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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 487 453
Rank change year-on-year +199 -34 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 623 147 323
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.37% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 448 105 180
10th Percentile £69,250 £62,500 £59,525
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,333 £100,000
90th Percentile - £98,250 £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 87,841 39,513 68,517
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 90.67% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 61,676 23,901 47,109
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 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 8 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 +129 226 £95,000 - 136
North of England +57 153 £87,500 +16.67% 37
North West +87 118 £80,000 +6.67% 22
South East +47 110 £76,250 -10.29% 47
Midlands +23 65 £85,000 +2.66% 12
West Midlands +18 53 £85,500 +8.36% 9
South West -35 46 £85,000 +13.33% 21
North East -39 23 £95,000 +27.19%
East of England -15 13 £82,500 -2.94% 10
East Midlands -12 12 £50,000 -41.18% 3
Yorkshire -38 12 £91,216 +25.81% 15
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 249 (39.97%) Cybersecurity
2 195 (31.30%) Security Architecture
3 148 (23.76%) Security Cleared
4 122 (19.58%) Microsoft
5 109 (17.50%) Cloud Security
6 106 (17.01%) Azure
7 98 (15.73%) NIST
8 95 (15.25%) SC Cleared
9 92 (14.77%) Threat Modelling
10 91 (14.61%) AWS
11 80 (12.84%) Application Security
12 78 (12.52%) CISSP
13 77 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 70 (11.24%) DevSecOps
15 61 (9.79%) Identity Access Management
16 60 (9.63%) AI
17 57 (9.15%) SIEM
18 53 (8.51%) CI/CD
19 50 (8.03%) TOGAF
20 49 (7.87%) Network Security
20 49 (7.87%) SDLC
21 47 (7.54%) GRC
21 47 (7.54%) Information Security
22 45 (7.22%) GCP
22 45 (7.22%) SABSA
23 44 (7.06%) CISM
23 44 (7.06%) Technology Strategy
24 42 (6.74%) Agile
25 40 (6.42%) DV Cleared
25 40 (6.42%) 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 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (17.01%) Azure
2 91 (14.61%) AWS
3 45 (7.22%) GCP
4 40 (6.42%) SaaS
5 34 (5.46%) Serverless
6 13 (2.09%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (0.96%) OCI
10 5 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (0.80%) GitHub
10 5 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.80%) IaaS
10 5 (0.80%) PaaS
10 5 (0.80%) Pulumi
11 4 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.48%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.48%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.87%) Network Security
2 27 (4.33%) Firewall
3 26 (4.17%) DNS
4 24 (3.85%) VPN
5 12 (1.93%) DHCP
5 12 (1.93%) WAN
6 11 (1.77%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.61%) BGP
7 10 (1.61%) FTP
7 10 (1.61%) HTTP
7 10 (1.61%) ICMP
7 10 (1.61%) IPsec
7 10 (1.61%) MPLS
7 10 (1.61%) SNMP
7 10 (1.61%) SSH
7 10 (1.61%) SSL
7 10 (1.61%) VLAN
8 6 (0.96%) Broadband
9 5 (0.80%) DSL
10 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.48%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (4.01%) Snyk
2 7 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.80%) GitLab
3 5 (0.80%) Yeoman
4 2 (0.32%) Git
General
1 60 (9.63%) Social Skills
2 46 (7.38%) Public Sector
3 45 (7.22%) Finance
4 44 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (4.33%) Law
6 19 (3.05%) Banking
7 16 (2.57%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.09%) Legal
9 12 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.77%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.44%) Games
12 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Advertising
13 2 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.32%) Marketing
13 2 (0.32%) Military
14 1 (0.16%) French Language
14 1 (0.16%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.16%) Local Government
14 1 (0.16%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.73%) OAuth
2 16 (2.57%) SAML
3 14 (2.25%) LDAP
3 14 (2.25%) Regular Expression
4 12 (1.93%) XMPP
5 7 (1.12%) OpenID
6 5 (0.80%) AWS CDK
7 4 (0.64%) 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 (4.33%) Data Centre
2 21 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.41%) Operational Technology
5 12 (1.93%) PKI
6 11 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (1.61%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 10 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.64%) CCTV
8 4 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.48%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.32%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.32%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.16%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.69%) Linux
2 22 (3.53%) Windows
3 18 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (39.97%) Cybersecurity
2 195 (31.30%) Security Architecture
3 109 (17.50%) Cloud Security
4 92 (14.77%) Threat Modelling
5 80 (12.84%) Application Security
6 70 (11.24%) DevSecOps
7 61 (9.79%) Identity Access Management
8 60 (9.63%) AI
9 57 (9.15%) SIEM
10 53 (8.51%) CI/CD
11 50 (8.03%) TOGAF
12 49 (7.87%) SDLC
13 47 (7.54%) Information Security
14 45 (7.22%) SABSA
15 44 (7.06%) Technology Strategy
16 42 (6.74%) Agile
17 36 (5.78%) Validation
17 36 (5.78%) Zero Trust
18 35 (5.62%) Roadmaps
19 34 (5.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (1.44%) Python
2 5 (0.80%) Go
2 5 (0.80%) Rust
3 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.48%) SQL
4 3 (0.48%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 95 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 78 (12.52%) CISSP
4 44 (7.06%) CISM
5 40 (6.42%) DV Cleared
6 39 (6.26%) Degree
7 28 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 21 (3.37%) CCSP
10 9 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.12%) OSCP
12 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.80%) CRISC
13 5 (0.80%) FFIEC
13 5 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.64%) CISA
14 4 (0.64%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.73%) NIST
2 77 (12.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (7.54%) GRC
4 29 (4.65%) GDPR
5 25 (4.01%) NCSC
6 21 (3.37%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 14 (2.25%) NIST 800
8 10 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.44%) JSP 440
10 8 (1.28%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.64%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.32%) COBIT
12 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.32%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.32%) QA
13 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 34 (5.46%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.57%) vSphere
4 10 (1.61%) Docker
5 1 (0.16%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 24 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (2.57%) MOM
4 13 (2.09%) CASB
5 10 (1.61%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.80%) Terraform
7 2 (0.32%) Ansible
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 122 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.94%) Palo Alto
3 29 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
4 28 (4.49%) Tenable
5 16 (2.57%) VMware
6 15 (2.41%) Cisco
7 12 (1.93%) McAfee
7 12 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.93%) SAP
8 11 (1.77%) Google
9 7 (1.12%) Oracle
10 5 (0.80%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.80%) Workday
11 4 (0.64%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.48%) Barracuda Networks
12 3 (0.48%) N-able
12 3 (0.48%) Okta
12 3 (0.48%) Sophos
13 2 (0.32%) Cribl.io
13 2 (0.32%) Dell