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 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 440 446
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 225 226 342
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.58% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 149 78 230
10th Percentile £59,900 £61,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £69,649 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.06% -8.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,125 £90,938
90th Percentile £101,000 £112,500 £100,125
UK median annual salary £83,750 £75,000 £78,273
% change year-on-year +11.67% -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 56,218 39,052 62,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.45% 91.19% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 36,340 21,134 50,106
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £28,823
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £39,750
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +19 94 £90,000 -5.26% 53
North of England +1 50 £80,000 +6.67% 13
South West +27 46 £73,750 -6.35% 9
North West -4 24 £82,500 +10.00% 10
South East -18 21 £74,000 +20.65% 35
Yorkshire -31 16 £80,000 -8.57% 1
North East +1 10 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Midlands +6 6 £82,500 -2.94% 15
West Midlands +15 4 £82,500 -8.33% 11
East of England -14 4 £100,000 +34.23%
East Midlands -20 2 - - 4
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 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.

1 109 (48.44%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (23.56%) Security Architecture
3 47 (20.89%) AWS
4 44 (19.56%) Azure
4 44 (19.56%) Security Cleared
5 43 (19.11%) CISSP
6 36 (16.00%) Cloud Security
6 36 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
7 35 (15.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (13.78%) SC Cleared
9 28 (12.44%) NIST
10 25 (11.11%) CISM
11 24 (10.67%) TOGAF
12 21 (9.33%) Cryptography
12 21 (9.33%) Degree
12 21 (9.33%) SABSA
13 20 (8.89%) Roadmaps
14 19 (8.44%) DevSecOps
14 19 (8.44%) GDPR
14 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
15 18 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (8.00%) NCSC
15 18 (8.00%) Zero Trust
16 17 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.56%) Jenkins
16 17 (7.56%) PCI DSS
16 17 (7.56%) SIEM
17 16 (7.11%) Risk Management
17 16 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 15 (6.67%) 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 (20.89%) AWS
2 44 (19.56%) Azure
3 11 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (4.89%) AWS Step Functions
3 11 (4.89%) GitHub
3 11 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (4.89%) Pulumi
3 11 (4.89%) Serverless
4 10 (4.44%) GCP
5 8 (3.56%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.89%) 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 (4.89%) DSL
2 9 (4.00%) Firewall
2 9 (4.00%) Network Security
3 3 (1.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.89%) DNS
4 2 (0.89%) LAN
4 2 (0.89%) 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 17 (7.56%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.89%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 30 (13.33%) Finance
2 23 (10.22%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (4.89%) Law
6 10 (4.44%) Banking
7 8 (3.56%) Legal
8 7 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Games
10 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Advertising
11 2 (0.89%) 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 (4.89%) AWS CDK
2 2 (0.89%) OAuth
3 1 (0.44%) JWT
3 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.78%) Cloud Native
1 13 (5.78%) PKI
2 10 (4.44%) Operational Technology
3 7 (3.11%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.33%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.89%) 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 (0.89%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (48.44%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (23.56%) Security Architecture
3 36 (16.00%) Cloud Security
3 36 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
4 24 (10.67%) TOGAF
5 21 (9.33%) Cryptography
5 21 (9.33%) SABSA
6 20 (8.89%) Roadmaps
7 19 (8.44%) DevSecOps
8 18 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (8.00%) Zero Trust
9 17 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (7.56%) SIEM
10 16 (7.11%) Risk Management
10 16 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (6.67%) Application Security
11 15 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
12 14 (6.22%) Incident Response
13 13 (5.78%) Red Team
14 12 (5.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.33%) Python
2 11 (4.89%) Go
2 11 (4.89%) Rust
3 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.44%) Java
4 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (19.56%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.11%) CISSP
3 31 (13.78%) SC Cleared
4 25 (11.11%) CISM
5 21 (9.33%) Degree
6 15 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (6.22%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (5.78%) OSCP
9 12 (5.33%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (4.89%) Azure Certification
11 10 (4.44%) AWS Certification
11 10 (4.44%) CCSP
12 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.22%) CRISC
13 4 (1.78%) CISA
13 4 (1.78%) SANS
14 3 (1.33%) GIAC
14 3 (1.33%) ISACA
15 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (12.44%) NIST
3 19 (8.44%) GDPR
4 18 (8.00%) NCSC
5 17 (7.56%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.22%) GRC
8 4 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.33%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.89%) 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 (1.78%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) NLBS
2 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (5.33%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.33%) Terraform
2 6 (2.67%) Ansible
3 5 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.33%) CASB
5 1 (0.44%) Endace
5 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.22%) SAP
3 4 (1.78%) CyberArk
3 4 (1.78%) Oracle
3 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.33%) Cisco
4 3 (1.33%) Google
4 3 (1.33%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.89%) LogRhythm
5 2 (0.89%) Okta
5 2 (0.89%) 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