Cybersecurity Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £625 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 308 435 588
Rank change year-on-year +127 +153 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 34 29 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.12% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.13% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 26
10th Percentile £596 £510 £556
25th Percentile £600 £597 £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% +10.42%
75th Percentile £825 £744 £788
90th Percentile £857 £855 £856
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £694
% change year-on-year -7.14% +0.90% +12.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.46 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £87.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.61% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,614 23,092 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,191 16,381 30,896
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 531 571
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.64 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +37.60% +64.39%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.23 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Cybersecurity Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cybersecurity Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Architect.

Cybersecurity Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Architect over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Cybersecurity Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Architect.

Cybersecurity Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (58.82%) Security Architecture
3 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 14 (41.18%) DevOps
5 13 (38.24%) Public Sector
6 10 (29.41%) NIST
6 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
6 10 (29.41%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (29.41%) CISM
6 10 (29.41%) Firewall
6 10 (29.41%) CISSP
7 9 (26.47%) Network Security
7 9 (26.47%) AWS
8 8 (23.53%) Azure
9 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
9 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (17.65%) CISA
10 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
11 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (14.71%) GCP
11 5 (14.71%) PCI DSS
11 5 (14.71%) Finance
11 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (14.71%) Information Security
12 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
12 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (11.76%) DevSecOps
12 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
13 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (26.47%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) IaaS
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) Firewall
1 10 (29.41%) Intrusion Detection
2 9 (26.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
General
1 13 (38.24%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.94%) PKI
2 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (58.82%) Security Architecture
3 14 (41.18%) DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) Information Security
4 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.76%) DevSecOps
5 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
6 3 (8.82%) TOGAF
7 2 (5.88%) Agile
7 2 (5.88%) Architectural Design
7 2 (5.88%) Decision-Making
7 2 (5.88%) Design Patterns
7 2 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (5.88%) Identity Management
7 2 (5.88%) Incident Response
7 2 (5.88%) Security Operations
7 2 (5.88%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (5.88%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) CISM
2 10 (29.41%) CISSP
2 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (17.65%) CISA
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) NIST
2 7 (20.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (14.71%) PCI DSS
4 3 (8.82%) GDPR
5 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Darktrace
1 1 (2.94%) Google
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.94%) Qualys
1 1 (2.94%) Rapid7
1 1 (2.94%) Zscaler