Lead Security Architect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Security Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Security Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £57,670 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 558 663
Rank change year-on-year +150 +105 +174
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Security Architect 5 31 8
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.092% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.095% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 5 31 5
10th Percentile £50,518 - -
25th Percentile - £74,766 £64,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,670 £79,842 £69,805
Median % change year-on-year -27.77% +14.38% -12.74%
75th Percentile £107,500 £84,919 £73,853
90th Percentile £107,800 £85,000 £109,791
UK median annual salary £93,750 £79,842 £69,503
% change year-on-year +17.42% +14.88% -13.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Lead Security Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Security Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Security Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Security Architect.

Lead Security Architect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Security Architect
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Security Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Lead Security Architect salary histogram 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 2 May 2025, Lead Security Architect 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 permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Security Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) Leaflet
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) CISMP
3 2 (40.00%) SFIA
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) CISSP
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) SFIA
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 2 (40.00%) CISMP
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform