Security Architect Jobs in London

Security Architect
England > London

The median Security Architect salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 376 586
Rank change year-on-year -12 +210 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 120 284 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.79% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.83% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 80 150 194
10th Percentile £72,500 £65,234 £70,725
25th Percentile £79,375 £82,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £100,313 £106,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £130,500 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £79,842 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% - +16.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in London

Security Architect
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +36 30 £85,000 -10.53% 3
South London +4 3 £78,273 -17.61%
West London -11 2 £90,000 +50.00% 1
Security Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 67 (55.83%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 53 (44.17%) Security Architecture
3 44 (36.67%) CISSP
4 42 (35.00%) Azure
5 37 (30.83%) Cloud Security
6 33 (27.50%) Finance
7 31 (25.83%) AWS
8 30 (25.00%) Information Security
9 26 (21.67%) Application Security
10 25 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (19.17%) TOGAF
12 22 (18.33%) Cryptography
12 22 (18.33%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (17.50%) PKI
13 21 (17.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (16.67%) DevOps
14 20 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (16.67%) Linux
15 19 (15.83%) C
15 19 (15.83%) Roadmaps
16 18 (15.00%) CISM
16 18 (15.00%) Degree
17 17 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
17 17 (14.17%) NIST
17 17 (14.17%) Azure Certification
18 16 (13.33%) Security Posture
18 16 (13.33%) .NET
18 16 (13.33%) CCSP

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

Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.00%) Azure
2 31 (25.83%) AWS
3 12 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.50%) GCP
5 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.33%) SaaS
7 3 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.83%) IaaS
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.83%) PaaS
9 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.17%) Firewall
2 9 (7.50%) Network Security
3 5 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 5 (4.17%) WAN
4 4 (3.33%) DNS
5 1 (0.83%) LAN
5 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Power BI
1 6 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (1.67%) Big Data
3 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.83%) Vagrant
General
1 33 (27.50%) Finance
2 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.17%) Law
5 2 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.83%) Legal
6 1 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (0.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.33%) .NET
2 6 (5.00%) CSS
3 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.83%) JSON
4 1 (0.83%) OAuth
4 1 (0.83%) RESTful
4 1 (0.83%) SAML
4 1 (0.83%) Web Services
4 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.50%) PKI
2 20 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 13 (10.83%) Management Information System
5 9 (7.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.67%) IoT
9 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Life Science
10 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.67%) Linux
2 16 (13.33%) Android
2 16 (13.33%) Apple iOS
3 5 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (55.83%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (44.17%) Security Architecture
3 37 (30.83%) Cloud Security
4 30 (25.00%) Information Security
5 26 (21.67%) Application Security
6 23 (19.17%) TOGAF
7 22 (18.33%) Cryptography
8 20 (16.67%) DevOps
9 19 (15.83%) Roadmaps
10 17 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
12 15 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
13 13 (10.83%) CI/CD
14 12 (10.00%) Agile
14 12 (10.00%) Change Management
15 11 (9.17%) Security Operations
16 9 (7.50%) Cost Reduction
16 9 (7.50%) Identity Management
16 9 (7.50%) ITIL
16 9 (7.50%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.83%) C
2 5 (4.17%) Python
3 4 (3.33%) C++
4 2 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (36.67%) CISSP
2 22 (18.33%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (17.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 18 (15.00%) CISM
4 18 (15.00%) Degree
5 17 (14.17%) Azure Certification
6 16 (13.33%) CCSP
7 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
8 14 (11.67%) AWS Certification
9 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
10 8 (6.67%) CRISC
11 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (5.00%) SANS
13 5 (4.17%) CCSK
13 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (4.17%) DV Cleared
13 5 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 4 (3.33%) CISA
14 4 (3.33%) GIAC
14 4 (3.33%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (14.17%) NIST
3 11 (9.17%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.17%) HIPAA
5 4 (3.33%) COBIT
5 4 (3.33%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.67%) GDPR
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 5 (4.17%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.83%) LXC
Systems Management
1 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.33%) Ansible
2 4 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.50%) Google
3 6 (5.00%) Oracle
4 4 (3.33%) Alibaba
5 2 (1.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.67%) Veeam
5 2 (1.67%) VMware
6 1 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.83%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.83%) iManage
6 1 (0.83%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.83%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.83%) Zscaler