Security Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £713 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 421 488
Rank change year-on-year +53 +67 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Security Solutions Architect 10 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.061% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.065% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 14
10th Percentile £580 £538 £501
25th Percentile £625 £603 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £697
90th Percentile - £750 £803
UK median daily rate £688 £650 £638
% change year-on-year +5.77% +1.96% +0.99%

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 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
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 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Security Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Yorkshire - 5 £625 -
North of England - 5 £625 -
South West - 4 £725 - 1
Midlands +31 1 £750 +20.00%
West Midlands +15 1 £750 +20.00%
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Security Solutions Architect
UK

Security Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Security Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Information Assurance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
1 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (30.00%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (30.00%) Teamcenter
2 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (30.00%) Data Security
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
2 3 (30.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (10.00%) NIST
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance

Security Solutions 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 (30.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
1 3 (30.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (40.00%) Information Assurance
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Data Security
2 3 (30.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Service Design
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (10.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk