Security Architect Jobs in the City of London

Security Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Security Architect salary in the City of 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 152 201 260
Rank change year-on-year +49 +59 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 30 33 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.89% 0.70% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.72% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 17 22 24
10th Percentile £65,550 £82,500 £71,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £84,063
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 -
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,220 4,571 6,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 96.48% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 3,851 5,615
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the City of London.

Salary trend for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 City of 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 the City of 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