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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 537 447
Rank change year-on-year +254 -90 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 601 114 476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.28% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.31% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 424 85 297
10th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £58,850
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.06% -8.75%
75th Percentile £95,250 £88,333 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -8.57%

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 80,603 36,975 87,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 89.99% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 56,724 21,823 64,513
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,825 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +120 200 £90,000 -5.26% 52
North of England +74 173 £80,000 +6.67% 8
North West +102 126 £80,000 +6.67% 6
South East +55 95 £72,500 -3.33% 34
Midlands +17 63 £85,000 +2.66% 8
West Midlands +19 53 £85,500 +3.26% 7
South West -22 48 £85,000 +13.33% 11
North East -28 28 £95,000 +41.39%
Yorkshire -22 19 £80,000 +14.29% 2
East of England -8 11 £91,250 - 3
East Midlands - 10 £50,000 - 1
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 (41.43%) Cybersecurity
2 166 (27.62%) Security Architecture
3 129 (21.46%) Security Cleared
4 112 (18.64%) Microsoft
5 103 (17.14%) Cloud Security
6 95 (15.81%) Azure
7 89 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
8 87 (14.48%) NIST
9 85 (14.14%) SC Cleared
10 84 (13.98%) AWS
11 80 (13.31%) CISSP
12 75 (12.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 70 (11.65%) Application Security
14 59 (9.82%) DevSecOps
15 56 (9.32%) TOGAF
16 54 (8.99%) Identity Access Management
16 54 (8.99%) SIEM
17 49 (8.15%) AI
18 48 (7.99%) CI/CD
19 47 (7.82%) SDLC
20 46 (7.65%) CISM
21 42 (6.99%) Information Security
21 42 (6.99%) SABSA
22 40 (6.66%) Degree
22 40 (6.66%) DV Cleared
22 40 (6.66%) Technology Strategy
23 39 (6.49%) GCP
23 39 (6.49%) GRC
23 39 (6.49%) Serverless
24 35 (5.82%) Validation

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:

Business Applications
1 11 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (15.81%) Azure
2 84 (13.98%) AWS
3 39 (6.49%) GCP
3 39 (6.49%) Serverless
4 29 (4.83%) SaaS
5 16 (2.66%) Entra ID
6 11 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (1.83%) GitHub
6 11 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (1.83%) Pulumi
7 8 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (0.83%) OCI
9 3 (0.50%) IaaS
9 3 (0.50%) Mimecast
9 3 (0.50%) PaaS
9 3 (0.50%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.66%) Network Security
2 27 (4.49%) DNS
3 24 (3.99%) Firewall
4 20 (3.33%) VPN
5 11 (1.83%) DHCP
5 11 (1.83%) DSL
6 9 (1.50%) BGP
6 9 (1.50%) FTP
6 9 (1.50%) HTTP
6 9 (1.50%) ICMP
6 9 (1.50%) IPsec
6 9 (1.50%) MPLS
6 9 (1.50%) SD-WAN
6 9 (1.50%) SNMP
6 9 (1.50%) SSH
6 9 (1.50%) SSL
6 9 (1.50%) VLAN
6 9 (1.50%) WAN
7 6 (1.00%) Broadband
8 3 (0.50%) Internet
Development Applications
1 25 (4.16%) Snyk
2 13 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.83%) GitLab
4 5 (0.83%) Yeoman
5 2 (0.33%) Git
General
1 47 (7.82%) Public Sector
1 47 (7.82%) Social Skills
2 35 (5.82%) Finance
2 35 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (4.33%) Law
4 19 (3.16%) Banking
5 18 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (1.83%) Legal
8 8 (1.33%) Games
9 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.33%) Advertising
12 2 (0.33%) Retail
13 1 (0.17%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.17%) Military
13 1 (0.17%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.66%) OAuth
2 15 (2.50%) SAML
3 14 (2.33%) LDAP
3 14 (2.33%) Regular Expression
4 12 (2.00%) XMPP
5 11 (1.83%) AWS CDK
6 7 (1.16%) OpenID
7 4 (0.67%) JWT
8 2 (0.33%) JSON
8 2 (0.33%) JSON Schema
8 2 (0.33%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.49%) Data Centre
2 23 (3.83%) Operational Technology
3 22 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.00%) PKI
5 9 (1.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (1.50%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.67%) CCTV
9 3 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.50%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.33%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.33%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.33%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.17%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.83%) Linux
2 22 (3.66%) Windows
3 18 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (41.43%) Cybersecurity
2 166 (27.62%) Security Architecture
3 103 (17.14%) Cloud Security
4 89 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
5 70 (11.65%) Application Security
6 59 (9.82%) DevSecOps
7 56 (9.32%) TOGAF
8 54 (8.99%) Identity Access Management
8 54 (8.99%) SIEM
9 49 (8.15%) AI
10 48 (7.99%) CI/CD
11 47 (7.82%) SDLC
12 42 (6.99%) Information Security
12 42 (6.99%) SABSA
13 40 (6.66%) Technology Strategy
14 35 (5.82%) Validation
15 33 (5.49%) Incident Response
16 31 (5.16%) Architectural Patterns
17 30 (4.99%) Vulnerability Management
18 29 (4.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.16%) Python
2 11 (1.83%) Go
2 11 (1.83%) Rust
3 4 (0.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.50%) SQL
5 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 85 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.31%) CISSP
4 46 (7.65%) CISM
5 40 (6.66%) Degree
5 40 (6.66%) DV Cleared
6 27 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (4.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (3.33%) CCSP
9 13 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (1.83%) OSCP
11 8 (1.33%) CRISC
12 7 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.16%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.16%) FFIEC
12 7 (1.16%) ISACA
13 4 (0.67%) CCSK
13 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.50%) CISA
15 2 (0.33%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (14.48%) NIST
2 75 (12.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (6.49%) GRC
4 27 (4.49%) GDPR
5 26 (4.33%) PCI DSS
6 23 (3.83%) NCSC
7 11 (1.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 10 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (1.33%) NIST 800
11 7 (1.16%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.83%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.67%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.50%) PMO
15 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.33%) QA
16 1 (0.17%) COBIT
16 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 33 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
2 24 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.66%) vSphere
4 5 (0.83%) Docker
5 1 (0.17%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 23 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.66%) MOM
3 12 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.83%) Terraform
5 9 (1.50%) CASB
5 9 (1.50%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.33%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 112 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.66%) Palo Alto
3 28 (4.66%) CrowdStrike
4 27 (4.49%) Tenable
5 16 (2.66%) VMware
6 14 (2.33%) SAP
7 13 (2.16%) Cisco
8 12 (2.00%) McAfee
8 12 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.33%) Google
10 6 (1.00%) Oracle
11 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.67%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.50%) Barracuda Networks
12 3 (0.50%) N-able
12 3 (0.50%) Okta
12 3 (0.50%) Sophos
13 2 (0.33%) Cribl.io
13 2 (0.33%) Dell
14 1 (0.17%) Juniper