TBH it's kind of hard NOT to earn £100k gross as an fulltime IT contractor, that's about £450/day which is achievable even at small companies and/or outside London.
A positive(?) trend I've seen in recent years is that technical leadership is being increasingly rewarded, it used to be that aside from some specialist tech sectors, £100k+ perm roles were nearly all hands-off management / head of / senior programme manager type positions. Now I see lead architect, principal engineer, hands-on head of, delivery lead8 type roles springing up in that bracket. It's actually been a bit of eye-open discussing some senior management roles where I've concluded that my relative lack of recent hands-on technical exposure might be holding me back, whereas in the past I was sometimes viewed as someone perhaps too aligned to IT rather than business / stakeholder management etc!
Agreed I'd expect a CISO to be more like £150k+ these days unless it's in public sector / small company / lower paying industry.Getting to a senior level in a more 'regular' role would net you that in security without needing to push for C level, if you're on the architecture/engineering side you can get to that without too much hassle.
As always depends on the company/industry, some places a third line SOC analyst could be getting near that as a specialist, whereas somewhere public sector could be paying 40odd for a deputy CISO
A positive(?) trend I've seen in recent years is that technical leadership is being increasingly rewarded, it used to be that aside from some specialist tech sectors, £100k+ perm roles were nearly all hands-off management / head of / senior programme manager type positions. Now I see lead architect, principal engineer, hands-on head of, delivery lead8 type roles springing up in that bracket. It's actually been a bit of eye-open discussing some senior management roles where I've concluded that my relative lack of recent hands-on technical exposure might be holding me back, whereas in the past I was sometimes viewed as someone perhaps too aligned to IT rather than business / stakeholder management etc!