Security Architect Contracts in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 256 293
Rank change year-on-year +43 +37 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 399 489 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 1.02% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.08% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 357 449
10th Percentile £519 £550 £538
25th Percentile £650 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £775
90th Percentile £850 £838 £865
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
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 median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London +24 210 £750 +7.14% 29
South East +73 100 £650 -7.14% 20
North of England +38 47 £668 +6.80% 7
North West +27 33 £669 +7.04% 5
South West -3 16 £725 +3.57% 7
Yorkshire +34 15 £606 -13.39% 2
Midlands -9 6 £750 +14.24% 4
West Midlands -9 5 £813 +19.49% 4
East of England +1 2 £675 -18.18% 8
East Midlands +14 1 £567 -6.44%
North East +9 1 - -
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 across the England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 207 (51.88%) Security Architecture
2 149 (37.34%) Security Cleared
3 126 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
4 92 (23.06%) Finance
5 84 (21.05%) NIST
6 80 (20.05%) Cloud Security
7 78 (19.55%) Firewall
7 78 (19.55%) Information Security
8 75 (18.80%) Azure
9 74 (18.55%) AWS
10 73 (18.30%) CISSP
11 66 (16.54%) DV Cleared
12 65 (16.29%) SC Cleared
13 61 (15.29%) Network Security
13 61 (15.29%) DevOps
14 58 (14.54%) Application Security
15 56 (14.04%) Risk Management
16 50 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 48 (12.03%) CISM
18 45 (11.28%) Threat Modelling
19 44 (11.03%) Public Sector
20 43 (10.78%) Agile
21 42 (10.53%) Microsoft
22 41 (10.28%) Intrusion Detection
23 40 (10.03%) PKI
24 39 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
25 35 (8.77%) SaaS
25 35 (8.77%) Social Skills
25 35 (8.77%) DevSecOps
26 34 (8.52%) Architectural Patterns

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.50%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.25%) nginx
2 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 75 (18.80%) Azure
2 74 (18.55%) AWS
3 35 (8.77%) SaaS
4 32 (8.02%) IaaS
5 27 (6.77%) GCP
6 18 (4.51%) PaaS
7 17 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (3.51%) Serverless
9 13 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.26%) Akamai
12 7 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.50%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (1.50%) Cloudflare
14 5 (1.25%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon Cognito
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon EMR
16 2 (0.50%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 78 (19.55%) Firewall
2 61 (15.29%) Network Security
3 41 (10.28%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (2.51%) SSL
5 6 (1.50%) LAN
5 6 (1.50%) WAN
6 5 (1.25%) DNS
6 5 (1.25%) VPN
7 4 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.00%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.75%) SAN
8 3 (0.75%) Wireless
9 2 (0.50%) HTTP
9 2 (0.50%) Internet
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
10 1 (0.25%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.25%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (0.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Hive
3 2 (0.50%) Big Data
3 2 (0.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.50%) Bigtable
3 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.50%) HBase
3 2 (0.50%) IBM BigInsights
3 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.50%) Parquet
3 2 (0.50%) PolyBase
3 2 (0.50%) Sqoop
4 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.01%) Robot Framework
1 12 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.00%) GitLab
3 4 (1.00%) JIRA
4 3 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Git
General
1 92 (23.06%) Finance
2 44 (11.03%) Public Sector
3 35 (8.77%) Social Skills
4 28 (7.02%) Banking
5 11 (2.76%) Financial Institution
5 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.75%) Legal
8 6 (1.50%) Front Office
8 6 (1.50%) Retail
9 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.25%) Automotive
10 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Law
10 1 (0.25%) Local Government
10 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Marketing
10 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.76%) OpenID
1 15 (3.76%) SAML
2 11 (2.76%) XACML
3 6 (1.50%) Kafka
3 6 (1.50%) OAuth
4 4 (1.00%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.75%) SOAP
5 3 (0.75%) XML
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.50%) SPML
7 1 (0.25%) gRPC
7 1 (0.25%) JWT
7 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
7 1 (0.25%) Node.js
7 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.25%) RESTful
7 1 (0.25%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.03%) PKI
2 25 (6.27%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 16 (4.01%) IoT
5 14 (3.51%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.51%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.50%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.50%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.00%) Cyberattack
11 4 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.00%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.75%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.01%) Windows
2 13 (3.26%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (1.00%) Unix
5 3 (0.75%) Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Android
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (51.88%) Security Architecture
2 126 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (20.05%) Cloud Security
4 78 (19.55%) Information Security
5 61 (15.29%) DevOps
6 58 (14.54%) Application Security
7 56 (14.04%) Risk Management
8 45 (11.28%) Threat Modelling
9 43 (10.78%) Agile
10 39 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (8.77%) DevSecOps
12 34 (8.52%) Architectural Patterns
13 33 (8.27%) Business Strategy
14 31 (7.77%) Identity Access Management
14 31 (7.77%) TOGAF
15 30 (7.52%) Data Loss Prevention
15 30 (7.52%) Roadmaps
16 29 (7.27%) SABSA
17 28 (7.02%) Penetration Testing
18 26 (6.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 24 (6.02%) Python
2 14 (3.51%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.75%) C++
3 7 (1.75%) Java
4 2 (0.50%) SQL
4 2 (0.50%) U-SQL
5 1 (0.25%) C
5 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 149 (37.34%) Security Cleared
2 73 (18.30%) CISSP
3 66 (16.54%) DV Cleared
4 65 (16.29%) SC Cleared
5 48 (12.03%) CISM
6 31 (7.77%) CISA
7 24 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (4.26%) Degree
9 15 (3.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 13 (3.26%) SANS
11 11 (2.76%) CRISC
12 10 (2.51%) CCSK
12 10 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (2.26%) GIAC
14 8 (2.01%) CCNP
14 8 (2.01%) CREST Certified
15 6 (1.50%) CEH
15 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
16 5 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (21.05%) NIST
2 50 (12.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (6.77%) GDPR
4 19 (4.76%) NCSC
5 13 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.01%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (2.01%) QA
7 7 (1.75%) COBIT
7 7 (1.75%) NIST 800
7 7 (1.75%) RMADS
8 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.75%) GPG13
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.25%) ISA99
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.50%) RACF
4 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (7.02%) Terraform
2 23 (5.76%) Ansible
3 13 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.50%) zSecure
5 4 (1.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.50%) Ambari
6 2 (0.50%) Oozie
7 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
7 1 (0.25%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 42 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.76%) IBM
3 14 (3.51%) VMware
4 11 (2.76%) Google
4 11 (2.76%) Okta
5 7 (1.75%) Cisco
5 7 (1.75%) F5
6 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.00%) SAP
8 3 (0.75%) ForeScout
8 3 (0.75%) Juniper
8 3 (0.75%) LogRhythm
8 3 (0.75%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.75%) Unisys
9 2 (0.50%) AlgoSec
9 2 (0.50%) Darktrace
9 2 (0.50%) Databricks
9 2 (0.50%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.50%) Thales