Enterprise Security Architect Contracts in England

Enterprise Security Architect
UK > England

The median Enterprise Security Architect daily rate in England is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 620 737
Rank change year-on-year +89 +117 -116
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Security Architect 20 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.036% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.038% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 9
10th Percentile £483 £656 £464
25th Percentile £520 £684 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £770 £758 £738
90th Percentile £778 £779 £760
UK median daily rate £663 £725 £619
% change year-on-year -8.62% +17.17% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Enterprise Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Security Architect in England

Enterprise Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Security Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Security Architect in England

Enterprise Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Security Architect in England

Enterprise Security Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +89 10 £770 +6.21% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £601 -
North of England - 6 £601 -
South West - 4 - - 1
Enterprise Security Architect
UK

Enterprise Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Enterprise 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 England region featuring Enterprise Security Architect in the job title.

1 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (30.00%) RAD
3 6 (30.00%) Akamai
3 6 (30.00%) F5
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) Cloudflare
4 5 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (25.00%) Retail
5 4 (20.00%) Firewall
5 4 (20.00%) Windows
5 4 (20.00%) Wireshark
5 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) SANS
6 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (15.00%) Application Security
6 3 (15.00%) Architectural Design
6 3 (15.00%) Banking
6 3 (15.00%) SAN
6 3 (15.00%) CISSP
6 3 (15.00%) CISA
6 3 (15.00%) CISM
6 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.00%) Finance
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (10.00%) CCNP

Enterprise Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Akamai
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
1 6 (30.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (10.00%) IaaS
2 2 (10.00%) PaaS
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
1 4 (20.00%) Wireshark
2 3 (15.00%) SAN
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) FTP
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (25.00%) Retail
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) JWT
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (10.00%) IoT
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Online Banking
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 6 (30.00%) RAD
3 5 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Application Security
5 3 (15.00%) Architectural Design
5 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.00%) OWASP
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Scorecard
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
6 2 (10.00%) Security Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Situational Awareness
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CISA
1 3 (15.00%) CISM
1 3 (15.00%) CISSP
1 3 (15.00%) SANS
2 2 (10.00%) CCNP
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (5.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) SCDPM
2 1 (5.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) Commvault
3 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) Okta
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.00%) Symantec
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas