Security Architect Jobs in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £79,842 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 345 622
Rank change year-on-year -93 +277 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 453 861 609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.93% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.02% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 290 297 334
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,219 £62,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% - +16.13%
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,125 £115,000 £116,750
UK median annual salary £79,842 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% -2.78% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Architect in England

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 Security Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 -17 121 £90,000 -5.26% 26
North of England -18 97 £78,273 +11.82% 2
South East -28 97 £75,000 -16.67% 11
North West -9 62 £70,000 +1.16% 2
Midlands -39 62 £76,636 -11.15% 3
South West -74 56 £72,500 -9.38% 6
West Midlands -30 36 £70,000 -18.84% 1
Yorkshire +45 29 £79,842 -0.20%
East Midlands -26 26 £78,273 - 2
East of England +14 17 £77,500 -13.89% 5
North East +2 6 £79,842 -19.35%
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 Security Architect in the job title.

1 186 (41.06%) Cybersecurity
2 172 (37.97%) Security Architecture
3 154 (34.00%) Azure
4 122 (26.93%) CISSP
5 116 (25.61%) Microsoft
6 107 (23.62%) Information Security
7 101 (22.30%) AWS
8 88 (19.43%) Cisco Certification
9 87 (19.21%) Finance
10 81 (17.88%) Application Security
11 77 (17.00%) Social Skills
12 76 (16.78%) NIST
13 73 (16.11%) Security Cleared
14 72 (15.89%) Degree
14 72 (15.89%) Cloud Security
15 70 (15.45%) CISM
16 68 (15.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 66 (14.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 61 (13.47%) CCSP
19 59 (13.02%) OWASP
20 57 (12.58%) Roadmaps
21 56 (12.36%) WAN
22 54 (11.92%) AWS Certification
23 53 (11.70%) Azure Certification
24 52 (11.48%) Security Posture
24 52 (11.48%) SD-WAN
25 51 (11.26%) Agile
26 49 (10.82%) Management Information System
27 48 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
28 46 (10.15%) Presales

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:

Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 154 (34.00%) Azure
2 101 (22.30%) AWS
3 40 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.09%) SaaS
5 13 (2.87%) GCP
6 9 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (1.99%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.66%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.66%) PaaS
7 3 (0.66%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.44%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.22%) IaaS
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 56 (12.36%) WAN
2 52 (11.48%) SD-WAN
3 30 (6.62%) Network Security
4 24 (5.30%) Firewall
5 18 (3.97%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (1.10%) DNS
6 5 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.10%) LAN
6 5 (1.10%) VPN
7 4 (0.88%) Internet
7 4 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.88%) Wireless
7 4 (0.88%) WLAN
8 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) HTTP
9 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.32%) Power BI
1 6 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.44%) Big Data
4 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 87 (19.21%) Finance
2 77 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (3.75%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.43%) Retail
6 10 (2.21%) Law
7 8 (1.77%) Banking
7 8 (1.77%) Games
7 8 (1.77%) Legal
8 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.10%) Military
10 3 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.66%) Electronics
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
11 2 (0.44%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.74%) .NET
2 10 (2.21%) React
3 7 (1.55%) OAuth
4 6 (1.32%) CSS
4 6 (1.32%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.10%) Web Services
6 4 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.44%) SAML
8 1 (0.22%) EDI
8 1 (0.22%) HTML
8 1 (0.22%) JSON
8 1 (0.22%) OpenID
8 1 (0.22%) RESTful
8 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.48%) Security Posture
2 49 (10.82%) Management Information System
3 38 (8.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 34 (7.51%) Data Centre
5 30 (6.62%) PKI
6 26 (5.74%) Public Cloud
7 21 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (3.97%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.77%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.77%) PMI
11 5 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.66%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.44%) IoT
13 2 (0.44%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.22%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.22%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.62%) Linux
2 20 (4.42%) Android
3 16 (3.53%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.43%) Windows
5 4 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.88%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (41.06%) Cybersecurity
2 172 (37.97%) Security Architecture
3 107 (23.62%) Information Security
4 81 (17.88%) Application Security
5 72 (15.89%) Cloud Security
6 59 (13.02%) OWASP
7 57 (12.58%) Roadmaps
8 51 (11.26%) Agile
9 48 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (10.15%) Presales
10 46 (10.15%) Secure Coding
11 39 (8.61%) Identity Management
11 39 (8.61%) TOGAF
12 36 (7.95%) CI/CD
12 36 (7.95%) Identity Access Management
13 34 (7.51%) Incident Response
14 32 (7.06%) Coaching
15 31 (6.84%) Mentoring
16 30 (6.62%) DevOps
16 30 (6.62%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.08%) C
2 15 (3.31%) Python
3 10 (2.21%) C#
3 10 (2.21%) JavaScript
3 10 (2.21%) PowerShell
4 8 (1.77%) C++
5 6 (1.32%) Bash
5 6 (1.32%) Java
6 1 (0.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (26.93%) CISSP
2 88 (19.43%) Cisco Certification
3 73 (16.11%) Security Cleared
4 72 (15.89%) Degree
5 70 (15.45%) CISM
6 68 (15.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 61 (13.47%) CCSP
8 54 (11.92%) AWS Certification
9 53 (11.70%) Azure Certification
10 44 (9.71%) CCSK
11 34 (7.51%) DV Cleared
12 22 (4.86%) SC Cleared
13 21 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (4.42%) CCNP
15 19 (4.19%) CRISC
16 18 (3.97%) CCNA
17 15 (3.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 14 (3.09%) CISA
18 14 (3.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 13 (2.87%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (16.78%) NIST
2 66 (14.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (5.74%) PCI DSS
4 19 (4.19%) GDPR
5 18 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 13 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.32%) COBIT
7 6 (1.32%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.88%) NCSC
8 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.66%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.66%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.66%) RMADS
10 2 (0.44%) QA
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 34 (7.51%) Docker
2 8 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.66%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.22%) LXC
Systems Management
1 37 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.28%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (3.97%) Stealthwatch
4 5 (1.10%) Terraform
5 4 (0.88%) Ansible
5 4 (0.88%) Suricata
6 3 (0.66%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 116 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.74%) Cisco
3 18 (3.97%) Adobe
3 18 (3.97%) Apple
3 18 (3.97%) Meraki
4 10 (2.21%) Google
4 10 (2.21%) Palo Alto
5 8 (1.77%) Splunk
6 6 (1.32%) Oracle
6 6 (1.32%) PagerDuty
7 4 (0.88%) Alibaba
7 4 (0.88%) Juniper
8 3 (0.66%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.66%) New Relic
8 3 (0.66%) Veracode
9 2 (0.44%) Veeam
9 2 (0.44%) VMware
10 1 (0.22%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.22%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.22%) Rapid7