Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 463 394
Rank change year-on-year -44 -69 +221
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 144 313 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.45% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.48% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 102 161 224
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £68,718
25th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £88,333 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +9.38%

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 39,065 65,689 50,712
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 95.18% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 39,893 39,224
10th Percentile £28,260 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Security Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Security Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Architect 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +42 46 £100,000 - 21
North of England +15 39 £75,000 -14.29% 13
South East -12 22 £85,000 +13.33% 17
North West -1 15 £75,000 +9.04% 6
Midlands +24 14 £78,901 -5.79% 2
Yorkshire +23 13 £75,000 -14.29% 7
West Midlands +26 12 £75,000 +20.00% 1
North East +28 11 £74,692 -
South West +62 9 £77,500 -3.13% 10
East of England -51 4 £75,000 -11.76% 3
East Midlands +26 2 £85,000 - 1
Security Architect
UK

Security Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Security Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Security Architect in the job title.

1 82 (56.94%) Security Architecture
2 65 (45.14%) CISSP
3 64 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
4 58 (40.28%) Cloud Security
5 57 (39.58%) Information Security
6 55 (38.19%) SABSA
7 54 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (36.11%) Social Skills
9 49 (34.03%) CISM
9 49 (34.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 48 (33.33%) TOGAF
11 45 (31.25%) NIST
12 35 (24.31%) Decision-Making
13 33 (22.92%) Security Cleared
13 33 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (22.22%) Design Patterns
15 31 (21.53%) Architecture Governance
15 31 (21.53%) Azure
16 30 (20.83%) Data Protection
16 30 (20.83%) Risk Management
16 30 (20.83%) TOGAF Certification
16 30 (20.83%) Roadmaps
17 29 (20.14%) Finance
18 28 (19.44%) DBS Check
18 28 (19.44%) Strategic Thinking
18 28 (19.44%) GRC
19 27 (18.75%) SC Cleared
20 26 (18.06%) AWS
21 25 (17.36%) Network Security
21 25 (17.36%) NCSC

Security Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.08%) nginx
2 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.53%) Azure
2 26 (18.06%) AWS
3 21 (14.58%) SaaS
4 16 (11.11%) IaaS
5 14 (9.72%) GCP
6 7 (4.86%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.86%) PaaS
7 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.08%) GitHub
9 3 (2.08%) Miro
9 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.39%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.39%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.39%) OCI
10 2 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.36%) Network Security
2 14 (9.72%) Firewall
3 9 (6.25%) VPN
4 4 (2.78%) DNS
5 3 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (2.08%) S/MIME
5 3 (2.08%) SSL
5 3 (2.08%) X.509
6 2 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.39%) WAN
7 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.69%) DMZ
7 1 (0.69%) LAN
7 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.69%) TACACS
7 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.08%) GitLab
1 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) MLflow
General
1 52 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.14%) Finance
3 11 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.86%) Banking
5 7 (4.86%) Legal
6 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.47%) Back Office
8 4 (2.78%) Law
8 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.08%) Electronics
9 3 (2.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.39%) Military
11 1 (0.69%) Local Government
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.08%) EJB
1 3 (2.08%) RESTful
2 2 (1.39%) EDI
2 2 (1.39%) LDAP
2 2 (1.39%) SAML
3 1 (0.69%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.69%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.69%) LangChain
3 1 (0.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (7.64%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.64%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.94%) Public Cloud
3 10 (6.94%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.25%) Operational Technology
5 6 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.17%) PKI
6 5 (3.47%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (3.47%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.08%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.08%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.69%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.08%) Windows
2 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (56.94%) Security Architecture
2 64 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
3 58 (40.28%) Cloud Security
4 57 (39.58%) Information Security
5 55 (38.19%) SABSA
6 54 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (33.33%) TOGAF
8 35 (24.31%) Decision-Making
9 33 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (22.22%) Design Patterns
11 31 (21.53%) Architecture Governance
12 30 (20.83%) Data Protection
12 30 (20.83%) Risk Management
12 30 (20.83%) Roadmaps
13 28 (19.44%) Strategic Thinking
14 17 (11.81%) DevOps
15 16 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
16 15 (10.42%) SDLC
16 15 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (10.42%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 65 (45.14%) CISSP
2 49 (34.03%) CISM
3 33 (22.92%) Security Cleared
4 30 (20.83%) TOGAF Certification
5 28 (19.44%) DBS Check
6 27 (18.75%) SC Cleared
7 20 (13.89%) Degree
8 14 (9.72%) DV Cleared
9 11 (7.64%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (7.64%) CRISC
10 9 (6.25%) CISA
10 9 (6.25%) SANS
11 7 (4.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (3.47%) FFIEC
14 4 (2.78%) Azure Certification
14 4 (2.78%) CCNP
14 4 (2.78%) CCSP
14 4 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (2.78%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (34.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (31.25%) NIST
3 28 (19.44%) GRC
4 25 (17.36%) NCSC
5 18 (12.50%) GDPR
6 9 (6.25%) NIST 800
7 6 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (3.47%) PCI DSS
8 5 (3.47%) QA
8 5 (3.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.69%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.69%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 5 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.25%) Terraform
2 4 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.08%) Ansible
3 3 (2.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (2.08%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.08%) Puppet
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.69%) Endace
5 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.47%) Google
4 3 (2.08%) Alibaba
4 3 (2.08%) F5
4 3 (2.08%) SAP
4 3 (2.08%) Thales
5 2 (1.39%) Cisco
5 2 (1.39%) Juniper
5 2 (1.39%) Tenable
6 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) Varonis