Cybersecurity Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 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
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 371 555
Rank change year-on-year +58 +184 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 18 35 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.19% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.20% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 18
10th Percentile £499 £576 £610
25th Percentile £617 £631 £716
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £764 £788 £806
90th Percentile £769 £900 £836
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £737
% change year-on-year - -5.05% +5.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 11,337 17,566 36,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.41% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,100 12,276 26,093
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 399 538
10th Percentile £19.39 £17.11 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £25.98 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +96.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £66.56
90th Percentile £72.13 £85.00 £78.58
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £44.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -19.10% +58.28% +40.58%

Cybersecurity Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Cybersecurity Architect over the 6 months to 15 November 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 remote working options 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 15 November 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 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
3 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
5 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 4 (22.22%) AWS
5 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
6 3 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 3 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
6 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (16.67%) Operational Technology
6 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) VMware
7 2 (11.11%) Finance
7 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
7 2 (11.11%) CISSP
7 2 (11.11%) Oracle
7 2 (11.11%) SLA
7 2 (11.11%) Cisco
7 2 (11.11%) CISM
7 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365

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 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
1 2 (11.11%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) MQTT
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Health Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
2 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (44.44%) Security Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
4 3 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) SIEM
4 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
5 2 (11.11%) Requirements Management
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.11%) Validation
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CISM
3 2 (11.11%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SSCP
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) GxP
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Ariba
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk