Security Solutions Architect Contracts

Security Solution Architect
UK

The median Security Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 662 777
Rank change year-on-year +97 +115 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Security Solutions Architect 21 36 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.062% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.065% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 50
10th Percentile £500 £514 £523
25th Percentile £550 £566 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £797
90th Percentile £755 £860 £865
UK excluding London median daily rate £713 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +9.62% +8.33% +39.13%

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 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £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 £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 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Security Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK

Security Solutions Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +101 16 £725 +3.57% 3
UK excluding London +61 10 £713 +9.62% 2
Work from Home +102 8 £638 +2.00%
London +85 6 £750 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £625 -
North of England - 5 £625 -
South West - 4 £725 - 1
Midlands +27 1 £750 +20.00%
West Midlands +15 1 £750 +20.00%
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Security Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) GDPR
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) Data Security
4 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (23.81%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) CISSP
5 4 (19.05%) AWS
5 4 (19.05%) Information Assurance
5 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 3 (14.29%) HIPAA
6 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (14.29%) SOAP
6 3 (14.29%) XML
6 3 (14.29%) Legal
6 3 (14.29%) Teamcenter
6 3 (14.29%) Data Virtualisation
6 3 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (14.29%) Kafka
6 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
6 3 (14.29%) NIST
6 3 (14.29%) Social Skills

Security Solutions 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Teamcenter
2 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) IaaS
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Hive
1 2 (9.52%) Big Data
1 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.52%) Bigtable
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
1 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
1 2 (9.52%) HBase
1 2 (9.52%) IBM BigInsights
1 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Parquet
1 2 (9.52%) PolyBase
1 2 (9.52%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (14.29%) Legal
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
1 3 (14.29%) SOAP
1 3 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
2 2 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Data Security
2 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Information Assurance
3 4 (19.05%) Security Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Data Virtualisation
4 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Data Encryption
5 2 (9.52%) Data Flow Diagram
5 2 (9.52%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (9.52%) Data Privacy
5 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (9.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) SQL
1 2 (9.52%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) CISM
4 1 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.76%) CCSP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ambari
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Confluent
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Zscaler
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