Security Architect Jobs in Central London

Security Architect
London > Central London

The median Security Architect salary in Central London is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 170 200
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 4 28 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.17% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.78% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 18
10th Percentile £79,250 £69,000 £82,500
25th Percentile £83,750 £76,133 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £111,250 - £103,125
90th Percentile £115,750 - £112,375
London median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,159 3,607 4,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 95.42% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,516 2,783 4,066
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in Central London

Security Architect
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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
City of London +14 4 £97,500 -2.50% 6
Security Architect
London

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

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

1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Presales
3 2 (50.00%) SABSA
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (25.00%) CCSK
4 1 (25.00%) SOAR
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Presales
2 2 (50.00%) SABSA
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ACSA
1 1 (25.00%) ACSP
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCSK
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) Netskope
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler