Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £666 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 225 260 337
Rank change year-on-year +35 +77 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 177 183 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.87% 0.80% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.85% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 137 136
10th Percentile £483 £563 £515
25th Percentile £588 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £680 £648
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +4.86% +5.44%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £750
90th Percentile £775 £838 £803
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East +73 100 £650 -7.14% 11
North of England +38 47 £668 +6.80% 8
North West +27 33 £669 +7.04% 6
South West -3 16 £725 +3.57% 6
Yorkshire +34 15 £606 -13.39% 2
Scotland +25 6 £693 +2.59% 2
Midlands -9 6 £750 +14.24% 4
West Midlands -9 5 £813 +19.49% 4
East of England +1 2 £675 -18.18% 6
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 the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 105 (59.32%) Security Cleared
2 84 (47.46%) Security Architecture
3 61 (34.46%) DV Cleared
4 54 (30.51%) Cybersecurity
5 50 (28.25%) Firewall
6 37 (20.90%) DevOps
7 33 (18.64%) Network Security
8 32 (18.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 30 (16.95%) Risk Management
10 28 (15.82%) PKI
10 28 (15.82%) Azure
11 27 (15.25%) Public Sector
12 24 (13.56%) Information Security
13 23 (12.99%) SC Cleared
13 23 (12.99%) Agile
14 22 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 22 (12.43%) NIST
15 20 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (10.17%) Application Security
16 18 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
17 17 (9.60%) Presales
18 15 (8.47%) Business Strategy
18 15 (8.47%) IT Strategy
18 15 (8.47%) CISSP
18 15 (8.47%) Windows
18 15 (8.47%) AWS
19 14 (7.91%) Python
19 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
20 13 (7.34%) Active Directory
20 13 (7.34%) VMware

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.82%) Azure
2 15 (8.47%) AWS
3 6 (3.39%) Akamai
3 6 (3.39%) Cloudflare
4 4 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (2.26%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.26%) IaaS
4 4 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (2.26%) PaaS
4 4 (2.26%) SaaS
5 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.56%) GCP
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 50 (28.25%) Firewall
2 33 (18.64%) Network Security
3 32 (18.08%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (2.82%) VPN
5 4 (2.26%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.26%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.69%) DNS
6 3 (1.69%) LAN
6 3 (1.69%) WAN
7 2 (1.13%) SSL
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.56%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Robot Framework
1 12 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.13%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 27 (15.25%) Public Sector
2 8 (4.52%) Social Skills
3 6 (3.39%) Finance
4 4 (2.26%) Retail
5 3 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.69%) Legal
6 2 (1.13%) Banking
6 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.56%) Automotive
7 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.69%) SOAP
1 3 (1.69%) XML
2 2 (1.13%) OAuth
2 2 (1.13%) OpenID
2 2 (1.13%) SAML
3 1 (0.56%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.56%) Kafka
3 1 (0.56%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.56%) Node.js
3 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.82%) PKI
2 9 (5.08%) Security Posture
3 6 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.82%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (1.69%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.13%) CSOC
7 2 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.13%) IoT
7 2 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) iPad
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.47%) Windows
2 13 (7.34%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (47.46%) Security Architecture
2 54 (30.51%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (20.90%) DevOps
4 30 (16.95%) Risk Management
5 24 (13.56%) Information Security
6 23 (12.99%) Agile
7 20 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (10.17%) Application Security
8 18 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
9 17 (9.60%) Presales
10 15 (8.47%) Business Strategy
10 15 (8.47%) IT Strategy
11 13 (7.34%) Penetration Testing
11 13 (7.34%) Technology Strategy
11 13 (7.34%) Test Automation
12 12 (6.78%) Cryptography
12 12 (6.78%) Project Delivery
13 11 (6.21%) Threat Modelling
14 10 (5.65%) Cloud Security
14 10 (5.65%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.91%) Python
2 13 (7.34%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.56%) C
3 1 (0.56%) C++
3 1 (0.56%) Java
3 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 105 (59.32%) Security Cleared
2 61 (34.46%) DV Cleared
3 23 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.47%) CISSP
5 9 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.95%) CCNP
7 6 (3.39%) Degree
8 4 (2.26%) CCIE
8 4 (2.26%) CCIE Security
8 4 (2.26%) CISM
8 4 (2.26%) ISACA
9 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.13%) CCSP
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CISA
10 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (12.43%) NIST
2 10 (5.65%) GDPR
3 7 (3.95%) RMADS
4 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.26%) COBIT
5 4 (2.26%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.13%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (7.34%) Active Directory
1 13 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (6.78%) Ansible
1 12 (6.78%) Terraform
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.34%) VMware
3 7 (3.95%) Cisco
4 6 (3.39%) F5
5 3 (1.69%) Juniper
6 2 (1.13%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.13%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.56%) Confluent
7 1 (0.56%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.56%) Sophos
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk