Security Technical Architect Contracts

Security Technical Architect
UK

The median Security Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £825, 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 500 572 704
Rank change year-on-year +72 +132 +127
Contract jobs requiring a Security Technical Architect 20 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.025% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 5
10th Percentile £531 £618 £630
25th Percentile £663 £687 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% -4.46%
75th Percentile £838 £825 £813
90th Percentile - £833 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £715 £750
% change year-on-year -5.59% -4.67% -4.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Security Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Technical Architect in the UK

Security Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Security Technical Architect in the UK

Security Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Technical Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Technical Architect in the UK

Security Technical 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 Security Technical Architect within the UK 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
Work from Home +51 15 £825 +3.13%
England +58 9 £688 -14.06%
London +37 5 £700 -12.50%
UK excluding London +63 4 £675 -5.59%
South West - 3 £675 -
Midlands +22 1 - -
West Midlands +14 1 - -

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

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

1 12 (60.00%) Azure
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) Firewall
2 11 (55.00%) Cloud Native
3 9 (45.00%) Palo Alto
3 9 (45.00%) Sprint Planning
3 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (45.00%) Bicep
3 9 (45.00%) CheckPoint
3 9 (45.00%) OSPF
3 9 (45.00%) BGP
3 9 (45.00%) DHCP
3 9 (45.00%) HTTP
3 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
3 9 (45.00%) DNS
3 9 (45.00%) HTTPS
3 9 (45.00%) Cisco
3 9 (45.00%) Fortinet
3 9 (45.00%) SaaS
3 9 (45.00%) PaaS
3 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (45.00%) IaaS
3 9 (45.00%) GCP
3 9 (45.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (45.00%) Terraform
4 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (20.00%) SCCM
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Patch Management

Security Technical 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 12 (60.00%) AWS
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (45.00%) GCP
2 9 (45.00%) IaaS
2 9 (45.00%) PaaS
2 9 (45.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) BGP
2 9 (45.00%) DHCP
2 9 (45.00%) DNS
2 9 (45.00%) HTTP
2 9 (45.00%) HTTPS
2 9 (45.00%) OSPF
2 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Military
2 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (45.00%) Sprint Planning
1 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 4 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (20.00%) Security Patching
4 3 (15.00%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 2 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Microservices
5 2 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Bicep
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) CheckPoint
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco
1 9 (45.00%) Fortinet
1 9 (45.00%) Palo Alto
2 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft