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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 264 281
Rank change year-on-year +37 +17 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 451 596 840
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.03% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.09% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 420 573
10th Percentile £519 £525 £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 £763 £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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
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 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

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 9 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 9 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 +54 398 £700 - 53
London +22 207 £745 +6.43% 21
UK excluding London +54 182 £666 -2.06% 31
Work from Home -1 153 £700 +2.94% 23
South East +85 104 £650 -7.14% 9
North of England +37 45 £666 +6.56% 4
North West +13 31 £669 +7.04% 4
South West +3 16 £725 +3.57% 5
Yorkshire +32 15 £606 -13.39%
Scotland +26 6 £693 +2.59% 1
Midlands +4 6 £750 +10.29% 5
East of England -1 5 £675 -18.18% 6
West Midlands -2 5 £813 +19.49% 3
East Midlands +20 1 £567 -6.44% 2
North East +12 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 237 (52.55%) Security Architecture
2 176 (39.02%) Security Cleared
3 145 (32.15%) Cybersecurity
4 102 (22.62%) NIST
5 90 (19.96%) Azure
6 89 (19.73%) Cloud Security
7 88 (19.51%) SC Cleared
8 85 (18.85%) CISSP
8 85 (18.85%) Information Security
9 84 (18.63%) Firewall
10 83 (18.40%) Finance
11 79 (17.52%) Network Security
12 74 (16.41%) AWS
13 72 (15.96%) DV Cleared
14 66 (14.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 62 (13.75%) Risk Management
16 60 (13.30%) Microsoft
17 57 (12.64%) DevOps
18 55 (12.20%) Public Sector
18 55 (12.20%) CISM
19 47 (10.42%) Application Security
20 46 (10.20%) Social Skills
21 44 (9.76%) PKI
21 44 (9.76%) Agile
22 42 (9.31%) Threat Modelling
23 41 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
24 39 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
25 37 (8.20%) Roadmaps
25 37 (8.20%) Business Strategy
25 37 (8.20%) 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 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.44%) Confluence
1 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.22%) nginx
2 1 (0.22%) SAS
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 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (19.96%) Azure
2 74 (16.41%) AWS
3 37 (8.20%) SaaS
4 34 (7.54%) IaaS
5 26 (5.76%) GCP
6 23 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.21%) PaaS
8 15 (3.33%) Serverless
9 14 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (2.66%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.22%) Akamai
12 9 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.55%) Cloudflare
14 5 (1.11%) WhatsApp
15 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (0.67%) Amazon S3
16 3 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
16 3 (0.67%) Power Platform
16 3 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 2 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 84 (18.63%) Firewall
2 79 (17.52%) Network Security
3 41 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (2.22%) SSL
5 8 (1.77%) LAN
5 8 (1.77%) WAN
6 6 (1.33%) DNS
7 5 (1.11%) SAN
7 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.11%) VPN
8 4 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.89%) Wireless
8 4 (0.89%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.44%) HTTP
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DSL
10 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 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 (2.66%) Robot Framework
1 12 (2.66%) 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 83 (18.40%) Finance
2 55 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 46 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 24 (5.32%) Banking
5 18 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 11 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.77%) 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%) Front Office
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%) Electronics
11 1 (0.22%) Law
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.99%) OpenID
2 17 (3.77%) SAML
3 11 (2.44%) XACML
4 8 (1.77%) 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 (9.76%) PKI
2 32 (7.10%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.21%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.99%) IoT
5 15 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.88%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.77%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (1.55%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.33%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.67%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.10%) Windows
2 13 (2.88%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.89%) Unix
5 3 (0.67%) Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (52.55%) Security Architecture
2 145 (32.15%) Cybersecurity
3 89 (19.73%) Cloud Security
4 85 (18.85%) Information Security
5 62 (13.75%) Risk Management
6 57 (12.64%) DevOps
7 47 (10.42%) Application Security
8 44 (9.76%) Agile
9 42 (9.31%) Threat Modelling
10 39 (8.65%) Architectural Patterns
11 37 (8.20%) Business Strategy
11 37 (8.20%) Roadmaps
11 37 (8.20%) TOGAF
12 36 (7.98%) DevSecOps
12 36 (7.98%) Identity Access Management
12 36 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (7.54%) SABSA
14 32 (7.10%) Data Loss Prevention
14 32 (7.10%) Penetration Testing
15 29 (6.43%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.32%) Python
2 15 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.11%) C++
3 5 (1.11%) Java
3 5 (1.11%) SQL
4 2 (0.44%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 176 (39.02%) Security Cleared
2 88 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 85 (18.85%) CISSP
4 72 (15.96%) DV Cleared
5 55 (12.20%) CISM
6 35 (7.76%) CISA
7 27 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (4.88%) Degree
9 18 (3.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 16 (3.55%) SANS
11 12 (2.66%) CCSK
11 12 (2.66%) CRISC
12 10 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (2.00%) GIAC
14 8 (1.77%) CCNP
14 8 (1.77%) 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
1 102 (22.62%) NIST
2 66 (14.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (6.43%) GDPR
4 27 (5.99%) NCSC
5 14 (3.10%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.77%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (1.55%) COBIT
7 7 (1.55%) NIST 800
7 7 (1.55%) RMADS
8 5 (1.11%) QA
9 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.89%) GRC
10 3 (0.67%) GPG13
10 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.22%) ISA99
12 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 22 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.33%) RACF
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (6.43%) Terraform
2 23 (5.10%) Ansible
3 13 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.33%) 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
8 1 (0.22%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 60 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.77%) IBM
3 14 (3.10%) VMware
4 12 (2.66%) Okta
5 11 (2.44%) Google
6 9 (2.00%) CyberArk
7 8 (1.77%) F5
8 7 (1.55%) Cisco
8 7 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.33%) Oracle
10 4 (0.89%) LogRhythm
10 4 (0.89%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.89%) SAP
10 4 (0.89%) Sparx
11 3 (0.67%) ForeScout
11 3 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.67%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.67%) Splunk
11 3 (0.67%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.44%) Atlassian