Senior Security Architect Contracts in England

Senior Security Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in England is £780 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 609 752
Rank change year-on-year +118 +143 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 40 37 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.076% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.081% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 10
10th Percentile £773 £568 £513
25th Percentile £775 £675 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £750 £755
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.66% +0.67%
75th Percentile - £800 £772
90th Percentile £786 - £791
UK median daily rate £780 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior 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 Senior Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +92 25 £780 +4.00%
South East - 15 - - 1
Senior Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 34 (85.00%) Security Architecture
2 19 (47.50%) Cloud Security
3 17 (42.50%) SaaS
3 17 (42.50%) IaaS
4 14 (35.00%) NIST
5 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
6 12 (30.00%) Firewall
7 10 (25.00%) Application Security
8 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (22.50%) Design Patterns
8 9 (22.50%) Finance
8 9 (22.50%) Mobile App
8 9 (22.50%) IoT
8 9 (22.50%) PaaS
8 9 (22.50%) Serverless
9 8 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
9 8 (20.00%) SDLC
9 8 (20.00%) Security Testing
9 8 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (20.00%) DevSecOps
10 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
10 7 (17.50%) Banking
10 7 (17.50%) Presales
10 7 (17.50%) Terraform
10 7 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (17.50%) SIEM
11 6 (15.00%) SABSA
11 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
11 6 (15.00%) GIAC

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) IaaS
1 17 (42.50%) SaaS
2 9 (22.50%) PaaS
2 9 (22.50%) Serverless
3 7 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (10.00%) Azure
5 2 (5.00%) AWS
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (7.50%) Network Security
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Banking
2 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) IoT
1 9 (22.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) Security Architecture
2 19 (47.50%) Cloud Security
3 10 (25.00%) Application Security
4 9 (22.50%) Design Patterns
4 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 8 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 8 (20.00%) SDLC
5 8 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 7 (17.50%) Presales
6 7 (17.50%) SIEM
7 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
7 6 (15.00%) SABSA
8 4 (10.00%) Information Security
9 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (7.50%) Security Operations
10 2 (5.00%) Network Segmentation
10 2 (5.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) CISSP
2 6 (15.00%) GIAC
3 5 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 5 (12.50%) CCSK
3 5 (12.50%) CISA
3 5 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (12.50%) CRISC
4 3 (7.50%) SANS
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) CCSP
6 1 (2.50%) CISM
6 1 (2.50%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.00%) NIST
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform