Security Architect Job Trends in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £84,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 435 446
Rank change year-on-year +30 +11 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 264 205 370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.58% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 186 76 249
10th Percentile £59,900 £60,240 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,500 £75,000 £79,842
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -6.06% -8.75%
75th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £79,842
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 59,723 35,545 69,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 90.61% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 38,881 20,941 55,105
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £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 £73,000
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 12 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 12 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 +20 105 £90,000 -5.26% 44
North of England -5 59 £80,000 +6.67% 34
South West +12 46 £77,500 - 14
North West +2 33 £90,000 +20.00% 23
South East -10 31 £70,000 +14.13% 33
Midlands -9 15 £80,000 -11.11% 16
Yorkshire -36 15 £80,000 +23.08% 7
North East -10 11 £70,000 - 4
West Midlands +7 8 £83,750 -11.84% 10
East Midlands -29 7 £40,000 -51.52% 6
East of England -15 4 £100,000 +34.23% 8
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 119 (45.08%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (20.83%) Security Architecture
3 52 (19.70%) AWS
4 51 (19.32%) Security Cleared
5 50 (18.94%) Azure
6 45 (17.05%) CISSP
7 41 (15.53%) Threat Modelling
8 37 (14.02%) Cloud Security
9 35 (13.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 32 (12.12%) SC Cleared
11 30 (11.36%) NIST
12 27 (10.23%) TOGAF
13 25 (9.47%) CISM
14 23 (8.71%) Cryptography
14 23 (8.71%) DevSecOps
14 23 (8.71%) Microsoft
15 22 (8.33%) Application Security
15 22 (8.33%) Degree
15 22 (8.33%) SABSA
15 22 (8.33%) SIEM
16 20 (7.58%) GDPR
17 19 (7.20%) Incident Response
18 18 (6.82%) DV Cleared
18 18 (6.82%) PCI DSS
18 18 (6.82%) Zero Trust
19 17 (6.44%) Infrastructure as Code
19 17 (6.44%) NCSC
19 17 (6.44%) Roadmaps
20 16 (6.06%) CI/CD
20 16 (6.06%) Jenkins

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 (1.14%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (19.70%) AWS
2 50 (18.94%) Azure
3 13 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (4.92%) AWS Step Functions
3 13 (4.92%) GitHub
3 13 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (4.92%) Pulumi
3 13 (4.92%) Serverless
4 12 (4.55%) GCP
5 11 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.14%) SaaS
8 2 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.76%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.38%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.38%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.92%) DSL
2 12 (4.55%) Firewall
3 9 (3.41%) Network Security
4 4 (1.52%) DNS
4 4 (1.52%) VPN
5 3 (1.14%) Internet
6 2 (0.76%) LAN
6 2 (0.76%) SAN
6 2 (0.76%) VSAN
7 1 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.38%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) WAN
Development Applications
1 16 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.92%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Yeoman
General
1 28 (10.61%) Finance
2 25 (9.47%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.44%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (3.79%) Law
6 8 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.65%) Banking
7 7 (2.65%) Legal
8 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.52%) Games
9 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Advertising
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.92%) AWS CDK
2 2 (0.76%) JSON
2 2 (0.76%) JSON Schema
2 2 (0.76%) LDAP
2 2 (0.76%) OAuth
2 2 (0.76%) Regular Expression
2 2 (0.76%) XML
3 1 (0.38%) JWT
3 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.30%) PKI
3 11 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 7 (2.65%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.14%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (0.38%) DataPower
7 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.38%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.38%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.03%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Linux
2 6 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (45.08%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (20.83%) Security Architecture
3 41 (15.53%) Threat Modelling
4 37 (14.02%) Cloud Security
5 27 (10.23%) TOGAF
6 23 (8.71%) Cryptography
6 23 (8.71%) DevSecOps
7 22 (8.33%) Application Security
7 22 (8.33%) SABSA
7 22 (8.33%) SIEM
8 19 (7.20%) Incident Response
9 18 (6.82%) Zero Trust
10 17 (6.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (6.44%) Roadmaps
11 16 (6.06%) CI/CD
11 16 (6.06%) Red Team
11 16 (6.06%) Risk Management
11 16 (6.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (5.68%) Architectural Patterns
12 15 (5.68%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.06%) Python
2 13 (4.92%) Go
2 13 (4.92%) Rust
3 6 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.38%) Java
5 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.05%) CISSP
3 32 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.47%) CISM
5 22 (8.33%) Degree
6 18 (6.82%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.68%) OSCP
8 14 (5.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (5.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (4.17%) CCSP
10 10 (3.79%) AWS Certification
10 10 (3.79%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.52%) CRISC
12 3 (1.14%) CISA
12 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.14%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.14%) ISACA
12 3 (1.14%) SANS
13 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (11.36%) NIST
3 20 (7.58%) GDPR
4 18 (6.82%) PCI DSS
5 17 (6.44%) NCSC
6 6 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.27%) GRC
7 5 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.14%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.76%) PMO
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.52%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 14 (5.30%) Kubernetes
1 14 (5.30%) Terraform
2 6 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.14%) Ansible
3 3 (1.14%) CASB
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.76%) VxRail
5 1 (0.38%) Endace
Vendors
1 23 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.27%) SAP
3 4 (1.52%) Cisco
3 4 (1.52%) CyberArk
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle
3 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.52%) VMware
4 3 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (1.14%) Google
4 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.14%) Okta
5 2 (0.76%) Cribl.io
5 2 (0.76%) Dell
5 2 (0.76%) LogRhythm
5 2 (0.76%) Tenable
5 2 (0.76%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.38%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.38%) N-able
6 1 (0.38%) Thycotic
6 1 (0.38%) Workday