Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £86,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 499 498
Rank change year-on-year +205 -1 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 661 136 260
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.35% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 424 96 136
10th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £60,625
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,750 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.82% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,333 £91,250
90th Percentile - £110,625 £117,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% -

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 96,749 38,808 60,512
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 90.55% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,708 23,182 34,779
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +126 270 £100,000 -4.76% 44
South East +59 138 £85,000 - 11
North of England +30 135 £80,000 +6.67% 9
North West +65 108 £75,000 - 6
Midlands -1 55 £88,000 +17.33% 9
West Midlands -12 44 £100,000 +33.33% 7
South West -51 35 £85,000 +19.05% 13
East of England -27 21 £75,000 - 1
North East -59 14 £100,000 +25.00%
Yorkshire -35 13 £80,000 +6.67% 3
East Midlands -18 11 £76,590 -9.89% 2
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 261 (39.49%) Cybersecurity
2 236 (35.70%) Security Architecture
3 186 (28.14%) Security Cleared
4 129 (19.52%) Microsoft
5 124 (18.76%) Azure
6 121 (18.31%) NIST
7 119 (18.00%) Cloud Security
8 107 (16.19%) CISSP
9 106 (16.04%) SC Cleared
10 100 (15.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 85 (12.86%) Threat Modelling
12 84 (12.71%) Identity Access Management
13 78 (11.80%) AWS
13 78 (11.80%) Zero Trust
14 76 (11.50%) SABSA
15 74 (11.20%) AI
15 74 (11.20%) Architectural Patterns
15 74 (11.20%) TOGAF
16 69 (10.44%) DV Cleared
17 66 (9.98%) Network Security
18 65 (9.83%) Information Security
19 64 (9.68%) Application Security
19 64 (9.68%) DevSecOps
20 59 (8.93%) CISM
21 51 (7.72%) GDPR
22 46 (6.96%) Roadmaps
23 45 (6.81%) SIEM
24 44 (6.66%) Network Segmentation
25 43 (6.51%) Vulnerability Management
26 42 (6.35%) SaaS

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 2 (0.30%) Apache
2 1 (0.15%) Confluence
2 1 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 124 (18.76%) Azure
2 78 (11.80%) AWS
3 42 (6.35%) SaaS
4 39 (5.90%) GCP
5 22 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (2.72%) Serverless
7 14 (2.12%) PaaS
8 12 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.66%) Azure AI
10 10 (1.51%) OCI
11 9 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (1.21%) Azure API Management
13 6 (0.91%) IaaS
14 5 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (0.45%) Azure Functions
16 2 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
16 2 (0.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 2 (0.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 66 (9.98%) Network Security
2 36 (5.45%) Firewall
3 25 (3.78%) VPN
4 19 (2.87%) DNS
5 15 (2.27%) WAN
6 12 (1.82%) DHCP
7 11 (1.66%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.51%) BGP
8 10 (1.51%) FTP
8 10 (1.51%) HTTP
8 10 (1.51%) ICMP
8 10 (1.51%) IPsec
8 10 (1.51%) MPLS
8 10 (1.51%) SNMP
8 10 (1.51%) SSH
8 10 (1.51%) SSL
8 10 (1.51%) VLAN
9 6 (0.91%) Broadband
10 5 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (0.30%) Metadata
3 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (2.12%) Snyk
2 4 (0.61%) Yeoman
3 2 (0.30%) Git
3 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.15%) ERwin
4 1 (0.15%) JIRA
General
1 88 (13.31%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.32%) Finance
3 50 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 40 (6.05%) Aerospace
5 37 (5.60%) Law
6 36 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.84%) Legal
8 21 (3.18%) Banking
9 20 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.82%) Games
12 6 (0.91%) Military
13 4 (0.61%) Marketing
14 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.15%) Financial Institution
16 1 (0.15%) French Language
16 1 (0.15%) Local Government
16 1 (0.15%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.42%) OAuth
1 16 (2.42%) SAML
2 10 (1.51%) ModSecurity
3 7 (1.06%) LDAP
3 7 (1.06%) Regular Expression
3 7 (1.06%) XMPP
4 6 (0.91%) OpenID
5 4 (0.61%) JWT
6 3 (0.45%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.45%) Kafka
6 3 (0.45%) Node.js
7 2 (0.30%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.15%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 24 (3.63%) Data Centre
1 24 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
3 20 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.57%) Security Posture
5 16 (2.42%) Operational Technology
6 10 (1.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 9 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.36%) PKI
8 7 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (0.76%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.61%) CCTV
11 4 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.30%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.15%) Cloud Security Posture
14 1 (0.15%) Insider Threat
14 1 (0.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.82%) Linux
2 9 (1.36%) Windows
3 7 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (39.49%) Cybersecurity
2 236 (35.70%) Security Architecture
3 119 (18.00%) Cloud Security
4 85 (12.86%) Threat Modelling
5 84 (12.71%) Identity Access Management
6 78 (11.80%) Zero Trust
7 76 (11.50%) SABSA
8 74 (11.20%) AI
8 74 (11.20%) Architectural Patterns
8 74 (11.20%) TOGAF
9 65 (9.83%) Information Security
10 64 (9.68%) Application Security
10 64 (9.68%) DevSecOps
11 46 (6.96%) Roadmaps
12 45 (6.81%) SIEM
13 44 (6.66%) Network Segmentation
14 43 (6.51%) Vulnerability Management
15 42 (6.35%) Technology Strategy
16 41 (6.20%) Incident Response
16 41 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (0.91%) Python
2 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
3 1 (0.15%) C
3 1 (0.15%) COBOL
3 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 186 (28.14%) Security Cleared
2 107 (16.19%) CISSP
3 106 (16.04%) SC Cleared
4 69 (10.44%) DV Cleared
5 59 (8.93%) CISM
6 32 (4.84%) Degree
7 31 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (4.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 25 (3.78%) CCSP
10 22 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 20 (3.03%) AWS Certification
12 18 (2.72%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.12%) CESG Certified Professional
14 9 (1.36%) CCSK
14 9 (1.36%) CREST Certified
15 7 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
17 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.61%) CRISC
18 3 (0.45%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (18.31%) NIST
2 100 (15.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (7.72%) GDPR
4 38 (5.75%) NCSC
5 37 (5.60%) GRC
6 16 (2.42%) NIST 800
7 15 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 12 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.51%) SOC 2
10 9 (1.36%) JSP 440
10 9 (1.36%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.91%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.61%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.45%) COBIT
13 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.30%) HITRUST
14 2 (0.30%) QA
15 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 26 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (1.51%) Docker
3 9 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (3.78%) CASB
2 19 (2.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (1.97%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 129 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.90%) Palo Alto
3 19 (2.87%) Cisco
4 16 (2.42%) CrowdStrike
5 15 (2.27%) Tenable
6 13 (1.97%) Zscaler
7 10 (1.51%) Google
7 10 (1.51%) Oracle
7 10 (1.51%) Workday
8 8 (1.21%) Foundry
9 7 (1.06%) McAfee
9 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.06%) VMware
10 6 (0.91%) SAP
11 3 (0.45%) F5
11 3 (0.45%) Netskope
11 3 (0.45%) Thales
12 2 (0.30%) Databricks
13 1 (0.15%) AlgoSec
13 1 (0.15%) Exabeam