Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £84,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 431 440
Rank change year-on-year +44 +9 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 280 196 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.57% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 198 70 250
10th Percentile £58,430 £59,231 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £69,649 £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £75,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -6.06% -8.75%
75th Percentile £95,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £84,000 £75,000 £79,842
% change year-on-year +12.00% -6.06% -6.07%

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 60,858 34,668 70,561
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 90.35% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 39,701 21,008 55,609
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +6 111 £90,000 -7.69% 39
North of England -9 62 £80,000 +6.67% 26
South West +12 46 £77,500 +10.71% 11
South East +4 35 £70,000 +7.69% 22
North West -2 35 £87,500 +16.67% 16
Midlands -8 17 £65,000 -27.78% 9
Yorkshire -33 15 £80,000 +23.08% 7
North East -10 12 £75,000 +7.14% 3
East Midlands -27 9 £40,000 -51.52%
West Midlands +2 8 £83,750 -11.84% 9
East of England -30 4 £100,000 +35.14% 2
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 124 (44.29%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (21.43%) Security Architecture
3 57 (20.36%) AWS
4 55 (19.64%) Security Cleared
5 54 (19.29%) Azure
6 47 (16.79%) CISSP
7 41 (14.64%) Threat Modelling
8 40 (14.29%) Cloud Security
9 37 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 34 (12.14%) SC Cleared
11 32 (11.43%) NIST
12 28 (10.00%) TOGAF
13 26 (9.29%) SIEM
14 25 (8.93%) CISM
14 25 (8.93%) Degree
14 25 (8.93%) DevSecOps
14 25 (8.93%) Microsoft
15 24 (8.57%) Application Security
16 23 (8.21%) Cryptography
17 22 (7.86%) SABSA
18 20 (7.14%) DV Cleared
18 20 (7.14%) GDPR
18 20 (7.14%) Incident Response
18 20 (7.14%) PCI DSS
19 18 (6.43%) Risk Management
19 18 (6.43%) Roadmaps
19 18 (6.43%) Zero Trust
20 17 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
20 17 (6.07%) NCSC
21 16 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP

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 (1.07%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (20.36%) AWS
2 54 (19.29%) Azure
3 13 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (4.64%) AWS Step Functions
3 13 (4.64%) GitHub
3 13 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (4.64%) Pulumi
3 13 (4.64%) Serverless
4 12 (4.29%) GCP
5 11 (3.93%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.43%) SaaS
8 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.71%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (0.36%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.00%) Firewall
2 13 (4.64%) DSL
3 9 (3.21%) Network Security
4 6 (2.14%) DNS
5 4 (1.43%) VPN
6 3 (1.07%) Internet
7 2 (0.71%) LAN
7 2 (0.71%) SAN
7 2 (0.71%) VSAN
8 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.36%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) WAN
Development Applications
1 16 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.64%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) JIRA
3 1 (0.36%) Yeoman
General
1 30 (10.71%) Finance
2 26 (9.29%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.79%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (3.93%) Law
6 9 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.86%) Banking
8 7 (2.50%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Games
9 4 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Advertising
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.64%) AWS CDK
2 4 (1.43%) LDAP
2 4 (1.43%) Regular Expression
3 2 (0.71%) JSON
3 2 (0.71%) JSON Schema
3 2 (0.71%) OAuth
3 2 (0.71%) XML
3 2 (0.71%) XMPP
4 1 (0.36%) JWT
4 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.36%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.00%) PKI
3 12 (4.29%) Operational Technology
4 8 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.07%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.36%) DataPower
7 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.36%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.57%) Windows
2 8 (2.86%) Linux
2 8 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (44.29%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (21.43%) Security Architecture
3 41 (14.64%) Threat Modelling
4 40 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 28 (10.00%) TOGAF
6 26 (9.29%) SIEM
7 25 (8.93%) DevSecOps
8 24 (8.57%) Application Security
9 23 (8.21%) Cryptography
10 22 (7.86%) SABSA
11 20 (7.14%) Incident Response
12 18 (6.43%) Risk Management
12 18 (6.43%) Roadmaps
12 18 (6.43%) Zero Trust
13 17 (6.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (5.71%) CI/CD
14 16 (5.71%) Red Team
14 16 (5.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 15 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (5.36%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.71%) Python
2 13 (4.64%) Go
2 13 (4.64%) Rust
3 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.36%) Java
5 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.79%) CISSP
3 34 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.93%) CISM
4 25 (8.93%) Degree
5 20 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 16 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 16 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (5.36%) OSCP
8 14 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 12 (4.29%) CCSP
10 11 (3.93%) Azure Certification
11 10 (3.57%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.43%) CRISC
12 4 (1.43%) FFIEC
12 4 (1.43%) GCIH
13 3 (1.07%) CEH
13 3 (1.07%) CISA
13 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.07%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (11.43%) NIST
3 20 (7.14%) GDPR
3 20 (7.14%) PCI DSS
4 17 (6.07%) NCSC
5 7 (2.50%) GRC
6 6 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.07%) JSP 440
7 3 (1.07%) PMO
8 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.14%) vSphere
3 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Docker
4 1 (0.36%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 14 (5.00%) Terraform
2 6 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.07%) Ansible
3 3 (1.07%) CASB
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.71%) VxRail
5 1 (0.36%) Endace
5 1 (0.36%) MOM
Vendors
1 25 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.14%) SAP
2 6 (2.14%) VMware
3 4 (1.43%) Cisco
3 4 (1.43%) CyberArk
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle
3 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (1.07%) Google
4 3 (1.07%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.07%) Okta
5 2 (0.71%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.71%) Dell
5 2 (0.71%) LogRhythm
5 2 (0.71%) McAfee
5 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.71%) Tenable
5 2 (0.71%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.36%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Workday