Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 442 450
Rank change year-on-year +31 +8 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 226 219 355
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.57% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 150 77 240
10th Percentile £59,660 £61,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £75,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -6.06% -8.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £78,273
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.18% -7.91%

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 56,639 38,272 65,442
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 91.08% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 36,607 21,032 52,042
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,801
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,883
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +7 94 £90,000 -5.26% 52
North of England +4 50 £80,000 +6.67% 17
South West +23 46 £73,750 -6.35% 7
North West +6 24 £82,500 +10.00% 16
South East -18 21 £74,000 +20.65% 32
Yorkshire -23 16 £80,000 -8.57% 1
North East -4 10 £75,000 +7.14%
Midlands -7 7 £80,000 -5.88% 16
West Midlands +14 4 £82,500 -8.33% 12
East of England -12 4 £100,000 +33.33%
East Midlands -28 3 £50,000 -39.39% 4
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 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.

1 108 (47.79%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (23.45%) Security Architecture
3 47 (20.80%) AWS
4 45 (19.91%) Azure
5 44 (19.47%) CISSP
5 44 (19.47%) Security Cleared
6 37 (16.37%) Threat Modelling
7 36 (15.93%) Cloud Security
8 35 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 31 (13.72%) SC Cleared
10 28 (12.39%) NIST
11 25 (11.06%) CISM
11 25 (11.06%) TOGAF
12 21 (9.29%) Cryptography
12 21 (9.29%) Degree
12 21 (9.29%) SABSA
13 20 (8.85%) DevSecOps
14 19 (8.41%) GDPR
14 19 (8.41%) Microsoft
14 19 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 18 (7.96%) NCSC
15 18 (7.96%) Zero Trust
16 17 (7.52%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (7.52%) PCI DSS
16 17 (7.52%) SIEM
17 16 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (7.08%) Jenkins
17 16 (7.08%) Risk Management
17 16 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 15 (6.64%) Application Security

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 3 (1.33%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.80%) AWS
2 45 (19.91%) Azure
3 11 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (4.87%) AWS Step Functions
3 11 (4.87%) GitHub
3 11 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (4.87%) Pulumi
3 11 (4.87%) Serverless
4 10 (4.42%) GCP
5 8 (3.54%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.44%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.44%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.87%) DSL
2 9 (3.98%) Firewall
2 9 (3.98%) Network Security
3 3 (1.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.88%) DNS
4 2 (0.88%) LAN
4 2 (0.88%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.44%) SAN
5 1 (0.44%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) VSAN
5 1 (0.44%) WAN
Development Applications
1 16 (7.08%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.87%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 30 (13.27%) Finance
2 23 (10.18%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.96%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (4.87%) Law
6 9 (3.98%) Banking
7 8 (3.54%) Legal
8 7 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.77%) Games
10 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Advertising
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Electronics
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
12 1 (0.44%) Police
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.87%) AWS CDK
2 2 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.44%) JWT
3 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.75%) Cloud Native
1 13 (5.75%) PKI
2 10 (4.42%) Operational Technology
3 7 (3.10%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.21%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.33%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.44%) DataPower
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Licensing
8 1 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.44%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.33%) Windows
2 2 (0.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (47.79%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (23.45%) Security Architecture
3 37 (16.37%) Threat Modelling
4 36 (15.93%) Cloud Security
5 25 (11.06%) TOGAF
6 21 (9.29%) Cryptography
6 21 (9.29%) SABSA
7 20 (8.85%) DevSecOps
8 19 (8.41%) Roadmaps
9 18 (7.96%) Zero Trust
10 17 (7.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (7.52%) SIEM
11 16 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (7.08%) Risk Management
11 16 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (6.64%) Application Security
12 15 (6.64%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (6.19%) Incident Response
14 13 (5.75%) CI/CD
14 13 (5.75%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.31%) Python
2 11 (4.87%) Go
2 11 (4.87%) Rust
3 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.44%) Java
4 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (19.47%) CISSP
1 44 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.06%) CISM
4 21 (9.29%) Degree
5 15 (6.64%) DV Cleared
6 14 (6.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.75%) OSCP
7 13 (5.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (4.87%) Azure Certification
9 10 (4.42%) AWS Certification
9 10 (4.42%) CCSP
10 5 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.21%) CRISC
11 4 (1.77%) CISA
11 4 (1.77%) SANS
12 3 (1.33%) GIAC
12 3 (1.33%) ISACA
13 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (12.39%) NIST
3 19 (8.41%) GDPR
4 18 (7.96%) NCSC
5 17 (7.52%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.21%) GRC
8 4 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.33%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.88%) PMO
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) NLBS
2 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (5.31%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.31%) Terraform
2 5 (2.21%) Ansible
2 5 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.33%) CASB
4 1 (0.44%) Endace
4 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (8.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.21%) SAP
3 4 (1.77%) CyberArk
3 4 (1.77%) Oracle
3 4 (1.77%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.33%) Cisco
4 3 (1.33%) Google
4 3 (1.33%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.88%) LogRhythm
5 2 (0.88%) Okta
5 2 (0.88%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.44%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.44%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.44%) Centrify
6 1 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.44%) N-able
6 1 (0.44%) Netskope
6 1 (0.44%) Splunk
6 1 (0.44%) Thycotic
6 1 (0.44%) Workday