Security Architect Jobs in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £75,000 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 538 434 324
Rank change year-on-year -104 -110 +323
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 146 465 901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.53% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.56% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 71 293 283
10th Percentile £59,231 £56,947 £56,219
25th Percentile £64,509 £67,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,842 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -11.29% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,842 £87,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% -8.75% +2.94%

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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 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
London +46 47 £95,000 +5.56% 49
North of England -21 39 £70,000 -11.46% 45
South East +11 23 £67,335 -10.22% 40
North West -45 20 £75,000 +7.14% 25
South West +80 14 £70,000 -3.45% 39
Midlands +9 13 £88,901 +13.58% 20
Yorkshire +45 12 £65,000 -18.59% 9
North East +49 7 £65,000 -18.59% 11
West Midlands +31 7 £88,901 +27.00% 12
East of England +28 6 - - 22
East Midlands +21 6 - - 7
Security Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 86 (58.90%) Information Security
2 83 (56.85%) CISSP
3 72 (49.32%) Management Information System
4 68 (46.58%) Degree
5 67 (45.89%) Finance
6 55 (37.67%) Security Architecture
7 54 (36.99%) Mentoring
8 53 (36.30%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (32.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 47 (32.19%) Project Management
10 47 (32.19%) NIST
11 45 (30.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 40 (27.40%) Risk Management
13 39 (26.71%) Cloud Security
14 37 (25.34%) Social Skills
15 34 (23.29%) Firewall
16 29 (19.86%) AWS
17 26 (17.81%) TOGAF
18 25 (17.12%) Azure
18 25 (17.12%) Network Security
18 25 (17.12%) Security Cleared
18 25 (17.12%) GDPR
19 22 (15.07%) NCSC
19 22 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
19 22 (15.07%) CISM
20 21 (14.38%) SIEM
20 21 (14.38%) Roadmaps
21 19 (13.01%) DevOps
21 19 (13.01%) Agile
22 18 (12.33%) Windows

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 2 (1.37%) IIS
2 1 (0.68%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.86%) AWS
2 25 (17.12%) Azure
3 14 (9.59%) SaaS
4 13 (8.90%) GCP
5 8 (5.48%) IaaS
6 6 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (4.11%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.74%) PaaS
9 3 (2.05%) GitHub
9 3 (2.05%) Miro
10 2 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.37%) Serverless
11 1 (0.68%) Akamai
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.68%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.29%) Firewall
2 25 (17.12%) Network Security
3 14 (9.59%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (6.85%) VPN
5 4 (2.74%) DNS
6 2 (1.37%) DMZ
6 2 (1.37%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.37%) SSL
6 2 (1.37%) TACACS
6 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.37%) WAN
6 2 (1.37%) X.509
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.68%) DHCP
7 1 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.05%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 67 (45.89%) Finance
2 37 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.11%) Legal
5 6 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.74%) Back Office
7 4 (2.74%) Law
8 3 (2.05%) Electronics
8 3 (2.05%) Marketing
9 2 (1.37%) Automotive
9 2 (1.37%) Banking
9 2 (1.37%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.05%) LDAP
1 3 (2.05%) RESTful
1 3 (2.05%) SAML
2 2 (1.37%) EJB
2 2 (1.37%) Leaflet
2 2 (1.37%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.68%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.68%) LangChain
3 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.68%) REST
3 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 72 (49.32%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.27%) Data Centre
2 15 (10.27%) Security Posture
3 11 (7.53%) Public Cloud
4 10 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (5.48%) Social Media
5 8 (5.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (4.79%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.11%) Operational Technology
8 5 (3.42%) PKI
9 3 (2.05%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.05%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.05%) Machine to Machine
10 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.68%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.33%) Windows
2 8 (5.48%) Windows Vista
3 6 (4.11%) Linux
4 3 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (58.90%) Information Security
2 55 (37.67%) Security Architecture
3 54 (36.99%) Mentoring
4 53 (36.30%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (32.19%) Project Management
6 40 (27.40%) Risk Management
7 39 (26.71%) Cloud Security
8 26 (17.81%) TOGAF
9 22 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (14.38%) Roadmaps
10 21 (14.38%) SIEM
11 19 (13.01%) Agile
11 19 (13.01%) DevOps
12 17 (11.64%) Information Assurance
13 16 (10.96%) DevSecOps
13 16 (10.96%) Incident Response
13 16 (10.96%) SABSA
13 16 (10.96%) Security Management
14 15 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.11%) Python
2 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 83 (56.85%) CISSP
2 68 (46.58%) Degree
3 45 (30.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (17.12%) Security Cleared
5 22 (15.07%) CISM
6 18 (12.33%) SC Cleared
7 17 (11.64%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (8.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (8.22%) CEH
9 11 (7.53%) CISA
9 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
10 10 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (6.16%) Master's Degree
12 8 (5.48%) DBS Check
13 6 (4.11%) AWS Certification
14 5 (3.42%) CRISC
14 5 (3.42%) SANS
15 4 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (2.74%) GIAC
15 4 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (32.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (32.19%) NIST
3 25 (17.12%) GDPR
4 22 (15.07%) NCSC
5 11 (7.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (5.48%) SOC 2
7 6 (4.11%) PCI DSS
7 6 (4.11%) QA
8 5 (3.42%) COBIT
8 5 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (2.05%) HIPAA
9 3 (2.05%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.68%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.79%) Terraform
2 4 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.05%) Ansible
3 3 (2.05%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.05%) Puppet
4 2 (1.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.37%) Nessus
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
5 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.11%) Google
3 5 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.05%) Alibaba
4 3 (2.05%) Cisco
4 3 (2.05%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.05%) SAP
5 2 (1.37%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.37%) F5
5 2 (1.37%) FireEye
5 2 (1.37%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.37%) Splunk
5 2 (1.37%) Thales
6 1 (0.68%) Aruba
6 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.68%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.68%) Juniper
6 1 (0.68%) Meraki
6 1 (0.68%) Netskope
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle