Lead Security Architect Contracts

Lead Security Architect
UK

The median Lead Security Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 670 819
Rank change year-on-year +103 +149 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Security Architect 19 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.040% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.042% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 16
10th Percentile £567 £606 £575
25th Percentile £613 £623 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £745 £800 £833
90th Percentile - £863 £859
UK excluding London median daily rate £609 £688 £700
% change year-on-year -11.49% -1.79% +7.69%

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 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Lead Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Security Architect in the UK

Lead Security Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Security Architect in the UK

Lead Security Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Security Architect over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Security Architect in the UK

Lead Security Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 8 May 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 +82 12 £735 +5.00% 1
London +106 8 £745 -21.58%
Work from Home +117 6 £745 +11.90%
UK excluding London +59 5 £609 -11.49%
North of England +24 2 £709 +16.91%
North West +19 2 £709 +16.91%
Midlands +28 1 £567 -6.44%
East Midlands +17 1 £567 -6.44%
South East +10 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 featuring Lead Security Architect in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Security Architecture
2 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
3 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
4 6 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
5 5 (26.32%) Network Security
5 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
5 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
5 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
5 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
6 4 (21.05%) Wireless
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) MS Visio
6 4 (21.05%) LAN
6 4 (21.05%) WAN
6 4 (21.05%) Security Management
6 4 (21.05%) Azure
6 4 (21.05%) Software Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) ArchiMate
6 4 (21.05%) Analytics
6 4 (21.05%) NCSC
6 4 (21.05%) Data Flow Diagram
6 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
7 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
7 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
7 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow

Lead 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:

Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Network Security
2 4 (21.05%) LAN
2 4 (21.05%) WAN
2 4 (21.05%) Wireless
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
1 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
4 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Security Architecture
2 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
3 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (31.58%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
6 4 (21.05%) Analytics
6 4 (21.05%) ArchiMate
6 4 (21.05%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) Data Flow Diagram
6 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) Security Management
6 4 (21.05%) Software Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Data Science
7 3 (15.79%) Deep Learning
7 3 (15.79%) Information Security Management
7 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
7 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
7 3 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) CISM
3 2 (10.53%) CISSP
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.26%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) NCSC
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Sparx