IT Security Architect Jobs in England

IT Security Architect
UK > England

The median IT Security Architect salary in England is £76,271 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 686 821 908
Rank change year-on-year +135 +87 +214
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Architect 5 18 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.010% 0.021% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.022% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 10
10th Percentile £57,656 - £69,175
25th Percentile £63,255 £88,750 £79,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,271 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £91,853 - £92,813
90th Percentile £98,991 - £99,000
UK median annual salary £76,271 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -23.73% +17.65% -10.53%

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 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

IT Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Architect in England

IT Security Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for IT Security Architect in England

IT Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Security Architect in England

IT Security 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 IT Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London +90 4 £97,500 -2.50%
North West - 1 £55,043 -
North of England - 1 £55,043 -
IT Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, IT 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 England region featuring IT Security Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (80.00%) CCSP
2 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (80.00%) Law
2 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (60.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (60.00%) Machine to Machine
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (60.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment

IT Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) Miro
3 3 (60.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Akamai
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DMZ
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Local Government
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (60.00%) Machine to Machine
2 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (20.00%) IoT
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) SDLC
1 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Major Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCSP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) ACSA
3 1 (20.00%) ACSP
3 1 (20.00%) CCSK
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) ISSAP
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) GDPR
3 3 (60.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (40.00%) NCSC
5 1 (20.00%) COBIT
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Alibaba
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Netskope
3 1 (20.00%) Okta
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler