Security Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Security Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Security Solution Architect daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 608 724
Rank change year-on-year +81 +116 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Security Solutions Architect 15 31 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.065% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.069% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 37
10th Percentile £580 £513 £540
25th Percentile £625 £611 £576
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -5.45%
75th Percentile £756 £775 £803
90th Percentile £768 £873 £870
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -5.45%

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 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
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 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
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% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Security Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Solutions Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Security Solutions Architect in England

Security Solutions 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 Security Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 6 £750 - 2
North of England +31 5 £625 -16.67%
Yorkshire +23 5 £625 -16.67%
South West - 2 - -
Midlands +22 1 £750 +20.00%
West Midlands +13 1 £750 +20.00%
South East +8 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Security Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Security Solutions 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 Security Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
2 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (26.67%) Data Security
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Information Assurance
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (20.00%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 2 (13.33%) Parquet
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (13.33%) Data Encryption
4 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
4 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (13.33%) Liquibase

Security Solutions 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 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
1 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
1 2 (13.33%) Bigtable
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (13.33%) HBase
1 2 (13.33%) IBM BigInsights
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Parquet
1 2 (13.33%) PolyBase
1 2 (13.33%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) Liquibase
1 2 (13.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (13.33%) Legal
1 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
2 2 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (26.67%) Data Security
1 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
2 3 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Information Assurance
3 2 (13.33%) Agile
3 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Data Encryption
3 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (13.33%) Data Virtualisation
3 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (6.67%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
1 2 (13.33%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CISM
2 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ambari
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Confluent
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk