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 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 453 274
Rank change year-on-year -123 -179 +370
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 121 450 937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.50% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.53% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 91 282 267
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £58,916
25th Percentile £68,119 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £89,375 £92,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +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 47,366 84,988 69,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 94.67% 91.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,430 61,085 48,189
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 16 July 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 16 July 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 40 £95,000 +5.56% 45
North of England +2 38 £75,000 -6.06% 29
North West -21 19 £75,000 -4.18% 13
South East -6 16 £87,500 +25.00% 41
Midlands +25 11 £78,901 +0.80% 5
West Midlands +38 10 £78,901 +12.72% 4
Yorkshire +23 10 £70,000 -15.07% 7
South West +55 9 £75,000 -4.18% 25
North East +46 9 £69,384 -13.10% 9
East Midlands +25 1 - - 1
East of England -1 1 - - 6
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 57 (47.11%) Security Architecture
2 54 (44.63%) Cybersecurity
3 49 (40.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (38.84%) NIST
5 41 (33.88%) Information Security
6 40 (33.06%) CISSP
7 37 (30.58%) Cloud Security
8 36 (29.75%) Risk Management
9 35 (28.93%) Enterprise Architecture
10 32 (26.45%) Social Skills
11 30 (24.79%) Security Cleared
12 28 (23.14%) Azure
13 25 (20.66%) AWS
13 25 (20.66%) GDPR
13 25 (20.66%) Degree
13 25 (20.66%) Roadmaps
14 24 (19.83%) Finance
14 24 (19.83%) CISM
15 23 (19.01%) Firewall
15 23 (19.01%) SABSA
16 22 (18.18%) SaaS
16 22 (18.18%) Network Security
17 21 (17.36%) TOGAF
17 21 (17.36%) Management Information System
17 21 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
18 20 (16.53%) NCSC
19 17 (14.05%) IaaS
19 17 (14.05%) Agile
20 16 (13.22%) DevOps

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 3 (2.48%) nginx
2 2 (1.65%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.14%) Azure
2 25 (20.66%) AWS
3 22 (18.18%) SaaS
4 17 (14.05%) IaaS
5 14 (11.57%) GCP
6 8 (6.61%) PaaS
7 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.48%) GitHub
9 3 (2.48%) Miro
9 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.65%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.65%) OCI
10 2 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.01%) Firewall
2 22 (18.18%) Network Security
3 10 (8.26%) VPN
4 9 (7.44%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (4.13%) DNS
6 3 (2.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (2.48%) S/MIME
6 3 (2.48%) SSL
6 3 (2.48%) X.509
7 2 (1.65%) DMZ
7 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.83%) TACACS
8 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.48%) GitLab
1 3 (2.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 32 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Finance
3 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.61%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (4.96%) Back Office
5 6 (4.96%) Legal
6 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Banking
8 3 (2.48%) Law
8 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.65%) Automotive
9 2 (1.65%) Local Government
9 2 (1.65%) Military
9 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) EJB
1 3 (2.48%) LDAP
1 3 (2.48%) RESTful
1 3 (2.48%) SAML
2 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.83%) EDI
2 1 (0.83%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.83%) LangChain
2 1 (0.83%) Leaflet
2 1 (0.83%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.83%) REST
2 1 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.36%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.57%) Security Posture
3 10 (8.26%) Data Centre
3 10 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (7.44%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.79%) Operational Technology
6 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.96%) PKI
6 6 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.96%) Social Media
6 6 (4.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (4.13%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (4.13%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.48%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.48%) Machine to Machine
9 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Windows
2 6 (4.96%) Windows Vista
3 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.65%) Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (47.11%) Security Architecture
2 54 (44.63%) Cybersecurity
3 41 (33.88%) Information Security
4 37 (30.58%) Cloud Security
5 36 (29.75%) Risk Management
6 35 (28.93%) Enterprise Architecture
7 25 (20.66%) Roadmaps
8 23 (19.01%) SABSA
9 21 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (17.36%) TOGAF
10 17 (14.05%) Agile
11 16 (13.22%) DevOps
12 15 (12.40%) Information Assurance
12 15 (12.40%) Security Management
13 14 (11.57%) Risk Analysis
13 14 (11.57%) Risk Assessment
13 14 (11.57%) SIEM
14 13 (10.74%) Mentoring
14 13 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.74%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
1 3 (2.48%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (33.06%) CISSP
2 30 (24.79%) Security Cleared
3 25 (20.66%) Degree
4 24 (19.83%) CISM
5 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
6 15 (12.40%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (11.57%) CISA
7 14 (11.57%) DV Cleared
8 11 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (8.26%) CRISC
9 10 (8.26%) SANS
10 8 (6.61%) CEH
10 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
12 6 (4.96%) DBS Check
13 5 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (4.13%) FFIEC
13 5 (4.13%) GIAC
14 4 (3.31%) CCNP
15 3 (2.48%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (40.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (38.84%) NIST
3 25 (20.66%) GDPR
4 20 (16.53%) NCSC
5 9 (7.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (6.61%) NIST 800
7 6 (4.96%) PCI DSS
7 6 (4.96%) SOC 2
8 5 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (4.13%) QA
9 3 (2.48%) COBIT
9 3 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.83%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.44%) Terraform
2 4 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.48%) Puppet
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.13%) Google
4 3 (2.48%) Alibaba
4 3 (2.48%) F5
4 3 (2.48%) Thales
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco
5 1 (0.83%) Graphcore
5 1 (0.83%) Juniper
5 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.83%) SAP