Cybersecurity Architect Jobs in England

Cybersecurity Architect
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Architect salary in England is £74,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 March 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 766 893
Rank change year-on-year +115 +127 +128
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 19 45 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.057% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.061% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 61
10th Percentile £61,625 £66,400 £44,192
25th Percentile £66,125 £67,313 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £86,875 £85,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 41,768 74,020 91,397
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.48% 92.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,054 56,742 57,202
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,573 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -8.33% -

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in England over the 6 months to 23 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in England

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
London +63 10 £72,500 -3.33% 1
East of England +48 3 £75,000 +9.49%
South East +83 2 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Midlands +42 2 £85,000 +13.33%
West Midlands +21 2 £85,000 +13.33%
North of England +71 1 £85,000 - 2
North West +20 1 £85,000 - 1
Cybersecurity Architect
UK

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 March 2025, Cybersecurity 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 England region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (47.37%) Security Architecture
3 7 (36.84%) CISSP
3 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 6 (31.58%) CISM
4 6 (31.58%) Information Security
4 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
6 4 (21.05%) NIST
6 4 (21.05%) Degree
6 4 (21.05%) ISMS
6 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
6 4 (21.05%) SABSA
6 4 (21.05%) SIEM
6 4 (21.05%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
6 4 (21.05%) Firewall
6 4 (21.05%) Security Management
7 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
7 3 (15.79%) Information Security Management
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.79%) SSCP
7 3 (15.79%) Finance
7 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
7 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
7 3 (15.79%) Cryptography
7 3 (15.79%) Information Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) IaaS
2 1 (5.26%) PaaS
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.26%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (47.37%) Security Architecture
3 6 (31.58%) Information Security
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) ISMS
5 4 (21.05%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
5 4 (21.05%) SABSA
5 4 (21.05%) Security Management
5 4 (21.05%) SIEM
6 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Data Privacy
6 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) Information Security Management
6 3 (15.79%) Presales
6 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) CISSP
2 6 (31.58%) CISM
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) SSCP
5 1 (5.26%) CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (21.05%) NIST
3 3 (15.79%) COBIT
3 3 (15.79%) GDPR
3 3 (15.79%) NCSC
3 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) CASB
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Broadcom
2 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.26%) Capita