Security Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 189 256
Rank change year-on-year -17 +67 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 146 321 451
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.00% 1.33% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.40% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 221 346
10th Percentile £600 £550 £550
25th Percentile £632 £625 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £680 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £750
90th Percentile £889 £835 £825
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.46 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.99% - -
75th Percentile £87.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,691 22,958 42,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.26% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 16,282 30,640
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +43.84% +57.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.72 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Security Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Architect.

Security Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Security Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Architect.

Security Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 77 (52.74%) Security Architecture
2 62 (42.47%) Cybersecurity
3 45 (30.82%) Security Cleared
3 45 (30.82%) NIST
4 41 (28.08%) Information Security
5 39 (26.71%) Network Security
6 35 (23.97%) Azure
6 35 (23.97%) AWS
7 34 (23.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (22.60%) SC Cleared
9 29 (19.86%) CISSP
9 29 (19.86%) Cloud Security
10 26 (17.81%) Public Sector
11 25 (17.12%) Microsoft
12 24 (16.44%) CISM
12 24 (16.44%) DV Cleared
13 23 (15.75%) Finance
14 21 (14.38%) Risk Management
14 21 (14.38%) Architectural Patterns
15 20 (13.70%) NCSC
15 20 (13.70%) Social Skills
15 20 (13.70%) Firewall
16 19 (13.01%) Security Management
16 19 (13.01%) DevOps
17 17 (11.64%) CISA
17 17 (11.64%) Roadmaps
18 16 (10.96%) Information Security Management
18 16 (10.96%) TOGAF
19 15 (10.27%) Intrusion Detection
19 15 (10.27%) Risk Assessment

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.68%) SAS
1 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.97%) AWS
1 35 (23.97%) Azure
2 9 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (5.48%) GCP
3 8 (5.48%) SaaS
4 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.74%) IaaS
6 3 (2.05%) Akamai
6 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.05%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.05%) PaaS
6 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (2.05%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (26.71%) Network Security
2 20 (13.70%) Firewall
3 15 (10.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (5.48%) SSL
5 3 (2.05%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.37%) LAN
6 2 (1.37%) WAN
6 2 (1.37%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.68%) 4G
7 1 (0.68%) 5G
7 1 (0.68%) FTP
7 1 (0.68%) SCCP
7 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.68%) Wireless
7 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
General
1 26 (17.81%) Public Sector
2 23 (15.75%) Finance
3 20 (13.70%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.11%) Banking
6 5 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.05%) Retail
7 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.37%) Automotive
8 2 (1.37%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.11%) OpenID
1 6 (4.11%) SAML
2 3 (2.05%) OAuth
2 3 (2.05%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.05%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.05%) TensorFlow
2 3 (2.05%) XACML
3 1 (0.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Security Posture
2 8 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.11%) Mainframe
3 6 (4.11%) Operational Technology
4 5 (3.42%) PKI
5 4 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.05%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.05%) IoT
6 3 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.68%) SCADA
8 1 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.74%) Security Architecture
2 62 (42.47%) Cybersecurity
3 41 (28.08%) Information Security
4 29 (19.86%) Cloud Security
5 21 (14.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 21 (14.38%) Risk Management
6 19 (13.01%) DevOps
6 19 (13.01%) Security Management
7 17 (11.64%) Roadmaps
8 16 (10.96%) Information Security Management
8 16 (10.96%) TOGAF
9 15 (10.27%) Risk Assessment
9 15 (10.27%) SABSA
9 15 (10.27%) Threat Modelling
10 14 (9.59%) Penetration Testing
10 14 (9.59%) Project Delivery
11 13 (8.90%) Agile
12 12 (8.22%) Application Security
12 12 (8.22%) Information Assurance
12 12 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.05%) SQL
2 1 (0.68%) C
2 1 (0.68%) C++
2 1 (0.68%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (30.82%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.60%) SC Cleared
3 29 (19.86%) CISSP
4 24 (16.44%) CISM
4 24 (16.44%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.64%) CISA
6 9 (6.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (5.48%) CREST Certified
7 8 (5.48%) Degree
8 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.05%) CCSP
9 3 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.37%) CCSK
10 2 (1.37%) CEH
10 2 (1.37%) GIAC
10 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (30.82%) NIST
2 34 (23.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (13.70%) NCSC
4 8 (5.48%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.11%) GDPR
6 4 (2.74%) COBIT
7 3 (2.05%) GPG13
8 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.37%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.11%) Active Directory
1 6 (4.11%) RACF
2 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) zSecure
2 4 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.05%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.68%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.68%) HP SIM
4 1 (0.68%) SCCM
4 1 (0.68%) SCDPM
4 1 (0.68%) SCVMM
4 1 (0.68%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (0.68%) Terraform
4 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.11%) IBM
3 5 (3.42%) Okta
4 4 (2.74%) Oracle
4 4 (2.74%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.05%) F5
5 3 (2.05%) Google
5 3 (2.05%) LogRhythm
5 3 (2.05%) Sparx
6 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.37%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.68%) Citrix
7 1 (0.68%) Commvault
7 1 (0.68%) HP
7 1 (0.68%) Qualys
7 1 (0.68%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.68%) Symantec
7 1 (0.68%) Unisys
7 1 (0.68%) Veritas