Security Architect Jobs in the City of London

Security Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Security Architect salary in the City of London is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 144 194
Rank change year-on-year +12 +50 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 3 30 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.15% 0.90% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.94% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 21
10th Percentile £79,250 £67,200 £82,500
25th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £87,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -7.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,750 - £111,250
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £87,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +11.43% -7.89% -9.52%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,896 3,193 4,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 96.00% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,450 2,523 3,702
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,044
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,875 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,875
% change year-on-year - -1.86% +1.90%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in the City of London.

Salary trend for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in the City of London

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 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 City of London region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) SABSA
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) CCSK
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) SABSA
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ACSA
1 1 (33.33%) ACSP
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCSK
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Netskope
1 1 (33.33%) Okta
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler