Security Architect Jobs in England

Security Architect
UK > England

The median Security Architect salary in England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 437 319
Rank change year-on-year -97 -118 +327
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Architect 145 471 913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.52% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.55% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 69 295 278
10th Percentile £59,231 £57,085 £56,219
25th Percentile £64,509 £67,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,842 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -11.29% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £115,000 £118,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,842 £87,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% -8.75% +2.94%

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 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Architect in England.

Salary trend for Security Architect in England

Security Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Architect in England over the 6 months to 31 May 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 31 May 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 +30 48 £95,000 +5.56% 61
North of England -28 37 £70,000 -11.46% 43
South East +1 23 £67,335 -10.22% 40
North West -46 18 £75,000 +7.14% 21
South West +74 14 £70,000 -3.45% 34
Midlands +12 13 £88,901 +13.58% 20
Yorkshire +37 12 £65,000 -18.59% 10
North East +51 7 £65,000 -18.59% 12
West Midlands +21 7 £88,901 +27.00% 12
East of England +33 6 - - 18
East Midlands +25 6 - - 7
Security Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 84 (57.93%) Information Security
2 81 (55.86%) CISSP
3 70 (48.28%) Management Information System
4 67 (46.21%) Finance
5 66 (45.52%) Degree
6 55 (37.93%) Mentoring
7 53 (36.55%) Security Architecture
8 51 (35.17%) Cybersecurity
9 47 (32.41%) Project Management
10 46 (31.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 45 (31.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 45 (31.03%) NIST
12 38 (26.21%) Risk Management
13 37 (25.52%) Cloud Security
14 35 (24.14%) Social Skills
15 32 (22.07%) Firewall
16 30 (20.69%) AWS
17 26 (17.93%) Azure
17 26 (17.93%) Network Security
18 25 (17.24%) Security Cleared
19 24 (16.55%) TOGAF
20 23 (15.86%) GDPR
21 22 (15.17%) NCSC
21 22 (15.17%) Roadmaps
22 20 (13.79%) CISM
22 20 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
22 20 (13.79%) DevOps
23 19 (13.10%) SIEM
23 19 (13.10%) Agile
24 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared

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 2 (1.38%) IIS
1 2 (1.38%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.69%) AWS
2 26 (17.93%) Azure
3 14 (9.66%) GCP
3 14 (9.66%) SaaS
4 8 (5.52%) IaaS
5 6 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.76%) PaaS
8 3 (2.07%) GitHub
8 3 (2.07%) Miro
9 2 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.38%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.38%) Serverless
10 1 (0.69%) Akamai
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 32 (22.07%) Firewall
2 26 (17.93%) Network Security
3 12 (8.28%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (6.90%) VPN
5 5 (3.45%) DNS
6 2 (1.38%) DMZ
6 2 (1.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.38%) S/MIME
6 2 (1.38%) SSL
6 2 (1.38%) TACACS
6 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.38%) WAN
6 2 (1.38%) X.509
7 1 (0.69%) BGP
7 1 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.69%) Internet
7 1 (0.69%) MPLS
7 1 (0.69%) OSPF
7 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.07%) GitLab
1 3 (2.07%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) MLflow
General
1 67 (46.21%) Finance
2 35 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.14%) Legal
6 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.76%) Back Office
8 4 (2.76%) Law
9 3 (2.07%) Electronics
9 3 (2.07%) Marketing
10 2 (1.38%) Automotive
10 2 (1.38%) Banking
10 2 (1.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.07%) LDAP
1 3 (2.07%) RESTful
1 3 (2.07%) SAML
2 2 (1.38%) EJB
2 2 (1.38%) Leaflet
2 2 (1.38%) SailPoint
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%) REST
3 1 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (48.28%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 13 (8.97%) Security Posture
4 12 (8.28%) Public Cloud
5 10 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.83%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.14%) Operational Technology
7 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.14%) Social Media
7 6 (4.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (3.45%) PKI
9 3 (2.07%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.07%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.07%) Machine to Machine
10 2 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.03%) Windows
2 6 (4.14%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) Windows Vista
3 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (57.93%) Information Security
2 55 (37.93%) Mentoring
3 53 (36.55%) Security Architecture
4 51 (35.17%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (32.41%) Project Management
6 38 (26.21%) Risk Management
7 37 (25.52%) Cloud Security
8 24 (16.55%) TOGAF
9 22 (15.17%) Roadmaps
10 20 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (13.79%) DevOps
11 19 (13.10%) Agile
11 19 (13.10%) SIEM
12 16 (11.03%) SABSA
12 16 (11.03%) Security Management
13 15 (10.34%) Information Assurance
13 15 (10.34%) Penetration Testing
13 15 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (9.66%) Architectural Patterns
14 14 (9.66%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.14%) Python
2 3 (2.07%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 81 (55.86%) CISSP
2 66 (45.52%) Degree
3 45 (31.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (17.24%) Security Cleared
5 20 (13.79%) CISM
6 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
7 16 (11.03%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (7.59%) DV Cleared
9 10 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (6.90%) CEH
10 9 (6.21%) CISA
11 8 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (4.83%) Master's Degree
13 6 (4.14%) AWS Certification
13 6 (4.14%) DBS Check
14 5 (3.45%) CRISC
14 5 (3.45%) SANS
15 4 (2.76%) CCSP
15 4 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (31.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (31.03%) NIST
3 23 (15.86%) GDPR
4 22 (15.17%) NCSC
5 11 (7.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (5.52%) SOC 2
7 6 (4.14%) PCI DSS
7 6 (4.14%) QA
8 5 (3.45%) COBIT
8 5 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (2.07%) HIPAA
9 3 (2.07%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.52%) Terraform
2 5 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (2.07%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.07%) Puppet
4 2 (1.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.38%) Nessus
5 1 (0.69%) Istio
5 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.14%) Google
3 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.07%) Alibaba
4 3 (2.07%) Cisco
4 3 (2.07%) F5
4 3 (2.07%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.07%) SAP
5 2 (1.38%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.38%) FireEye
5 2 (1.38%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.38%) Splunk
5 2 (1.38%) Thales
6 1 (0.69%) Aruba
6 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.69%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.69%) Juniper
6 1 (0.69%) Meraki
6 1 (0.69%) Netskope
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle