Cybersecurity Architect Contracts

Cybersecurity Architect
UK

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 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 503 611 775
Rank change year-on-year +108 +164 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 76 73 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.13% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.14% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 48
10th Percentile £500 £600 £551
25th Percentile £600 £650 £630
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £694
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +0.90% +12.12%
75th Percentile £825 £838 £791
90th Percentile £845 £846 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £660 £700 £694
% change year-on-year -5.71% +0.90% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 0
10th Percentile £81.86 £72.13 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £73.21 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £75.34 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £75.54 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.61% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the UK 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
England +102 70 £686 -1.96% 14
UK excluding London +56 44 £660 -5.71% 11
Work from Home +115 34 £625 -3.85% 13
South East +15 33 £81 -89.20% 5
London +80 24 £686 -12.86% 2
North of England +35 7 £660 -5.71% 3
North West +21 6 £670 -4.29% 3
Midlands +23 2 £823 +26.54% 3
South West +8 2 £543 -18.88%
East Midlands - 2 £823 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Cybersecurity 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 Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (48.68%) Security Cleared
2 37 (48.68%) Security Architecture
3 34 (44.74%) Firewall
4 31 (40.79%) DevOps
5 29 (38.16%) DV Cleared
6 24 (31.58%) Intrusion Detection
7 22 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (27.63%) Network Security
9 20 (26.32%) NIST
10 18 (23.68%) CISSP
11 16 (21.05%) CISM
12 13 (17.11%) Risk Management
12 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
13 12 (15.79%) Information Security
13 12 (15.79%) AWS
14 10 (13.16%) Azure
14 10 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
14 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
15 9 (11.84%) CISA
15 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
16 8 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (10.53%) GDPR
16 8 (10.53%) Security Posture
17 7 (9.21%) Business Strategy
17 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
17 7 (9.21%) Data Protection
17 7 (9.21%) Vulnerability Management
18 6 (7.89%) Microsoft

Cybersecurity 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.32%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.79%) AWS
2 10 (13.16%) Azure
3 5 (6.58%) GCP
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.26%) IaaS
4 4 (5.26%) PaaS
4 4 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (1.32%) Akamai
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 34 (44.74%) Firewall
2 24 (31.58%) Intrusion Detection
3 21 (27.63%) Network Security
4 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.63%) DNS
5 2 (2.63%) SSL
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.32%) HTTP
6 1 (1.32%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Burp Suite
General
1 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
2 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.89%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.58%) Finance
6 1 (1.32%) Automotive
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) OAuth
1 2 (2.63%) OpenID
1 2 (2.63%) SAML
1 2 (2.63%) SPML
2 1 (1.32%) gRPC
2 1 (1.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.95%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.95%) PKI
4 2 (2.63%) CSOC
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.32%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.32%) IoT
5 1 (1.32%) iPad
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (48.68%) Security Architecture
3 31 (40.79%) DevOps
4 22 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (17.11%) Risk Management
6 12 (15.79%) Information Security
7 10 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (9.21%) Business Strategy
8 7 (9.21%) Data Protection
8 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.21%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (7.89%) ITIL
9 6 (7.89%) Roadmaps
10 5 (6.58%) Business Continuity
10 5 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (6.58%) Information Security Management
10 5 (6.58%) OWASP
10 5 (6.58%) Project Planning
10 5 (6.58%) Security Management
10 5 (6.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.32%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (48.68%) Security Cleared
2 29 (38.16%) DV Cleared
3 18 (23.68%) CISSP
4 16 (21.05%) CISM
5 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
6 9 (11.84%) CISA
7 4 (5.26%) ISACA
8 3 (3.95%) Degree
9 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.32%) CCNA
10 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.32%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (26.32%) NIST
2 8 (10.53%) GDPR
2 8 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.58%) PCI DSS
4 4 (5.26%) COBIT
4 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.32%) ISA99
6 1 (1.32%) NCSC
6 1 (1.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.63%) CA
3 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Cisco
3 1 (1.32%) Darktrace
3 1 (1.32%) F5
3 1 (1.32%) ForeScout
3 1 (1.32%) Google
3 1 (1.32%) Imperva
3 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.32%) Qualys
3 1 (1.32%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.32%) Zscaler