Security Architecture Jobs in Birmingham

Security Architecture
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Security Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 135 123
Rank change year-on-year +29 -12 +53
Permanent jobs citing Security Architecture 3 15 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.21% 0.54% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.66% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 6
10th Percentile £66,857 £37,369 £78,750
25th Percentile £70,379 £42,888 £90,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -20.00% +17.19%
75th Percentile £83,541 £84,919 £95,000
90th Percentile £86,416 £84,976 -
West Midlands median annual salary £80,151 £75,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year +6.87% -4.76% +3.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Security Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,337 2,274 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 94.96% 81.71% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 745 1,841 1,345
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,000 £31,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Security Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architecture in Birmingham

Security Architecture
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Security Architecture in Birmingham

Security Architecture
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architecture in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architecture in Birmingham

Security Architecture
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 EventBridge
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Principal Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SABSA
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Assurance
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security Management
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NCSC
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle