Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £86,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 517 461
Rank change year-on-year +233 -56 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 631 142 327
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.36% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 450 99 182
10th Percentile £69,750 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,738 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,333 £100,000
90th Percentile - £99,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -2.86%

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 88,389 39,568 69,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.60% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62,111 23,903 47,017
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +125 231 £95,000 - 164
North of England +57 155 £87,500 +16.67% 48
North West +79 119 £80,000 +6.67% 35
South East +56 114 £80,000 -5.88% 59
Midlands +30 65 £85,000 +2.66% 16
West Midlands +19 53 £85,500 +8.36% 14
South West -30 43 £85,000 +13.33% 31
North East -43 23 £95,000 +27.19% 1
East of England -20 14 £82,500 -2.94% 12
Yorkshire -28 13 £91,216 +25.81% 13
East Midlands -10 12 £50,000 -41.18% 2
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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.

1 253 (40.10%) Cybersecurity
2 195 (30.90%) Security Architecture
3 149 (23.61%) Security Cleared
4 123 (19.49%) Microsoft
5 108 (17.12%) Cloud Security
6 104 (16.48%) Azure
7 97 (15.37%) NIST
8 92 (14.58%) SC Cleared
9 91 (14.42%) Threat Modelling
10 90 (14.26%) AWS
11 81 (12.84%) Application Security
12 76 (12.04%) CISSP
13 75 (11.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 71 (11.25%) DevSecOps
15 63 (9.98%) AI
16 62 (9.83%) Identity Access Management
17 55 (8.72%) CI/CD
17 55 (8.72%) SIEM
18 50 (7.92%) TOGAF
19 49 (7.77%) Information Security
20 48 (7.61%) Network Security
20 48 (7.61%) SDLC
21 47 (7.45%) GRC
22 45 (7.13%) SABSA
22 45 (7.13%) Technology Strategy
23 44 (6.97%) Agile
23 44 (6.97%) GCP
24 43 (6.81%) DV Cleared
25 41 (6.50%) CISM
26 40 (6.34%) SaaS

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 (0.32%) Apache
Business Applications
1 11 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (16.48%) Azure
2 90 (14.26%) AWS
3 44 (6.97%) GCP
4 40 (6.34%) SaaS
5 35 (5.55%) Serverless
6 13 (2.06%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (0.95%) OCI
9 6 (0.95%) PaaS
10 5 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (0.79%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (0.79%) GitHub
10 5 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.79%) IaaS
10 5 (0.79%) Pulumi
11 3 (0.48%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.48%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.61%) Network Security
2 26 (4.12%) DNS
2 26 (4.12%) Firewall
3 24 (3.80%) VPN
4 12 (1.90%) DHCP
4 12 (1.90%) WAN
5 11 (1.74%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.58%) BGP
6 10 (1.58%) FTP
6 10 (1.58%) HTTP
6 10 (1.58%) ICMP
6 10 (1.58%) IPsec
6 10 (1.58%) MPLS
6 10 (1.58%) SNMP
6 10 (1.58%) SSH
6 10 (1.58%) SSL
6 10 (1.58%) VLAN
7 6 (0.95%) Broadband
8 5 (0.79%) DSL
8 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (3.96%) Snyk
2 7 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.79%) GitLab
3 5 (0.79%) Yeoman
4 2 (0.32%) Git
General
1 63 (9.98%) Social Skills
2 48 (7.61%) Finance
3 46 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (7.13%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.60%) Law
6 21 (3.33%) Banking
7 15 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.22%) Legal
9 13 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.58%) Games
12 5 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.32%) Military
15 1 (0.16%) French Language
15 1 (0.16%) German Language
15 1 (0.16%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.16%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.69%) OAuth
2 16 (2.54%) SAML
3 14 (2.22%) LDAP
3 14 (2.22%) Regular Expression
4 12 (1.90%) XMPP
5 7 (1.11%) OpenID
6 5 (0.79%) AWS CDK
7 4 (0.63%) JWT
8 3 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.48%) Kafka
8 3 (0.48%) Node.js
9 2 (0.32%) JSON
9 2 (0.32%) JSON Schema
9 2 (0.32%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.32%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.28%) Data Centre
2 22 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.38%) Operational Technology
5 11 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.74%) PKI
6 10 (1.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 10 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.58%) Security Posture
7 4 (0.63%) CCTV
7 4 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.48%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.48%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.32%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.16%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.16%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.49%) Linux
2 21 (3.33%) Windows
3 18 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (40.10%) Cybersecurity
2 195 (30.90%) Security Architecture
3 108 (17.12%) Cloud Security
4 91 (14.42%) Threat Modelling
5 81 (12.84%) Application Security
6 71 (11.25%) DevSecOps
7 63 (9.98%) AI
8 62 (9.83%) Identity Access Management
9 55 (8.72%) CI/CD
9 55 (8.72%) SIEM
10 50 (7.92%) TOGAF
11 49 (7.77%) Information Security
12 48 (7.61%) SDLC
13 45 (7.13%) SABSA
13 45 (7.13%) Technology Strategy
14 44 (6.97%) Agile
15 37 (5.86%) Validation
16 36 (5.71%) Zero Trust
17 34 (5.39%) Roadmaps
17 34 (5.39%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (1.43%) Python
2 5 (0.79%) Go
2 5 (0.79%) Rust
3 4 (0.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.48%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 92 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.04%) CISSP
4 43 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 41 (6.50%) CISM
6 39 (6.18%) Degree
7 26 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (3.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 19 (3.01%) CCSP
10 10 (1.58%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.27%) OSCP
12 7 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.79%) CRISC
14 5 (0.79%) FFIEC
14 5 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.63%) GCIH
15 4 (0.63%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (15.37%) NIST
2 75 (11.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (7.45%) GRC
4 31 (4.91%) GDPR
5 25 (3.96%) NCSC
6 19 (3.01%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 14 (2.22%) NIST 800
8 9 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.43%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (1.11%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.63%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.48%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.32%) COBIT
13 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.32%) HITRUST
13 2 (0.32%) QA
14 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (5.55%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.54%) vSphere
4 10 (1.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.54%) MOM
2 16 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (2.22%) CASB
4 10 (1.58%) FortiGate
5 5 (0.79%) Terraform
6 2 (0.32%) Ansible
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 123 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.02%) Palo Alto
3 29 (4.60%) CrowdStrike
4 28 (4.44%) Tenable
5 16 (2.54%) VMware
6 14 (2.22%) Cisco
7 12 (1.90%) McAfee
7 12 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.90%) SAP
8 11 (1.74%) Google
9 7 (1.11%) Oracle
10 6 (0.95%) Workday
11 5 (0.79%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.48%) Barracuda Networks
13 3 (0.48%) N-able
13 3 (0.48%) Okta
13 3 (0.48%) Sophos
14 2 (0.32%) Cribl.io
14 2 (0.32%) Zscaler