Security Architect Contracts in the North of England

Security Architect
England > North of England

The median Security Architect daily rate in the North of England is £666 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 166 209
Rank change year-on-year +37 +43 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 49 41 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 0.74% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.77% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 22 28
10th Percentile £483 £486 £525
25th Percentile £588 £602 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £625 £628
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -0.40% +3.51%
75th Percentile £695 £771 £678
90th Percentile £775 £798 £713
England median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,414 5,292 6,908
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.44% 96.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,722 3,704 5,061
10th Percentile £263 £269 £205
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 162 272
10th Percentile £11.10 £14.03 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.44
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.34 £19.48
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% +45.48% +10.46%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.92 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.68 £62.70
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the North of England

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
North West +17 35 £669 +7.04% 9
Yorkshire +30 15 £600 -20.00%
North East +12 1 - -
Security Architect
England

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 North of England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 23 (46.94%) Network Security
2 19 (38.78%) Security Architecture
3 18 (36.73%) Risk Management
4 15 (30.61%) Azure
5 14 (28.57%) NIST
5 14 (28.57%) Business Strategy
6 13 (26.53%) Information Security
6 13 (26.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (26.53%) Firewall
7 12 (24.49%) Cryptography
7 12 (24.49%) Penetration Testing
8 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
8 11 (22.45%) Project Delivery
8 11 (22.45%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (20.41%) IT Strategy
9 10 (20.41%) Service Delivery
9 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
9 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
9 10 (20.41%) Technology Strategy
10 9 (18.37%) Security Posture
11 8 (16.33%) AWS
12 7 (14.29%) CISSP
13 6 (12.24%) Akamai
13 6 (12.24%) F5
13 6 (12.24%) Cloudflare
13 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
13 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
13 6 (12.24%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (12.24%) CCNP
13 6 (12.24%) RAD

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 6 (12.24%) Akamai
3 6 (12.24%) Cloudflare
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (8.16%) IaaS
4 4 (8.16%) PaaS
4 4 (8.16%) SaaS
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.94%) Network Security
2 13 (26.53%) Firewall
3 4 (8.16%) Cisco Firepower
3 4 (8.16%) VPN
3 4 (8.16%) Wireshark
4 3 (6.12%) DNS
4 3 (6.12%) LAN
4 3 (6.12%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
General
1 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.16%) Finance
3 3 (6.12%) Retail
4 1 (2.04%) Automotive
4 1 (2.04%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) Kafka
1 1 (2.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Security Posture
2 5 (10.20%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (4.08%) Cyberattack
4 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Android
2 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) Security Architecture
2 18 (36.73%) Risk Management
3 14 (28.57%) Business Strategy
4 13 (26.53%) Information Security
5 12 (24.49%) Cryptography
5 12 (24.49%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (22.45%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (22.45%) Project Delivery
7 10 (20.41%) IT Strategy
7 10 (20.41%) Service Delivery
7 10 (20.41%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (12.24%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (12.24%) RAD
9 5 (10.20%) Application Security
9 5 (10.20%) Cloud Security
9 5 (10.20%) Data Security
9 5 (10.20%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (10.20%) Threat Modelling
10 4 (8.16%) Product Roadmap
10 4 (8.16%) Product Strategy
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) CISSP
3 6 (12.24%) CCNP
3 6 (12.24%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.16%) CCIE
4 4 (8.16%) CCIE Security
5 2 (4.08%) CISM
5 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) NIST
2 13 (26.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) Cisco
2 6 (12.24%) F5
3 2 (4.08%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.04%) Confluent
4 1 (2.04%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.04%) Sophos
4 1 (2.04%) Splunk
4 1 (2.04%) VMware