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 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 419 452
Rank change year-on-year +69 +33 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 352 194 398
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.59% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 249 71 264
10th Percentile £59,900 £59,231 £57,016
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.06% -8.75%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,875
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £79,842
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.06% -6.07%

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 66,961 32,899 74,672
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 89.80% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44,022 21,259 58,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

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 6 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 6 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 +30 125 £92,500 -5.13% 46
North of England -5 86 £80,000 +6.67% 25
North West +7 54 £85,000 +13.33% 17
South West 0 52 £78,750 +12.50% 14
South East -11 48 £70,000 +3.96% 22
Midlands -11 29 £82,500 -13.16% 10
West Midlands +1 19 £85,000 -10.53% 10
Yorkshire -41 18 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North East -15 14 £80,000 +14.29% 3
East Midlands -37 10 £45,000 -45.45%
East of England -43 5 £100,000 +35.14% 2
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 158 (44.89%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (21.59%) Security Architecture
3 68 (19.32%) Security Cleared
4 61 (17.33%) AWS
5 59 (16.76%) Azure
6 52 (14.77%) CISSP
7 49 (13.92%) Threat Modelling
8 46 (13.07%) Cloud Security
9 43 (12.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 41 (11.65%) SC Cleared
11 40 (11.36%) NIST
12 39 (11.08%) Application Security
13 34 (9.66%) SIEM
14 33 (9.38%) Degree
15 32 (9.09%) DevSecOps
15 32 (9.09%) TOGAF
16 30 (8.52%) Microsoft
17 28 (7.95%) CISM
18 27 (7.67%) PCI DSS
19 24 (6.82%) SABSA
20 23 (6.53%) Cryptography
20 23 (6.53%) DV Cleared
21 22 (6.25%) CI/CD
22 21 (5.97%) GDPR
23 20 (5.68%) Incident Response
24 19 (5.40%) Risk Management
24 19 (5.40%) Serverless
25 18 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
25 18 (5.11%) Firewall
25 18 (5.11%) Identity Access Management

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 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (17.33%) AWS
2 59 (16.76%) Azure
3 19 (5.40%) Serverless
4 16 (4.55%) GCP
5 13 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (3.69%) AWS Step Functions
5 13 (3.69%) GitHub
5 13 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (3.69%) Pulumi
6 12 (3.41%) Entra ID
7 11 (3.13%) SaaS
8 5 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.85%) IaaS
9 3 (0.85%) Mimecast
9 3 (0.85%) PaaS
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.57%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.11%) Firewall
2 13 (3.69%) DSL
3 10 (2.84%) Network Security
4 9 (2.56%) DNS
5 4 (1.14%) Internet
5 4 (1.14%) VPN
6 3 (0.85%) LAN
7 2 (0.57%) SAN
7 2 (0.57%) VSAN
8 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
8 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 15 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 13 (3.69%) GitLab
3 6 (1.70%) Snyk
4 1 (0.28%) Git
4 1 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 29 (8.24%) Finance
2 28 (7.95%) Social Skills
3 21 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.26%) Law
5 12 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.27%) Banking
8 8 (2.27%) Legal
9 6 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.42%) Games
11 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Advertising
12 2 (0.57%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.69%) AWS CDK
2 7 (1.99%) LDAP
2 7 (1.99%) Regular Expression
3 5 (1.42%) XMPP
4 3 (0.85%) OAuth
5 2 (0.57%) JSON
5 2 (0.57%) JSON Schema
5 2 (0.57%) OpenID
5 2 (0.57%) XML
6 1 (0.28%) JWT
6 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.98%) Cloud Native
1 14 (3.98%) Operational Technology
1 14 (3.98%) PKI
2 9 (2.56%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.56%) Security Posture
3 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
3 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
3 3 (0.85%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.57%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.28%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.28%) DataPower
5 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.98%) Windows
2 12 (3.41%) Linux
3 11 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (44.89%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (21.59%) Security Architecture
3 49 (13.92%) Threat Modelling
4 46 (13.07%) Cloud Security
5 39 (11.08%) Application Security
6 34 (9.66%) SIEM
7 32 (9.09%) DevSecOps
7 32 (9.09%) TOGAF
8 24 (6.82%) SABSA
9 23 (6.53%) Cryptography
10 22 (6.25%) CI/CD
11 20 (5.68%) Incident Response
12 19 (5.40%) Risk Management
13 18 (5.11%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (5.11%) Information Security
13 18 (5.11%) Roadmaps
13 18 (5.11%) Zero Trust
14 17 (4.83%) IT Strategy
14 17 (4.83%) SDLC
15 16 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.55%) Python
2 13 (3.69%) Go
2 13 (3.69%) Rust
3 6 (1.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
4 2 (0.57%) SQL
5 1 (0.28%) Java
5 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 68 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.77%) CISSP
3 41 (11.65%) SC Cleared
4 33 (9.38%) Degree
5 28 (7.95%) CISM
6 23 (6.53%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.11%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (4.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 15 (4.26%) OSCP
10 14 (3.98%) CCSP
11 13 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (2.84%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.27%) AWS Certification
14 6 (1.70%) FFIEC
15 4 (1.14%) CRISC
15 4 (1.14%) GCIH
16 3 (0.85%) CEH
16 3 (0.85%) CISA
16 3 (0.85%) ISACA
16 3 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (11.36%) NIST
3 27 (7.67%) PCI DSS
4 21 (5.97%) GDPR
5 16 (4.55%) NCSC
6 13 (3.69%) GRC
7 8 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.85%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.85%) PMO
10 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.56%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) Docker
4 1 (0.28%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 14 (3.98%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.98%) MOM
1 14 (3.98%) Terraform
2 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.85%) CASB
4 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.57%) VxRail
5 1 (0.28%) Endace
Vendors
1 30 (8.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
2 9 (2.56%) VMware
3 8 (2.27%) SAP
3 8 (2.27%) Tenable
4 6 (1.70%) Palo Alto
5 5 (1.42%) Cisco
5 5 (1.42%) McAfee
5 5 (1.42%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.14%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.14%) Google
6 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.85%) Barracuda Networks
7 3 (0.85%) CyberArk
7 3 (0.85%) N-able
7 3 (0.85%) Okta
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle
7 3 (0.85%) Sophos
8 2 (0.57%) Cribl.io
8 2 (0.57%) LogRhythm