Security Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Security Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £700 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 205 186 259
Rank change year-on-year -19 +73 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 143 322 450
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 1.31% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.38% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 230 346
10th Percentile £600 £549 £550
25th Percentile £650 £625 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £680 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £759 £758 £750
90th Percentile £888 £835 £825
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.46 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.99% - -
75th Percentile £87.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,749 23,373 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.31% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 16,533 30,788
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 596
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.46 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.48
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.77 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.35 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Security Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Architect.

Security Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Architect over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Security Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Architect.

Security Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 78 (54.55%) Security Architecture
2 61 (42.66%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (33.57%) NIST
3 48 (33.57%) Security Cleared
4 42 (29.37%) Network Security
5 41 (28.67%) Information Security
6 36 (25.17%) SC Cleared
6 36 (25.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (24.48%) Azure
8 32 (22.38%) AWS
9 30 (20.98%) CISSP
10 27 (18.88%) Public Sector
11 25 (17.48%) CISM
12 24 (16.78%) Cloud Security
13 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
13 23 (16.08%) Firewall
13 23 (16.08%) Risk Management
13 23 (16.08%) DV Cleared
14 22 (15.38%) Microsoft
15 21 (14.69%) Architectural Patterns
16 20 (13.99%) NCSC
16 20 (13.99%) Security Management
16 20 (13.99%) Finance
16 20 (13.99%) DevOps
17 18 (12.59%) CISA
18 17 (11.89%) Information Security Management
19 16 (11.19%) TOGAF
19 16 (11.19%) Intrusion Detection
19 16 (11.19%) Roadmaps
20 15 (10.49%) Risk Assessment

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.48%) Azure
2 32 (22.38%) AWS
3 9 (6.29%) GCP
4 8 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.59%) SaaS
5 4 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.80%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.80%) IaaS
6 3 (2.10%) Akamai
6 3 (2.10%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.10%) PaaS
6 3 (2.10%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.10%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.40%) Serverless
8 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 42 (29.37%) Network Security
2 23 (16.08%) Firewall
3 16 (11.19%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (5.59%) SSL
5 3 (2.10%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.40%) LAN
6 2 (1.40%) WAN
6 2 (1.40%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.70%) SCCP
7 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.70%) Wireless
7 1 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
General
1 27 (18.88%) Public Sector
2 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.99%) Finance
4 11 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.20%) Banking
5 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.10%) Retail
7 2 (1.40%) Automotive
7 2 (1.40%) Legal
7 2 (1.40%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.20%) OpenID
1 6 (4.20%) SAML
2 3 (2.10%) OAuth
2 3 (2.10%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.10%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.10%) TensorFlow
2 3 (2.10%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.59%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.20%) Mainframe
3 6 (4.20%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.80%) IoT
4 4 (2.80%) PKI
5 3 (2.10%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.10%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.70%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.70%) FMCG
7 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.70%) Linux
1 1 (0.70%) Unix
1 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (54.55%) Security Architecture
2 61 (42.66%) Cybersecurity
3 41 (28.67%) Information Security
4 24 (16.78%) Cloud Security
5 23 (16.08%) Risk Management
6 21 (14.69%) Architectural Patterns
7 20 (13.99%) DevOps
7 20 (13.99%) Security Management
8 17 (11.89%) Information Security Management
9 16 (11.19%) Roadmaps
9 16 (11.19%) TOGAF
10 15 (10.49%) Risk Assessment
10 15 (10.49%) SABSA
11 14 (9.79%) Agile
11 14 (9.79%) Penetration Testing
11 14 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.09%) Information Assurance
12 13 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
13 12 (8.39%) Project Delivery
14 11 (7.69%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (33.57%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 30 (20.98%) CISSP
4 25 (17.48%) CISM
5 23 (16.08%) DV Cleared
6 18 (12.59%) CISA
7 9 (6.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (5.59%) CREST Certified
9 7 (4.90%) Degree
10 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.40%) CCSK
11 2 (1.40%) CCSP
11 2 (1.40%) CEH
11 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.40%) GIAC
11 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.40%) SANS
12 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (33.57%) NIST
2 36 (25.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (13.99%) NCSC
4 7 (4.90%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.20%) GDPR
6 3 (2.10%) COBIT
6 3 (2.10%) GPG13
7 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.40%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.20%) RACF
2 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.20%) zSecure
2 4 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.10%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.20%) IBM
3 4 (2.80%) Okta
3 4 (2.80%) Ping Identity
4 3 (2.10%) F5
4 3 (2.10%) Google
4 3 (2.10%) LogRhythm
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) Sparx
5 2 (1.40%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.70%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.70%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.70%) Qualys
6 1 (0.70%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.70%) Zscaler