Security Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 88 128
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 +34
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 13 23 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 1.18% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.41% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 9
10th Percentile £575 £580 £463
25th Percentile £653 £625 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £788 £850 £813
90th Percentile £800 £880 £850
England median daily rate £675 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire +3 6 £750 -1.64%
Birmingham +20 4 £700 -6.67% 1
Coventry - 2 £613 - 1
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Architect
2 9 (69.23%) Security Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Security Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Information Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) IT Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Operational Technology
2 3 (23.08%) SCADA
2 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Application Security
4 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
4 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (15.38%) ITSM
5 2 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) OWASP
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CISA
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CASB
1 1 (7.69%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) FireEye
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk
1 1 (7.69%) Tanium