Security Architect Jobs in Central London

Security Architect
London > Central London

The median Security Architect salary in Central London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 209 270
Rank change year-on-year +50 +61 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 30 39 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.79% 0.74% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.77% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 17 22 27
10th Percentile £65,550 £82,500 £71,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £127,500
90th Percentile - £112,375 -
London median annual salary £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,591 5,081 7,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 96.21% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 4,251 6,400
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in Central London.

Salary trend for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +49 30 £85,000 -10.53% 1
Security Architect
London

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 16 (53.33%) Security Architecture
2 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (46.67%) TOGAF
3 14 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (40.00%) Application Security
4 12 (40.00%) CISSP
5 11 (36.67%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (36.67%) CCSP
5 11 (36.67%) Cloud Security
5 11 (36.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 10 (33.33%) Security Posture
6 10 (33.33%) Finance
7 9 (30.00%) Security Operations
8 8 (26.67%) Azure
9 6 (20.00%) Degree
9 6 (20.00%) Information Security
9 6 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
10 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
10 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (16.67%) AWS
11 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
11 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
11 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (13.33%) Law
11 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
11 4 (13.33%) SABSA
12 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (10.00%) C
12 3 (10.00%) Linux
13 2 (6.67%) Management Information System

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) JSON
1 1 (3.33%) OAuth
1 1 (3.33%) RESTful
1 1 (3.33%) SAML
1 1 (3.33%) Web Services
1 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Security Architecture
2 14 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (46.67%) TOGAF
3 12 (40.00%) Application Security
4 11 (36.67%) Cloud Security
5 9 (30.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
6 6 (20.00%) Information Security
7 4 (13.33%) SABSA
8 1 (3.33%) B2B
8 1 (3.33%) B2C
8 1 (3.33%) Cyber Resilience
8 1 (3.33%) DevOps
8 1 (3.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (3.33%) High Availability
8 1 (3.33%) Identity Management
8 1 (3.33%) Migration
8 1 (3.33%) OWASP
8 1 (3.33%) Service Management
8 1 (3.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) C
2 1 (3.33%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) CISSP
2 11 (36.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 11 (36.67%) CCSP
2 11 (36.67%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CCA
5 1 (3.33%) CCSK
5 1 (3.33%) CEH
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.33%) iManage
2 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
2 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.33%) Rapid7