Senior Security Architect Contracts in London

Senior Security Architect
England > London

The median Senior Security Architect daily rate in London is £780, 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 377 445 582
Rank change year-on-year +68 +137 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 23 37 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.15% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 8
10th Percentile - £656 £513
25th Percentile £775 £713 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £750 £760
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £800 £766
90th Percentile - - £783
England median daily rate £780 £750 £750
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in London

Senior Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Security Architect in London

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

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

1 19 (82.61%) Security Architecture
2 17 (73.91%) SaaS
2 17 (73.91%) IaaS
2 17 (73.91%) Cloud Security
3 12 (52.17%) NIST
4 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (39.13%) Serverless
4 9 (39.13%) Mobile App
4 9 (39.13%) IoT
4 9 (39.13%) PaaS
4 9 (39.13%) Design Patterns
5 8 (34.78%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (34.78%) Security Testing
5 8 (34.78%) Firewall
5 8 (34.78%) SDLC
5 8 (34.78%) Data Loss Prevention
5 8 (34.78%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (34.78%) DevSecOps
5 8 (34.78%) Application Security
6 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (30.43%) Terraform
6 7 (30.43%) Banking
6 7 (30.43%) Finance
6 7 (30.43%) SIEM
7 6 (26.09%) GIAC
7 6 (26.09%) CISSP
7 6 (26.09%) SABSA
8 5 (21.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (21.74%) CCSK
8 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 17 (73.91%) IaaS
1 17 (73.91%) SaaS
2 9 (39.13%) PaaS
2 9 (39.13%) Serverless
3 7 (30.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
General
1 7 (30.43%) Banking
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) IoT
1 9 (39.13%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Security Architecture
2 17 (73.91%) Cloud Security
3 9 (39.13%) Design Patterns
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (34.78%) Application Security
4 8 (34.78%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (34.78%) Data Loss Prevention
4 8 (34.78%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (34.78%) DevSecOps
4 8 (34.78%) SDLC
4 8 (34.78%) Security Testing
5 7 (30.43%) SIEM
6 6 (26.09%) SABSA
7 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
8 2 (8.70%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (8.70%) Information Security
8 2 (8.70%) Time Management
9 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
9 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
9 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) CISSP
1 6 (26.09%) GIAC
2 5 (21.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (21.74%) CCSK
2 5 (21.74%) CISA
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (21.74%) CRISC
3 3 (13.04%) SANS
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) CCSP
5 1 (4.35%) CISM
5 1 (4.35%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) NIST
2 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform