Lead Security Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Security Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Security Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £745 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 462 604
Rank change year-on-year +122 +142 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Security Architect 6 9 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.035% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.037% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - - £575
25th Percentile - £606 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £666 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +2.42% -
75th Percentile - £844 £825
90th Percentile - £975 £856
UK median daily rate £725 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Lead Security Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Security Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Security Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Security Architect.

Lead Security Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Security Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) ArchiMate
2 4 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Management
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Flow Diagram
2 4 (66.67%) NCSC
3 3 (50.00%) Sparx
3 3 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Neural Network
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning

Lead Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (66.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) ArchiMate
2 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Data Flow Diagram
2 4 (66.67%) Security Management
2 4 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) Information Security Management
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (50.00%) Neural Network
4 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Sparx