AWS Security Architect Contracts

Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect)
UK

The median Security Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Security Architect) daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 687 815
Rank change year-on-year +124 +128 -112
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Security Architect 21 10 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.018% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.019% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 25
10th Percentile - £585 £563
25th Percentile £519 £631 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -0.92%
75th Percentile £815 £694 £688
90th Percentile £930 £753 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

AWS Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Security Architect in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Security Architect.

Daily rate trend for AWS Security Architect in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Security Architect over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Security Architect in the UK

AWS Security Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Security Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +101 21 £600 -9.43% 4
London +90 13 £538 -17.31% 2
Work from Home +116 6 £760 +16.92% 3
UK excluding London +34 6 £600 - 2
North of England - 4 £920 -
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South West - 2 £600 -
North West - 1 £920 -

AWS Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS 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 featuring AWS Security Architect in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) Security Architecture
3 7 (33.33%) SaaS
3 7 (33.33%) IaaS
3 7 (33.33%) Information Security
3 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 6 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
5 5 (23.81%) Application Security
6 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (19.05%) Finance
6 4 (19.05%) Firewall
6 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (14.29%) GDPR
7 3 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (14.29%) PaaS
7 3 (14.29%) CISM
7 3 (14.29%) CISSP
7 3 (14.29%) Network Security
7 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
8 2 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
8 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
8 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
8 2 (9.52%) Time Management

AWS Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) IaaS
2 7 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (14.29%) PaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) Azure
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) IoT
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Security Architecture
2 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 7 (33.33%) Information Security
3 6 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (23.81%) Application Security
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (19.05%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
7 2 (9.52%) Architectural Design
7 2 (9.52%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
7 2 (9.52%) Network Segmentation
7 2 (9.52%) Remediation Plan
7 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
7 2 (9.52%) Time Management
7 2 (9.52%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) CISM
2 3 (14.29%) CISSP
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform