4 (0.89%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.44%) Automotive
10 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.22%) Back Office
11 1 (0.22%) Billing
11 1 (0.22%) Electronics
11 1 (0.22%) Law
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.00%) OpenID
2 17 (3.78%) SAML
3 11 (2.44%) XACML
4 8 (1.78%) OAuth
5 6 (1.33%) SailPoint
6 3 (0.67%) Kafka
6 3 (0.67%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.67%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.67%) SOAP
6 3 (0.67%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.67%) XML
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.44%) SPML
8 1 (0.22%) JSON
8 1 (0.22%) ModSecurity
8 1 (0.22%) Node.js
8 1 (0.22%) RESTful
8 1 (0.22%) WebSockets
8 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.78%) PKI
2 32 (7.11%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.22%) Security Posture
4 18 (4.00%) IoT
5 15 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.67%) Operational Technology
7 10 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.33%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.11%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.67%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.56%) Windows
2 13 (2.89%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.89%) Linux
4 4 (0.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (52.44%) Security Architecture
2 148 (32.89%) Cybersecurity
3 88 (19.56%) Cloud Security
4 79 (17.56%) Information Security
5 67 (14.89%) Risk Management
6 56 (12.44%) DevOps
7 43 (9.56%) Application Security
8 41 (9.11%) Agile
9 39 (8.67%) Architectural Patterns
9 39 (8.67%) Identity Access Management
9 39 (8.67%) Threat Modelling
9 39 (8.67%) TOGAF
10 36 (8.00%) Business Strategy
10 36 (8.00%) Roadmaps
11 34 (7.56%) DevSecOps
11 34 (7.56%) SABSA
11 34 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (7.11%) Data Loss Prevention
12 32 (7.11%) Penetration Testing
13 29 (6.44%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.33%) Python
2 15 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.11%) SQL
4 3 (0.67%) C++
4 3 (0.67%) Java
5 2 (0.44%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 93 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 87 (19.33%) CISSP
4 73 (16.22%) DV Cleared
5 56 (12.44%) CISM
6 34 (7.56%) CISA
7 27 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (4.89%) Degree
9 18 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (3.78%) SANS
11 12 (2.67%) CCSK
11 12 (2.67%) CRISC
12 10 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (2.00%) GIAC
14 8 (1.78%) CCNP
14 8 (1.78%) CREST Certified
15 6 (1.33%) CEH
15 6 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.11%) CCSP
17 4 (0.89%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (22.22%) NIST
2 66 (14.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (6.22%) NCSC
4 27 (6.00%) GDPR
5 14 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.78%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (1.56%) COBIT
7 7 (1.56%) NIST 800
7 7 (1.56%) RMADS
8 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.89%) GRC
9 3 (0.67%) GPG13
9 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.67%) QA
10 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (4.89%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.11%) RACF
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (6.44%) Terraform
2 23 (5.11%) Ansible
3 13 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.11%) zSecure
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.67%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.44%) Ambari
7 2 (0.44%) Oozie
7 2 (0.44%) QRadar
8 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.22%) Kibana
8 1 (0.22%) logstash
8 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.56%) IBM
3 14 (3.11%) VMware
4 12 (2.67%) Okta
5 11 (2.44%) Google
6 9 (2.00%) CyberArk
7 8 (1.78%) F5
7 8 (1.78%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.56%) Cisco
9 6 (1.33%) Oracle
10 5 (1.11%) SAP
11 4 (0.89%) LogRhythm
11 4 (0.89%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.89%) Sparx
12 3 (0.67%) ForeScout
12 3 (0.67%) NetIQ
12 3 (0.67%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.67%) Splunk
13 2 (0.44%) Atlassian