Security Architect Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Security Architect
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Security Architect salary in Cambridgeshire is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 93 114
Rank change year-on-year +36 +21 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 2 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.40% 0.45% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.48% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £69,800 £72,855 -
25th Percentile £70,250 £79,879 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £78,250 - -
90th Percentile £78,400 - -
East of England median annual salary £74,000 £77,886 £90,000
% change year-on-year -4.99% -13.46% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 471 1,471 1,236
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 93.69% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 308 1,138 585
10th Percentile £28,675 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £66,563 £69,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,001 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Cambridgeshire

Security Architect
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in Cambridgeshire

Security Architect
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Architect within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Peterborough +10 2 £74,500 +0.49%
Security Architect
East of England

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 14 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) ISMS
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security

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

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) ISMS
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) COBIT
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS