Security Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Architecture over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 298 525
Rank change year-on-year -158 +227 -85
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 504 1,235 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 1.18% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.23% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 400 494 640
10th Percentile £51,125 £52,500 £52,434
25th Percentile £68,718 £66,563 £65,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £111,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.08% -7.81% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Security Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in the UK

Security Architecture
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architecture within the UK 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
England -97 458 £78,273 -7.91% 79
UK excluding London -206 271 £77,500 +5.08% 49
Work from Home -60 224 £77,500 -3.13% 31
London +4 197 £82,500 -6.25% 36
North of England +12 84 £70,576 +0.82% 5
South West -17 64 £105,000 +40.00% 8
North West -10 50 £70,000 - 5
South East -109 48 £78,750 +6.78% 11
East of England +6 34 £72,500 +3.57% 10
Midlands -46 28 £75,000 +2.74% 7
Yorkshire +73 26 £78,273 +19.77%
West Midlands +7 22 £75,000 -3.23% 6
North East 0 8 £79,842 +8.26%
Scotland -171 7 £51,000 -26.94% 4
East Midlands -51 6 £78,273 +52.73% 1
Wales -31 3 £68,136 -8.82% 1
Northern Ireland +8 2 - - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

Security Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.40%) Apache
1 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.40%) nginx
2 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.20%) Confluence
2 1 (0.20%) Gunicorn
2 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.20%) uWSGI
Applications
1 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 197 (39.09%) Azure
2 152 (30.16%) AWS
3 40 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (6.94%) GCP
5 19 (3.77%) SaaS
6 18 (3.57%) PaaS
7 17 (3.37%) IaaS
8 14 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 12 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (2.18%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.19%) Azure Service Fabric
12 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.79%) Serverless
14 2 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.40%) GitHub
14 2 (0.40%) OCI
14 2 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 83 (16.47%) Network Security
2 57 (11.31%) Firewall
3 35 (6.94%) WAN
4 33 (6.55%) SD-WAN
5 26 (5.16%) Intrusion Detection
5 26 (5.16%) TCP/IP
6 20 (3.97%) LAN
7 9 (1.79%) Internet
8 8 (1.59%) Wireless
9 7 (1.39%) SSL
10 6 (1.19%) VPN
11 5 (0.99%) IPsec
12 3 (0.60%) DHCP
12 3 (0.60%) DNS
12 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.20%) BGP
14 1 (0.20%) HTTP
14 1 (0.20%) OSPF
14 1 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.60%) MySQL
5 2 (0.40%) Big Data
5 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (2.38%) GitLab
2 3 (0.60%) Git
2 3 (0.60%) JIRA
3 2 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 154 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 122 (24.21%) Finance
3 66 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (10.52%) Law
5 49 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 42 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (8.33%) Legal
7 34 (6.75%) Military
8 30 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (5.36%) Banking
10 18 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (3.37%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.78%) Marketing
13 13 (2.58%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.79%) Retail
15 8 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.19%) Retail Banking
18 5 (0.99%) Police
Job Titles
1 239 (47.42%) Architect
2 200 (39.68%) Security Architect
3 76 (15.08%) Senior
4 72 (14.29%) Consultant
5 71 (14.09%) Lead
5 71 (14.09%) Security Consultant
6 55 (10.91%) Analyst
7 46 (9.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 39 (7.74%) Security Analyst
9 38 (7.54%) Lead Architect
9 38 (7.54%) Security Engineer
10 34 (6.75%) Lead Security Architect
11 33 (6.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 32 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (6.15%) Senior Architect
14 27 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 23 (4.56%) Principal Architect
15 23 (4.56%) Principal Security Architect
16 22 (4.37%) Security Manager
17 21 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.37%) Web Services
2 15 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.59%) Middleware
4 7 (1.39%) OAuth
4 7 (1.39%) REST
5 6 (1.19%) SOAP
6 5 (0.99%) Kafka
7 4 (0.79%) JWT
8 3 (0.60%) .NET
8 3 (0.60%) Node.js
8 3 (0.60%) OpenID
9 2 (0.40%) Laravel
9 2 (0.40%) Pandas
9 2 (0.40%) pytest
9 2 (0.40%) SAML
9 2 (0.40%) Smart Contracts
