Security Architecture Contracts in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Security Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Security Architecture over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 118 167
Rank change year-on-year +26 +49 -69
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 24 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.23% 0.58% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.66% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 9
10th Percentile £575 £481 £555
25th Percentile £585 £569 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £713 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +14.00% -0.16%
75th Percentile £803 £750 £725
90th Percentile £850 £813 £738
England median daily rate £725 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Security Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,976 3,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.88% 87.86% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 1,343 2,346
10th Percentile £263 £263 £280
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £586
90th Percentile £746 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 61
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +9.68%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architecture in the West Midlands

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the West Midlands 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
Herefordshire +3 17 £700 +5.66% 1
Warwickshire 0 4 £713 -8.06%
Birmingham +12 1 £750 +39.53% 2
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
1 1 (4.17%) AWS
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (79.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 18 (75.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (75.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 22 (91.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Security Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Incident Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Security Incident Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (75.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Cyber Defence
1 18 (75.00%) Distributed Applications
2 12 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 18 (75.00%) Linux
1 18 (75.00%) Windows
2 16 (66.67%) Android
2 16 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 16 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (83.33%) Information Security
2 20 (83.33%) SIEM
3 18 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
3 18 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 18 (75.00%) Data Management
3 18 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (70.83%) Security Operations
5 16 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
6 14 (58.33%) Analytics
6 14 (58.33%) Data Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Project Management
8 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
9 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
9 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
9 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
9 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
9 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) DV Cleared
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (75.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) F5
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Qualys