Security Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Security Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 289 520
Rank change year-on-year -152 +231 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 348 683 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.11% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.25% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 214 147 136
10th Percentile £55,543 £56,219 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% +6.90%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,250 £97,374 £103,750
UK median annual salary £79,842 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% -2.78% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in the UK excluding London

Security Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 -18 95 £78,273 +11.82% 4
South East -23 93 £75,000 -16.67% 11
North West -6 61 £70,000 +1.16% 3
Midlands -54 60 £75,000 -14.29% 4
South West -72 55 £72,500 -8.81% 6
West Midlands -19 35 £70,000 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire +49 28 £79,842 +1.39% 1
East Midlands -26 25 £78,273 - 2
East of England +7 17 £77,500 -3.13% 5
Wales -8 12 £78,273 -
Scotland -144 12 £75,000 +7.91%
North East +1 6 £79,842 -19.35%
Northern Ireland +21 3 £62,000 -42.33% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 127 (36.49%) Cybersecurity
2 117 (33.62%) Security Architecture
3 116 (33.33%) Azure
4 79 (22.70%) CISSP
5 77 (22.13%) Information Security
6 74 (21.26%) AWS
7 72 (20.69%) Social Skills
8 68 (19.54%) Security Cleared
9 65 (18.68%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (18.10%) Finance
11 60 (17.24%) NIST
12 59 (16.95%) Microsoft
13 54 (15.52%) OWASP
14 53 (15.23%) CISM
14 53 (15.23%) Application Security
15 50 (14.37%) Degree
16 49 (14.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 48 (13.79%) WAN
18 45 (12.93%) CCSP
19 44 (12.64%) SD-WAN
20 43 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 40 (11.49%) Secure Coding
22 39 (11.21%) AWS Certification
22 39 (11.21%) Agile
23 38 (10.92%) Cloud Security
23 38 (10.92%) CCSK
24 37 (10.63%) Roadmaps
25 36 (10.34%) Azure Certification
25 36 (10.34%) Management Information System
25 36 (10.34%) Presales

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

Cloud Services
1 116 (33.33%) Azure
2 74 (21.26%) AWS
3 30 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.16%) SaaS
5 7 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.15%) GCP
7 3 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.86%) PaaS
7 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.86%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.57%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.29%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.79%) WAN
2 44 (12.64%) SD-WAN
3 20 (5.75%) Network Security
4 16 (4.60%) Firewall
5 15 (4.31%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.15%) LAN
7 4 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.15%) VPN
7 4 (1.15%) Wireless
7 4 (1.15%) WLAN
8 3 (0.86%) Internet
9 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.29%) DHCP
10 1 (0.29%) DNS
10 1 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.86%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
General
1 72 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.10%) Finance
3 20 (5.75%) Banking
4 17 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.89%) Games
5 16 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.87%) Retail
8 7 (2.01%) Legal
9 4 (1.15%) Law
9 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.15%) Military
10 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.86%) Electronics
11 2 (0.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.87%) .NET
1 10 (2.87%) React
2 9 (2.59%) OAuth
3 6 (1.72%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.15%) SAML
4 4 (1.15%) Web Services
5 3 (0.86%) OpenID
6 1 (0.29%) EDI
6 1 (0.29%) HTML
6 1 (0.29%) JSON
6 1 (0.29%) RESTful
6 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 35 (10.06%) Security Posture
3 31 (8.91%) Data Centre
4 30 (8.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 24 (6.90%) Public Cloud
6 13 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.59%) PMI
9 8 (2.30%) PKI
10 7 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.72%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.86%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.86%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.29%) CESG
13 1 (0.29%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.29%) Educational Technology
13 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.87%) Linux
2 6 (1.72%) Windows
3 4 (1.15%) Android
3 4 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.86%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (36.49%) Cybersecurity
2 117 (33.62%) Security Architecture
3 77 (22.13%) Information Security
4 54 (15.52%) OWASP
5 53 (15.23%) Application Security
6 40 (11.49%) Secure Coding
7 39 (11.21%) Agile
8 38 (10.92%) Cloud Security
9 37 (10.63%) Roadmaps
10 36 (10.34%) Presales
11 35 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (9.48%) Vulnerability Management
13 31 (8.91%) Incident Response
14 30 (8.62%) Identity Management
15 29 (8.33%) Coaching
15 29 (8.33%) Mentoring
16 28 (8.05%) Identity Access Management
17 27 (7.76%) SIEM
18 26 (7.47%) Time Management
19 23 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.87%) C#
1 10 (2.87%) JavaScript
2 9 (2.59%) PowerShell
2 9 (2.59%) Python
3 6 (1.72%) Bash
4 4 (1.15%) C
4 4 (1.15%) C++
4 4 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 79 (22.70%) CISSP
2 68 (19.54%) Security Cleared
3 65 (18.68%) Cisco Certification
4 53 (15.23%) CISM
5 50 (14.37%) Degree
6 49 (14.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 45 (12.93%) CCSP
8 39 (11.21%) AWS Certification
9 38 (10.92%) CCSK
10 36 (10.34%) Azure Certification
11 27 (7.76%) DV Cleared
12 20 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (4.60%) CCNP
14 15 (4.31%) CCNA
15 14 (4.02%) CISA
16 12 (3.45%) CEH
16 12 (3.45%) CRISC
16 12 (3.45%) SC Cleared
17 10 (2.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 10 (2.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (17.24%) NIST
2 43 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (5.17%) GDPR
3 18 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 14 (4.02%) PCI DSS
5 13 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.15%) NCSC
7 3 (0.86%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.86%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.86%) RMADS
8 2 (0.57%) COBIT
8 2 (0.57%) QA
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.29%) GRC
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (8.33%) Docker
2 17 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.91%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (4.31%) Stealthwatch
4 4 (1.15%) Terraform
5 3 (0.86%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.86%) Suricata
Vendors
1 59 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.32%) Cisco
3 15 (4.31%) Adobe
3 15 (4.31%) Apple
3 15 (4.31%) Meraki
4 7 (2.01%) Palo Alto
5 6 (1.72%) PagerDuty
5 6 (1.72%) Splunk
6 3 (0.86%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.86%) Juniper
6 3 (0.86%) New Relic
6 3 (0.86%) Veracode
7 2 (0.57%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.29%) Google