Security Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Security Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Security Architect salary in Birmingham is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 121 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 -24 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 3 29 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.21% 1.05% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 1.11% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 12
10th Percentile £80,316 £45,310 £67,500
25th Percentile £84,885 - £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £50,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -42.03% +16.95%
75th Percentile £98,125 £84,919 £94,063
90th Percentile £98,500 £84,976 £95,000
West Midlands median annual salary £95,000 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% -17.65% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,326 2,606 1,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 94.39% 93.20%
Number of salaries quoted 775 2,118 1,363
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £81,450
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Birmingham

Security Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in Birmingham

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) SABSA
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) B2B
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) SABSA
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Security Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft