Senior Security Architect Jobs in England

Senior Security Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Security Architect salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 772 908 1071
Rank change year-on-year +136 +163 -259
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Architect 60 48 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.071% 0.051% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.056% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 28 15 32
10th Percentile £53,475 £52,620 £65,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £70,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -6.49% +28.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,125 £106,563
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% -7.89% +22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,061 86,064 125,517
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,068 54,328 75,797
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Senior Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Architect in England.

Salary trend for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Architect in England

Senior Security Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
North of England +74 26 £70,000 - 2
North West +32 25 £65,603 - 2
London +141 13 £97,500 -2.50% 5
Midlands +12 12 £46,963 -39.40% 1
West Midlands +38 11 - - 1
South East +20 5 - - 1
South West - 4 £70,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £110,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £46,963 -
Senior Security Architect
UK

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Security Architect in the job title.

1 40 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
3 21 (35.00%) WAN
3 21 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (35.00%) SD-WAN
4 19 (31.67%) Degree
5 15 (25.00%) Time Management
5 15 (25.00%) Information Security
5 15 (25.00%) Apple
5 15 (25.00%) Adobe
5 15 (25.00%) CCNP
5 15 (25.00%) CCNA
5 15 (25.00%) Cisco
5 15 (25.00%) Meraki
5 15 (25.00%) Software Licensing
5 15 (25.00%) Analytics
5 15 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
5 15 (25.00%) Data Centre
5 15 (25.00%) Presales
5 15 (25.00%) Stealthwatch
5 15 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 14 (23.33%) Security Architecture
6 14 (23.33%) CISSP
7 13 (21.67%) Azure
8 11 (18.33%) AWS
9 10 (16.67%) NIST
9 10 (16.67%) CISM
10 9 (15.00%) Finance
10 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
11 7 (11.67%) Application Security

Senior Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) AWS
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.67%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (35.00%) SD-WAN
1 21 (35.00%) WAN
2 15 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (8.33%) DNS
4 4 (6.67%) Firewall
4 4 (6.67%) Network Security
5 1 (1.67%) DHCP
5 1 (1.67%) HTTP
5 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (15.00%) Finance
2 6 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) HTML
1 1 (1.67%) OpenID
1 1 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.67%) PKI
3 4 (6.67%) PMI
3 4 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (25.00%) Analytics
2 15 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 15 (25.00%) Information Security
2 15 (25.00%) Presales
2 15 (25.00%) Software Licensing
2 15 (25.00%) Time Management
3 14 (23.33%) Security Architecture
4 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
5 7 (11.67%) Application Security
5 7 (11.67%) Identity Management
6 6 (10.00%) Coaching
6 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (10.00%) OWASP
6 6 (10.00%) Secure Coding
6 6 (10.00%) Security Testing
7 5 (8.33%) SDLC
8 4 (6.67%) Threat Management
8 4 (6.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (31.67%) Degree
3 15 (25.00%) CCNA
3 15 (25.00%) CCNP
4 14 (23.33%) CISSP
5 10 (16.67%) CISM
6 7 (11.67%) AWS Certification
7 6 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
7 6 (10.00%) CCSK
7 6 (10.00%) CCSP
8 4 (6.67%) CRISC
8 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (6.67%) GIAC
8 4 (6.67%) ISSMP
8 4 (6.67%) PMI Certification
8 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) NIST
2 4 (6.67%) COBIT
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.00%) HMG Infosec
3 3 (5.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (5.00%) JSP 440
3 3 (5.00%) RMADS
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) Stealthwatch
2 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Adobe
2 15 (25.00%) Apple
2 15 (25.00%) Cisco
2 15 (25.00%) Meraki
3 4 (6.67%) Alibaba
3 4 (6.67%) Google
4 3 (5.00%) Splunk
5 2 (3.33%) Veeam
5 2 (3.33%) VMware