Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 October 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 418 407
Rank change year-on-year -80 -11 +131
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 136 331 304
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 0.54% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.57% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 95 121 173
10th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,100
25th Percentile £68,125 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% - -
75th Percentile £88,333 £91,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,750 £121,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +3.03% -

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 39,098 58,027 46,798
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 95.14% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 23,995 32,974 36,179
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,516 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 -23 43 £105,000 +11.11% 36
North of England +17 31 £75,000 -14.29% 7
South East -9 19 £85,000 +24.09% 32
South West +50 16 £70,000 -11.11% 17
Midlands +24 13 £77,500 -16.22% 5
West Midlands +30 11 £75,000 -18.92% 5
Yorkshire +11 11 £75,000 -14.29% 2
North West +10 11 £75,000 -9.09% 4
North East +16 9 £74,692 - 1
East of England -44 4 £75,000 -11.76% 1
East Midlands +14 2 £85,000 -6.85%
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 October 2025, 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 80 (58.82%) Security Architecture
2 59 (43.38%) Enterprise Architecture
3 58 (42.65%) CISSP
4 57 (41.91%) SABSA
5 51 (37.50%) Information Security
6 50 (36.76%) Cloud Security
7 49 (36.03%) TOGAF
8 47 (34.56%) CISM
8 47 (34.56%) Cybersecurity
9 43 (31.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 39 (28.68%) NIST
11 36 (26.47%) Decision-Making
12 33 (24.26%) Security Cleared
13 32 (23.53%) Data Protection
13 32 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (22.79%) Roadmaps
14 31 (22.79%) TOGAF Certification
15 30 (22.06%) Architecture Governance
15 30 (22.06%) Design Patterns
15 30 (22.06%) GRC
16 28 (20.59%) DBS Check
16 28 (20.59%) Strategic Thinking
17 27 (19.85%) SC Cleared
18 26 (19.12%) Azure
18 26 (19.12%) Risk Management
19 25 (18.38%) NCSC
20 23 (16.91%) Network Security
21 22 (16.18%) AWS
21 22 (16.18%) Threat Modelling
22 20 (14.71%) Architectural Patterns

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 (2.21%) nginx
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.12%) Azure
2 22 (16.18%) AWS
3 12 (8.82%) SaaS
4 11 (8.09%) IaaS
5 9 (6.62%) GCP
6 5 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.94%) PaaS
8 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.47%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.47%) OCI
10 1 (0.74%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.91%) Network Security
2 9 (6.62%) Firewall
3 5 (3.68%) VPN
4 3 (2.21%) DNS
4 3 (2.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (1.47%) S/MIME
5 2 (1.47%) SSL
5 2 (1.47%) X.509
6 1 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.74%) LAN
6 1 (0.74%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.21%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 55 (40.44%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Finance
3 11 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.88%) Banking
5 8 (5.88%) Legal
6 6 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.21%) Back Office
7 3 (2.21%) Electronics
7 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.21%) Marketing
7 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.47%) Law
8 2 (1.47%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.47%) EDI
1 2 (1.47%) EJB
2 1 (0.74%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.74%) LangChain
2 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (6.62%) Public Cloud
3 8 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.15%) Operational Technology
4 7 (5.15%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.68%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.94%) PKI
8 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.74%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
1 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (58.82%) Security Architecture
2 59 (43.38%) Enterprise Architecture
3 57 (41.91%) SABSA
4 51 (37.50%) Information Security
5 50 (36.76%) Cloud Security
6 49 (36.03%) TOGAF
7 47 (34.56%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (26.47%) Decision-Making
9 32 (23.53%) Data Protection
9 32 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (22.79%) Roadmaps
11 30 (22.06%) Architecture Governance
11 30 (22.06%) Design Patterns
12 28 (20.59%) Strategic Thinking
13 26 (19.12%) Risk Management
14 22 (16.18%) Threat Modelling
15 20 (14.71%) Architectural Patterns
16 16 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
17 15 (11.03%) Risk Assessment
18 14 (10.29%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 58 (42.65%) CISSP
2 47 (34.56%) CISM
3 33 (24.26%) Security Cleared
4 31 (22.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 28 (20.59%) DBS Check
6 27 (19.85%) SC Cleared
7 15 (11.03%) Degree
8 14 (10.29%) DV Cleared
9 11 (8.09%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (5.88%) SANS
12 7 (5.15%) CISA
12 7 (5.15%) CRISC
13 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
14 4 (2.94%) AWS Certification
14 4 (2.94%) CCSP
14 4 (2.94%) FFIEC
14 4 (2.94%) GIAC
15 3 (2.21%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (31.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (28.68%) NIST
3 30 (22.06%) GRC
4 25 (18.38%) NCSC
5 15 (11.03%) GDPR
6 7 (5.15%) NIST 800
7 5 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 5 (3.68%) QA
8 4 (2.94%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.74%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.74%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.74%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.74%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Terraform
2 4 (2.94%) Ansible
2 4 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.47%) CASB
3 2 (1.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.74%) Endace
Vendors
1 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.21%) F5
2 3 (2.21%) SAP
2 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.47%) CyberArk
3 2 (1.47%) Tenable
3 2 (1.47%) Thales
4 1 (0.74%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (0.74%) Centrify
4 1 (0.74%) Cisco
4 1 (0.74%) Juniper
4 1 (0.74%) LogRhythm
4 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle
4 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.74%) Splunk
4 1 (0.74%) Thycotic
4 1 (0.74%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.74%) Varonis