Information Security Architect Contracts in London

Information Security Architect
England > London

The median Information Security Architect daily rate in London is £765 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 441 582
Rank change year-on-year +61 +141 -112
Contract jobs requiring an Information Security Architect 10 36 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.057% 0.14% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.15% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 35 8
10th Percentile £699 £563 £513
25th Percentile £708 £638 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £765 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +19.15% -21.67%
75th Percentile £823 £835 £702
90th Percentile - - £744
England median daily rate £765 £681 £600
% change year-on-year +12.29% +13.54% -17.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Information Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Architect in London

Information Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Information 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 London region featuring Information Security Architect in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Information Security
2 8 (80.00%) CISSP
2 8 (80.00%) CISM
3 7 (70.00%) Azure
4 6 (60.00%) AWS
4 6 (60.00%) GCP
4 6 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (60.00%) Front Office
4 6 (60.00%) Finance
4 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (60.00%) CISA
4 6 (60.00%) Agile
4 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) QA
4 6 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 6 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 6 (60.00%) Application Security
4 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Banking
5 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification

Information Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Front Office
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Information Security
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Application Security
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) CISM
1 8 (80.00%) CISSP
2 6 (60.00%) CISA
3 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Okta
1 1 (10.00%) Ping Identity