Enterprise Security Architect Contracts

Enterprise Security Architect
UK

The median Enterprise Security Architect daily rate in the UK 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 554 659 795
Rank change year-on-year +105 +136 -101
Contract jobs requiring an Enterprise Security Architect 21 23 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.041% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.043% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 12
10th Percentile £483 £650 £468
25th Percentile £535 £656 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £725 £619
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +17.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £770 £758 £700
90th Percentile £777 £770 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £601 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -12.55% +1.85% -

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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Enterprise Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK

Enterprise Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK

Enterprise Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Security Architect in the UK

Enterprise Security Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +89 20 £663 -8.62% 4
London +89 10 £770 +6.21% 2
UK excluding London +45 10 £601 -12.55% 1
Work from Home +109 9 £663 -8.62% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £601 -
North of England - 6 £601 -
South West - 4 - - 1

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

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 featuring Enterprise Security Architect in the job title.

1 8 (38.10%) Security Architecture
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
2 7 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 7 (33.33%) Akamai
2 7 (33.33%) F5
2 7 (33.33%) RAD
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (28.57%) Azure
4 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (23.81%) Retail
5 4 (19.05%) Firewall
5 4 (19.05%) Windows
5 4 (19.05%) Wireshark
5 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) SANS
6 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Application Security
6 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 3 (14.29%) Banking
6 3 (14.29%) SAN
6 3 (14.29%) CISSP
6 3 (14.29%) CISA
6 3 (14.29%) CISM
6 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
6 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 3 (14.29%) Finance
7 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (9.52%) CCNP

Enterprise Security 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 (4.76%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Akamai
1 7 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.52%) IaaS
3 2 (9.52%) PaaS
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
1 4 (19.05%) Wireshark
2 3 (14.29%) SAN
3 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) FTP
4 1 (4.76%) Internet
4 1 (4.76%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (23.81%) Retail
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) JWT
1 1 (4.76%) OAuth
1 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.76%) REST
1 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (9.52%) IoT
3 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Online Banking
4 1 (4.76%) PKI
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
1 8 (38.10%) Security Architecture
2 7 (33.33%) RAD
3 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Application Security
5 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 3 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Design Patterns
6 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.52%) OWASP
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Scorecard
6 2 (9.52%) SDLC
6 2 (9.52%) Security Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Situational Awareness
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) CISA
1 3 (14.29%) CISM
1 3 (14.29%) CISSP
1 3 (14.29%) SANS
2 2 (9.52%) CCNP
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.76%) HP SIM
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) SCDPM
2 1 (4.76%) SCVMM
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) F5
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Commvault
2 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) HP
2 1 (4.76%) Okta
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Ping Identity
2 1 (4.76%) Symantec
2 1 (4.76%) Veritas
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