Senior Security Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Security Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 439 611
Rank change year-on-year +98 +172 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 6 29 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.12% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.12% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 8
10th Percentile £755 £709 £513
25th Percentile £763 £744 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £750 £693
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +8.30% -12.06%
75th Percentile £788 £791 £763
90th Percentile £795 £800 £771
UK median daily rate £780 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 13,848 23,488 42,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.30% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,603 30,429
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 537 595
10th Percentile £14.26 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.37 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +54.29% +44.33%
75th Percentile £64.88 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £68.55
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Security Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Security Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Security Architect.

Senior Security Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Application Security
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) ISMS
4 1 (16.67%) CISA
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) CRISC
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Application Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SABSA
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CCSK
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CRISC
2 1 (16.67%) FFIEC
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
2 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform