Lead Security Architect Contracts in England

Lead Security Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Security Architect daily rate in England is £668, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 530 637
Rank change year-on-year +58 +107 +120
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Security Architect 13 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.032% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.035% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 14
10th Percentile £598 £567 £639
25th Percentile £613 £592 £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £735 £738
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -0.34% +5.36%
75th Percentile £772 £745 £797
90th Percentile £823 £777 £938
UK median daily rate £668 £725 £775
% change year-on-year -7.93% -6.45% +10.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Security Architect in England

Lead Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Security Architect in England

Lead Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Security Architect in England

Lead 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 Lead Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +42 12 £710 -4.70% 3
South West - 1 £625 -
Lead Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Security Architect in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) Information Security
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Confluence
3 3 (23.08%) OWASP
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Network Security
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Application Security
3 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Validation
4 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement

Lead 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Information Security
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Security Architecture
3 3 (23.08%) Application Security
3 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) OWASP
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Validation
4 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GRC
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow