Cybersecurity Architect Contracts

Cybersecurity Architect
UK

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in the UK is £660 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 621 791
Rank change year-on-year +94 +170 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 75 74 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.14% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 54 46
10th Percentile £500 £583 £563
25th Percentile £596 £625 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £700 £694
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +0.90% +12.80%
75th Percentile £825 £838 £788
90th Percentile £848 - £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £660 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 0
10th Percentile £81.86 £72.13 -
25th Percentile £81.88 £73.21 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £75.34 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £75.54 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.61% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in the UK

Cybersecurity Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +99 71 £686 -1.96% 15
UK excluding London +48 45 £660 -5.71% 12
South East +19 33 £81 -88.83% 5
Work from Home +115 32 £650 - 11
London +65 24 £686 -8.50% 2
North of England +31 8 £660 +7.76% 4
North West +18 7 £670 +9.39% 4
Midlands +20 2 £823 +26.54% 3
South West +9 2 £543 -18.88%
East Midlands - 2 £823 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 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 job ads featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (49.33%) Security Architecture
3 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
4 34 (45.33%) Firewall
5 31 (41.33%) DevOps
6 29 (38.67%) DV Cleared
7 24 (32.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 22 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (28.00%) Network Security
10 19 (25.33%) NIST
11 17 (22.67%) CISSP
12 15 (20.00%) CISM
13 13 (17.33%) Risk Management
13 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
14 12 (16.00%) Information Security
14 12 (16.00%) AWS
15 11 (14.67%) Identity Access Management
16 9 (12.00%) Azure
17 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
17 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
17 8 (10.67%) Data Protection
17 8 (10.67%) CISA
17 8 (10.67%) GDPR
17 8 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (10.67%) Security Posture
18 7 (9.33%) Business Strategy
18 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
18 7 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 7 (9.33%) Vulnerability Management
19 6 (8.00%) ITIL

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) AWS
2 9 (12.00%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) GCP
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.33%) IaaS
4 4 (5.33%) PaaS
4 4 (5.33%) SaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Akamai
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 34 (45.33%) Firewall
2 24 (32.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 21 (28.00%) Network Security
4 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.67%) DNS
5 2 (2.67%) SSL
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.33%) HTTP
6 1 (1.33%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 13 (17.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.33%) Automotive
5 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Legal
5 1 (1.33%) Local Government
5 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.67%) OAuth
1 2 (2.67%) OpenID
1 2 (2.67%) SAML
1 2 (2.67%) SPML
2 1 (1.33%) gRPC
2 1 (1.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Security Posture
2 4 (5.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.67%) CSOC
4 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.33%) CMDB
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.33%) IoT
5 1 (1.33%) iPad
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (49.33%) Security Architecture
3 31 (41.33%) DevOps
4 22 (29.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (17.33%) Risk Management
6 12 (16.00%) Information Security
7 11 (14.67%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (10.67%) Data Protection
9 7 (9.33%) Business Strategy
9 7 (9.33%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (8.00%) Application Security
10 6 (8.00%) ITIL
10 6 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.00%) Roadmaps
11 5 (6.67%) Business Continuity
11 5 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (6.67%) Information Security Management
11 5 (6.67%) Project Planning
11 5 (6.67%) Security Management
11 5 (6.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (38.67%) DV Cleared
3 17 (22.67%) CISSP
4 15 (20.00%) CISM
5 8 (10.67%) CISA
5 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.33%) ISACA
7 3 (4.00%) Degree
8 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.33%) CCNA
9 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (25.33%) NIST
2 8 (10.67%) GDPR
3 7 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 4 (5.33%) COBIT
5 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.33%) ISA99
7 1 (1.33%) NCSC
7 1 (1.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.67%) CA
3 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Cisco
3 1 (1.33%) Darktrace
3 1 (1.33%) F5
3 1 (1.33%) ForeScout
3 1 (1.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) Imperva
3 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.33%) Qualys
3 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (1.33%) Zscaler