Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 521 440
Rank change year-on-year +191 -81 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 395 101 429
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.30% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 271 73 277
10th Percentile £59,900 £59,231 £57,224
25th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.06% -11.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £112,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £79,842
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.06% -8.75%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 72,546 33,415 78,101
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 89.21% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 47,462 21,467 59,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Security Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Security Architect job vacancy trend in England

Security Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Security Architect job vacancies in England

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

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 23 April 2026. 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 +82 139 £90,000 -7.69% 19
North of England +11 104 £80,000 +6.67% 14
North West +21 67 £80,000 +6.67% 13
South East +12 55 £70,000 +3.96% 12
South West -2 51 £82,500 +17.86% 5
Midlands -8 34 £82,500 -13.16% 7
West Midlands -6 24 £85,000 -10.53% 6
Yorkshire -40 19 £80,000 +23.08%
North East -29 18 £87,500 +25.00% 1
East Midlands -39 10 £45,000 -45.45% 1
East of England -36 5 £100,000 +35.14% 3
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2026, Security Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 179 (45.32%) Cybersecurity
2 96 (24.30%) Security Architecture
3 78 (19.75%) Security Cleared
4 67 (16.96%) AWS
5 66 (16.71%) Azure
6 64 (16.20%) Cloud Security
7 61 (15.44%) CISSP
8 59 (14.94%) Threat Modelling
9 51 (12.91%) Application Security
10 49 (12.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 49 (12.41%) NIST
11 48 (12.15%) SC Cleared
12 42 (10.63%) DevSecOps
13 38 (9.62%) SIEM
14 36 (9.11%) TOGAF
15 34 (8.61%) CISM
15 34 (8.61%) Microsoft
16 33 (8.35%) CI/CD
16 33 (8.35%) Degree
17 30 (7.59%) PCI DSS
18 29 (7.34%) Serverless
19 26 (6.58%) DV Cleared
19 26 (6.58%) SABSA
19 26 (6.58%) SDLC
20 23 (5.82%) AI
20 23 (5.82%) Cryptography
21 22 (5.57%) Identity Access Management
21 22 (5.57%) IT Strategy
21 22 (5.57%) Technology Strategy
22 21 (5.32%) Cisco Certification

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 6 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (16.96%) AWS
2 66 (16.71%) Azure
3 29 (7.34%) Serverless
4 20 (5.06%) GCP
5 13 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 13 (3.29%) GitHub
5 13 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (3.29%) Pulumi
6 12 (3.04%) Entra ID
7 11 (2.78%) SaaS
8 5 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.76%) IaaS
9 3 (0.76%) Mimecast
9 3 (0.76%) PaaS
9 3 (0.76%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.51%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.81%) Firewall
2 18 (4.56%) Network Security
3 13 (3.29%) DSL
4 10 (2.53%) DNS
5 6 (1.52%) VPN
6 4 (1.01%) Internet
7 3 (0.76%) LAN
8 2 (0.51%) SAN
8 2 (0.51%) VSAN
9 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.25%) SSL
9 1 (0.25%) WAN
9 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 15 (3.80%) Jenkins
2 13 (3.29%) GitLab
2 13 (3.29%) Snyk
3 1 (0.25%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Yeoman
General
1 33 (8.35%) Finance
2 27 (6.84%) Public Sector
2 27 (6.84%) Social Skills
3 21 (5.32%) Law
4 18 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (2.78%) Banking
7 8 (2.03%) Legal
8 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Games
10 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.51%) Advertising
11 2 (0.51%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.29%) AWS CDK
2 8 (2.03%) LDAP
2 8 (2.03%) Regular Expression
3 6 (1.52%) XMPP
4 3 (0.76%) OAuth
5 2 (0.51%) JSON
5 2 (0.51%) JSON Schema
5 2 (0.51%) OpenID
5 2 (0.51%) XML
6 1 (0.25%) JWT
6 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.56%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.54%) Operational Technology
3 14 (3.54%) PKI
4 7 (1.77%) Security Posture
5 3 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.76%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (0.51%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.51%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.51%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.51%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.80%) Windows
2 13 (3.29%) Linux
3 12 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (45.32%) Cybersecurity
2 96 (24.30%) Security Architecture
3 64 (16.20%) Cloud Security
4 59 (14.94%) Threat Modelling
5 51 (12.91%) Application Security
6 42 (10.63%) DevSecOps
7 38 (9.62%) SIEM
8 36 (9.11%) TOGAF
9 33 (8.35%) CI/CD
10 26 (6.58%) SABSA
10 26 (6.58%) SDLC
11 23 (5.82%) AI
11 23 (5.82%) Cryptography
12 22 (5.57%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (5.57%) IT Strategy
12 22 (5.57%) Technology Strategy
13 20 (5.06%) Incident Response
13 20 (5.06%) Information Security
14 19 (4.81%) Validation
14 19 (4.81%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.05%) Python
2 13 (3.29%) Go
2 13 (3.29%) Rust
3 6 (1.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.51%) SQL
5 1 (0.25%) Java
5 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 78 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 61 (15.44%) CISSP
3 48 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 34 (8.61%) CISM
5 33 (8.35%) Degree
6 26 (6.58%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (5.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (4.30%) CCSP
10 15 (3.80%) OSCP
11 14 (3.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (2.53%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.03%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.77%) FFIEC
15 6 (1.52%) CRISC
16 5 (1.27%) ISACA
17 4 (1.01%) GCIH
18 3 (0.76%) CEH
18 3 (0.76%) CISA
18 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 49 (12.41%) NIST
2 30 (7.59%) PCI DSS
3 21 (5.32%) GDPR
4 18 (4.56%) GRC
4 18 (4.56%) NCSC
5 9 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.76%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.76%) PMO
8 2 (0.51%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.25%) Docker
4 1 (0.25%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 16 (4.05%) MOM
2 14 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.54%) Terraform
3 6 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.51%) Ansible
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.51%) VxRail
5 1 (0.25%) CASB
5 1 (0.25%) Endace
Vendors
1 34 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.05%) CrowdStrike
3 15 (3.80%) Tenable
4 13 (3.29%) Palo Alto
5 10 (2.53%) SAP
5 10 (2.53%) VMware
6 6 (1.52%) McAfee
6 6 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.27%) Cisco
8 4 (1.01%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.01%) Google
9 3 (0.76%) Barracuda Networks
9 3 (0.76%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.76%) N-able
9 3 (0.76%) Okta
9 3 (0.76%) Oracle
9 3 (0.76%) Sophos
10 2 (0.51%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.51%) Trend Micro