Security Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 250 342
Rank change year-on-year +38 +92 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Security Architect 196 205 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.89% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.95% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 145 133
10th Percentile £483 £567 £519
25th Percentile £600 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £680 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £714 £763 £750
90th Percentile £775 £838 £802
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £675
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £81.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 £74.70 -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +24.94% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +58 107 £650 -5.83% 10
North of England +35 49 £666 +6.56% 9
North West +11 35 £669 +7.04% 9
South West +6 27 £625 -10.71% 4
Yorkshire +24 15 £600 -20.00%
Scotland +34 6 £693 -1.07%
Midlands -8 5 £785 +17.47% 5
East Midlands +8 3 £820 +35.31% 1
East of England -9 2 £675 -18.18% 6
West Midlands -12 2 £750 +10.29% 4
North East +12 1 - -
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 106 (54.08%) Security Cleared
2 86 (43.88%) Security Architecture
3 63 (32.14%) DV Cleared
4 61 (31.12%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (26.53%) Firewall
6 36 (18.37%) DevOps
7 35 (17.86%) Azure
8 34 (17.35%) Network Security
9 32 (16.33%) Intrusion Detection
10 31 (15.82%) PKI
11 29 (14.80%) Risk Management
11 29 (14.80%) Public Sector
12 27 (13.78%) Information Security
13 25 (12.76%) Agile
13 25 (12.76%) NIST
14 23 (11.73%) Application Security
14 23 (11.73%) Microsoft
15 21 (10.71%) SC Cleared
16 20 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 20 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
16 20 (10.20%) Cloud Security
17 19 (9.69%) AWS
17 19 (9.69%) Windows
18 17 (8.67%) Python
18 17 (8.67%) Active Directory
18 17 (8.67%) Windows Server
19 16 (8.16%) Threat Modelling
19 16 (8.16%) Presales
19 16 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.02%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (17.86%) Azure
2 19 (9.69%) AWS
3 7 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.06%) Akamai
4 6 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (3.06%) Cloudflare
4 6 (3.06%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.04%) IaaS
5 4 (2.04%) PaaS
5 4 (2.04%) SaaS
6 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.51%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 52 (26.53%) Firewall
2 34 (17.35%) Network Security
3 32 (16.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (2.55%) VPN
5 4 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.04%) DNS
5 4 (2.04%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.53%) LAN
6 3 (1.53%) WAN
7 2 (1.02%) SSL
8 1 (0.51%) 4G
8 1 (0.51%) 5G
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.51%) DHCP
8 1 (0.51%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.02%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (6.63%) Robot Framework
1 13 (6.63%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (2.04%) JIRA
3 2 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.51%) Git
General
1 29 (14.80%) Public Sector
2 14 (7.14%) Finance
3 7 (3.57%) Social Skills
4 5 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.55%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.04%) Retail
6 2 (1.02%) Banking
6 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.02%) Legal
6 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.02%) Marketing
7 1 (0.51%) Automotive
7 1 (0.51%) Electronics
7 1 (0.51%) Local Government
7 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.04%) OAuth
2 3 (1.53%) OpenID
2 3 (1.53%) SAML
3 2 (1.02%) Kafka
3 2 (1.02%) SOAP
3 2 (1.02%) XML
4 1 (0.51%) Google JAX
4 1 (0.51%) JWT
4 1 (0.51%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.51%) Node.js
4 1 (0.51%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.51%) REST
4 1 (0.51%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.82%) PKI
2 14 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 8 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.53%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.02%) CSOC
7 2 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.02%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.02%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) FMCG
8 1 (0.51%) iPad
8 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.69%) Windows
2 17 (8.67%) Windows Server
3 16 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.51%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.88%) Security Architecture
2 61 (31.12%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (18.37%) DevOps
4 29 (14.80%) Risk Management
5 27 (13.78%) Information Security
6 25 (12.76%) Agile
7 23 (11.73%) Application Security
8 20 (10.20%) Cloud Security
8 20 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
8 20 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (8.16%) Presales
9 16 (8.16%) Threat Modelling
10 15 (7.65%) Business Strategy
10 15 (7.65%) Test Automation
11 14 (7.14%) Cryptography
11 14 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
11 14 (7.14%) Project Delivery
12 13 (6.63%) IT Strategy
12 13 (6.63%) Technology Strategy
13 11 (5.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.67%) Python
2 15 (7.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.02%) C
3 2 (1.02%) C++
3 2 (1.02%) Java
4 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 106 (54.08%) Security Cleared
2 63 (32.14%) DV Cleared
3 21 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.65%) CISSP
5 9 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.08%) Degree
7 7 (3.57%) CCNP
8 4 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.04%) CCIE
8 4 (2.04%) CCIE Security
8 4 (2.04%) CISM
8 4 (2.04%) ISACA
9 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.02%) CCSP
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.76%) NIST
2 20 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.59%) GDPR
4 7 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.57%) RMADS
5 5 (2.55%) COBIT
6 4 (2.04%) NCSC
7 3 (1.53%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.51%) GRC
8 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (8.67%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (0.51%) Docker
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (6.63%) Ansible
1 13 (6.63%) Terraform
2 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.02%) SCCM
2 2 (1.02%) SCDPM
2 2 (1.02%) SCVMM
2 2 (1.02%) WSUS
3 1 (0.51%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.51%) HP SIM
3 1 (0.51%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 23 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) VMware
3 7 (3.57%) Cisco
4 6 (3.06%) F5
5 3 (1.53%) Juniper
5 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.02%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.02%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.02%) SAP
7 1 (0.51%) Citrix
7 1 (0.51%) Commvault
7 1 (0.51%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.51%) Google
7 1 (0.51%) HP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle
7 1 (0.51%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.51%) Sophos
7 1 (0.51%) Splunk
7 1 (0.51%) Symantec
7 1 (0.51%) Veritas