Security Architecture Contracts in Scotland

Security Architecture
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Security Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Architecture over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 148 161
Rank change year-on-year +49 +13 -37
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 24 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.12% 0.59% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.64% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 7
10th Percentile £583 £507 £573
25th Percentile £638 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +9.24%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £688
90th Percentile £725 £740 £728
UK median daily rate £700 £688 £650
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% +9.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Security Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in Scotland

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in Scotland

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in Scotland

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Edinburgh +45 13 £675 +3.85%
Glasgow +11 8 £700 +16.67% 1
South Lanarkshire - 3 £575 -
Security Architecture
UK

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) AWS CodeBuild
1 5 (20.83%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 5 (20.83%) AWS CodePipeline
2 3 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (70.83%) Public Sector
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Back Office
3 5 (20.83%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Security Advisor
3 4 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Chief Information Security Officer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Integration Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Security Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) REST
1 5 (20.83%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) API Management
4 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
4 5 (20.83%) Design Patterns
4 5 (20.83%) Information Security
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.83%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Service Management
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.83%) Storage Management
5 4 (16.67%) Cyber Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (29.17%) NIST
4 4 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (8.33%) PMO
7 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (4.17%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) F5
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk