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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 492 446
Rank change year-on-year +217 -46 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 590 146 388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 0.34% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.37% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 425 103 242
10th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £68,750
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 £95,000
90th Percentile - £98,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -5.88%

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 84,315 39,258 74,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 90.67% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 59,202 23,759 52,740
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +118 205 £95,000 - 75
North of England +65 148 £88,000 +17.33% 21
North West +77 114 £87,500 +16.67% 14
South East +39 104 £72,500 -14.71% 47
Midlands +13 64 £85,000 +1.31% 5
West Midlands +18 53 £85,500 +3.26% 4
South West -29 46 £85,000 +13.33% 7
North East -37 23 £95,000 +27.19%
East of England -2 12 £82,500 -2.94% 3
East Midlands -22 11 £50,000 -41.18% 1
Yorkshire -41 11 £87,431 +20.59% 7
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 233 (39.49%) Cybersecurity
2 178 (30.17%) Security Architecture
3 137 (23.22%) Security Cleared
4 119 (20.17%) Microsoft
5 104 (17.63%) Cloud Security
6 100 (16.95%) Azure
7 91 (15.42%) NIST
8 90 (15.25%) SC Cleared
8 90 (15.25%) Threat Modelling
9 88 (14.92%) AWS
10 78 (13.22%) CISSP
11 75 (12.71%) Application Security
12 74 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 63 (10.68%) DevSecOps
14 57 (9.66%) Identity Access Management
15 56 (9.49%) SIEM
16 53 (8.98%) AI
17 49 (8.31%) CI/CD
17 49 (8.31%) TOGAF
18 48 (8.14%) SDLC
19 45 (7.63%) Information Security
20 44 (7.46%) CISM
20 44 (7.46%) SABSA
21 43 (7.29%) GCP
21 43 (7.29%) Network Security
22 42 (7.12%) GRC
22 42 (7.12%) Technology Strategy
23 39 (6.61%) Degree
23 39 (6.61%) DV Cleared
24 36 (6.10%) Agile

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 1 (0.17%) Apache
Business Applications
1 11 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (16.95%) Azure
2 88 (14.92%) AWS
3 43 (7.29%) GCP
4 36 (6.10%) Serverless
5 35 (5.93%) SaaS
6 14 (2.37%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.19%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (1.19%) GitHub
9 7 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.19%) Pulumi
10 6 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.85%) OCI
12 3 (0.51%) IaaS
12 3 (0.51%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.51%) PaaS
12 3 (0.51%) Vertex AI
13 2 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.29%) Network Security
2 26 (4.41%) DNS
2 26 (4.41%) Firewall
3 24 (4.07%) VPN
4 12 (2.03%) DHCP
4 12 (2.03%) WAN
5 11 (1.86%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.69%) BGP
6 10 (1.69%) FTP
6 10 (1.69%) HTTP
6 10 (1.69%) ICMP
6 10 (1.69%) IPsec
6 10 (1.69%) MPLS
6 10 (1.69%) SNMP
6 10 (1.69%) SSH
6 10 (1.69%) SSL
6 10 (1.69%) VLAN
7 7 (1.19%) DSL
8 6 (1.02%) Broadband
9 3 (0.51%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (4.24%) Snyk
2 9 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.19%) GitLab
4 5 (0.85%) Yeoman
5 2 (0.34%) Git
General
1 50 (8.47%) Social Skills
2 46 (7.80%) Public Sector
3 41 (6.95%) Finance
4 38 (6.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.07%) Law
6 19 (3.22%) Banking
7 15 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (1.86%) Legal
9 9 (1.53%) Games
9 9 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.36%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.34%) Advertising
12 2 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.34%) Retail
13 1 (0.17%) French Language
13 1 (0.17%) German Language
13 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.17%) Military
13 1 (0.17%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.88%) OAuth
2 16 (2.71%) SAML
3 14 (2.37%) LDAP
3 14 (2.37%) Regular Expression
4 12 (2.03%) XMPP
5 7 (1.19%) AWS CDK
5 7 (1.19%) OpenID
6 4 (0.68%) JWT
7 2 (0.34%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.34%) JSON
7 2 (0.34%) JSON Schema
7 2 (0.34%) Kafka
7 2 (0.34%) Node.js
7 2 (0.34%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.34%) XML
8 1 (0.17%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.58%) Data Centre
2 19 (3.22%) Cloud Native
3 15 (2.54%) Operational Technology
4 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 9 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.53%) PKI
8 8 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.68%) CCTV
9 4 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.51%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.34%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.34%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.90%) Linux
2 22 (3.73%) Windows
3 18 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (39.49%) Cybersecurity
2 178 (30.17%) Security Architecture
3 104 (17.63%) Cloud Security
4 90 (15.25%) Threat Modelling
5 75 (12.71%) Application Security
6 63 (10.68%) DevSecOps
7 57 (9.66%) Identity Access Management
8 56 (9.49%) SIEM
9 53 (8.98%) AI
10 49 (8.31%) CI/CD
10 49 (8.31%) TOGAF
11 48 (8.14%) SDLC
12 45 (7.63%) Information Security
13 44 (7.46%) SABSA
14 42 (7.12%) Technology Strategy
15 36 (6.10%) Agile
15 36 (6.10%) Validation
16 34 (5.76%) Zero Trust
17 32 (5.42%) Vulnerability Management
18 31 (5.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (1.86%) Python
2 7 (1.19%) Go
2 7 (1.19%) Rust
3 4 (0.68%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.51%) SQL
5 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 137 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 78 (13.22%) CISSP
4 44 (7.46%) CISM
5 39 (6.61%) Degree
5 39 (6.61%) DV Cleared
6 28 (4.75%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (4.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 21 (3.56%) CCSP
9 8 (1.36%) OSCP
9 8 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.19%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.85%) FFIEC
11 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.68%) CCSK
12 4 (0.68%) CRISC
12 4 (0.68%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (15.42%) NIST
2 74 (12.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (7.12%) GRC
4 26 (4.41%) GDPR
5 22 (3.73%) NCSC
6 21 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 12 (2.03%) NIST 800
9 10 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.53%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.68%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.34%) COBIT
13 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) HITRUST
13 2 (0.34%) QA
14 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 34 (5.76%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.71%) vSphere
4 9 (1.53%) Docker
5 1 (0.17%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 24 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.71%) MOM
3 15 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (2.20%) CASB
5 10 (1.69%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.19%) Terraform
7 2 (0.34%) Ansible
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 119 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.10%) Palo Alto
3 28 (4.75%) CrowdStrike
4 27 (4.58%) Tenable
5 16 (2.71%) VMware
6 15 (2.54%) Cisco
7 12 (2.03%) McAfee
7 12 (2.03%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.03%) SAP
8 8 (1.36%) Google
9 6 (1.02%) Oracle
10 5 (0.85%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.68%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.51%) Barracuda Networks
12 3 (0.51%) N-able
12 3 (0.51%) Okta
12 3 (0.51%) Sophos
13 2 (0.34%) Cribl.io
13 2 (0.34%) Dell
13 2 (0.34%) Workday