10 1 (0.20%) LEMP Stack
10 1 (0.20%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.20%) ModSecurity
10 1 (0.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 118 (23.41%) Management Information System
2 74 (14.68%) Security Posture
3 46 (9.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 41 (8.13%) Public Cloud
5 37 (7.34%) Cyber Defence
5 37 (7.34%) Cyber Threat
6 36 (7.14%) Cyberattack
7 33 (6.55%) Security Operations Centre
8 28 (5.56%) Data Centre
8 28 (5.56%) Operational Technology
9 26 (5.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 14 (2.78%) PKI
11 13 (2.58%) iPhone
11 13 (2.58%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.58%) Product Ownership
12 12 (2.38%) Private Cloud
12 12 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.98%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.79%) IoT
15 7 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.37%) Linux
2 16 (3.17%) Windows
3 11 (2.18%) Unix
4 6 (1.19%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.99%) CentOS
6 4 (0.79%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.79%) Solaris
6 4 (0.79%) zOS
7 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.40%) AIX
8 2 (0.40%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (62.30%) Cybersecurity
2 231 (45.83%) Information Security
3 103 (20.44%) Agile
4 95 (18.85%) Coaching
5 94 (18.65%) Roadmaps
6 90 (17.86%) Cloud Security
7 86 (17.06%) Mentoring
8 85 (16.87%) SIEM
9 82 (16.27%) Application Security
10 76 (15.08%) Incident Response
11 74 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (14.68%) Risk Management
12 69 (13.69%) Security Operations
13 62 (12.30%) Identity Management
14 59 (11.71%) Incident Management
15 58 (11.51%) TOGAF
16 57 (11.31%) OWASP
17 51 (10.12%) Security Management
18 49 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
19 47 (9.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.15%) Python
2 26 (5.16%) Java
3 13 (2.58%) SQL
4 8 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.39%) C++
6 6 (1.19%) C
6 6 (1.19%) C#
6 6 (1.19%) Go
6 6 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.79%) Lua
7 4 (0.79%) PHP
7 4 (0.79%) R
7 4 (0.79%) Ruby
7 4 (0.79%) Rust
7 4 (0.79%) Scala
8 2 (0.40%) Bash
8 2 (0.40%) Dart
8 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.40%) Objective-C
8 2 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 194 (38.49%) CISSP
2 130 (25.79%) CISM
3 121 (24.01%) Degree
4 120 (23.81%) Security Cleared
5 69 (13.69%) Cisco Certification
6 67 (13.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 66 (13.10%) Azure Certification
8 65 (12.90%) AWS Certification
8 65 (12.90%) CCSP
9 52 (10.32%) DV Cleared
10 51 (10.12%) SC Cleared
11 47 (9.33%) CCSK
12 38 (7.54%) CRISC
13 36 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 34 (6.75%) Master's Degree
15 30 (5.95%) CEH
16 29 (5.75%) CISA
17 28 (5.56%) GIAC
18 25 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
19 22 (4.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (35.91%) NIST
2 121 (24.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (9.13%) GDPR
4 38 (7.54%) NCSC
5 36 (7.14%) NIST 800
6 26 (5.16%) PCI DSS
7 25 (4.96%) GRC
7 25 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 23 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (3.57%) COBIT
10 14 (2.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 10 (1.98%) QA
12 6 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (1.19%) HIPAA
12 6 (1.19%) JSP 440
12 6 (1.19%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 5 (0.99%) IASME
13 5 (0.99%) ISO 31000
13 5 (0.99%) RMADS
System Software
1 41 (8.13%) Docker
2 30 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.98%) vSphere
4 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.60%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) LXC
Systems Management
1 40 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.74%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (4.17%) Terraform
4 9 (1.79%) QRadar
5 6 (1.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (0.60%) Suricata
7 2 (0.40%) Ansible
7 2 (0.40%) CASB
7 2 (0.40%) DatAdvantage
7 2 (0.40%) SCCM
7 2 (0.40%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.20%) Cacti
8 1 (0.20%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.20%) Icinga
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 99 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.96%) Splunk
3 18 (3.57%) SolarWinds
3 18 (3.57%) Tripwire
4 15 (2.98%) Tanium
5 9 (1.79%) Cisco
5 9 (1.79%) IBM
6 8 (1.59%) Palo Alto
6 8 (1.59%) Qualys
7 6 (1.19%) Google
8 4 (0.79%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.79%) iManage
8 4 (0.79%) Juniper
8 4 (0.79%) Rapid7
9 3 (0.60%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.60%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.60%) New Relic
10 2 (0.40%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.40%) Varonis