Security Architect Contracts in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect daily rate in London is £750 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 196 220 260
Rank change year-on-year +24 +40 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 210 307 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.20% 1.19% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.25% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 225 273
10th Percentile £598 £563 £538
25th Percentile £668 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £688
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £800 £800 £800
90th Percentile £851 £838 £888
England median daily rate £725 £700 £675
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

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 16,297 24,521 37,086
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.19% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,779 17,832 27,179
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +0.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 279 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - +14.01%
75th Percentile £44.25 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.61 £82.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +36 23 £675 -6.90%
West London +2 5 £661 -19.85%
East London -12 5 £770 +2.67%
Security Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 120 (57.14%) Security Architecture
2 82 (39.05%) Finance
3 66 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (31.43%) Cloud Security
4 57 (27.14%) NIST
5 52 (24.76%) CISSP
6 51 (24.29%) AWS
7 49 (23.33%) Information Security
8 42 (20.00%) Security Cleared
9 40 (19.05%) SC Cleared
9 40 (19.05%) CISM
10 39 (18.57%) Azure
11 37 (17.62%) Application Security
12 31 (14.76%) DevSecOps
13 30 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
13 30 (14.29%) SaaS
14 28 (13.33%) CISA
15 27 (12.86%) IaaS
15 27 (12.86%) SABSA
15 27 (12.86%) Architectural Patterns
16 26 (12.38%) Network Security
16 26 (12.38%) Firewall
16 26 (12.38%) TOGAF
17 25 (11.90%) Risk Management
17 25 (11.90%) GCP
18 24 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
18 24 (11.43%) Social Skills
18 24 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 23 (10.95%) Banking
20 21 (10.00%) Microsoft

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.48%) nginx
2 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.29%) AWS
2 39 (18.57%) Azure
3 30 (14.29%) SaaS
4 27 (12.86%) IaaS
5 25 (11.90%) GCP
6 14 (6.67%) Serverless
7 13 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.19%) PaaS
8 10 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.38%) WhatsApp
11 3 (1.43%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.95%) Akamai
12 2 (0.95%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (0.95%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.95%) GitHub
12 2 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.38%) Firewall
1 26 (12.38%) Network Security
2 8 (3.81%) SSL
3 7 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.43%) LAN
5 3 (1.43%) SAN
5 3 (1.43%) WAN
5 3 (1.43%) Wireless
6 2 (0.95%) DNS
6 2 (0.95%) HTTP
6 2 (0.95%) Internet
7 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.48%) Modbus
7 1 (0.48%) SCCP
7 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Hive
3 2 (0.95%) Big Data
3 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.95%) Bigtable
3 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.95%) HBase
3 2 (0.95%) IBM BigInsights
3 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.95%) Parquet
3 2 (0.95%) PolyBase
3 2 (0.95%) Sqoop
4 1 (0.48%) MySQL
4 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.95%) JIRA
3 2 (0.95%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
General
1 82 (39.05%) Finance
2 24 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.95%) Banking
4 18 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.81%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.86%) Front Office
8 5 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 2 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Local Government
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.19%) OpenID
1 13 (6.19%) SAML
2 11 (5.24%) XACML
3 5 (2.38%) Kafka
4 4 (1.90%) OAuth
5 3 (1.43%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.95%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.95%) SPML
7 1 (0.48%) gRPC
7 1 (0.48%) JSON
7 1 (0.48%) JWT
7 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.48%) REST
7 1 (0.48%) RESTful
7 1 (0.48%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.10%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.67%) IoT
3 13 (6.19%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.19%) PKI
4 11 (5.24%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 6 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.43%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.86%) Windows
2 4 (1.90%) Unix
3 3 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (57.14%) Security Architecture
2 66 (31.43%) Cloud Security
2 66 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (23.33%) Information Security
4 37 (17.62%) Application Security
5 31 (14.76%) DevSecOps
6 30 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
7 27 (12.86%) Architectural Patterns
7 27 (12.86%) SABSA
8 26 (12.38%) TOGAF
9 25 (11.90%) Risk Management
10 24 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
11 20 (9.52%) DevOps
11 20 (9.52%) Risk Assessment
12 19 (9.05%) Agile
12 19 (9.05%) Enterprise Architecture
12 19 (9.05%) Roadmaps
12 19 (9.05%) SIEM
13 18 (8.57%) CI/CD
13 18 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.24%) Python
2 6 (2.86%) C++
2 6 (2.86%) Java
3 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.95%) SQL
3 2 (0.95%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (24.76%) CISSP
2 42 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 40 (19.05%) CISM
3 40 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 28 (13.33%) CISA
5 15 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (6.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 13 (6.19%) SANS
7 11 (5.24%) CRISC
7 11 (5.24%) Degree
8 9 (4.29%) CCSK
8 9 (4.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (3.81%) CREST Certified
9 8 (3.81%) GIAC
10 5 (2.38%) CEH
10 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (27.14%) NIST
2 24 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (8.10%) NCSC
4 14 (6.67%) GDPR
5 8 (3.81%) QA
6 7 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (3.33%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.86%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.43%) COBIT
8 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.43%) GPG13
9 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.48%) ISA99
10 1 (0.48%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (2.86%) RACF
2 3 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (7.62%) Terraform
2 12 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (5.24%) Ansible
4 6 (2.86%) zSecure
5 3 (1.43%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.95%) Ambari
6 2 (0.95%) Oozie
7 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) QRadar
7 1 (0.48%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.14%) IBM
3 11 (5.24%) Okta
4 10 (4.76%) Google
5 4 (1.90%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.43%) LogRhythm
6 3 (1.43%) SAP
7 2 (0.95%) CA
7 2 (0.95%) Databricks
7 2 (0.95%) ForeScout
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle
7 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.95%) Thales
7 2 (0.95%) Unisys
8 1 (0.48%) AlienVault
8 1 (0.48%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.48%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.48%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.48%) Zscaler