Security Architecture Contracts in the North West

Security Architecture
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 138 176
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 -28
Contract jobs citing Security Architecture 3 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.13% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.29% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £634 £868 -
25th Percentile £647 £894 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £975 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% +69.57% -14.81%
75th Percentile £722 £1,044 £638
90th Percentile £731 £1,063 £678
England median daily rate £675 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +6.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 2,455 3,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 88.47% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 1,684 2,641
10th Percentile £294 £270 £281
25th Percentile £391 £404 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £651 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 163 140
10th Percentile £16.28 £15.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £24.18 £17.88 £15.88
Median hourly rate £35.68 £35.00 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +57.30% +22.83%
75th Percentile £52.05 £46.18 £45.73
90th Percentile £70.90 £63.75 £69.42
England median hourly rate £37.25 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +27.14% +67.36%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the North West

Security Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Security Architecture in the North West

Security Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architecture in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architecture in the North West

Security Architecture
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Manchester +15 3 £688 -29.49% 3
Security Architecture
England

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft